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This about the Odyssey in which Odysseus, aka Ulysses, finds his way back home to Ithika after the Trojan War. The journey takes him ten years. ...

This is the latter half of this poem. "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." is a quotation from Dame...

Paintings are by Arthur Claude Strachan

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him...

Commination means a threat - or a list of God's judgments against sinners.

John of Patmos wrote the Book of Revelation. The "four last things" a...

This is a poet's poem, a small masterpiece. Housman thought that the original was the most beautiful poem in ancient literature: he put a lot of e...