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Cephalus

(Encyclopedia) CephalusCephalussĕˈfäləs [key], in Greek mythology, husband of Procris. The two swore eternal fidelity, but Eos, who had fallen in love with Cephalus, persuaded him to test his wife.…

The Celtic Twilight: The Queen and the Fool

by W. B. Yeats WarThe Friends of the People of FaeryThe Queen and the Fool I have heard one Hearne, a witch-doctor, who is on the border of Clare and Galway, say that in "every household…

Alfred Lord Tennyson: To a Lady Sleeping

To a Lady Sleeping O thou whose fringèd lids I gaze upon, Through whose dim brain the wingèd dreams are born, Unroof the shrines of clearest vision, In honour of the silverfleckèd morn…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ginevra

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'I Would Not Be a King'Evening: Ponte Al Mare, PisaGinevra Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, and dated 'Pisa, 1821.' Wild, pale, and…

Esther (Greek): 11

Esther (Greek) Chapter 11 1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle…