Euripides (480 or 485–406 B.C.). The Bacchæ. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Lines 1–84 DIONYSUS BEHOLD, God’s Son is come unto this land Of heaven’s hot splendour lit to life, when she Of Thebes, even I, Dionysus, whom the brand Who bore me, Cadmus’ daughter Semelê, 4 Died here. So, changed in shape from God to …
Beachwood Canyon, Evening View Towards City
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946). Tender Buttons. 1914. ROOMS Act so that there is no use in a centre. A wide action is not a width. A preparation is given to the ones preparing. They do not eat who mention silver and sweet. There was an occupation. A whole centre and a border make hanging a way of dressing. This …
Beachwood Canyon, Foggy Night View
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). Prufrock and Other Observations. 1917. 1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza …
Carlsbad, CA, Eucalyptis Tree 1
Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. 163. The Earth By Ralph Waldo Emerson OUR eyeless bark sails free, Though with boom and spar Andes, Alp, or Himmalee Strikes never moon or star.
Heidelberg Germany, Abbey Ruins
Hans Christian Andersen. (1805–1875) Tales. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. The Angel WHENEVER a good child dies, an angel from heaven comes down to earth and takes the dead child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies away over all the places the child has loved, and picks quite a handful of …
Heidelberg Germany, Mountain View
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). Faust. Part I. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Faust. Part I 1–70 NIGHT A high vaulted narrow Gothic chamber. FAUST, restless, seated at his desk. FAUST I HAVE, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labour, studied through. And here I stand, with all …
Heidelberg Germany, Bridge View
J.W. von Goethe (1749–1832). Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1917. Book I Chapter I THE PLAY was late in breaking up: old Barbara went more than once to the window, and listened for the sound of carriages. She was waiting for Mariana, her pretty mistress, who had that night, in the afterpiece, …