First and last conjoined (Plagiarist poem #4; Part 1)

DH Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Ours is a tragic age, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.

Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
Well, they’ll stone you when, should I wait?

Herman Melville – Moby Dick; or the Whale
Etymology supplied by a late consumptive retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – Don Quixote
At a certain village in La Mancha, which I shall not name, there lived not long ago one of those adieu.

Homer – The Iliad
The Wrath of Achilles is my theme, that fatal wrath which, in fulfilment of the will of Zeus, brought the Achaeans so much of Hector, tamer of Horses.

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels – The Communist Manifesto
A spectre is haunting Europe - all countries, unite!

Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species
When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
All in the golden afternoon full leisurely we glide; for both our oars, with little skill, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale; perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

Friedrich Nietzsche – The Antichrist
-Let us look one all values.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles
Mr Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those we can stop at Marcini’s for a little dinner on the way?

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