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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)-- Though some savants make earth...
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The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry
Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before.
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save...
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Authors notes: "I wrote this poem when I was about 16 years of age, but the reflection below is of now." "What is freedom?" "Developing the spiritual self will release locked up things sometimes long forgotten. It's a...
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All the photos
are black and white
slightly out of focus
and curling
at the edges
Looking at those
sepia snaps
of other lives
affixed on pages
yellowing with the years
suddenly
I comprehend
It is my...
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Of tempestuous mirth and distemperment,
so did these eyes, as child and man,
behold he that held his stead
as father from day first to last
in life, so as in death, on his terms
It was my delight to instil pride
upon...
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How can we say that passing time is cold
For it paints colour on a dying leaf.
The temporal pact states that we all grow old.
How can we say that passing time is cold,
While cherishing each moment we've been sold,
Then bidding it...
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You cannot but see them in the darkness
of your deepest dreams.
The last but ones
they never die.
This one is an old queen escaped from the dark ages. This other one's a young Luke Skywalker, fireflyer whose never known his...
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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these...
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Now must I these three praise —
Three women that have wrought
What joy is in my days;
One that no passing thought,
Nor those unpassing cares,
No, not in these fifteen
Many times troubled years,
Could ever come between
Heart...
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