For shorn of these, before your swords he lies A common soldier. To the civil war This night shall...
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The gods permit, they trod; and scarcer still The water, till in middle sands they found One bount...
So by unholy death there stood revealed His inmost nature. Head and stalwart arms, And neck and sh...
The Crystal Stopper by Maurice LeBlanc CHAPTER I THE ARRESTS The two boats fastened to the littl...
Once more were earth, and in the distance rose Some groves of scanty foliage, and huts Of plastere...
A peace between us. But my prayers to heaven No favouring answer found; that arms laid down In hap...
A Pharian triumph, Caesar in her train; And 'twas in doubt upon Leucadian (4) waves Whether a woma...
Shall rob you, victors, of a world subdued -- Ye flee the war, and on your abject necks Feel for t...
Nor seeks again his banks, until the sun In equal balance measures night and day. Nor are the laws...
Nor do they dare a combat hand to hand; But as the winds may suffer, from afar They draw their bow...
Finds place, or Egypt? O, may civil war Be thus far faithful that the hand which strikes Be of our...
Struck not in answer; Magnus' swords were cold, But Caesar's reeked with slaughter and with guilt. ...
Lest he should want all burial. Pale with fear Came Cordus, hasting from his hiding place; Quaesto...
In vain, unhappy! for the fates decree He shall behold, shorn from the bleeding trunk, Again thy v...
(4) Sextus. (5) Tetrarch of Galatia. He was always friendly to Rome, and in the civil war sided wi...