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Mark Twain
To Jenny Good-bye! a kind good-bye, I bid you now, my friend, And though ’tis sad to speak the word, To destiny I bend And though it be...
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Dorothy Parker
The Choice .. He'd have given me rolling lands, House of marble, and billowing farms, Pearls, to trickle between my hands, Smoldering...
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 129 ...Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action, and till action, lust Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody full of...
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Francesco Petrarcha
Sonnet 132 ...If it’s not love, then what is it I feel? But if it’s love, by God, what is this thing? If good, why then the bitter mortal...
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Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool The Pool Players Seven at the Golden Shovel We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin....
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John Haines's "To Turn Back"
The grass people bow their heads before the wind. How would it be to stand among them, bending our heads like that ... ? Yes ... and no...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and...
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Mitsuye Yamada's "Looking Out"
... It must be odd to be a minority he was saying. I looked around and didn't see any. So I said Yeah
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