Ancient History, by Siegfried Sassoon
> Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain, Shivered below his wind-whipped olive-trees; Huddling sharp chin on scarred and scraggy knees, He moaned and mumbled »
A Man For All Seasons, 1966, directed by Fred Zinnemann
> I am the king's true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm. I do none harm. I say none harm. »
The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter, by Angela Carter
> High among the mountains, how wet and cold it is! Chill winds blow soft drifts of rain across these almost perpendicular peaks; the wolf-haunted forest »
The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
> Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, such as would have been »
Letters From The Earth, by Mark Twain
> The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him »