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Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

The pure and worthy Mrs. Stowe
Is one we all are proud to know
As mother, wife, and authoress-
Thank God, I am content with less!




Quotes of the Day

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband

• Michel de Montaigne



Poems of the Day
  • Edwin Arlington Robinson
    Lancelot
    by Edwin Arlington Robinson
    Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King’s garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded arms And weary-waiting eyes, cold and half-closed—