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1 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
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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 5
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
2
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face; 10
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.
3
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow, 15
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
2. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 5
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 10
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
3. Ode on a Grecian Urn
JOHN KEATS
I
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan1 historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape 5
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? 10
II
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave 15
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! 20
1Of the woodland.
First published in Annals of the Fine Arts, December, 1819.
Reprinted with minor changes in John Keats, Lamia, Isabella,

The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems in 1820.
595 596
III
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearièd,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love! 25
For ever warm and still to be enjoyed,
For ever panting, and for ever young—
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. 30
IV
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed?
What little town by river or sea shore, 35
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e’er return. 40
V
O Attic2 shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! 45
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’

4. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 1
JOHN KEATS
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty2 to Apollo3 hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told 5
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne,4
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken; 10
Or like stout Cortez5 when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.6
5. Harlem [2]
LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run? 5
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. 10
Or does it explode?

[1951]
Reprinted from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, by
permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House,
Inc. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.
6. Journey of the Magi
T. S. ELIOT
‘A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’ 5
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet. 10
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices: 15
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly. 20
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet; below the snow line, smelling of vegetation,
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky.1
And an old white horse2 galloped away in the meadow. 25
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
1In Luke 23:33 there are three crosses on the hill of Calvary
where Christ was crucified, the middle one for Jesus, the other
two for thieves.

2Revelation 6:2 depicts Christ riding to judgment on a white
horse.
Reprinted by permission from Collected Poems 1909–1962.
Copyright © 1936, 1964 by Harcourt, Inc.
605 606
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,3
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon 30
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for 35
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, 40
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
[1927]
3In Matthew 26:15, Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of
silver. In Matthew 27:35, the soldiers cast lots at the crucifixion
to determine who gets Christ’s robes.
7. Journey of the Magi
T. S. ELIOT
‘A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’ 5
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,

Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet. 10
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices: 15
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly. 20
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet; below the snow line, smelling of vegetation,
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky.1
And an old white horse2 galloped away in the meadow. 25
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
1In Luke 23:33 there are three crosses on the hill of Calvary
where Christ was crucified, the middle one for Jesus, the other
two for thieves.
2Revelation 6:2 depicts Christ riding to judgment on a white
horse.
Reprinted by permission from Collected Poems 1909–1962.
Copyright © 1936, 1964 by Harcourt, Inc.
605 606
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,3
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon 30
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down

This: were we led all that way for 35
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, 40
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
[1927]
3In Matthew 26:15, Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of
silver. In Matthew 27:35, the soldiers cast lots at the crucifixion
to determine who gets Christ’s robes.
8. Africa
MAYA ANGELOU
Thus she had lain
sugar cane sweet
deserts her hair
golden her feet
mountains her breasts 5
two Niles her tears
Thus she has lain
Black through the years.
Over the white seas
rime white and cold 10
brigands ungentled
icicle bold
took her young daughters
sold her strong sons
churched her with Jesus 15
bled her with guns.
Thus she has lain.
Now she is rising
remember her pain 20

remember the losses
her screams loud and vain
remember her riches
her history slain
now she is striding 25
although she had lain.
[1975]
Reprinted from Oh, Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, by
permission of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 1975 by Maya
Angelou.
9. My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked red and white, 5
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 10
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
[1609]
First published in the 1609 Shake-speares sonnets.
10.Mirror
SYLVIA PLATH
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful—

The eye of a little god, four-cornered. 5
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, 10
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes. 15
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
[1963]
Reprinted from Crossing the Water, by permission of
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Copyright © 1963 by Ted
Hughes.
11.The Tyger
WILLIAM BLAKE
Tyger, Tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies 5
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 10
And, when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp 15

Dare its deadly terror clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 20
Tyger, Tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
[1794]
First published in Songs of Experience in 1794.
12.London
WILLIAM BLAKE
I wander through each chartered street,1
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every man, 5
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.
How the chimney-sweeper’s cry2
Every black’ning church appalls 10
And the hapless soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down palace walls.
But most through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot’s curse
Blasts the new born infant’s tear 15
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
[1794]
1Chartered can mean mapped, but it can also mean constricted,
under control. The use of the word in line 2 refers to the
chartered Thames, meaning that the river is hemmed by ugly
buildings and streets.
2Small boys had to go through the city crying out “Chimneys

swept,” but also cried because they were forced to do dirty and
dangerous work because they were small enough to go up (or
down) chimneys.
First published in Songs of Experience in 1794.
13.I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 5
fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: 10
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay, 15
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, 20
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
[1807]
Composed in 1803. First published in Poems in Two Volumes in
1807.
14.Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, 5
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; 10
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
15. I’m Nobody! Who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you–Nobody–too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Dont tell! they’d advertise–you know!
How dreary–to be–Somebody! 5
How public–like a Frog–
To tell one’s name–the livelong June–
To an admiring Bog!
[c. 1861]
Reprinted from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, by permission
of the publisher and the Trustees of Amherst College. Copyright
© 1998, 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of
Harvard College.
16. After great pain, a formal feeling comes–
EMILY DICKINSON
After great pain, a formal feeling comes–
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs–
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?

