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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Index of First Lines

by Percy Bysshe Shelley A List of the Principal Editio...Index of First Lines A cat in distress : A gentle story of two lovers young : A glorious people vibrated again : A golden-winged…

1 Corinthians: 15

1 Corinthians Chapter 15 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are…

Shakespeare's Sonnets

William ShakespeareContentsFrom fairest creatures we desire increaseWhen forty winters shall besiege thy browLook in thy glass and tell the face thou viewestUnthrifty loveliness, why dost thou…

Christina Rossetti: Sleep at Sea

Sleep at SeaSound the deep waters:— Who shall sound that deep?— Too short the plummet, And the watchmen sleep. Some dream of effort Up a toilsome steep; Some dream of pasture grounds…

Sara Teasdale: Sappho

SapphoSara TeasdaleThe twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep, And in my Lesbos, over leagues of sea, The temples glimmer moonwise in the trees. Twilight has veiled the little flower face…

Sara Teasedale: Sappho III

Sappho IIIFrom " Helen of Troy and Other Poems."The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep, And in my Lesbos, over leagues of sea, The temples glimmer moon-wise in the trees. Twilight has…

Brewer's: Maid of Perth

(Fair). Catherine Glover, daughter of Simon Glover, the old glover of Perth. She kisses Smith while asleep on St. Valentine's morning, and ultimately marries him. (See Smith.) (Scott: Fair…

Brewer's: Piers Plowman

The hero of a satirical poem of the fourteenth century. He falls asleep, like John Bunyan, on the Malvern Hills, and has different visions, which he describes, and in which he exposes the…

Brewer's: Sif

Wife of Thor, famous for the beauty of her hair. Loki having cut it off while she was asleep, she obtained from the dwarfs a new fell of golden hair equal to that which he had taken.…