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Out in the cold fringes. The Oort cloud of the consciousness where light is scarce. Only the icy stare of countless unnamed stars to see you along your journey. A path with no beginning, nor port of call. A tortured sojourner lost in a hellish purgatory, searching in despair for an exit. The Tower & the Star is not only a strange tale, but a frigid trek through melancholic dejection. One spirit's rove into the dark night and its arduous transformation throughout. An unmoored voyage with but a whit of hope to lay hold of that tunnel's subsequent light.

"Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written in 1835 and published in 1842. Tennyson explained that the poem was not autobiographical but purely imaginary, "representing young life, its good side, its deficiences and its yearnings".

"Витязь в тигровой шкуре" - эпическая поэма грузинского поэта Шота Руставели, написанная в XII веке.

In Opened Doors, author Artie Bryant passionately delves into love, pain and the whirlwind of emotions in between through a profound collection of poetry, intricately penned to propel listeners into the author's transparent, visual feast of confessions.

A collection of 56 Texas sonnets on the nature of Texan peoples and environments past, present, and future. The epic poem "The Genocide of the Wolf" explores the legends and prophecies of the three historic wolf families, from native and Mexican folklore to their war with men over the plains and their current captivity. This audiobook is masterfully narrated by John Mendell, bringing to life the authentic Texan voices that inspired the work, and is thought of as a work of art in itself beyond the underlying poetry.

La Epopeya de Gilgamesh (2500-2000 a. C) es una narración acadia en verso sobre las peripecias del rey Gilgamesh. Está basada en cinco poemas independientes sumerios, que constituyen la obra épica más antigua conocida. Al comienzo, Gilgamesh es el despótico rey de Uruk, cuyos súbditos se quejan a los dioses. Estos atienden el reclamo creando a Enkidu, un hombre destinado a enfrentarse a Gilgamesh. Cuando ambos entraban en combate, en vez de darse muerte se hacen amigos para siempre y emprenden peligrosas aventuras. Como castigo a sus actos, los dioses hacen que Enkidu muera en plena juventud.

The Works and Days is a didactic poem written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts.

Trials of poetry are lyrical episodes presented as an opening dialogue or correspondence on the subject of love. Keywords and white blank pages are symbolic of reflective spaces, inviting to examine and perhaps continue an imaginary compositional journey. Conceptual basis of this work is rooted in an assessment of the value of poetry, and its potential accessibility as a literary genre.

This groundbreaking Jamaican narrative poem takes on history, faith, sex, and poetry itself. As 24-hour television - belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers - competes with dancehall, slackness, and ganja for Jamaican minds, Clarice and Thalbot preach their own conflicting visions. Clarice's visions give her power; Thalbot is at the mercy of every wandering spirit. But when Clarice, under the cover of darkness, 'sins' on the beach, Thalbot alone knows of her fall. He sets out to journey to denounce the prophetess and warn the Ninevite city of its coming doom.

Odysseus begins where Homer's Odyssey leaves off and recounts the eponymous Greek hero's final quest to settle his debt with the god Poseidon. He must travel to many cities carrying a wooden oar, find a land that knows no salt, and offer a sacrifice to the god on the site where a stranger asks the purpose of the oar. During his perilous journey, he becomes involved in the intrigues swirling among the great Trojan War veterans and their heirs and must also protect his own family and kingdom.

Spring 1916: Ludwig Wittgenstein is on his way to the Eastern Front. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, the terse, gnomic masterpiece of modern philosophy, is also a war poem. Wherever We Are When We Come to the End digs into the form and the language of the Tractatus, following Wittgenstein through the war and his own conflicts with words and silence, violence and grief, time and eternity. The result is a highly original formal experiment and a poetic fantasia on logic, love, and war.

This poem is a mixture, based around the fictional video game series and the real assassins founded by Hassan-e Sabbāh in 1090 and other embellishments.

L'avaro e superbo tiranno di Sardis, si addormenta ubriaco sulle rive del fiume Pattolo. Gli appaiono durante una fresca notte d'estate una donna ragno, una civetta dagli occhi azzurri, un satiro danzante e una ninfa amorosa. Quest'ultima porta al collo una collana anticamente forgiata dal dio Vulcano per la moglie Venere, un gioiello che possiede il potere d'innamorare chiunque si trovi intorno a chi lo indossa. Il re si lascia irretire nell'incantesimo d'amore ma non rinuncia all'ossessione della sua vita: l'oro, il potere, la ricchezza.

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life.

Beowulf, a masterpiece of ancient literature, reminds us of a world prior to the scientific revolution, where things were dark and monsters roamed in swamps and dragons hoarded gold in mountains. Beowulf is a character to be admired yet not without caution. Timeless, this oft-translated piece of old English literature will be sure to delight and teach you something.

Una delle storie d'amore più struggenti di sempre raccontata in rima. Orfeo, il mitico cantore che incantava qualsiasi cosa o creatura con la potenza della sua musica, sfiderà con essa il regno dei morti "infettandolo di vita". Tutto ciò per riportare alla luce la sua amata Euridice, morta per il morso di un serpente. Un viaggio dunque nell'ignoto che sfocerà nelle proprie emozioni e nelle proprie paure. Non si sarebbe dovuto voltare durante la risalita alla vita, non avrebbe dovuto guardare Euridice in volto se non dopo esser giunti in superficie.

Самое знаменитое произведение Джона Мильтона "ПОТЕРЯННЫЙ РАЙ" [1667] в поэтической форме передает библейский сюжет о грехопадении Адама и Евы и их изгнании из рая.

In this narrative poem, the Pacha, Giaffir, has decreed that his beautiful daughter, Zuleika, is to be married to the rich and elderly Bey of Carasman. She confesses her grief to Selim, her beloved half-brother. Selim entreats Zuleika to meet him in a grotto later that night, where he appears in pirate garb. He declares that they are not brother and sister, but cousins and reveals that Giaffir murdered his father, Abdallah.

An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, usually set in a time beyond living memory in which the extraordinary ancestors, in their dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants, the poet, and his audience in order to understand themselves as a people.

This is a collection of stories in poems form about a boy becoming a king. These poems are the prince's observation of the world and each poem tells a fragment of a different type of story about the current world he is trapped in and questioning the reality.