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Mohini Chatterjee
2023-12-06I asked if I should pray, But the Brahmin said, ‘Pray for nothing, say Every night in bed, I have been a king, I have been a slave, Nor is there...
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Shorter Version
2023-12-06I. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead...
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Byzantium
2023-12-06The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor‘s drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers‘ song After great cathe...
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The Mother of God
2023-12-06The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The terror of all terrors that I bore The Hea...
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Vacillation
2023-12-06I Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night; The body calls it death...
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ONE'S-SELF I SING
2023-12-06ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiogno...
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AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE
2023-12-06As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect, Terrible in bea...
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Quarrel in Old Age
2023-12-06Where had her sweetness gone? What fanatics invent In this blind bitter town, Fantasy or incident Not worth thinking of, Put her in a rage. I had forg...
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The Results of Thought
2023-12-06Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrec...
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Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
2023-12-06What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass....