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"And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite."
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Don Juan (Byron)"Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae!"
Don Juan is an English unfinished satirical epic poem written by Lord Byron between 1819 and 1824 that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. Don Juan is a poem written in ottava rima and presented in 16 cantos in which Lord Byron derived the character of Don Juan from traditional Spanish folk legends; ho
"And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite."
"While Youths hot wishes in our red veins revel."
"That water-land of Dutchmen and of ditches."
"And hold up to the sun my little taper."
"I for one venerate a petticoat."
"Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns."