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by
Derek Walcott
The Sea Is History
The Sea Is History
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by
Kobayashi Issa
These sea slugs
These sea slugs,
they just don't seem
Japanese.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Least Rivers -- docile to some sea
Least Rivers -- docile to some sea.
My Caspian -- thee.
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by
Yosa Buson
Calligraphy of geese
Calligraphy of geese
against the sky--
the moon seals it.
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by
Yosa Buson
The spring sea rising
The spring sea rising
and falling, rising
and falling all day.
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by
Emily Dickinson
How slow the Wind --
How slow the Wind --
how slow the sea --
how late their Fathers be!
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by
Emily Dickinson
Nor Mountain hinder Me
Nor Mountain hinder Me
Nor Sea --
Who's Baltic --
Who's Cordillera?
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by
Emily Dickinson
An Hour is a Sea
An Hour is a Sea
Between a few, and me --
With them would Harbor be --
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by
Emily Dickinson
If my Bark sink
If my Bark sink
'Tis to another sea --
Mortality's Ground Floor
Is Immortality --
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by
Emily Dickinson
"Go travelling with us!"
"Go travelling with us!"
Her travels daily be
By routes of ecstasy
To Evening's Sea --
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by
Walt Whitman
To Old Age.
I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great
Sea.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Did We abolish Frost
Did We abolish Frost
The Summer would not cease --
If Seasons perish or prevail
Is optional with Us --
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by
Emily Dickinson
A Sloop of Amber slips away
A Sloop of Amber slips away
Upon an Ether Sea,
And wrecks in Peace a Purple Tar,
The Son of Ecstasy --
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by
Robert Herrick
SAFETY ON THE SHORE
What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore;
Ships have been drown'd, where late they danced before.
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by
Emily Dickinson
My Season's furthest Flower --
My Season's furthest Flower --
I tenderer commend
Because I found Her Kinsmanless,
A Grace without a Friend.
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by
Richard Brautigan
Surprise
I lift the toliet seat
as if it were the nest of a bird
and I see cat tracks
all around the edge of the bowl.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Between My Country -- and the Others --
Between My Country -- and the Others --
There is a Sea --
But Flowers -- negotiate between us --
As Ministry.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Purple -- is fashionable twice --
Purple -- is fashionable twice --
This season of the year,
And when a soul perceives itself
To be an Emperor.
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by
Hilda Doolittle
The Pool
Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
What are you - banded one?
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by
Emily Dickinson
Of Yellow was the outer Sky
Of Yellow was the outer Sky
In Yellower Yellow hewn
Till Saffron in Vermilion slid
Whose seam could not be shewn.
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by
Emily Dickinson
If wrecked upon the Shoal of Thought
If wrecked upon the Shoal of Thought
How is it with the Sea?
The only Vessel that is shunned
Is safe -- Simplicity --
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by
Dimitris P Kraniotis
Denials
A roar of cars
seals the dawn
with short-cut answers,
with unyielding denials
that are repeated
explicitly
every sunset.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Upon a Lilac Sea
Upon a Lilac Sea
To toss incessantly
His Plush Alarm
Who fleeing from the Spring
The Spring avenging fling
To Dooms of Balm
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by
Robert Burns
476. Epigram on the same Laird’s Country Seat
WE grant they’re thine, those beauties all,
So lovely in our eye;
Keep them, thou eunuch, Cardoness,
For others to enjoy!
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by
Carl Sandburg
Flux
SAND of the sea runs red
Where the sunset reaches and quivers.
Sand of the sea runs yellow
Where the moon slants and wavers.
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