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386. The Rights of Women—Spoken by Miss Fontenelle

...all her charms—
Who is so rash as rise in rebel arms?


But truce with kings, and truce with constitutions,
With bloody armaments and revolutions;
Let Majesty your first attention summon,
Ah! ça ira! THE MAJESTY OF WOMAN!...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar

..., the sum, 
The value in proportion of all things, 
Or whether it be little or be much. 
Discourse to him of prodigious armaments 
Assembled to besiege his city now, 
And of the passing of a mule with gourds-- 
'Tis one! Then take it on the other side, 
Speak of some trifling fact--he will gaze rapt 
With stupor at its very littleness, 
(Far as I see) as if in that indeed 
He caught prodigious import, whole results; 
And so will turn to us the bystanders 
In ever the same stu...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Song of the Broad-Axe

...nstitution? or the best-built
 steamships? 
Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d’oeuvres of engineering, forts, armaments? 

Away! These are not to be cherish’d for themselves; 
They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them;
The show passes, all does well enough of course, 
All does very well till one flash of defiance. 

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman; 
If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Alarm

...y-way,
And twilight cloaked the croft.

'Twas hard to realize on
This snug side the mute horizon
That beyond it hostile armaments might steer,
Save from seeing in the porchway a fair woman weep with eyes on
A harnessed Volunteer.

In haste he'd flown there
To his comely wife alone there,
While marching south hard by, to still her fears,
For she soon would be a mother, and few messengers were known there
In these campaigning years.

'Twas time to be Good-bying,
Since the assem...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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