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John Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes

by John Keats Isabella; or, The Pot of BasilPoemsThe Eve of St. Agnes St. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The CloudCancelled Passage of the Ode to LibertyTo a Skylark Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year. There is a…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 7

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 6Chapter 8Chapter 7 For some reason or other, the house was crowded that night, and the fat Jew manager who met them at the door was beaming from ear to ear…

Jo's Journal

Jo's JournalNew York, NovemberDear Marmee and Beth,I'm going to write you a regular volume, for I've got heaps to tell, though I'm not a fine young lady traveling on the continent. When I…

Learning to Forget

Learning to ForgetAmy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take…

Taming of the Shrew

Taming of the Shrew Katharine, the Shrew, was the eldest daughter of Baptista, a rich gentleman of Padua. She was a lady of such an ungovernable spirit and fiery temper, such a loud-tongued…

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will Sebastian and his sister Viola, a young gentleman and lady of Messaline, were twins, and (which was accounted a great wonder) from their birth they so much…

Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market

Goblin MarketMorning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and…

Nat

Nat"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him. "Yes. Who sent you?" "Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the…