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  2. Rheum - Wikipedia

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    Rheum from a cat's eyes. Rheum ( / ruːm /; from Greek: ῥεῦμα rheuma 'a flowing, rheum') is a thin mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth, often during sleep (contrast with mucopurulent discharge ). [ 1][ 2][ 3] Rheum dries and gathers as a crust in the corners of the eyes or the mouth, on the eyelids, or under the nose ...

  3. She Walks in Beauty - Wikipedia

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    A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! [ 1] " She Walks in Beauty " is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. [ 2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London.

  4. Tibullus book 1 - Wikipedia

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    Often within the poems individual sections are also chiastically structured. Dettmer (1980) observes how Tibullus also occasionally uses parallel writing. For example, poems 1.1 and 1.10 have a dozen points of contact, in more or less the same order in both poems; and the same is true of 1.5 and 1.6 (see below).

  5. Closed-eye hallucination - Wikipedia

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    Closed-eye hallucinations and closed-eye visualizations (CEV) are hallucinations that occur when one's eyes are closed or when one is in a darkened room. They should not be confused with phosphenes , perceived light and shapes when pressure is applied to the eye's retina, or some other non-visual external cause stimulates the eye.

  6. Le Spleen de Paris - Wikipedia

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    Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Paris Spleen or Petits Poèmes en prose, is a collection of 50 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. The collection was published posthumously in 1869 and is associated with literary modernism . Baudelaire mentions he had read Aloysius Bertrand 's Gaspard de la nuit (considered the first example of prose ...

  7. The Sleepers (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Whitman drafted "The Sleepers" in his notebook. [ 2] The poem is one of the first five written works in Leaves of Grass; others included "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric". [ 3] It was one of twelve poems in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. [ 4] Whitman revised the poem heavily; by the last edition of Leaves of Grass, the poem ...

  8. Does staring at screens ruin your eyes? - AOL

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    We've all grown up thinking that sitting too close to the television is damaging to our eyes ... but that might not be the case. Technology spawns lots of confusion ... and a few affectionately ...

  9. Phosphene - Wikipedia

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    Phosphene. An artist's representation of how some people may see phosphenes by retinal stimulation. A phosphene is the phenomenon of seeing light without light entering the eye. The word phosphene comes from the Greek words phos (light) and phainein (to show).