The Last Lines of Romeo and Juliet

The Last Lines of Romeo and Juliet


For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo

The Last Stanza of the First Canto of Lord Bryon's Don Juan

The Last Stanza of the First Canto of Lord Bryon's Don Juan



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'Go, little book, from this my solitude!
    I cast thee on the waters, go thy ways!
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
   The world will find thee after many days.'
When Southey's read, and Wordsworth understood,
    I can't help putting in my claim to praise---
The four first rhymes are Southey's every line:
 For God's sake, reader! take them not for mine.

The Last Paragraph of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

The Last Paragraph of Jack Kerouac's On the Road



So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

The Last Paragraph of Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers

The Last Paragraph of Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers



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