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The City Limits
2023-12-06by A. R. Ammons When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself but pours its abundance without selection into every nook and cranny ...
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From All Day Permanent Red
2023-12-06by Christopher Logue To welcome Hector to his death God sent a rolling thunderclap across the sky The city and the sea And momentarily—— T...
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The Clearing of the Land: An Epitaph
2023-12-06by Larry Levis The trees went up the hill And over it. Then the dry grasses of the pasture were Only a kind of blonde light Settling everywhere And fr...
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The Cleaving
2023-12-06by Li-Young Lee He gossips like my grandmother, this man with my face, and I could stand amused all afternoon in the Hon Kee Grocery, amid hanging mea...
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The Clerk's Tale
2023-12-06by Spencer Reece I am thirty-three and working in an expensive clothier, selling suits to men I call "Sir." These men are muscled, groomed a...
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The Collar
2023-12-06by George Herbert I struck the board, and cry'd, No more. I will abroad. What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the...
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The Concrete River
2023-12-06by Luis J. Rodríguez We sink into the dust, Baba and me, Beneath brush of prickly leaves; Ivy strangling trees——singing Our last ri...
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from Book of Nonsense
2023-12-06by Edward Lear There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!—— Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Hav...
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The Convergence of the Twain
2023-12-06by Thomas Hardy I In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. II Steel chambers, late...
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The Coronary Garden, section 6
2023-12-06by Ann Townsend Despair needles you with its whisper, it is agnostic, it believes in irony, like a fly‘s buzz it is perceptions, a busy blood cl...