Poetry
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

my vision fell from me exactly so the instant a new light beat on my face, a light outshining any that men know. I was looking all about, as if ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-06-28 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

where, turned towards us, Beatrice stood. ‘Make sure,’ they said, ‘you do not spare your eyes. 115 We’ve placed you here before these emeralds, from which Love aimed his arrows ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]

DECADENCE I sit alone and watch the stars die out Before the creeping dawn comes up the sky, Like some old priest whose faith has turned to doubt When gods ...
( Category: Westerns March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-29 | Author:Homer & Peter Jones & D.C.H. Rieu & E.V. Rieu

‘My dear friend, your father Menoetius gave you instructions that day he sent you from Phthia to join Agamemnon. I and godlike Odysseus were in the house and we heard ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1989-06-30 | Author:Paul Valery

3 Excerpts from M. Teste's Logbook A prayer: Lord, I was in the void, infinitely nothing and tranquil. I was disturbed from that state, to be thrown into this strange ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-10 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Sub jectiveness—these are threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order, but ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-12-12 | Author:Catherine Coulter

“ ‘I do not think I like your brothers,’ the unicorn said. ‘What do you wish to do, Rolf?’ “ ‘I wish to speak to you, to learn who and ...
( Category: Love Poems March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien

when shining like the moon, with shrouds of pearl, with sails of samite, and the silver stars on her blue banner embroidered white in glittering gems, that galleon was thrust ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Alexander Pope

A word must be said in closing as to the merits of The Rape of the Lock and its position in English literature. In the first place it is an ...
( Category: Love Poems March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Roald Dahl

The Dentist and the Crocodile The crocodile, with cunning smile, sat in the dentist’s chair. He said, “Right here and everywhere my teeth require repair.” The dentist’s face was turning ...
( Category: British & Irish March 25,2014 )
mobi | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Poems First Series

VII. THE bee is not afraid of me, I know the butterfly; The pretty people in the woods Receive me cordially. The brooks laugh louder when I come, The breezes ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi | | 1999-10-15 | Author:John Milton;Burton Raffel

1 Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood 2 Praying, for from the mercy-seat 5752 above 3 Prevenient5753 grace descending had removed 4 The stony from their hearts, and made ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-25 | Author:Various

La vie est plus vaine une image Que l’ombre sur le mur. Pourtant l’hiéroglyphe obscur Qu’y trace ton passage M’enchante, et ton rire pareil Au vif éclat des armes; Et ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Caroline Kennedy

With a fierce frown and hard-pursed lips She twists a little on her stem To test the even swirling of the hem, Smooths down the waist and hips, Plucks at ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )