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Mannahatta
2023-12-06by Walt Whitman I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name. Now I see what there is in a ...
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Mary's Duties
2023-12-06by Lola Haskins He is rid away to the tenant farms and I take up my pen to list the shakings-out and openings. And my thin letters lean as sails that,...
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Mary's Lamb
2023-12-06by Sarah Josepha Hale Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. Hefollowed her to ...
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Meaningful Love
2023-12-06by John Ashbery What the bad news was became apparent too late for us to do anything good about it. I was offered no urgent dreaming, didn't need ...
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Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays
2023-12-06by Charles Reznikoff I New Year's The solid houses in the mist are thin as tissue paper; the water laps slowly at the rocks; and the ducks from th...
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Medusa
2023-12-06by Frieda Hughes She is the gypsy Whose young have rooted In the very flesh of her scalp. Her eyes are drill-holes where Your senses spin, and you are...
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Memorandum
2023-12-06by Durs Grünbein (Translated by Michael Hofmann) Everything continues much as before, especially the war, But also the daily dressing and undress...
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Mending Wall
2023-12-06by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun...
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Mermaid Song
2023-12-06by Kim Addonizio Damp-haired from the bath, you drape yourself upside down across the sofa, reading, one hand idly sunk into a bowl of crackers, goldf...
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Metamorphosis VIII, 611-724
2023-12-06by Ovid THUS Achelous ends: his audience hear With admiration, and admiring, fear The pow'rs of heav'n; except Ixion's son, Who laugh'...