The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Milton's Poems

by John Milton

Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...

Evangeline

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Phèdre

by Jean Racine

Le dessein en est pris, je pars, cher Theramene,

Tartuffe

by Molière

Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away.

Carmina

by Horace

Your flanks are scorched by Spanish ropes, your legs by iron chains, and though you strut about in pride of wealth, good...

Bucolica

by Publius Vergilius Maro

You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy

Le Cid

by Pierre Corneille

English versification

by E. Wadham

Poems

by Geoffrey Chaucer

A Poetry Handbook

by Mary Oliver

Versification in English poetry

by George Benjamin Woods

Versification in English poetry

by Woods, George Benjamin

A treatise on English versification

by Crowe, William