Epitome

From Whitman's entry on May 12. The narrative of a two-day battle, replete with details of the relentless fighting and gruesome carnage, the beauty of the cloudy sky revealing a silvery moon, and ending with a tribute to the thousands of unknown and unburied soldiers who perished in the United States Civil War.

A collection of quotations on mortality from various sources, famous and less known, classic and contemporary.

A second set of five sonnets on Love by William Shakespeare, in celebration of Mother's Day. Music: A madrigal, Amor mi sprona (bassoon & choir) by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Sr. Performed by Robert Rønnes.

EPITOME's 3rd 9-passage installment of this terse philosophical classic attributed to the legendary ancient Chinese sage, Laotze.

A selection from the collection titled  Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories  by Ambrose Bierce.

In celebration of the 48th anniversary of Earth Day, EPITOME presents the words of Walt Whitman in "Song of the Rolling Earth."

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer on the perception of time at different phases of life.