The New Oxford Book of American VerseRichard Ellmann An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries. |
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... Keep your splendid silent sun , Keep your woods O Nature , and the quiet places by the woods , Keep your fields of clover and timothy , and your corn - fields and orchards , Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth - month ...
... Keep your splendid silent sun , Keep your woods O Nature , and the quiet places by the woods , Keep your fields of clover and timothy , and your corn - fields and orchards , Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth - month ...
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... keeps the ache , It keeps the pressure of a ladder - round . I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend . And I keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in . For I have had too much Of apple ...
... keeps the ache , It keeps the pressure of a ladder - round . I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend . And I keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in . For I have had too much Of apple ...
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... keep the same cycle of seed - time and of sun and rain ; Demeter in the grass , I multiply , renew and bless Iacchus in the vine ; I hold the law , I keep the mysteries true , the first of these to name the living , dead ; I am red wine ...
... keep the same cycle of seed - time and of sun and rain ; Demeter in the grass , I multiply , renew and bless Iacchus in the vine ; I hold the law , I keep the mysteries true , the first of these to name the living , dead ; I am red wine ...
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ANNE BRADSTREET ?16121672 | 1 |
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | 14 |
JOEL BARLOW 17541812 | 24 |
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