Poetry
epub |eng | 2015-08-06 | Author:Cecil Bowra [Bowra, Cecil]

III For the Gods give all the means of mortal greatness. They grant men skill, Might of hand and eloquence. My praise is ripe for One: I do not mean ...
( Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval Poetry February 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-19 | Author:Hesiod,Stanley Lombardo,Robert Lamberton [Hesiod,Stanley Lombardo,Robert Lamberton]

THEOGONY Invocation to the Muses Begin our singing with the Helikonian Muses, Who possess Mount Helikon, high and holy, And near its violet-stained spring on petalsoft feet Dance circling the ...
( Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval Poetry February 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-01 | Author:Hesiod [Hesiod]

care, but nevertheless even these people will have some good mixed with bad. Zeus will destroy this Iron Race of mortal men too, when they turn out to be born ...
( Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval Poetry February 10,2021 )
epub |cat | 2016-11-13 | Author:Homer [Homer]

( Category: Poetry February 9,2021 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Herman Melville

On The Slain Collegians[21] Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws. If woman ...
( Category: Poetry February 8,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fallen is the oppressor, friendless, ghastly, low, And my heart aches, though Mercy struck the blow. With wearied thought once more I seek the shade, Where peaceful Virtue weaves the ...
( Category: Poetry February 8,2021 )
epub |spa | 2018-11-10 | Author:Paco de la Nuez [Nuez, Paco de la]

( Category: Poetry February 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Meredith [Meredith, George]

THE SONG OF THEODOLINDA I Queen Theodolind has built In the earth a furnace-bed: There the Traitor Nail that spilt Blood of the anointed Head, Red of heat, resolves in ...
( Category: Poetry February 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson [Tennyson, Alfred Lord]

Locksley Hall Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn: Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle horn. 'Tis the place, ...
( Category: Regional & Cultural Poetry February 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-14 | Author:Komunyakaa, Yusef

The Cops Call Him Charlie An olive grove’s his only country. Without family or friends, fifty years after the woman on the wharf waved to him & the roots of ...
( Category: Poetry February 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-14 | Author:Sappho; Balmer, Josephine; [Josephine Balmer]

( Category: Poetry Anthologies February 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wilfred Owen [Owen, Wilfred]

Exposure I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us … Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent … Low drooping flares confuse our ...
( Category: Poetry February 7,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

City lulled asleep by the chime of passing years, Sweeter smiles thy rest than the radiance round thy peers; Only love and lovely remembrance here have place. Time on thee ...
( Category: Poetry February 7,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:William Wordsworth

VII But thou, O Goddess! in thy favourite Isle (Freedom's impregnable redoubt, The wide earth's storehouse fenced about With breakers roaring to the gales That stretch a thousand thousand sails) ...
( Category: Poetry Anthologies February 7,2021 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley

I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone, And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds ...
( Category: Poetry Anthologies February 7,2021 )