The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of children's stories by Oscar Wilde. These often very sad tales include the titles The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend and The Selfish Giant.

Poems 1817 by John Keats; -- FREE TRIAL, Try Before you Buy -- What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty. Fate of the Butterfly.SPENSER Glory and loveliness have passed away; For if we wander out in early morn, No wreathed incense do we see upborneInto the east, to meet the smiling day:No crowd of nymphs soft voic'd and young, and gay, In woven baskets bringing ears of corn, Roses, and pinks, and violets, to adornThe shrine of Flora in her early May.But there are left delights as high as these, And I shall ever bless my destiny,That in a time, when under pleasant trees Pan is no longer sought, I feel a freeA leafy luxury, seeing I could please With these poor offerings, a man like thee.(The Short Pieces in the middle of the Book, as wellas some of the Sonnets, were written at an earlierperiod than the rest of the Poems.)

The Green Fairy Book - 42 Classic Fairy Tales from Caryn's eBooks -- The Blue Bird, Three Little Pigs, Heart of Ice, The Riddle and many more. **** This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you wanted more still, the Green Fairy Book was put together. The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English, one Chinese. However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales. The reason, no doubt, is that men were much like children in their minds long ago, long, long ago, and so before they took to writing newspapers, and sermons, and novels, and long poems, they told each other stories, such as you read in the fairy books. They believed that witches could turn people into beasts, that beasts could speak, that magic rings could make their owners invisible, and all the other wonders in the stories. Then, as the world became grown-up, the fairy tales which were not written down would have been quite forgotten but that the old grannies remembered them, and told them to the little grandchildren.

Quote, Or was it, perhaps, that at the outset of an orgy there is a certain unwonted lucidity of mind? Despite the taper light, the clamor of the senses, the gleam of gold and silver, the fumes of wine, and the exquisite beauty of the women, there may perhaps have been in the depths of the revelers' hearts some struggling glimmer of reverence for things divine and human, until it was drowned in glowing floods of wine!

A Book of Scoundrels by Charles WhibleyA Book of Scoundrels was first published by William Heinemann 1896, some chapters originally appeared in the National Observer, New Review, Pall Mall Gazette and Macmillan's Magazine.This list of scoundrels includes stories of Captain Hind; Moll Cutpurse and Jonathan Wild; Ralph Briscoe; Gilderoy and Sixteen-String Jack; George Barrington; The Switcher and Gentleman Harry; Deacon Brodie and Charles Peace; Monsieur L'Abbe, Sheppard and Cartouche;Of all the heroes who have waged a private and undeclared war upon their neighbours, Louis-Dominique Cartouche was the most generously endowed. It was but his resolute contempt for politics, his unswerving love of plunder for its own sake, that prevented him from seizing a throne or questing after the empire of the world.Charles Whibley (1860-1930).