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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Mont Blanc

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to Intellectual BeautyFragment: HomeMont Blanc Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni 1. The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls…

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio: Canto XXX

Purgatorio: Canto XXIXPurgatorio: Canto XXXIPurgatorio: Canto XXX When the Septentrion of the highest heaven (Which never either setting knew or rising, Nor veil of other cloud than…

Robert Graves: Escape

Escape(August 6, 1916.—Officer previously reported died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R., Royal Welch Fusiliers.) ... But I was dead, an hour or more. I woke when I'd…

John Donne: Prayer XII. Spirante columba

PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, who, though thou have suffered us to destroy ourselves, and hast not given us the power of reparation in ourselves, hast yet afforded us such…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Vision of the Sea

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Sensitive PlantThe CloudA Vision of the Sea Composed at Pisa early in 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year. A transcript in Mrs.…

Brewer's: Haltios

In Laplandic mythology, the guardian spirits of Mount Niemi. “From this height [Niemi, in Lapland] we had opportunity several times to see those vapours rise from the lake, which the…