Poetry

Poems

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

 Just there, over the crowned head, Wasn't laid a woe of a nation, Where Law is steadfastly set With Liberty in combination. Where every one obtains a shield, Where, hold by righteous arms of people, Their sword glides smoothly o'er a fiel...

The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The tale is told by Ivan with brief interruptive questions by Alyosha. In the tale, Christ comes back to Earth in Seville at the time of the Inquisition. He performs a number of miracles (echoing miracles from the Gospels). The people recognize him a...

Three Stories and Ten Poems

Ernest Hemingway

Three Stories and Ten Poems is a collection of short stories and poems by Ernest Hemingway.   The three stories are: "Up in Michigan" "Out of Season" "My Old Man" The ten poems are:   "Mitraigliatrice" "Oklahoma" "Oily Weather" "...

Letters on England

Voltaire

Voltaire first addresses religion in Letters 1–7. He specifically talks about Quakers (1–4), Anglicans (5), Presbyterians (6), and Socinians (7). In the Letters 1-4, Voltaire describes the Quakers, their customs, their beliefs, and their...

Erotica Romana

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They reflect Goethe's Italian Journey from 1786 to 1788 and celebrate the sensuality and vigour of Italian and Classical culture. Written mainly after his return to Weimar, they contain poems on many sexual themes, and four of them were suppressed fr...

Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's sonnets are poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 160...

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Famous legendary author Kahlil Gibran's unforgettable masterpiece The Prophet has been printed millions of copies worldwide. Prophet was published in 1923 and has been translated into many languages. This flawless work consists of essays written with...

THE ARGONAUTS

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson delivers a brilliant mix of fresh, bold and brisk thoughts about love, passion, human desires, identity and the huge world of possibilities that we live in. The Argonauts is an autobiographical story and focuses on Maggie's own relation...