The following is a translation of the opening lines of the Iliad into Old English — perhaps the first ever translation done of this kind. THE OLD ENGLISH ILIAD By A.A. Brunn Graman mé giedda, lá gyden, Achilles,frécne se þe fremede firendǽda Grécum,and hildgástas hæleða on Helle bewearp,ge hunda tó húðum, ge hræfna gewurdonswá willa […]
I stand among the burn-pitsSurrounded by their lightBuilt to test the universeThey glower day and night I stand among the burn pitsThe court that tries by fireWhere nothing is exempt…
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. - Oscar Wilde I started writing with the…
Blinding chrome bars gleam like metal sunlight Shining 'tween the headlights, mirrored sky, Throws up dusty stormclouds in its passing, Roaring horses make the wagon fly, Down the sun-scorched fields…
By food and drink, the bonds we make Around the fire by the lake; Though waves exhaust and embers burn, To this circle we return; Some depart, to flee the…
Everyone wants power, And this is not a sin -- The strength to lift your furniture, The speed and skill to win -- Everyone wants power, For those without aren't…
Was "cold command" what Shelley saw, When looking Ramses in the eye? Dead and gone was man to king -- And statue lived beneath that sky; He wrote his hate…
ISA reigns ISA reigns Fire ebbs And ISA gains ISA reigns ISA reigns Fire dies ISA remains Hail to ISA ISA hail Cold and white In Winter's gale ISA first…
What a curious glory, A baffling kind of love, That pulls our eyes from beauty And turns them up above; In what strange morality -- And to what foggy ends…
The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919) By Rudyard Kipling As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of…