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Miguel Hernández's best-remembered lines (with the poem)

1 For we have so many things to talk about, / companion of my soul, companion.
2 Winds of the people carry me, / winds of the people sweep me along.
3 For freedom I bleed, I fight, I survive.

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Camões's most famous lines, from The Lusiads to the sonnets

1 Let all that the ancient Muse sings cease, / for a higher valour now arises.
2 At sea so many storms and so much harm, / so many times death foreseen!
3 O glory of command! O vain greed / for this vanity we call Fame!

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Emily Dickinson's most famous poems

1 Because I could not stop for Death
2 "Hope" is the thing with feathers
3 I'm Nobody! Who are you?

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The most famous quatrains of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night / Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: / And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught …
2 Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring / The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: / The Bird of Time has but a little way …
3 Ah! my Belovéd, fill the Cup that clears / To-day of past Regrets and future Fears — / To-morrow?—Why, To-morrow I may be …

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