by Katherine Mansfield ” Y’ARE very snug in here,” piped old Mr. Woodifield, and he peered out of the great, green leather armchair by his friend the boss’s desk as a […]
by William Wordsworth Strange fits of passion have I known:And I will dare to tell,But in the lover’s ear alone,What once to me befell. When she I loved looked every […]
Translated by A. S. Kline Contents Bk I Sat IV: 1-25 Quality not Quantity in Satire please. Whenever anyone deserved to be shown as a crook A thief, a libertine, […]
Translated by A. S. Kline With illustrations by Hendrik Goltzius (The Netherlands, 1558-1617) courtesy of LACMA and the Rijksmuseum. Contents Bk III: 1-49 Cadmus searches for his sister Europa And now the god, […]
Translated by George Theodoridis Dramatis Personae OEDIPUS (King of Thebes) ATTENTANDS TO OEDIPUS (Later to Creon) JOCASTA (Queen of Thebes) VARIOUS ATTENDANTS TO HER CREON (Jocasta’s brother) TEIRESIAS (A blind prophet) A YOUNG BOY (Teiresias’ guide, Silent) PRIEST […]
Translated by A. S. Kline Contents Book I: The Quarrel Book II: The Catalogue of Ships Book I Bk I: 1-21 Invocation and Introduction Goddess, sing me the anger, of Achilles, Peleus’ son, that […]
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That […]
BY ROBERT BROWNING FERRARA That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a […]
BY MATTHEW ARNOLD The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs […]
by Edgar Allan Poe Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own […]
