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Poems
Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

1807 372 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
De rerum natura
De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

1486 537 ed.
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

1494 99 ed.
Анна Каренина
Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...

1876 1314 ed.
Доктор Живаго
Доктор Живаго

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...

1957 176 ed.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

by Omar Khayyam

OMAR KHAYYAM spent most of his life in Nishapur, and part of it probably in Merv.

1859 149 ed.
Georgica
Georgica

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy th...

1523 188 ed.
Bucolica
Bucolica

by Publius Vergilius Maro

You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy

1806 134 ed.
Fasti
Fasti

by Ovid

TEMPORA cum causis Latium digesta per annum,

1482 118 ed.
Satirae
Satirae

by Horace

The individual poems comprising each book of the Satires are not arranged chronologically in the order of their composit...

1763 115 ed.
Theogony
Theogony

by Hesiod, Theognis

FROM the Muses of Helicon let us begin our singing, that haunt Helicon's great and holy mountain, and dance on their sof...

1953 28 ed.
Divine songs
Divine songs

by Isaac Watts

Verse was first designed for the praising of God, though it was been wretchedly abused since.

1716 86 ed.
Amores
Amores

by Ovid

I'd meant in solemn metre to rehearse

1603 73 ed.