Painting with Words – Beowulf
The dragon began to belch out flames and burn bright homesteads; there was a hot glow that scared everyone, for the vile sky-winger would leave nothing alive in his wake. Everywhere the havoc he...
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Painting with Words – Dante (from The Inferno)
Nessus had not yet reached the other shore/when we moved on into a pathless wood/that twisted upward from Hell’s broken floor. Its foilage was not verdant, but nearly black./The unhealthy branches, gnarled and warped...
Painting with Words, Homer (from the Odyssey)
Thus we sailed up the straits, groaning in terror, for on the one side we had Scylla, while on the other the mysterious Charybdis sucked down the salt sea water in her dreadful way....
Painting with Words, Chaucer (from Canterbury Tales, general prologue)
When April with his sweet showers has pierced the dryness of March to the root, and bathed every vein in such moisture as has power to bring forth the flower…..
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