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The Holy Grail

Sir Thomas Malory (d. 1471). The Holy Grail.
The Harvard Classics. 1909-14.

The Seventeenth Book

Chapter IX

How the Three Knights, with Percivale's Sister, Came unto the Same Forest, and of an Hart and Four Lions, and Other Things

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The Three Taverns

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935). Collected Poems. 1921.

VII. The Three Taverns
3. Neighbors

AS often as we thought of her,
We thought of a gray life
That made a quaint economist
Of a wolf-haunted wife;
We made the best of all she bore 5
That was not ours to bear,
And honored her for wearing things
That were not things to wear.

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Snow

Robert FrostRobert Frost (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

Snow

THE THREE stood listening to a fresh access
Of wind that caught against the house a moment,
Gulped snow, and then blew free again Continue reading Snow