Poetry
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:

[From notebook 23] Sunday, September 11. Went to the farmer’s market. Bought some bread and milk. Went with A. I. to Mostorg, got a price for my cigarette case (33 ...
( Category: Surrealism July 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-10 | Author:Homer, & Robert Fitzgerald

But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together, shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt that cinched his body-shield around his chest— but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits: ...
( Category: Epic July 17,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Marie France

lady whose hair is neither tawny nor brown. She is the most beautiful of all women in the world.’ Lanval heard this and raised his head, for he knew her ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-08-29 | Author:Ludovico Ariosto

48 ‘A cavalier arrived, as it befell, From the Byzantine court, and in his train There rode a lady who, as I heard tell, Drew the admiring glances of all ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Robert Frost

TO A YOUNG WRETCH (BOETHIAN) As gay for you to take your father's axe As take his gun—rod—to go hunting—fishing. You nick my spruce until its fiber cracks. It gives ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Homer & Andrew Lang

The others applauded what Antinous had said, and each one sent his servant to bring his present. Antinous's man returned with a large and lovely dress most exquisitely embroidered. It ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Jesse L. Byock

7. Victory runes shall you know If you want to secure wisdom, And cut them on the sword hilt, On the center ridge of the blade, And the parts of ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1980-08-28 | Author:Wolfram Eschenbach

Chapter 10 WE are approaching strange tales such as can empty us of joy and bring high spirits: they have to do with both. The term of one year was ...
( Category: European July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien & Alan Lee

2 BOMBADIL GOES BOATING The old year was turning brown; the West Wind was calling; Tom caught a beechen leaf in the Forest falling. ‘I’ve caught a happy day blown ...
( Category: Poetry July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Beroul

11 THE LOVE POTION MY lords, you have heard of the wine they drank which caused them to suffer greatly for so long. But you do not know, I think, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-07 | Author:The Jalaluddin Rumi

Don’t speak of foolish things in your pretence. Enough! Don’t speak such proud and boastful words! How long the pompous, self-important speech? Look at your deeds and state, and have ...
( Category: Love Poems July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:Luis Vaz De Camões & William Atkinson

CANTO 6 THE pagan king was at pains to give the brave seafarers such entertainment as might win him the friendship of the king of Portugal and of so powerful ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Wendy Doniger

10.168 The Gale Wind This hymn is to Vâta, a particularly violent and concrete form of the wind. 1 O, the power and glory of the chariot of the gale! ...
( Category: Vedas July 16,2020 )