San Lorenzo
Across the way see San Lorenzo stand
J de S Westbrook on hidden beauties.
English poems
Opening lines from Homer’s Odyssey
The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way
The first lines of the Odyssey, translated by George Chapman in a version admired by Keats
Say not the trouble nought availeth
Say not the trouble nought availeth
Optimism and self-help from this principled poet of the Victorian era
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Eton College in the gateway to Orcus
Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci
Virgil's traces are visible in this eighteenth-century poet
Proud songsters
The thrushes sing as the light is going
Hardy shares his sadness and his flair for nature
Opening lines from Homer’s Iliad
The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring
A Georgian wit attempts to render the epic of ancient Greece
From "Pomes, Pennyeach"
Tilly
He travels after a winter sun
Joyce's feelings on the death of his mother