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…passing away. My mom would pick up the phone as it was ringing and I didn’t have to hear anything that was said to know that someone had died. My mother would inhale sharply, bite her bottom lip and bunch up her face like little kids do right before they start…

…, “Hatshepsut.” (Edwards) Her full name inscribed on her great seal read: The Horus, mighty by his Kas, the lord of East and West abounding in years, the good goddess, the pious lady, the golden falcon, divine in her rings, the King of Upper…

…. This church is one of the churches rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was again destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt for the worship of God. The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Robert, Lord Bishop of London…

…won’t you go faster? I’ll get my Bible and pray to master. Pray for protection and ease through the night, For this one horrible thing I hope I do right. The doorbell rings; my heart stands still, I open the door; this time is for real. Anxiously…

…to remorse That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ affectand it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring minis- Ters, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s…

…to remorse That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ affectand it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring minis- Ters, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s…

…was of old, why are ye set before me thus with wreathed branches of suppliants, while the city reeks with incense, rings with prayers for health and cries of woe? I deemed it unmeet, my children, to hear these things at the mouth of others, and have come hither…

…, in Canto II Dante hesitates at the Vestibule that marks the entrance to hell. It is only through the reassurance of Virgil’s words that he finds fortitude. “Thy words have moved my heart to its first purpose. My guide! My Lord! My Master! Now lead on”. 2…

…. They begin to struggle and then the unthinkable happens. Two gunshots ring out. A bullet penetrates Hamlet in the stomach and the other hits Laertes in the stomach killing him. Hamlet sees his mother die from the poison that was in the drink. Hamlet then has…

…knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility— We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess—in the Ring— We passed the Fields of Grazing Grain— We passed the Setting Sun— Or rather—He passed Us…