Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme And monkeys chewed tobacco, And hens took snuff to make them tough, And ducks went quack, quack, quac...

* A.E. Housman ______________________________________________________ When I was one-and-twenty --- I heard a wise man say, ‘Give crowns an...

* Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton, after Joseph Severn ( National Portrait Gallery, London ). ____________________________________...

* Rudyard Kipling in his study, circa 1895. ______________________________________________________________ If you can keep your head when a...

* I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth, ----- Better than banking, trade or leases — Take a bank note and fold it up, ----- And then ...

* ________________________________________________________________________ The Masque of the Red Death, Clip 1 (Vincent Price and Jane Asher...

* Portrait of Walter Scott, novelist and poet, 1822 by Sir Henry Raeburn. ______________________________________________________________ Th...

* First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." (Cover of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine , ...

* The Gold Bug (2009) Spichael3791 _____________________________________________________________ (Note: This story contains some language/di...