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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (33)
2023-12-06REUBEN ROY LITTLE fellow, brown with wind- I saw him in the street Peering at numbers on the posts, But most discreet: For when a woman came outdoors,...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (34)
2023-12-06COUNTRY ROAD I CAN'T forget a gaunt grey barn Like a face without an eye That kept recurring by field and tarn Under a Cape Cod sky. I can't f...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (35)
2023-12-06WREATHS RED wreaths Hang in my neighbor's window, Green wreaths in my own. On this day I lost my husband. On this day you lost your boy. On this d...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (36)
2023-12-06MEMPHIS WHY should I sing of my present? It is noth- ing to me or you, Rather I'd dream of Dixie and tie ships on the old bayou! Rather I'd dr...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (37)
2023-12-06SAINT COLUMBKILLE COLUMBKILLE! Saint Columbkille! You naughty man, Saint Columbkille! Why did you Finnian's Psalter take And secretly a copy make?...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (38)
2023-12-06E. J. V. HUIGINN MISS DOANE MISS Doane was sixty, probably; She rented third floor room That opened on an airshaft full Of cooking smells and gloom. S...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (39)
2023-12-06FALLEN FENCES THE woods grew dark; black shadows rocked And I could scarcely see My way along the old tote road, That long had seemed to me To wind on...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (40)
2023-12-06CROSS-CURRENTS THEY wrapped my soul in eiderdown; They placed me warm and snug In carved chair; set me with care Upon an old prayer rug. They cased my...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (41)
2023-12-06THE FAREWELL WHAT is more beautiful Than thought, soul-fed, That I may be the crimson of a rose When dead? My soul, so light a joy And grief will be, ...
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ANTHOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS POETS (42)
2023-12-06SONG LET me be great, as stars are great, Singing of love, not of hate. Love for sweet and simple things, Like clouds and sea-shell whisperings, Cool ...