The man who was engaged in being hanged was apparently about thirty-five years of age. He was a civilian, if one might judge from his habit, which was that of a planter

The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

They shut me up in Prose – As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet –

Wild nights - Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile - the winds - To a Heart in port - Done with the Compass - Done with the Chart! Rowing in Eden - Ah - the Sea! Might I but moor - tonight - In thee!

dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;

My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came    And bore her away from m

this maiden she lived with no other thought    Than to love and be loved by me

Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?  All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones. When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast

With these materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche

. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted

SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor,

nd reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley

ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prizeprize Value thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all the riches that the Eastthe East East Indies, southeast Asia, including India; the English East India Company began in 1600. doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench,My ... rivers cannot quench Compare the Song of Solomon: “Muche water can not quenche love, nether can the floods drowne it." (Geneva Bible) Also, quench could mean to satisfy. Nor oughtought Anything but love from thee give recompenserecompense Return payment; reward. Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee manifoldmanifold In abundance, I pray. Then while we live, in love let’s so perseverpersever Both to continue steadfastly, and in the Theological sense to remain in a state of grace. An earlier spelling of the word “persevere.”, That when we live no more, we may live ever

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,

I weary grow, the tedious day so long; But when thou Northward to me shalt return

If any worth or virtue were in me,   Let that live freshly in thy memory

But with death’s parting blow is sure to meet.   The sentence past is most irrevocable,   A common thing, yet oh inevitable.

Thy blemishes amend, if so I could: I wash’d thy face, but more defects I saw,

On this occasion a feast is prepared, and the bride and bridegroom stand up in the midst of all their friends, who are assembled for the purpose, while he declares she is thenceforth to be looked upon as his wife, and that no other person is to pay any addresses to her. This is also immediately proclaimed in the vicinity, on which the bride retires from the assembly

This man had two wives and some children, and they all used me extremely well

Our land is uncommonly rich and fruitful, and produces all kinds of vegetables in great abundance. We have plenty of Indian corn, and vast quantities of cotton and tobacco. Our pine apples grow without culture; they are about the size of the largest sugar-loaf, and finely flavoured. We have also spices of different kinds, particularly pepper; and a variety of delicious fruits which I have never seen in Europe; together with gums of various kinds, and honey in abundance

While in thine hand with pleasure we behold The silken reins, and Freedom's charms unfold.

On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!

Some view our sable race with scornful eye,"Their colour is a diabolic die."Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.