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I used to write of the losses of the womb-
you let me leave although I was not ready
You knew that
but you closed your eyes and pushed
Then when I was struggling all alone
you ran to me, holding me with your eyes
I knew you wanted...
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars...
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If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love him, tell him now;
Don't withhold your approbation till the parson makes oration
And he lies with snowy lilies on his brow;
No matter how you shout it...
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In the guise of a bird, I am me
flying from flower to ocean to city,
my nest always there, but
loving the freedom of flight.
I am a bird amongst birds,
a tough old bird,
just one of the crowd,
but always me,
I touch God...
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It's among higher reaches
that you grow.
Green flame,
you know not autumn from spring.
You've taken long
to find roots
in a hard soil.
Steady in storms,
you shelter the rooks
around the year.
It's among your branches
the...
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IV.
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passes the stages of his age and...
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Oh why is heaven built so far,
Oh why is earth set so remote?
I cannot reach the nearest star
That hangs afloat.
I would not care to reach the moon,
One round monotonous of change;
Yet even she repeats her tune
Beyond my...
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The day was hotter than words can tell,
So hot the jelly-fish wouldn't jell.
The halibut went all to butter,
And the catfish had only force to utter
A faint sea-mew —¯ aye, though some have doubted,
The carp he capered and the...
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The deep December in my lonely heart
cannot thaw out the frost of missing you;
where once you were its warm and sunny part,
prevailing emptiness now freezes through.
Your absence spreads like ice through all my veins,
and arms that...
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The sea is calm to-night,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet...
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To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me...
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When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you...
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Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now! E'en while with ours thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust, to its narrow house beneath! Soul, to its place on high! They that have seen thy look in death No more may...
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Three summers have gone since the first time we met, love, And still 'tis in vain that I ask thee to wed ; I hear no reply but a gentle " Not yet, love," With a smile of your lip, and a shake of your head. Ah ! how oft have I whispered,...
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A Calendar of Sonnets: December The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed: Far fairer than when placidly it streamed, The brook its frozen architecture makes, And under bridges white its swift way...
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But...
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Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces, The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays And, leaving far behind bright streets and busy places, Stood where the Seine flowed down between its quiet quais? The city's voice was hushed;...
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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river...
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Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and it is gone; But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on, Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on out to the sea. And there is no way of telling where the end is going to be....
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Fairest lady, forget who I am and who you must be. Let's rush away from this stuffy outdoor gathering of dignitaries and nobility, run together through the bushes where we might be alone on a blanket by the stream. Later we'll hurry further into the...
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Go ahead and hit me Dad, Cause I won't feel the pain. I don't feel your hits no more, Than flowers feel the rain. Beat me up real good this time, And you'll feel better, Dad. I probably deserve it, Cause I know that I've been bad. I probably didn't...
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Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. -...
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How do I remember Vietnam? I was very small I could not have fought in it, Though I was there in '64 I remember it clearly as though it were yesterday the fear, the screams, the bloodshed I did not want to stay The sky lit up with flames Like a...
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In the quiet time before the earliest of light, When old folks lay awake, reminiscing in the night. How to thank a daughter, for all her thoughtful ways, To let her know the joy she brings, To brighten up our days. We think of all the good times,...
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Many years ago a woman I used to know returned again from across a red sea, and looking at me asked why my my eyes appeared so lonely. She reached out her hand, let me hold her closely, and prophesied one day I would meet my lover in a place where...
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