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The Iliad of Homer: The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax
The Episodes of Glaucus and Di... The Second Battle, and the Dis... The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax. The battle renewing with double ardour upon the return of Hector, Minerva is…The Iliad of Homer: The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon
The Trial of the Army, and Cat... The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon. In the war of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the neighbouring towns, and taken from thence two…John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book VII
Book VII 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. The meaning,…Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill. The miller's house was close by, and the miller, you…The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun The wanton Troopers riding by Have shot my Faun and it will dye. Ungentle men! They cannot thrive To kill thee. Thou neer didst alive Them any…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Boston
BostonSicut Patribus, Sit Deus NobisThe rocky nook with hilltops three Looked eastward from the farms, And twice each day the flowing sea Took Boston in its arms; The men of yore were…John Donne: Expostulation XV. Interea insomnes
ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I know (for thou hast said it) that “he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep”: [Ps. 121:4] but shall not that Israel, over whom thou…Lewis Carroll: CANTO VI—Dyscomfyture
CANTO VI—DyscomfytureAs one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow every moment less sublime, And votes the thing a bore:Yet, having once…Baron Munchausen: A Second Trip to the Moon.
by Rudolph Erich Raspe Voyage eastward-The Baron i... The Baron crosses the Thame...A Second Trip to the Moon. A second visit (but an accidental one) to the moon-The ship driven…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
by Robert Burns The Twa DogsThe Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie On giving her the accustomed ripp of corn to hansel in the New Year. A Guid…Trending
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