The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War (Aristophanes Poems)
DICAEOPOLIS Be not surprised, most excellent spectators, If I that am a beggar have presumed To claim ...
DICAEOPOLIS Be not surprised, most excellent spectators, If I that am a beggar have presumed To claim ...
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
The devil, we're told, in hell was chained,and a thousand years he there remained,and he never complained, nor did he ...
An old and crafty terrapin,Who lately found his speech,Like many another simple lout,Concluded he could preach.And so he waddled to ...
Tell me what is the reason you hang down your head? From your blushes I plainly discernYou have done something ...
She loved me. Oh! how she loved me!I never had a chance to escapeFrom the day she first saw me.But ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
Upon Concluded Lives There's nothing cooler falls -- Than Life's sweet Calculations -- The mixing Bells and Palls -- Make ...
This Dust, and its Feature -- Accredited -- Today -- Will in a second Future -- Cease to identify -- ...
Belshazzar had a Letter -- He never had but one -- Belshazzar's Correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal Copy ...
''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
It was while we held our races -- Hurdles, sprints and steplechases -- Up in Dandaloo, That a crowd of ...
The sheep were shorn and the wool went down At the time of our local racing; And I'd earned a ...
'Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of January That the late Rev. Dr. Wilson's soul fled ...
Alas! Prince Henry of Battenberg is dead! And, I hope, has gone to heaven, its streets to tread, And to ...
She loved me. Oh! how she loved me! I never had a chance to escape From the day she first ...
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