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 […]
by Walt Whitman O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, […]
by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn’t […]
by Wilfred Owen Halted against the shade of a last hill, They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease And, finding comfortable chests and knees Carelessly slept. But many there […]
by W.B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is […]
