Ada Limón, “The Good Fight” from Bright Dead Things

Ada Limón, “State Bird” from Bright Dead Things

Ada Limón, “The Wild Divine” from Bright Dead Things

William Shakespeare, from Twelfth Night

Ovid, tr. by A.D. Melville, from “The Creation,” Metamorphoses. 

Amadis de Gaule, vol 21. 1540-1594.

Amadis de Gaule, vol 11. 1540-1594. 

— Robert de Blois, ed. Paul Barrette, from Floris et Lyriopé. 1200s.

Robert de Blois, ed. Paul Barrette, from Floris et Lyriopé. 1200s.

Isotta Nogarola, tr. by Margaret L. King and Albert Ravil, Jr., from “Of the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve,” Her Immaculate Hand.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Sir Philip Sidney, from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. 1590.

William Shakespeare, from Hamlet.

Ovid, tr. by A.D. Melville, from “Orpheus and Eurydice,” Metamorphoses.

William Shakespeare, from 2 Henry IV.

Geoffrey Chaucer, tr. by Candace Ward, from “The Knight’s Tale,” Canterbury Tales.