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Poems by James Joyce
A Memory Of the Players In a Mirror at Midnight
Ecce Puer
Flood
I Hear an Army
Song
The Dead [excerpt]
Essays by James Joyce
Letter to Nora Barnacle [excerpt]
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Who goes with Fergus?
by W. B. Yeats
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Ulysses [excerpt]

 
by James Joyce

Molly Bloom's closing soliloquy

...and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.






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