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The Iliad of Homer: Summary

Introduction. Summary The following argument of the Iliad, corrected in a few particulars, is translated from Bitaube, and is, perhaps, the neatest summary that has ever been drawn up…

Robert Graves: A Child's Nightmare

A Child's NightmareThrough long nursery nights he stood By my bed unwearying, Loomed gigantic, formless, queer, Purring in my haunted ear That same hideous nightmare thing, Talking, as he…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Epigrams

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The CyclopsFragment of the Elegy on the D...Epigrams These four Epigrams were published-numbers 2 and 4 without title-by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment

by Percy Bysshe Shelley DespairThe Spectral HorsemanFragment Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away, Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind; How long will horror nerve this frame of…

Blood and Wine

Director: Bob RafelsonWriters: Nick Villiers and Alison CrossDirector of Photography:Newton Thomas SigelEditor:Steven CohenMusic:Michal LorencProduction Designer:Richard SylbertProducer:…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Julian and Maddalo

by Percy Bysshe Shelley PrefaceCancelled Fragments of Julian ...Julian and Maddalo I rode one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: In Vain

by EmilyDickinsonThe OutletRenunciationIn Vain In Vain I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf The sexton keeps the key to, Putting up Our life…

The Devil's Dictionary: King's Evil

by Ambrose Bierce KINGKISSKING'S EVIL -n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus "the most pious Edward" of…

The Migration of Ghosts

Author:Pauline MelvillePublisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Pauline Melville is hard to pin down. In an era when so many writers are confined to a single voice or easy ideological stance, she-…

Solomon and the Witch

Solomon and the WitchAnd thus declared that Arab lady: “Last night, where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had laid me, Within my arms great Solomon, I suddenly cried out in a strange…