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Why? by Spike Milligan
American Detectives
Never remove their hats
When investigating murders
In other people’s flats.
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Weathers by Thomas Hardy
This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
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Waiting Both by Thomas Hardy
A star looks down at me,
And says: "Here I and you
Stand each in our degree:
What do you mean t..
When I Set Out For Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy
When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit..
Winter in Durnover Field by Thomas Hardy
Scene.--A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and
frozen to iron hardness. Thr..
Wives in the Sere by Thomas Hardy
I
Never a careworn wife but shows,
If a joy suffuse her,
Something beautiful to those
Pati..
We Too Had Known Golden Hours by W. H. Auden
We, too, had known golden hours
When body and soul were in tune,
Had danced with our true loves..
We're Late by W. H. Auden
Clocks cannot tell our time of day
For what event to pray
Because we have no time, because
We..
Who's Who by W. H. Auden
A shilling life will give you all the facts:
How Father beat him, how he ran away,
What were the..
When You Go Away by W. S. Merwin
When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
The painters work all day but at sundown the p..
Wish by W. S. Merwin
The star in my
Hand is falling
All the uniforms know what’s no use
May I bow to Necessity not..
Whenever I Go There by W. S. Merwin
Whenever I go there everything is changed
The stamps on the bandages the titles
Of the professor..
Wanderers by Walter de la Mare
Wide are the meadows of night,
And daisies are shinng there,
Tossing their lovely dews,
Lustro..
When the Rose is Faded by Walter de la Mare
When the rose is faded,
Memory may still dwell on
Her beauty shadowed,
And the sweet smell gon..
Why? by Walter de la Mare
Ever, ever
Stir and shiver
The reeds and rushes
By the river:
Ever, ever,
As if in dream,
The..
Winter by Walter de la Mare
Clouded with snow
The cold winds blow,
And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning..
Waking at 3 a.m. by William Stafford
Even in the cave of the night when you
wake and are free and lonely,
neglected by others, discarde..
When I Met My Muse by William Stafford
I glanced at her and took my glasses
off--they were still singing. They buzzed
like a locust on th..
Written In March by William Wordsworth
The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter
The g..
Winter by William Shakespeare
When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the h..
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