Jonathan Nield "These historical novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and others, till so taught: that the bygone ages...

Translated by Gummere I Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, leader beloved, and long he ruled in fame with all folk, since his father had gone away from the world, till awoke an heir, haugh...

Jack London 1906 "These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier da...

By E. Nesbit "It may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence. He has been imitated by all succeeding writers; and it may be doubted wheth...

H. H. MUNRO ("SAKI") THE SHE-WOLF LEONARD BILSITER was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an "unseen world" of their ...

Jonathan Swift THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets w...

A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes Andrew Lang A SCOT TO JEANNE D'ARC Dark Lily without blame, Not upon us the shame, Whose sires were to the Auld Alliance true, They, by the Maiden's side, Victorious fought ...

Horatio Alger, Jr. 1875 BALLADS. GRAND'THER BALDWIN'S THANKSGIVING UNDERNEATH protected branches, from the highway just aloof; Stands the house of Grand'ther Baldwin, with its gently sloping roof. Squ...

Robert W. Service [British-born Canadian Poet -- 1874-1958.] To the Man of the High North My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming I've drifted, silver- sailed, on seas of dream, Hearing afar the ...

Robert W. Service Prelude ~Alas! upon some starry height, The Gods of Excellence to please, This hand of mine will never smite The Harp of High Serenities. Mere minstrel of the street am I, To whom a ...