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Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, i ...

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DEDICATION Bob Southey! You're a poet, poet laureate, And representative of all the race. Although 'tis true that you turned out ...

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CONTENTS: Philosophy of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx Hop Frog The Man of the Crowd Never Bet the Dev ...

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BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore. ...

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PREFACE. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced a ...

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THE ODYSSEY rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original By Samuel Butler PREFACE TO FI ...

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THE ILIAD OF HOMER Rendered into English Prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler BOOK ...

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Book I Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, Wit ...

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STRUWWELPETER Merry Stories and Funny Pictures When the children have been good, That is, be it understood, Good at meal-time ...

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INTRODUCTION The poet Kabîr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interestin ...

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PREFACE. In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs fr ...

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PART THE FIRST. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wher ...

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SONGS OF INNOCENCE INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laugh ...

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INTRODUCTION. Pope's life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Ann ...

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I Here's where I've planted my garden and here I shall care for love's blossoms-- As I am taught by my muse, carefully sort them in plots: ...

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HELL Cantos 1 - 34 CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct ...

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CONTENTS Gerontion Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar Sweeney Erect A Cooking Egg Le Directeur Mél ...

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I From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His ...

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TO IANTHE. {1} Not in those climes where I have late been straying, Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed, Not in thos ...

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I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull ro ...

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PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, ...

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CONTENTS Inferno I. The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil. II. The Descen ...