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Maya Angelou

There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.




Quotes of the Day

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
• Confucius


Poems of the Day
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Helen of Tyre
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    What phantom is this that appears Through the purple mist of the years, Itself but a mist like these? A woman of cloud and of fire; It is she; it is Helen of Tyre, The town in the midst of the seas.