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50 Hilarious "The Simpsons" Quotes

Top of Page Are you a fan of "The Simpsons"? Do you find yourself quoting Homer, Bart, or any of the other hilarious characters on a daily basis? Well, you're in luck! We've scoured the depths of…

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Introduction

Introduction Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of…

John Keats: Chaucer

by JohnKeatsSleep and PoetryChaucer What is more gentle than a wind in summer? What is more soothing than the pretty hummer That stays one moment in an open flower, And buzzes cheerily…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to Maria Gisborne

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Peter Bell the Third The Witch of Atlas Letter to Maria Gisborne LEGHORN, July 1, 1820. The spider spreads her webs, whether she be In poet s tower, cellar, or barn,…

The Divine Comedy: Inferno: Canto XXXII

Inferno: Canto XXXIInferno: Canto XXXIIIInferno: Canto XXXII If I had rhymes both rough and stridulous, As were appropriate to the dismal hole Down upon which thrust all the other…

William Vaughn Moody: The Daguerreotype

The DaguerreotypeWilliam Vaughn MoodyThis, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger than spring, without the faintest trace…

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII

Purgatorio: Canto XXVIIPurgatorio: Canto XXIXPurgatorio: Canto XXVIII Eager already to search in and round The heavenly forest, dense and living-green, Which tempered to the eyes the…

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio: Canto XXIX

Purgatorio: Canto XXVIIIPurgatorio: Canto XXXPurgatorio: Canto XXIX Singing like unto an enamoured lady She, with the ending of her words, continued: "Beati quorum tecta sunt peccata…

The Celtic Twilight: Drumcliff and Rosses

by W. B. Yeats The Three O'Byrnes and the Evil FaeriesThe Thick Skull of the FortunateDrumcliff and Rosses Drumcliff and Rosses were, are, and ever shall be, please Heaven! places of…