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Flame and Shadow(10)
2023-12-06"Only in Sleep" Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child, Louise comes back with her brown hair braided, A...
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Flame and Shadow(11)
2023-12-06Redbirds Redbirds, redbirds, Long and long ago, What a honey-call you had In hills I used to know; Redbud, buckberry, Wild plum-tree And proud river s...
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Flame and Shadow(12)
2023-12-06Sunset: St. Louis Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset, When I came home again from far-off places, How many times I saw my western city Dream by...
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Flame and Shadow(13)
2023-12-06The Coin Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That time cannot take Nor a thief purloin, —— Oh better than the minting Of a gold-...
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Flame and Shadow(14)
2023-12-06The Voice Atoms as old as stars, Mutation on mutation, Millions and millions of cells Dividing yet still the same, From air and changing earth, From a...
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Flame and Shadow(15)
2023-12-06Day and Night In Warsaw in Poland Half the world away, The one I love best of all Thought of me to-day; I know, for I went Winged as a bird, In the wi...
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Flame and Shadow(16)
2023-12-06Compensation I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings, A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I c...
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Flame and Shadow(17)
2023-12-06I Remembered There never was a mood of mine, Gay or heart-broken, luminous or dull, But you could ease me of its fever And give it back to me more bea...
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Flame and Shadow(18)
2023-12-06"Oh You Are Coming" Oh you are coming, coming, coming, How will hungry Time put by the hours till then? —— But why does it anger...
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Flame and Shadow(19)
2023-12-06The Return He has come, he is here, My love has come home, The minutes are lighter Than flying foam, The hours are like dancers On gold-slippered feet...