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Titania

By Lord T-n.
So bluff Sir Leolin gave the bride away:
And when they married her, the little church
Had seldom seen a costlier ritual.
The coach and pair alone were two-pound-ten,
And two-pound-ten apiece the wedding-cakes;—
Three wedding-cakes. A Cupid poised a-top
Of each hung shivering to the frosted loves
Of two fond cushats on a field of ice,
As who should say 'I see you!'—Such the joy
When English-hearted Edwin swore his faith
With Mariana of the Moated Grange.
For Edwin, plump head-waiter at The Cock,
Grown sick of custom, spoilt of plenitude,
Lacking the finer wit that saith,
'I wait, They come; and if I make them wait, they go,'
Fell in a jaundiced humour petulant-green,
Watched the dull clerk slow-rounding to his cheese,
Flicked a full dozen flies that flecked the pane—
All crystal-cheated of the fuller air,

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poem by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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At Cheyenne

Young Lochinvar came in from the West,
With fringe on his trousers and fur on his vest;
The width of his hat-brim could nowhere be beat,
His No.

brogans were chuck full of feet,
His girdle was horrent with pistols and things,
And he flourished a handful of aces on kings.
The fair Mariana sate watching a star,
When who should turn up but the young Lochinvar!
Her pulchritude gave him a pectoral glow,
And he reined up his hoss with stentorian "Whoa!"
Then turned on the maiden a rapturous grin,
And modestly asked if he might n't step in.
With presence of mind that was marvellous quite,
The fair Mariana replied that he might;
So in through the portal rode young Lochinvar,
Pre-empted the claim, and cleaned out the bar.
Though the justice allowed he wa'n't wholly to blame,
He taxed him ten dollars and costs, just the same.

poem by Eugene Field
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My heart is not for sale!

I was the half of a silent autumn
When it rained with flowers...
Becoming the echo of the fatigued shadow
Killed by seconds and hours...

I was locked on a tiny island
Between yesterday and tomorrow...
Writting the ballad of impossile love
Grounded on the fundation of sorrow

Two invisible arms embraced me
When I couldn’t breath for a while
Then I found on my spotless face
A sign of an ancient smile

It said me that I have to go on
And to jail the belated happiness I meet
In a corner of my vulnerable heart
For nobody can find it.

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poem by Mariana Eftimie Kabbout
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Modern Day Mariana (Cavatina Sequence)

At times sinister, other times placid,
just sweeping on
far over the horizon of the flat earth,
all life seems gone
in the arid landscape of the Karoo,
stone upon stone
shimmers in the great scorching noontime heat
while wild pigeons walk the roof with small feet.

Two old rusting wind-pumps guard the kingdom,
they are lifeless
and when the light wind passes they creak to life;
somewhat careless
rusting tools are strewn all around the grange,
quite purposeless
she pages through a very old magazine,
around her life and the world does decline.

Every day she picks a marigold
from the garden,

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poem by Gert Strydom
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Mariana: The honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty.

line from the play All's Well That Ends Well, Act III, Scene 5, script by William Shakespeare (1605)
Added by Dan Costinaş
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My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

quote by Graeme Le Saux
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Not Funny

It's not funny when
you laugh and call
me names

I don't smile when
you push me down
and laugh

I don't find it very funny
when you dis me and
say it was just a joke

I'm not the one who laughs
when you call my name but
turn away

Your jokes are not funny
and never will be so stop
saying them

poem by Mariana Zita
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Paigot

paigot sa baraha
sama usab sa
imong gustong
mahitabo
sa ato kunohay
nga panagkita

laing ngalan
gamiton
butang og picture
nga dili imo
komentaryo
nga morag
giganahan ka
sa iyang isulti

ganahan pod ko
anang paigot
usahay

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Busted

Cast: Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Dominick Brascia, Mariana Morgan, Elliott Gould

trailer for Busted, directed by Corey Feldman (1996)
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Assassin's Bullet

Cast: Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Elika Portnoy, Timothy Spall, Ivaylo Geraskov, Bashar Rahal, Mariana Stanisheva

trailer for Assassin's Bullet, directed by Isaac Florentine (2012)
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