Eastern Orthodox Illustrations

Endymion: Book II

O Sovereign power of love!

Satire II. to Mr Bethel.

SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.

Elegy on Newstead Abbey

"It is the voice of years, that are gone! they roll before me, with all their deeds." Ossian. fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! repentant HENRY'S pride! Of Warriors, Monks, and Dames the cloister'd tomb, Whose pensive shades around thy ruins glide, Hail to thy pile!

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Oscar of Alva

How sweetly shines, through azure skies, The lamp of Heaven on Lora's shore; Where Alva's hoary turrets rise, And hear the din of arms no more!

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Fable

The Dog in the Manger

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves

Universalenvyselfishness

Aesop

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91. The Vision

THE SUN had clos’d the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger’d maukin taen her way, To kail-yards green, While faithless snaws ilk step betray Whare she has been.

Hiawatha's Childhood

Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell Nokomis, Fell the beautiful Nokomis, She a wife, but not a mother.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Paradise Lost: Book 03

Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

John Milton

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Fable

The Dog and the Wolf

Better starve free than be a fat slave

Universalfreedomslavery

Aesop

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The Age of Bronze

The "good old times"--all times when old are good-- Are gone; the present might be if they would; Great things have been, and are, and greater still Want little of mere mortals but their will: A wider space, a greener...

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Charles the First

SCENE 1: THE MASQUE OF THE INNS OF COURT. A PURSUIVANT: Place, for the Marshal of the Masque! FIRST CITIZEN: What thinkest thou of this quaint masque which turns, Like morning from the shadow of the night, The night to...

Ode to a Lady Whose Lover Was Killed by a Ball, Which at the Same Time Shivered a Portrait Next His Heart

_On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie, mais il est rare d'en trouver qui n'en aient jamais eu qu'une_.--[_Réflexions_ ... du Duc de la Rochefoucauld, No.

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Fable

The Mountains in Labour

Much outcry, little outcome

Universalexpectationsdisappointment

Aesop

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Beppo: A Venetian Story

_Rosalind_. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller; Look, you lisp, and wear strange suits: disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your Nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will...

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Tam O'Shanter

A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." —Gawin Douglas.

The Witch of Atlas

TO MARY (ON HER OBJECTING TO THE FOLLOWING POEM, UPON THE SCORE OF ITS CONTAINING NO HUMAN INTEREST). How, my dear Mary,--are you critic-bitten (For vipers kill, though dead) by some review, That you condemn these verses I have written,...

83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night

MY lov’d, my honour’d, much respected friend!

The Deformed Transformed:

SCENE I.--_A Forest_. _Enter_ ARNOLD _and his mother_ BERTHA. _Bert._ Out, Hunchback! _Arn._ I was born so, Mother! _Bert._ Out, Thou incubus! Thou nightmare! Of seven sons, The sole abortion! _Arn._ Would that I had been so, And never seen the light!

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Paradise Lost: Book 11

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most severe, What else but favour, grace, and mercy, shone?

CHARMIDES

He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's prow, and let the foam Blow through his crisp brown curls unconsciously, And holding wave and wind in boy's despite Peered...

Oscar Wilde

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Fable

The Dog and the Shadow

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow

Universalgreedcontentment

Aesop

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A Tale (Epilogue to "The Two Poets of Croisic.")

What a pretty tale you told me Once upon a time --Said you found it somewhere (scold me!) Was it prose or was it rhyme, Greek or Latin? Greek, you said, While your shoulder propped my head.