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by
Kobayashi Issa
Writing shit about new snow
Writing shit about new snow
for the rich
is not art.
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by
Emily Dickinson
A Letter is a joy of Earth --
A Letter is a joy of Earth --
It is denied the Gods --
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by
Sappho
Without Warning
Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart
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by
Emily Dickinson
Partake as doth the Bee,
Partake as doth the Bee,
Abstemiously.
The Rose is an Estate --
In Sicily.
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by
Emily Dickinson
The vastest earthly Day
The vastest earthly Day
Is shrunken small
By one Defaulting Face
Behind a Pall --
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by
Robert Herrick
NO MAN WITHOUT MONEY
No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim,
If favour or occasion help not him.
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by
Douglas Stewart
Arthur Stace
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by
Emily Dickinson
To their apartment deep
To their apartment deep
No ribaldry may creep
Untumbled this abode
By any man but God --
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by
Robert Herrick
THE HEART
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Sometimes with the Heart
Sometimes with the Heart
Seldom with the Soul
Scarcer once with the Might
Few -- love at all.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Unto a broken heart
Unto a broken heart
No other one may go
Without the high prerogative
Itself hath suffered too.
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by
Ezra Pound
L'Art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
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by
Emily Dickinson
By such and such an offering
By such and such an offering
To Mr. So and So,
The web of live woven --
So martyrs albums show!
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by
A R Ammons
Release
After a long
muggy
hanging
day
the raindrops
started so
sparse
the bumblebee flew
between
them home
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by
Emily Dickinson
My Heart upon a little Plate
My Heart upon a little Plate
Her Palate to delight
A Berry or a Bun, would be,
Might it an Apricot!
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by
Emily Dickinson
Not Sickness stains the Brave,
Not Sickness stains the Brave,
Nor any Dart,
Nor Doubt of Scene to come,
But an adjourning Heart --
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by
Rg Gregory
conturbat me
martin’s death
has made me scared
of the old bat
that clings to the eaves
waiting to enter the house
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by
W S Merwin
Do Not Die
In each world they may put us
Farther apart
Do not die
As this world is made I might
Live forever
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by
Emily Dickinson
Love -- is anterior to Life --
Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth --
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by
Emily Dickinson
Confirming All who analyze
Confirming All who analyze
In the Opinion fair
That Eloquence is when the Heart
Has not a Voice to spare --
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by
Emily Dickinson
Artists wrestled here!
Artists wrestled here!
Lo, a tint Cashmere!
Lo, a Rose!
Student of the Year!
For the easel here
Say Repose!
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by
Emily Dickinson
Parting with Thee reluctantly,
Parting with Thee reluctantly,
That we have never met,
A Heart sometimes a Foreigner,
Remembers it forgot --
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by
Emily Dickinson
God made no act without a cause,
God made no act without a cause,
Nor heart without an aim,
Our inference is premature,
Our premises to blame.
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by
Emily Dickinson
The Day she goes
The Day she goes
Or Day she stays
Are equally supreme --
Existence has a stated width
Departed, or at Home --
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by
Emily Dickinson
In thy long Paradise of Light
In thy long Paradise of Light
No moment will there be
When I shall long for Earthly Play
And mortal Company --
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