Beowulf (Episode 28-30) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
HASTENED the hardy one, henchmen with him,sandy strand of the sea to treadand widespread ways. The world's great candle,sun shone ...
HASTENED the hardy one, henchmen with him,sandy strand of the sea to treadand widespread ways. The world's great candle,sun shone ...
THEN he goes to his chamber, a grief-song chantsalone for his lost. Too large all seems,homestead and house. So the ...
WIGLAF his name was, Weohstan's son,linden-thane loved, the lord of Scylfings,Aelfhere's kinsman. His king he now sawwith heat under helmet ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, now, this sea-booty, son of Healfdene,Lord of Scyldings, we've lustily brought thee,sign of glory; ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Have mind, thou honored offspring of Healfdenegold-friend of men, now I go on this quest,sovran ...
HROTHGAR answered, helmet of Scyldings: —"I knew him of yore in his youthful days;his aged father was Ecgtheow named,to whom, ...
So held this king to the customs old,that I wanted for nought in the wage I gained,the meed of my ...
CAME now to ocean the ever-courageoushardy henchmen, their harness bearing,woven war-sarks. The warden marked,trusty as ever, the earl's return.From the ...
AND the lord of earls, to each that camewith Beowulf over the briny ways,an heirloom there at the ale-bench gave,precious ...
Take the world! Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skiesTo the children of man—"take the world I now give;It ...
Mum's bit of egg money on the mantelpiece In the broken teapot in the olden days,Hardly earned and hoarded there,Much ...
When you are come by ways emptied of lightYou'll say goodby, in that indifferent gloom,To the quick draughts of old, ...
The mahogany table-top you smashed Had been the broad plank top Of my mother's heirloom sideboard- Mapped with the scars ...
This is not the way I am. Really, I am much taller in person, the hairline I conceal reaches back ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
A man there came, whence none could tell, Bearing a Touchstone in his hand; And tested all things in the ...
"Take the world!" Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies To the children of man--"take the world I now ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
1. The dark socket of the year the pit, the cave where the sun lies down and threatens never to ...
This is winter, this is night, small love -- A sort of black horsehair, A rough, dumb country stuff Steeled ...
(1) The day she visited the dissecting room They had four men laid out, black as burnt turkey, Already half ...
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