"By God and St. Michael, My Horse Shall Be Avenged": The Best Lines From Hue de Rotelande's Ipomadon
Medieval bragging: "My mother was a queen and I was born in wedlock."
Poetry
Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst"
What a house!!! Do you want to talk houses? Because we can talk houses!
The Violin Should Not Be Played
“Che bello”
Some Thoughts on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
The entire narrative of the old Stephen Foster song "(I Dream Of) Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" stays pretty close to the entire Homeric Hymn to Demeter, as it happens
Dante's Inferno, Canto VI
"Call me Pigly," Pigly said.
Ozymandias Speaks
Oh, you think you're so smart. "Gaze upon the inevitable failure of hubris in the desert!" Grow up.