Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old...

A Fragment I stood at dusk and looked around the garden small and dim; the fountain dry was cracked, with dust and vines around the rim. ...

The next day Holofernes ordered his whole army, and all the allies who had joined him, to break camp and move against Bethulia, and to seize...

Today is the commemoration for an interesting saint, Blessed William Howard, Viscount Stafford. William Howard was born into a nominally Ang...

A Ballade of Sun-Beating The sun is hot today, and fierce! It will not give surcease or rest. It waterfalls with flames that pierce no ...

For the life of the Supreme Being is love, seeing that the Beautiful is necessarily lovable to those who recognize it, and the Deity does re...

James Thurber's classic, "The Macbeth Murder Mystery" : ...Over her second cup of tea my companion began to tell the plot of...