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Greek Architecture

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Not magnitude, not lavishness,
But Form—the Site;
Not innovating wilfulness,
But reverence for the Archetype.




Quotes of the Day

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
• David Grayson


Poems of the Day
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    The Rape Of The Mist
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    High o'er the clouds a Sunbeam shone, And far down under him, With a subtle grace that was all her own, The Mist gleamed, fair and dim. He looked at her with his burning eyes