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To make a prairie (1755)
2023-12-06by Emily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few....
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Crossroads
2023-12-06by Joyce Sutphen The second half of my life will be black to the white rind of the old and fading moon. The second half of my life will be water over ...
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To His Coy Mistress
2023-12-06by Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our lon...
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To Helen
2023-12-06by Edgar Allan Poe Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore...
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To Earthward
2023-12-06by Robert Frost Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, ...
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To Brooklyn Bridge
2023-12-06by Hart Crane How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building h...
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To Blossoms
2023-12-06by Robert Herrick Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gen...
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To Althea, from Prison
2023-12-06by Richard Lovelace When Love with unconfinéd wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie ta...
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To a Poor Old Woman
2023-12-06by William Carlos Williams munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste goo...
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Crossings
2023-12-06by Ravi Shankar Between forest and field, a threshold like stepping from a cathedral into the street- the quality of air alters, an eclipse lifts, bou...