The Iliad: Book 22 (Homer Poems)
Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweatfrom off them and drank to quench their thirst, ...
Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweatfrom off them and drank to quench their thirst, ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
The castle walls are full of eyes,And not a mouse may creep unseen.All the window slits are spies;And the towers ...
A late snow beatsWith cold white fists upon the tenements -Hurriedly drawing blinds and shutters,Like tall old slatternsPulling aprons about ...
Old Deutchland's the country for sauerkraut and beer,Old England's the land of roast beef and good cheer,Auld Scotland's the mother ...
Laughter, with us, is no great undertaking,A sudden wave that breaks and dies in breaking.Laughter with Mrs. Reece is much ...
From your hips down to your feetI want to make a long journey.I am smaller than an insect.Over these hills ...
She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on ...
Many are the deceivers: The suburban matron, proper in the supermarket, list in hand so she won't suddenly fly, buying ...
SEE his black nose snubbed back, pressed over like a whale's blow-holes,As if his nostrils were going to curve ...
After the funeral, mule praises, brays,Windshake of sailshaped ears, muffle-toed tapTap happily of one peg in the thickGrave's foot, blinds ...
(For the Rev. James J. Daly, S. J.) Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air, Are you errant strands ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
All night the army came up from Gilgal To get to the killing field, and that's all. In the ground, ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
Look at them standing there in authority The pale-faces, As if it could have any effect any more. Pale-face authority, ...
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