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The Thought Fox
2023-12-05Ted HughesI imagine this midnight moment's forest:Something else is aliveBesides the clock's lonelinessAnd this blank page where my fingers mo...
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Morning Song
2023-12-05Sylvia PlathLove set you going like a fat gold watch.The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cryTook its place among the elements.Our voices...
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The Horses
2023-12-05Ted HughesI climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark.Evil air, a frost-making stillness,Not a leaf, not a bird,——A world cast in...
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Mary's Song
2023-12-05Sylvia PlathThe Sunday lamb cracks in its fat.The fatSacrifices its opacity. . . .A window, holy gold.The fire makes it precious,The same fireMelting ...
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Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
2023-12-05Seamus Heaney"Religion's never mentioned here", of course."You know them by their eyes," and hold your tongue."One side...
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From The Frontier Of Writing
2023-12-05Seamus HeaneyThe tightness and the nilness round that spacewhen the car stops in the road, the troops inspectits make and number and, as one bends his...
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The Diviner
2023-12-05Seamus HeaneyCut from the green hedge a forked hazel stickThat he held tight by the arms of the V:Circling the terrain, hunting the pluckOf water, ner...
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For the Union Dead
2023-12-05Robert Lowell"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam."The old South Boston Aquarium standsin a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boa...
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Cut Grass
2023-12-05Philip Larkin (1922-1985)Cut grass lies frail:Brief is the breathMown stalks exhale.Long, long the deathIt dies in the white hoursOf young-leafed June...
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Love Songs in Age
2023-12-05Philip Larkin (1922-1985)She kept her songs, they took so little space,The covers pleased her:One bleached from lying in a sunny place,One marked in c...