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A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
The difficulty to think at the end of day,
When the shapeless shadow covers the sun
And nothing is..
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave..
A Postcard From The Volcano by Wallace Stevens
Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
..
A Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare
A song of Enchantment I sang me there,
In a green-green wood, by waters fair,
Just as the words ca..
Alexander by Walter de la Mare
It was the Great Alexander,
Capped with a golden helm,
Sate in the ages, in his floating ship,
..
All That's Past by Walter de la Mare
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier’s boughs,
When March winds wa..
Alone by Walter de la Mare
The abode of the nightingale is bare,
Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air,
The fox howls from..
An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare
Here lies a most beautiful lady,
Light of step and heart was she;
I think she was the most beaut..
Arabia by Walter de la Mare
Far are the shades of Arabia,
Where the Princes ride at noon,
’Mid the verdurous vales and thick..
At Ease by Walter de la Mare
Most wounds can Time repair;
But some are mortal -- these:
For a broken heart there is no balm,
N..
Ask Me by William Stafford
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my..
A Ritual To Read To Each Other by William Stafford
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern th..
Across Kansas by William Stafford
My family slept those level miles
but like a bell rung deep till dawn
I drove down an aisle of sou..
Atavism by William Stafford
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Sometimes in the open you look up
where birds go by, or just nothing,
and wait. A dim feeling c..
Allegiances by William Stafford
It is time for all the heroes to go home
if they have any, time for all of us common ones
to locat..
All Things Can Tempt Me by William Butler Yeats
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman’s face, or worse -
The s..
Aubade by William Shakespeare
HARK! hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings,
And Phoebus ’gins arise,
His steeds to water at tho..
All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their..
A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to..
A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorou..
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