Epic
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 | 2013-03-05 | Author:Anne Carson [Carson, Anne]

A paste of blue cloud untangled itself on the red sky over the harbor. ———— Buenos Aires was blurring into dawn. Geryon had been walking for an hour on the ...
( Category: Love Poems March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Homer

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anonymous

- XX - Hrothgar replied, the ruler of the Scyldings: “Ask not about gladness! Grief is renewed for the Danish people. Aeschere is dead, the elder brother of Yrmenlaf the ...
( Category: Medieval March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Homer

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-06 | Author:John Milton [Milton, John]

1099 Repairing where He judged them, prostrate fell 1100 Before Him reverent, and both confessed 1101 Humbly their faults, and pardon begged, with tears 1102 Watering the ground, and with ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

But it was fitting that to the broken stone that guards the bridge, Florence should offer a victim to mark the last day’s peace she has ever known. With such ...
( Category: Renaissance 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 | | 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 |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Fagles, Robert & Homer & Knox, Bernard [Fagles, Robert]

So he grieved but I tried to lend him heart: ‘About noble Peleus I can tell you nothing, 576 but about your own dear son, Neoptolemus, I can report the ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Virgil; Bernard Knox; Robert Fagles

With those words on his lips, he gave his wife the embraces both desired, then sinking limp on her breast he courted peaceful sleep that stole throughout his body. And ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-02-05 | Author:Robert Browning

NOTES "Childe Roland" symbolizes the conquest of despair by fealty to the ideal. Browning emphatically disclaimed any precise allegorical intention in this poem. He acknowledged only an ideal purport in ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2000-07-31 | Author:John Milton

Book 7 Descend from Heav'n URANIA, by that name If rightly thou art call'd, whose Voice divine Following, above th' OLYMPIAN Hill I soare, Above the flight of PEGASEAN wing. ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
azw, azw3, epub, mobi, pdf | | 2009-12-08 | Author:Homer

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )