Category: Poetry

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08

Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 [Editor]; Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 [Editor]; Runkle, Lucia Gilbert (Lucia Isabella Gilbert), 1844-1922 [Editor]; Warner, George H., 1833-1919 [Editor]· 5 chapters· 149,607 words

PAGE Miniature Painting of the Middle Ages (Colored Plate) Frontispiece John Calvin (Portrait) 3118 The Septuagint (Fac-simile) 3124 Luiz Vaz de Camoens (Portrait) 3130 "Hohenlinden" (Photogravure) 3178 "Homer" (Photogravure) 3209 Thomas Carlyle (Portrait) 3232 "Charlotte Cord...

Start reading Search Amazon editions

Markdown Source

Chapters

4. ACT I

_The scene is a subterranean vault in the Abbey of Quedlinburgh, with coffins, 'scutcheons, death's-heads, and cross-bones; toads and other loathsome reptiles are seen traversin...

5. mill. And the voyagers, with much wonder and awe in their hearts, went

Soon after they saw a beautiful verdant island, with herds of oxen, cows, and sheep browsing all over its hills and valleys; but no houses nor inhabitants to be seen. And they r...

3. CANTO III

Now, my Calliope! to teach incline what speech great Gama for the king did frame: Inspire immortal song, grant voice divine unto this mortal who so loves thy name. Thus may the...

1. VOLUME VIII

PAGE Miniature Painting of the Middle Ages (Colored Plate) Frontispiece John Calvin (Portrait) 3118 The Septuagint (Fac-simile) 3124 Luiz Vaz de Camoens (Portrait) 3130 "Hohenli...

2. CANTO I

The feats of Arms, and famed heroick Host, from occidental Lusitanian strand, who o'er the waters ne'er by seaman crost, fared beyond the Taprobane-land, forceful in perils and...