Poetry
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris [Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris]

M * * * MACHPELAH was a double-chambered cave in western Hebron, which Abraham bought for a family burial place. Ragan’s web of war drops “with crimson gore with the ...
( Category: European April 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Keats, John [Keats, John]

To Chatterton O CHATTERTON! how very sad thy fate! Dear child of sorrow–son of misery! How soon the film of death obscured that eye, Whence Genius wildly flashed, and high ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Lattimore, Richmond & Martin, Richard & Homer, [Martin, Richard]

BOOK FOURTEEN Now Nestor failed not to hear their outcry, though he was drinking his wine, but spoke in winged words to the son of Asklepios: “Take thought how these ...
( Category: Greek April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 1753-01-02 | Author:Homer & Robert Fitzgerald [Homer & Fitzgerald, Robert]

“Telémakhos, what am I to do now? Return alone and lie again on my forsaken bed— sodden how often with my weeping since that day when Odysseus put to sea ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Homer [Homer]

The end of the twenty-first book Book 22 The Argument All Trojans hous’d but Hector, only he Keeps field, and undergoes th’ extremity. Aeacides assaulting, Hector flies. Minerva stays him: ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-18 | Author:Richmond Lattimore

180 and sitting then to row they dashed their oars in the gray sea. But when we were as far from the land as a voice shouting carries, lightly plying, ...
( Category: Poetry April 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:Ovid [Ovid]

[LATIN: Quis dubitet, quin…] Yes, you’ve guessed right, I’d have every girl enhance Her image by knowing how to dance, So that when wine’s poured and guests call for an ...
( Category: Poetry April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-05-06 | Author:Melville, A. D. & E. J. Kenney [Melville, A. D.]

VENUS AND ADONIS Time glides in secret and his wings deceive; Nothing is swifter than the years. That son, Child of his sister and his grandfather, So lately bark-enswathed, so ...
( Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval April 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-11 | Author:Ovid [Ovid]

595 Jupiter calms her, and uses love to excuse the deed. ‘He is not a son-in-law we need be ashamed of,’ he says. ‘I am not more noble. My palace ...
( Category: Poetry April 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-08 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

Thousands of Feet Below You Thousands of feet Below you There is a small Boy Running from Your bombs. If he were To show up At your mother’s House On ...
( Category: Love Poems April 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Richard Wagamese [Wagamese, Richard]

me I seen that too an’ I looked at her and my face wasn’t so big and sad no more “you bring the fire here,” she said “you light the ...
( Category: Canadian April 8,2014 )
epub | | 2014-04-01 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

PAUL Mom! Mother! Mom! Toilet flushes. Lights come up on the living room. It is morning. PAUL Dad's got jungle fever, Mom. What'll I do? Mom! HAROLD (a moment of ...
( Category: Drama & Plays April 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Silverstein, Shel [Silverstein, Shel]

POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless Christmas dinner’s dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey’s point of view. Sunday dinner isn’t ...
( Category: Humorous April 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Plath, Sylvia]

Electrifyingly-colored sherbets, scooped from the freeze By pale girls, travel the air in scorched hands. Why is it so quiet, what are they hiding? I have two legs, and I ...
( Category: United States April 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Plath, Sylvia]

Chair and bureau are the hieroglyphs Of some godly utterance wakened heads ignore: So these posed sheets, before they thin to nothing, Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, ...
( Category: Love Poems April 2,2014 )