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A R Ammons
Their Sex Life
One failure on
Top of another
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Matsuo Basho
How admirable
How admirable!
to see lightning and not think
life is fleeting.
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Emily Dickinson
Of Life to own --
Of Life to own --
From Life to draw --
But never tough the reservoir --
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Robert Frost
The Span Of Life
The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.
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Roger McGough
Cake
i wanted one life
you wanted another
we couldn't have our cake
so we ate eachother.
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Robert Herrick
Miseries
Though hourly comforts from the gods we see,
No life is yet life-proof from misery.
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Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
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Regina Derieva
All My Life
All my life
I sought
an angel.
And he appeared
in order to say:
"I am no angel !"
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Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
silence
silence
.is
a
looking
bird:the
turn
ing;edge of
life
(inquiry before snow
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Emily Dickinson
In this short Life
In this short Life
That only lasts an hour
How much -- how little -- is
Within our power
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Robert Herrick
LOSS FROM THE LEAST
Great men by small means oft are overthrown;
He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own.
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Robert Herrick
TO YOUTH
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; Live to-day.
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Robert Herrick
TO LIVE FREELY
Let's live in haste; use pleasures while we may;
Could life return, 'twould never lose a day.
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Howard Nemerov
A Life
Innocence?
In a sense.
In no sense!
Was that it?
Was that it?
Was that it?
That was it.
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Walt Whitman
Untold Want, The.
THE untold want, by life and land ne’er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
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Robert Herrick
TEARS AND LAUGHTER
Knew'st thou one month would take thy life away,
Thou'dst weep; but laugh, should it not last a day.
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Walt Whitman
Thou Reader.
THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
Therefore for thee the following chants.
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Nazim Hikmet
Autobiography
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat;
My dress is 1922....
My life is all like that.
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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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Emily Dickinson
To die -- without the Dying
To die -- without the Dying
And live -- without the Life
This is the hardest Miracle
Propounded to Belief.
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Walt Whitman
Portals.
WHAT are those of the known, but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
And what are those of life, but for Death?
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Friedrich von Schiller
The Animating Principle
Nowhere in the organic or sensitive world ever kindles
Novelty, save in the flower, noblest creation of life.
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Emily Dickinson
Morning that comes but once,
Morning that comes but once,
Considers coming twice --
Two Dawns upon a single Morn,
Make Life a sudden price.
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Thomas Hardy
Epitaph On A Pessimist
I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd
I've lived without a dame all my life
And wish to God
My dad had done the same.
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Emily Dickinson
Surgeons must be very careful
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit -- Life!
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