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The General Public
2023-12-06Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?"—— Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man said. A dry smile cr...
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Portrait of a Boy
2023-12-06After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had looked striped red! He chuckled ...
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Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
2023-12-06Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright As the blank windows set in glaring brick, When the wind strengthens from the sea —— a...
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The Hemp
2023-12-06The Planting of the Hemp. (A Virginia Legend.) Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the plank) From the Great North Bank to th...
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Winged Man
2023-12-06The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in s...
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The Fiddling Wood
2023-12-06Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over the rough crest of the hairy wood In...
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A Minor Poet
2023-12-06I am a shell. From me you shall not hear The splendid tramplings of insistent drums, The orbed gold of the viol's voice that comes, Heavy with rad...
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The Innovator
2023-12-06A Pharaoh Speaks. I said, "Why should a pyramid Stand always dully on its base? I'll change it! Let the top be hid, The bottom take the apex-...
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Daddy
2023-12-06You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Acho...
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Daffy Duck In Hollywood
2023-12-06Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about You" or something mellow fro...