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My Life's Calling
2023-12-06by Deborah Digges My life's calling, setting fires. Here in a hearth so huge I can stand inside and shove the wood around with my bare hands while...
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by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her br...
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
2023-12-06by John Keats Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing. Ah, what can ...
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My Mojave
2023-12-06by Donald Revell Sha- Dow, As of A meteor At mid- Day: it goes From there. A perfect circle falls Onto white imperfections. (Consider the black road, ...
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My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer
2023-12-06by Mark Strand 1 When the moon appears and a few wind-stricken barns stand out in the low-domed hills and shine with a light that is veiled and dust-f...
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La Coursier de Jeanne D'Arc
2023-12-06by Linda McCarriston You know that they burned her horse before her. Though it is not recorded, you know that they burned her Percheron first, before ...
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My Mother Would Be a Falconress
2023-12-06by Robert Duncan My mother would be a falconress, And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist, would fly to bring back from the blue of the sky to her, b...
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My Parents Have Come Home Laughing
2023-12-06by Mark Jarman My parents have come home laughing From the feast for Robert Burns, late, on foot; They have leaned against graveyard walls, Have bent ...
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Ladders
2023-12-06by Elizabeth Alexander Filene's department store near nineteen-fifty-three: An Aunt Jemima floor display. Red bandanna, Apron holding white rolls ...
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Lady Lazarus
2023-12-06by Sylvia Plath I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—— A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, M...