Alexandrine
36 poems
Twelve syllables split in two: the great line of classical French poetry, found in hundreds of poems on Loëly.
Book II - Now when the child of morning and rosy-fingered Dawn appeared
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L'Odyssée
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0Book II - With this Telemachus dashed his staff to the ground
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00Book IV - All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true
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00Book IV - Your discretion, my friend, is beyond your years
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00Book IX - But the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain
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00Book IX - I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days
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00Book IX - When the child of morning rosy-fingered dawn appeared, he again lit his fire
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00Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far
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00Book V - On this he took his leave, and Calypso went out to look for Ulysses
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00Book V - Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident
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00Book V - While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him
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00Book VI - When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns
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00Book X - I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each
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00Book X - Thence we went on to the Æolian island
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00Book XI - And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain
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00Book XI - On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades
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00Book XI - The ghost of Achilles came up to us
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00Book XI - The ghosts of other dead men stood near me
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00Book XI - Then came also the ghost of Theban Teiresias
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00Book XI - We got into the deep waters of the river Oceanus
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00Book XI - When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts
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00Book XII - For six days my men kept driving in the best cows
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00Book XII - Here she ended, and dawn enthroned in gold began to show in heaven
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00Book XII - Immediately after we had got past the island I saw a great wave
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00Book XII - We reached the noble island of the sun-god
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00Book XIII - When they got to the water side the crew took these things
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00Book XIV - Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track
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00Book XIX - Bring a seat with a fleece upon it, for the stranger
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00Book XIX - Listen, then, to a dream that I have had
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00Book XIX - Madam, I have foresworn rugs and blankets
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00Book XIX - Then the old woman took the cauldron
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00Book XVII - They reached the fountain from which the citizens drew their water
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00Book XXI - He strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre
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00Book XXII - Then Ulysses tore off his rags
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00Book XXIII - The upper servant Eurynome washed and anointed Ulysses
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00Sonnet 1
William Shakespeare
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