The Wife's Lament
by Anonymous Author
Translated by André Babyn
You can read The Wife of Bath's Tale's main text and modern English translation below, side-by-side.
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
The Prologe of the Wyves Tale of Bathe
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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake
Hear the voice of the Bard!
Who Present, Past, & Future sees
Whose ears have heard,
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The Tyger
By William Blake (1757-1827)
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Gettysburg Address
Delivered by the 16th American President Abraham Lincoln
Date: November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a[Expand...]
The Good-Morrow
Tithonus
Fra Lippo Lippi
Felix Randal
MORNING
A clearing on the edge of the market, dominated by an immense 'odan' tree. It is the
village centre. The wall of the bush school flanks the stage on the right, and[Expand...]
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
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Title: As You Like It
Author: William Shakespeare
Release date: December 1, 1997 [eBook #1121]
Most recently updated: October 29, 2024
Language: English
Dramatis Personae
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Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King
[Suppliants of all ages are seated round the altar at the palace doors, at their head a PRIEST OF ZEUS. To them enter OEDIPUS.]
[Expand...]RIDERS TO THE SEA
A PLAY IN ONE ACT
First performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, February 25th, 1904.
PERSONS
MAURYA (an old woman)...... Honor[Expand...]
ARMS AND THE MAN
ACT I
Night. A lady’s bedchamber in Bulgaria, in a small town near the Dragoman Pass. It is late in November in the[Expand...]
CANTO THE FIRST
I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the[Expand...]
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round[Expand...]
Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A[Expand...]
Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats
No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist
Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd
By nightshade, ruby grape[Expand...]
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate[Expand...]
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
I
I weep for Adonais—he is dead!
Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which[Expand...]
To a Skylark
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of[Expand...]
Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred[Expand...]
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PART I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering[Expand...]
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of[Expand...]
London
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
Nurse’s Song (Songs of Experience)
When the voices of children are heard on the green
And whisp’rings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise[Expand...]
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
A little black thing among the snow,
Crying "weep! 'weep!" in notes of woe!
"Where are thy[Expand...]
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
Piping down the valleys wild
Piping songs of pleasant glee
On a cloud I saw a child.
And he laughing said to[Expand...]
Nurse’s Song (Songs of Innocence)
By William Blake
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my[Expand...]
The Chimney Sweeper
By William Blake
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"
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The Lamb
By William Blake
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o'er the mead;
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
By William Wordsworth
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the[Expand...]
London, 1802
By William Wordsworth
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic[Expand...]
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
By William Wordsworth
The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each[Expand...]
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very[Expand...]
The Collar
By George Herbert
I struck the board, and cried, "No more;
I will abroad!
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free, free as the[Expand...]
The Sun Rising
By John Donne
Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
Saucy[Expand...]
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now,[Expand...]
The Canonization Summary & Analysis
by John Donne
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,
My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune, flout,
With[Expand...]
Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
[Expand...]Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost[Expand...]
Paradise Lost: Book 1 (1674 version)
By John Milton
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
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from The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I
By Edmund Spenser
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far[Expand...]
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY
OF
DOCTOR FAUSTUS
By Christopher Marlowe
.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
THE POPE.
CARDINAL OF LORRAIN.
THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.
DUKE OF VANHOLT.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
Shakespeare homepage | Macbeth | Entire play
ACT I
SCENE I. A desert place.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
First Witch
When shall we[Expand...]
ACT I
SCENE I[1]
[Enter] ANTONIO and DELIO
DELIO. You are welcome to your country, dear Antonio;
You have been long in France, and you return
A very formal Frenchman in your[Expand...]
ACT 1
Scene 1
Enter Antonio, Salarino, and Solanio.
ANTONIO
In sooth I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me, you say it wearies you.
But how[Expand...]
ACT 1. SCENE 1.1.
A ROOM IN VOLPONE'S HOUSE.
ENTER VOLPONE AND MOSCA.
VOLP: Good morning to the day; and next, my gold:
Open the shrine, that I may see my Saint.
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PART I. A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.
CHAPTER I.
The author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life, gets safe on[Expand...]
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave
by Aphra Behn
I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and[Expand...]