A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

The first is a setting of John Donne, but for the remaining movements Adams chose contrasting poems by Dickinson. The first of these is ‘Because I could not stop for Death –’, the one ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

[N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

Richard Flanagan is drowning. Trapped in a kayak, wedged underwater, he sips from a pocket of air inside the Franklin’s roar.

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2. Bring happiness to others. You are not an island, as the English poet John Donne observed, and working for your own happiness should be part of a bigger project to build a better world.

British poet and scholar John Donne famously wrote ‘No man is an island’ in his poem of the same name, and the adage has remained in popular vernacular since its 16th century beginnings. The original ...

PINSUTI Chamber Choir whose members come from across Skipton and Wharfedale will present a programme of reflective choral ...

As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...