I'll name THAT in one...

i took a little downer about an hour ago...

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Originally posted by ptobler
A: The Hunchback of Note Dame, possibly?

Q: "I am the morning, you are the light
You make the morning such a beautiful thing
I am the green grass, you are the rain
Fall on me, make me grow
No-one will ever know
Fall on me make me grow again"

It's from a song

Originally posted by redbadger
romeo

Originally posted by Ponderable
Luigi da Porto: Giuletta e Romeo?

"Greater than other kings, lofty in stature, a hero born in Uruk, a wild and rampaging bull was he."

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Gilgamesh? Translations will vary, of course, but I'm almost sure it's the Gilgamesh saga.

"When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty."

Originally posted by Ponderable
You were spot on!

Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Grey.

" As the snow flies on a cold and grey Chicago morning..."

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Quite.

In the Ghetto, by various. Most famously Presley, most infamously Paul de Leeuw. Easier because it's the opening line.

Let's see... anyone who is a fan of a certain kind of literature will know this, and the specific place, too, which really is required for a full answer. Anyone who isn't... good luck.

"Yborn he was in fer contree,
In Flaunders, al biyonde the see,
At Poperyng, in the place."