The Feet, mechanical, go round– 5
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought–
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone–
This is the Hour of Lead– 10
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow–
First–Chill–then Stupor–then the letting go–
[c. 1862]
Reprinted from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, by permission
of the publisher and the Trustees of Amherst College. Copyright
© 1998, 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of
Harvard College.
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17. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
LANGSTON HUGHES
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. 5
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset. 10
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
[1921, 1926]

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18.I, Too
LANGSTON HUGHES
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh, 5
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes. 10
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides, 15
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
[1925]
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19.Fire and Ice
ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice, 5
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
[1920]
First appeared in Harper's Magazine, December 1920. First
collected in New Hampshire in 1923.
20.My Arkansas
MAYA ANGELOU
There is a deep brooding
in Arkansas.
Old crimes like moss pend
from poplar trees.
The sullen earth 5
is much too
red for comfort.
Sunrise seems to hesitate
and in that second
lose its 10

incandescent aim, and
dusk no more shadows
than the noon.
The past is brighter yet.
Old hates and 15
ante-bellum lace are rent
but not discarded.
Today is yet to come
in Arkansas.
It writhes. It writhes in awful 20
waves of brooding.
[1978]
Reprinted from And Still I Rise, by permission of Random
House, Inc. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou.
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Assignment 1: Good Grocers, Inc.
Due Week 6 and worth 150 points (Due 1-29-15 5pm) No
plagiarism
Note: The company mentioned herein is merely a hypothetical
organization with characteristics developed to enable students
to respond to the assignment. You may create and / or make all
necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this

assignment.
After Good Grocers, Inc. expanded its organic produce section
and adopted a “buy local” policy, sales increased. The Virginia-
based chain expanded its retail locations from seven to twelve
(7 to 12) over the last three (3) years.
As the Assistant Human Resources Manager, your job is to
advise store managers about legal and personnel matters. The
leadership at Good Grocers, Inc. considers you to be a legally
astute manager, who consults with the corporation’s attorney, as
necessary. The corporation’s leadership has tasked you with
managing two (2) situations have come across your desk. Please
respond with support that is backed by the law.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper which addresses the two
(2) situations from two (2) store managers.
Situation 1
Last week, my produce manager reported the following
incident:
As I came out from the bakery, I saw a woman lying on the
floor of the produce department. Her husband started yelling at
me, saying, “She slipped on a banana peel and fell. My wife is
the anchorwoman for NEWSNOW, and we are going to sue
you!”
She didn’t look hurt, but I called 911 and filed an incident
report that contained the facts of the situation. When viewing
the area, I did, in fact, see a banana peel on the floor, but it was
still yellow and lying on top of a ribbed rubber mat. The woman
in question was wearing five-inch high heels. But I wasn’t sure
what to say, other than the woman would be hearing from us.
1. Explain whether this situation is best handled by litigation or
by a particular form of alternative dispute resolution.
2. Based on how you would handle this situation, either through
litigation or a particular form of alternative dispute resolution,
outline the key next steps involved in seeking a resolution.
Justify your response.
Situation 2
Last week, my bakery manager was short an employee over

Mother’s Day weekend when the bakery is always busy. To
make up for being shorthanded, the bakery manager called in
Ms. Greene, an independent contractor. Generally, Ms. Greene
comes in on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights between 6
to 9 p.m. just to decorate cakes; she has her own bakery
business. We furnish all of her equipment, and we pay her by
the cake.
Ms. Greene worked eight (8) hours on Saturday and another
eight (8) hours on Sunday over Mother’s Day weekend. We paid
her $15.00 per hour. On the following Monday when Ms.
Greene came in, she told me that she wanted to receive the same
benefits as the other Good Grocers part-time employees, such as
paid time off and employee discounts. Ms. Greene asserted that
she really is a part-time employee who deserves the usual
employee benefits.
3. Determine whether Ms. Greene is an independent contractor
or a part-time employee. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Explain the reasoning supporting whether or not Ms. Greene
should receive the same benefits as part-time employees.
Suggested resources for this assignment:
1. Access your Learning Resource Center (LRC) at the top of
your iCampus screen. Search by keyword for business articles
on arbitration, mediation, or independent contractors. You may
also use your LRC to access legal topics and articles through
the Lexis Nexis database.
2. At FindLaw, located at http://www.findlaw.com/, you may
search by legal topic or enter a keyword(s) into a search box to
find relevant information and articles.
3. You may use the following additional resources:
·
· Internal Revenue Service (IRS):
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-
Employed/Independent-Contractor-Self-Employed-or-Employee
· The Virginia Department of Labor and Industry:
http://www.doli.virginia.gov/laborlaw/laborlaw.html
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

· Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this
assignment, such as a government Website, and include internal
citations. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as
academic resources.
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
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must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
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