Poetry
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

The rest of the column is lost. The meeting of Gilgamesh with the scorpion-men, at the foot of a mountain whose name is Mashu. As he came to the mountain ...
( Category: Poetry August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]

or I will see her hop onto the couch to nap then later find her down on the Turkish carpet, her nose in the fringe. The moon rolls across the ...
( Category: Poetry August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-22 | Author:Gil Scott-Heron [Gil Scott-Heron]

Just 30 miles from Detroit Stands a giant power station That ticks each night as the city sleeps Just seconds from annihilation But no one stops to think about the ...
( Category: Poetry August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-07 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

IV NOW New Year draws near and the night passes, day comes driving the dark, as ordained by God; but wild weathers of the world awake in the land, clouds ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-09-01 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

This Contract between me and you persuing witnesseth in the name of God—Amen and so forth. (One) That me and you will settle this matter together; i.e., to be Kings ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

IX. Though inly chafed at this delay, Lord Marmion bears it as he may. The Palmer, his mysterious guide, Beholding thus his place supplied, Sought to take leave in vain: ...
( Category: Poetry August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

XVIII 410 Angus, the heir of Duncan's line, Sprung forth and seized the fatal sign. In haste the stripling to his side His father's dirk and broadsword tied; But when ...
( Category: Poetry August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Gordon Byron Byron [Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron]

XLVIII. Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions; in proud state Each robber chief upheld his armèd halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than ...
( Category: World August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Gordon Byron Byron [Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron]

This being the case, may show us what Fame is: For out of these three 'preux Chevaliers,' how Many of common readers give a guess That such existed? (and they ...
( Category: Poetry August 21,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-21 | Author:Breyten Breytenbach

(mirror note 4) Is the mirror the memory? Is it not true that memory is always in the present tense, with the tenseness of the unpassed present? In his Imaginative ...
( Category: Poetry August 21,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1948-01-02 | Author:The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

PART TWO Not far from this great palace, where the marquis was making ready for the feast, there was a hamlet nestling in very pleasant scenery. The poor folk of ...
( Category: Classics August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Tony Hoagland

Hejinian deals in the same contemporary verities as the other poets considered here—unknowability and transience, the illusory nature of self hood, the limits and instabilities of language—and, like them, she ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Gerard Hopkins

SERMON FOR SUNDAY EVENING NOV. 23 1879 AT BEDFORD LEIGH1 – LUKE ii 33. Et erat pater ejus et mater mirantes super his quae dicebantur de illo (text taken at ...
( Category: Poetry August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Celan

This year does not roar across, it throws back December, November, it turns up its wounds, it opens up to you, young grave- well, twelvemouth. THE BREACHED YEAR with the ...
( Category: Poetry August 20,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]

And I was even more surprised after a period of benevolent staring to notice how the stark profile of that woman, fixed forever in her chair, began to resemble my ...
( Category: Poetry August 20,2017 )