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Percy Bysshe Shelley: With a Guitar, to Jane

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near PisaTo Jane: 'The Keen Stars Were Twinkling'With a Guitar, to Jane Published by Medwin, "The Athenaeum", October 20, 1832; "…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Matilda Gathering Flowers

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The First Canzone of the ConvitoFragment: Adapted from the Vit...Matilda Gathering Flowers From the Purgatorio Of Dante, Canto 28, Lines 1-51. Published in part (…

Writing Well: Tools of the Trade

Tools of the TradeWriting WellPicture This: DescriptionHelp Is on the Way!Make a Deposit in the Idea BankTake the PlungeColor My WorldMusic to the EyesTools of the TradeAn Affair to Remember…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Charles I Scene 3

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Scene 2: A Chamber in Whitehall. Scene 4: Scene 3: The Star Chamber [1] Laud, Juxon, Strafford, and others, as judges. Prynne as a prisoner, and then Bastwick. LAUD…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Charles I Scene 4

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Scene 3: The Star Chamber Scene 5: Scene 4: Hampden, Pym, Cromwell, his daughter, and young Sir Harry Vane. HAMPDEN: England, farewell! thou, who hast been my cradle…

Tao Te Ching: Part 1

Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi, trans. James Legge Part 2 The Book of Dào The first part of the Dàodéjīng, the Book of Dào addresses the idea of the Way (Dào). The Way of the Dàodéjīng refers…

Famous Poetry Opening Lines

The best books have an opening line that grabs the reader and draws them in from the first page, and poetry is no different. Can you identify these famous poetic opening lines and match them to the…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Hellas, Preface

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Prologue to Hellas Preface The poem of "Hellas", written at the suggestion of the events of the moment, is a mere improvise, and derives its interest (should it be…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment 2

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment 1Fragment 3Fragment 2 Such was Zonoras; and as daylight finds One amaranth glittering on the path of frost,[1] When autumn nights have nipped all weaker…