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The Suitor
2023-12-06by Jane Kenyon We lie back to back. Curtains lift and fall, like the chest of someone sleeping. Wind moves the leaves of the box elder; they show thei...
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the suicide kid
2023-12-06by Charles Bukowski I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again. worse, the bar patrons even ended up ...
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The Suicide
2023-12-06by Edna St. Vincent Millay "Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pl...
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The Subalterns
2023-12-06by Thomas Hardy I "Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky, "I fain would lighten thee, But there are laws in force on high Which say it mu...
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The Storm
2023-12-06by Theodore Roethke 1 Against the stone breakwater, Only an ominous lapping, While the wind whines overhead, Coming down from the mountain, Whistling ...
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The Starlings
2023-12-06by Jesper Svenbro (Translated by John Matthias and Lars-Hakan Svensson) Late one afternoon in October I hear them for the first time: loud-voiced pala...
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The Stalin Epigram
2023-12-06by Osip Mandelstam (Translated by W. S. Merwin) Our lives no longer feel ground under them. At ten paces you can't hear our words. But whenever th...
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The Splendor Falls
2023-12-06by Lord Alfred Tennyson The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild catara...
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The Spirit of the Staircase
2023-12-06by Lavinia Greenlaw In our game of flight, half-way down was as near mid-air as it got: a point of no return we'd fling ourselves at over and over...
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The Spacious Firmament on high
2023-12-06by Joseph Addison The Spacious Firmament on high, With all the blue Ethereal Sky, And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame, Their great Original proc...