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"So We’ll Go No More A-Roving"

by Danielle11195

So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to br...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 142 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"She Walks in Beauty"

by Danielle11195

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the mo...

3 Likes | 0 comment | 148 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"A Red, Red Rose"

by Danielle11195

O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear,...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 179 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"Love among the Ruins"

by Danielle11195

Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop As they crop— Was the site once of a city great and gay, (So the...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 164 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"My Last Duchess"

by Danielle11195

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will ‘t please you sit and look at her? I said ‘Frà Pandolf...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 160 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"Sonnet 43 – How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"

by Danielle11195

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 147 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"Sonnet 32 – The first time that the sun rose on thine oath"

by Danielle11195

The first time that the sun rose on thine oath To love me, I looked forward to the moon To slacken all those bonds which seemed too soon And quickly tied to make a lasting troth. Quick-loving hearts, I thought, may quickly loathe; And, look...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 157 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"I’m Happiest When Most Away"

by Danielle11195

I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But onl...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 219 views | Poetry | June 26, 2017

"Oliver Twist: Chapter 5"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens Chapter V: Oliver mingles with new associates. Going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master's business. Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp down...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 168 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"Oliver Twist: Chapter 4"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens Chapter IV: Oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life. In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 146 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"Oliver Twist: Chapter 3"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens Chapter III: Relates how Oliver Twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure. For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 158 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"Oliver Twist: Chapter 2"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens Chapter II : Treats of Oliver Twist's growth, education, and board. For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and d...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 151 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"Oliver Twist: Chapter 1"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens Chapter I : Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth. Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from menti...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 143 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 64"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens And now my written story ends. I look back, once more - for the last time - before I close these leaves. I see myself, with Agnes at my side, journeying along the road of life. I see our children and our friends around...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 156 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 63"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens What I have purposed to record is nearly finished; but there is yet an incident conspicuous in my memory, on which it often rests with delight, and without which one thread in the web I have spun would have a ravelled e...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 131 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 62"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens The year came round to Christmas-time, and I had been at home above two months. I had seen Agnes frequently. However loud the general voice might be in giving me encouragement, and however fervent the emotions and endea...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 130 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 61"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens For a time - at all events until my book should be completed, which would be the work of several months - I took up my abode in my aunt's house at Dover; and there, sitting in the window from which I had looked out at t...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 129 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 60"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens My aunt and I, when we were left alone, talked far into the night. How the emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully; how Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on accou...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 141 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 59"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year. I walked from the Custom House to the Monument before I found a coach; and althou...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 128 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 58"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets. I went away from England; not knowing, even then, ho...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 127 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 57"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions. It was, to conceal what had occurred, from those who were going away; and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance. In this,...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 147 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 56"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in that hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour - no need to have said, 'Think of me at my best!' I had done that ever; and could I change n...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 141 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 55"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger an...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 135 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 54"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens This is not the time at which I am to enter on the state of my mind beneath its load of sorrow. I came to think that the Future was walled up before me, that the energy and action of my life were at an end, that I never...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 132 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 53"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I must pause yet once again. O, my child-wife, there is a figure in the moving crowd before my memory, quiet and still, saying in its innocent love and childish beauty, Stop to think of me - turn to look upon the Little...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 137 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 52"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens When the time Mr. Micawber had appointed so mysteriously, was within four-and-twenty hours of being come, my aunt and I consulted how we should proceed; for my aunt was very unwilling to leave Dora. Ah! how easily I car...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 154 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 51"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens It was yet early in the morning of the following day, when, as I was walking in my garden with my aunt (who took little other exercise now, being so much in attendance on my dear Dora), I was told that Mr. Peggotty desi...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 138 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 50"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens By this time, some months had passed since our interview on the bank of the river with Martha. I had never seen her since, but she had communicated with Mr. Peggotty on several occasions. Nothing had come of her zealous...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 143 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 49"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated Canterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor's Commons; which I read with some surprise: 'My Dear Sir, 'Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 129 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 48"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears, notwith...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 110 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 47"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens We were now down in Westminster. We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading streets. She...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 141 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 46"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I must have been married, if I may trust to my imperfect memory for dates, about a year or so, when one evening, as I was returning from a solitary walk, thinking of the book I was then writing - for my success had stea...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 119 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 45"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens It was some time now, since I had left the Doctor. Living in his neighbourhood, I saw him frequently; and we all went to his house on two or three occasions to dinner or tea. The Old Soldier was in permanent quarters un...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 130 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 44"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the bridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own small house with Dora; quite thrown out of employment, as I may say, in respect o...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 123 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 43"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession. Weeks, months, seasons, pass along. The...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 146 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 42"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked at that tremendous short-hand, and all improvement appertaining to it, in my sense of responsibi...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 134 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 41"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens At last, an answer came from the two old ladies. They presented their compliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they had given his letter their best consideration, 'with a view to the happiness of both parti...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 149 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 40"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens We had a very serious conversation in Buckingham Street that night, about the domestic occurrences I have detailed in the last chapter. My aunt was deeply interested in them, and walked up and down the room with her arm...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 148 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 39"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens My aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriously uncomfortable by my prolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go to Dover, to see that all was working well at the cottage, which was let; an...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 145 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 38"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestl...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 144 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 37"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens My new life had lasted for more than a week, and I was stronger than ever in those tremendous practical resolutions that I felt the crisis required. I continued to walk extremely fast, and to have a general idea that I...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 149 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 36"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then started for Highgate. I was not dispirited now. I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. My whole manner of thin...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 144 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 35"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens As soon as I could recover my presence of mind, which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt's intelligence, I proposed to Mr. Dick to come round to the chandler's shop, and take possession of the...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 156 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 34"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I wrote to Agnes as soon as Dora and I were engaged. I wrote her a long letter, in which I tried to make her comprehend how blest I was, and what a darling Dora was. I entreated Agnes not to regard this as a thoughtless...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 123 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 33"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens All this time, I had gone on loving Dora, harder than ever. Her idea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me, even for the loss of my friend. The more I pitied myself, or pitied others,...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 122 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 32"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the dis...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 146 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 31"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens It was not difficult for me, on Peggotty's solicitation, to resolve to stay where I was, until after the remains of the poor carrier should have made their last journey to Blunderstone. She had long ago bought, out of h...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 149 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"Our Mutual Friend: Book 4, Postscript"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens   POSTSCRIPT IN LIEU OF PREFACE When I devised this story, I foresaw the likelihood that a class of readers and commentators would suppose that I was at great pains to conceal exactly what I was a...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 157 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"David Copperfield: Chapter 30"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens I got down to Yarmouth in the evening, and went to the inn. I knew that Peggotty's spare room - my room - was likely to have occupation enough in a little while, if that great Visitor, before whose presence all the livi...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 130 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

"Our Mutual Friend: Book 4, Chapter 17"

by pdrealisticfiction

By: Charles Dickens   Chapter 17 THE VOICE OF SOCIETY Behoves Mortimer Lightwood, therefore, to answer a dinner card from Mr and Mrs Veneering requesting the honour, and to signify that Mr Mortimer Lightwood will be...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 140 views | Realistic Fiction | June 26, 2017

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