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At the Funeral of a Minor Poet
2023-12-06[One of the Bearers soliloquizes:] 。 . . Room in your heart for him, O Mother Earth, Who loved each flower and leaf that made you fair, And sang your ...
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Batuschka
2023-12-06From yonder gilded minaret Beside the steel-blue Neva set, I faintly catch, from time to time, The sweet, aerial midnight chime—— "Go...
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Tennyson
2023-12-06I Shakespeare and Milton——what third blazoned name Shall lips of after-ages link to these? His who, beside the wild encircling seas, Was E...
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Act V
2023-12-06[Midnight.] First, two white arms that held him very close, And ever closer as he drew him back Reluctantly, the loose gold-colored hair A thousand de...
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I Vex Me Not with Brooding on the Years
2023-12-06I vex me not with brooding on the years That were ere I drew breath: why should I then Distrust the darkness that may fall again When life is done? Pe...
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways
2023-12-06She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone H...
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My heart leaps up when I behold
2023-12-06A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the...
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A Bedtime Story For Mr. Lamb
2023-12-06What story would you like to hear, Mr. Lamb? Are you a real lamb? Would you like to hear of Webbers? Or Whales? Here is the Story of Alice: The Queen ...
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A Bird in Hand
2023-12-06I‘ve memorized its heart pounding into my thumb. Breath buoys out. My fingers know how to kill, closing on the bird‘s slippery head. I don...
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A Blessing
2023-12-06Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those two Indian ponies Darken with kindness....