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02 Canto 1, Part 2, Stanzas 16-29

In Lara, A Tale

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Lord Byron and George Gordon, Lord Byron

This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient.Returning…

Third Voyage

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments

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Andrew Lang

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (…

Quatrains 1-20

In The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition)

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Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. and Omar Khayyám

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a speci…

15 - Book 5, pt 3 - The rudeness of the early life of men. The invention of spe…

In On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)

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Titus Lucretius Carus

Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…

Part 11

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 3

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Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Bk 20 Chapters 10-13

In Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 2

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Sir Thomas Malory

Le Morte d’Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d’Arthur, “the…

The Return of the Ghost

In The Song of Hugh Glass

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John Neihardt

This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of…

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