O Captain! My Captain!
“O Captain! My Captain!” is one of Walt Whitman’s most famous poems, written in 1865 as an elegy for President […]
Arts
There Was a Child Went Forth
Walt Whitman’s poem “There Was a Child Went Forth” from Leaves of Grass (first published in 1855). There Was a
The Gift of the Magi
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, published on December 10, 1905 One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all.
The Velveteen Rabbit
There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
THIS is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in
First they came
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem “Christmas Bells” by American
The Night Before Christmas
A Visit From St. Nicholas ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring,
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a major Post-Impressionist painter. A Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Born: February