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The Firefly

by Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash

The firefly's flame
Is something for which science has no name
I can think of nothing eerier
Than flying around with an unidentified glow on a
person's posteerier.




Quotes of the Day

Love is done when Love's begun,
Sages say,
But have Sages known?
Truth adjourn your Boon
Without Day.

• Emily Dickinson



Poems of the Day
  • Joseph Brodsky
    May 24, 1980
    by Joseph Brodsky
    I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived by the sea, flashed aces in an oasis,