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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner
by Robert Burns Ode On The Departed Regency BillA New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockEpistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner Auld comrade dear, and brither sinner, How's a'…Fair Play
by Alicia Potter In State Fair, the 1933 movie musical, the mother aims to win the bake-off; the father, the hog competition; and as for the teens, they're looking for love. Sixty-five years…Coleridge: Love
Kubla KhanFrance: an OdeLove All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my…Brewer's: Corinth
Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum (It falls not to every man's lot to go to Corinth). Gellius, in his Noctes Atticæ, i. 8, says that Horace refers to Laïs, a courtesan of Corinth…Brewer's: Orpheus
(2 syl.). A Thracian poet who could move even inanimate things by his music. When his wife Eurydie died he went into the infernal regions, and so charmed King Pluto that Eurydice was…John Keats: Fancy
by John Keats Ode to PsycheBards of passion and of mirthFancy Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Lament
by Robert Burns To RuinDespondency: An OdeThe Lament Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend's Amour. Alas! how oft does goodness would itself, And sweet affection…Gnosticism
(Encyclopedia) GnosticismGnosticismnŏsˈtĭsĭzəm [key], dualistic religious and philosophical movement of the late Hellenistic and early Christian eras. The term designates a wide assortment of sects,…Aeschylus
(Encyclopedia) AeschylusAeschylusĕsˈkĭləs, ēsˈ–, 525–456 b.c., Athenian tragic dramatist, b. Eleusis. The first of the three great Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus was the predecessor of Sophocles…Pseudepigrapha
(Encyclopedia) PseudepigraphaPseudepigraphas&oomacr;ˌdĭpĭˈgrəfə [key] [Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 b.c.…