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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt)
William Morris
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth,
  And the light flashed up to the heavens from the rims of the glorious girth;
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The Testament of Cressida (excerpt)
Robert Henryson
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  Thus chydand with her drerie destenye,
  Weiping, scho woik the nicht fra end to end;
  Bot all in vane; hir dule, hir cairfull cry,
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The True Born Englishman (excerpt)
Daniel Defoe
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  Thus from a mixture of all kinds began,
  That het'rogeneous thing, an Englishman:
  In eager rapes, and furious lust begot,
  Betwixt a...
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To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton (excerpt)
John Dryden
The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
  Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
  Their free-born reason to the Stagirite,
  And made his torch...
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Virgidemarium (excerpt)
Joseph Hall
With some pot-fury, ravish'd from their wit,
  They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ:
  As frozen dunghills in a winter's morn,
  That void of...
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Yes, I’d Cheer for Life Too (Excerpt)
Amit Rahman
Yes, I'd cheer for life too but the song of myself
 would not have been like the one sung,
 from the other side of the Pacific,
 almost two centuries...
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Ælla, a Tragical Interlude (excerpt)
Thomas Chatterton
FYRSTE...
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An Excerpt from Archibald Lampman…Snow
Wayne Blair
White are the far-off plains, and white
The fading forests grow;
The wind dies out along the height,
And denser still the snow,
A gathering...
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