Poetry
Don Juan
Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventua…
The Song Celestial
This work is a unique rendering of the Bagavad Gita by a well known poet. It is faithful to the text and yet does not read like a translatio…
Poems
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…
Dymer
This is a narrative poem written by C.S. Lewis, begun in his teen years and published when he was a tutor at Oxford. It appeared in print un…
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also dep…
The World’s Story
This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…
Paradise Regain'd
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…
Christmas Short Works Collection
Celebrate the spirit of the season with the Christmas Short Works Collection, a delightful anthology of public domain stories, essays, poems…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Maude
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 17…
African-American Collection
Celebrate the rich tapestry of African American literature with this diverse anthology, curated to honor Black History Month. This collectio…
The New Life
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
The Psalms and Odes of Solomon
One of the Pseudepigrapha, the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) that are not part of any scriptura…
The Courtship of Miles Standish
During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously bl…
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …
Rainer Maria Rilke
A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker
All Is Beautiful
Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens…
International Women's Literature
International Women's Literature is a rich anthology that celebrates the voices of women writers from across the globe, showcasing their con…