The Iliad: Book 1 (Homer Poems)
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that broughtcountless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul ...
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that broughtcountless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul ...
ARGUMENTRogero, as directed by the pair,The giantess Eriphila o'erthrows.That done, he to Alcina's labyrinth, whereMore than one knight is tied ...
TANSILLO.There are several varieties of enthusiasts, which may all be reduced totwo kinds. While some only display blindness, stupidity, and ...
The Argument.First at Glentroll doth Scotts renowned PrinceGet victorie aboue the English foeDouglas at Ederfoord with valiaunceBy fourtie doth a ...
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
This above all remember: they will be very brave men,And you will be facing them. You must not despise them.I ...
Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen blackFrom the south-west stained its encroaching track,Haymakers, hustling from the rain to ...
I. Joy, when it once doth so excessive grow, That it all Bounds of Reason doth or'e-flow, Draws ever after't, as we daily ...
The slender young woman who is there would be the premier creation by theCreator in the sphere of women, with ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled):Six months his better half he left with child,A simple, comely, modest, youthful ...
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
The succession of day and nightIs the architect of events.The succession of day and nightIs the fountain-head of life and ...
Sir Ralph, a simple, rural Knight,Could just distinguish Wrong from Right;When he receiv'd a Quarter's Rent,And almost half in Taxes ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
The glory of Him who moveth everythingDoth penetrate the universe, and shineIn one part more and in another less.Within that ...
From the first it had been like aBallad. It had the beat inevitable. It had the blood.A wildness cut up, ...
FIRST CHORUS. Ere the birth of Death and of Time, Ere the birth of Hell and its torments, Ere the orbs of ...
We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs, In dis howlin' wildaness,Fu' to speak some words of comfo't To each othah in distress.An' we ...
My youthful brother, oft I long To write to you in prose or song; With no pretence to judgment strong, But warm affection, May ...
Young Philiper Flash was a promising lad,His intentions were good--but oh, how sad For a person to think How the veriest pinkAnd ...
Would you a favrite novel make,Try hard your readers heart to breakFor who is pleasd, if not tormented?(Novels for that ...
SOME folk in courts for pleasure sue,An' some ransack the theatre:The airy nymph is won by few;She's of so coy ...
'. . . our language, forged in the dark bycenturies of violentpressure, underground,out of the stuff of dead life.'Thirsty and ...
Wherefore half-mast and waving sadly And seeming ill-disposed to move,Are those bright emblems which so gladly Were wont to wave our homes ...
I'VE noticed this happen, when everything is black,When I'm down below zero and cannot get back,When I feel like a ...
And what do you eat in the mess there compounded? For roast beef, the gravy the soap-man should claim-- The soup some ...
Bless thy bright face! though often blessed beforeBy raving maniac and by pensive fool;One would say something more- but who ...
All of us - righteous and sinners,Born in prison, raised at the altar,All of us are funny actorsIn the theater ...
Every misfortune that befell me, throughout the whole period of my life,When examined carefully, I found it was all the ...
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