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  The Divine Comedy

  Alighieri Dante

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  "Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost."
  
  Embark on the ultimate pilgrimage of the human soul. Written while in exile, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is a towering achievement of world literature, a three-part journey that explores the totality of human experience, sin, and redemption. Guided by the Roman poet Virgil and the idealized Beatrice, Dante travels through the three realms of the afterlife in a quest to understand the justice and love of the divine.
  
  The Architecture of Justice: In Inferno, witness the meticulous "contrapasso"—the symbolic retribution where the punishment fits the crime. From the lustful swept by eternal storms to the treacherous encased in ice, Dante's vision of Hell is as terrifying as it is intellectually profound.
  
  The Path to Enlightenment: Ascend through Purgatorio, a realm of hope and effort, where the weight of worldly sin is slowly washed away. Finally, soar into Paradiso, where Dante transcends the physical world to explore the celestial spheres of heaven. Here, the poem transforms into a breathtaking work of light, geometry, and philosophical wonder, culminating in a vision of the "Love that moves the sun and the other stars."
  
  A Universal Masterpiece: The Divine Comedy is more than a religious text; it is a political satire, a romantic tribute, and a scientific encyclopedia of medieval thought. It remains the definitive map of the human conscience and one of the most beautiful poems ever composed.
  
  Walk the path of the soul. Purchase "The Divine Comedy" today and experience the height of the Western imagination.

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  Short Story Press Presents Pearl...

  Short Story Press, Natashiah Jansen

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  Mermaids, mermen, treacherous villagers and a Nix: these are some of the exciting things in store for you with the latest Natashiah Jansen story entitled “Pearl Port Singer”. 
  You’ll be taken on a dive into the magical world of merpeople and learn: 
  • why the treacherous villagers set up false harbor lights; 
  • why the mermaids want to stop them; 
  • why the mermaids call on Antaeus to help; 
  • why Antaeus believes that Damarion, the moon equatorial feeder, would bring them victory; 
  • who and what is Rusalka really; 
  • why Ella dislikes Rusalka; 
  • who will be with the fin at the end of the day. 
  If you love humorous stories, you will love Pearl Port Singer. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Marie Corelli's Collected Poems

  Marie orelli

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  Marie Corelli is best known as a novelist, but was always a poet at heart, composing on her strongest passions, whether for love, nature, God, or country.This volume collects poems from across her bestselling books and across her career, curated by Brenda Vyver, her her 'companion' of 40 years, who she left everything to when she died, and who is buried alongside her in a twin grave. It is perhaps worth noting that Brenda drove much of Corelli's work, which ran heavy to erotic descriptions of women.Corelli was the Victorian romance author who outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling put together. Despite critics labelling her as "as "the favourite of the common multitude", she was a favourite of Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria and William Gladstone. She was the only author invited to the coronation of Edward VII, and her friends included Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and Alfred Tennyson. Her often darkly romantic works tried to reconcile Christianity with mystical ideas such as reincarnation and astral projection.A true character, Corelli claimed that she had warned the finders of the tomb of Tutankhamun about the "dire punishment" likely to occur to those who rifle Egyptian tombs, claiming to cite an ancient book that indicated that poisons had been left after burials. She . She was associated at some point with the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis; a mystical Rosicrucian group, and her books were a part of the foundation of today's corpus of esoteric philosophy."a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting." - Grant Allen "the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid." -James Agate

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  Short Poetry Collection 014

  Various

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 014: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Harmonics

  William Vaughn Moody

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  William Vaughn Moody was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death). He taught English at Harvard and Radcliffe until 1895, when he went to Chicago where he was an instructor at the University of Chicago, and from 1901 to 1907 assistant professor of English and rhetoric. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― The Nativity -...

  Ann Griffiths, John Milton,...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  The Nativity - An Introduction 
  2 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths 
  3 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  4 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - Nativity by John Donne 
  6 - On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton 
  7 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  8 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  9 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  10 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  11 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  12 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  13 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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