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On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Titus Lucretius Carus [Lucretius Carus, Titus]

* * * Indeed, where one from o'er-abundant bile Is stricken with fever, or in other wise Feels the roused violence of some malady, There the whole frame is now ...
( Category: Poetry January 24,2018 )
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

2. Voluptuousness: unto all hair–shirted despisers of the body, a sting and stake; and, cursed as "the world," by all backworldsmen: for it mocketh and befooleth all erring, misinferring teachers. ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
Dionysus Dithyrambs by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub |eng | 2011-02-25 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

1. How long will you sit on your misfortune? Watch out! You hatch me yet Another egg, A basilisk-egg Out of your long misery. Why did Zarathustra sneak along the ...
( Category: Poetry January 24,2018 )
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer [Chaucer, Geoffrey]

And when this Walter saw her patience, Her glade cheer, and no malice at all, And he so often had her done offence, And she aye sad4 and constant as ...
( Category: Classics January 24,2018 )
Poems of Nature by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 1895-09-25 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

Small birds, in fleets migrating by, Now beat across some meadow's bay. And as they tack and veer on high, With faint and hurried click beguile the way. Far in ...
( Category: Poetry January 24,2018 )
Tao te ching by Lao Tzu
epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Lao Tzu [Tzu, Lao]

9 The ancient masters were therefore never full of themselves. Like them, we can cultivate quietly, preserving a sense of calmness without drawing attention to ourselves or creating a disturbance. ...
( Category: Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts January 24,2018 )
Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Chretien de Troyes

THE KNIGHT WITH THE LION (YVAIN) ARTHUR, the good king of Britain whose valour teaches us to be brave and courteous, held a court of truly royal splendour at that ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 22,2018 )
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-25 | Author:Charles Bukowski

[To Marvin Malone] April 4, 1970 [ . . . ] my hope is that the Wormwood Review goes on as long as you do. I have watched the magazines ...
( Category: Poetry January 21,2018 )
The Dark Issue 5 by The Dark Magazine
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-01 | Author:The Dark Magazine

Octavia Cade is a PhD candidate in science communication. She’s had a handful of short stories published before, in places like Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Aurealis. Her first novella has ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 16,2018 )
The Revolt of Islam by Shelley Percy Bysshe
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Shelley, Percy Bysshe

5 My brethren, we are free! The fruits are glowing Beneath the stars, and the night winds are flowing O'er the ripe corn, the birds and beasts are dreaming – ...
( Category: Poetry January 16,2018 )
Tales of a Wayside Inn by Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

»Wake from your dreams, O Edrehi! Or dreaming speak to us, and make A feint of being half awake, And tell us what your dreams may be. Out of the ...
( Category: Poetry January 16,2018 )
The Excursion by Wordsworth William
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Wordsworth, William

Him from that posture did the Sexton rouse; Who entered, humming carelessly a tune, Continuation haply of the notes That had beguiled the work from which he came, With spade ...
( Category: Poetry January 16,2018 )
The Garden-Party by Mansfield Katherine
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Mansfield, Katherine

The Young Girl In her blue dress, with her cheeks lightly flushed, her blue, blue eyes, and her gold curls pinned up as though for the first time – pinned ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies January 16,2018 )
Paradise Lost by Paradise Lost
epub |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Paradise Lost [Lost, Paradise]

CHAPTER TEN It was a grim family gathering that convened around the dining room table at High Lonesome Ranch. Joanna began by briefly summarizing what Frank Montoya had told her ...
( Category: Poetry January 15,2018 )
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Billy Collins

Musée des Beaux Arts Revisited As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest dungeon in the castle, can effortlessly ...
( Category: Poetry January 14,2018 )

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