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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... things from nothing ; and with ease Can speake all things to nothing , if he please . Whose Little finger at his pleasure Can Out mete ten thousand worlds with halfe a Span : Whose Might Almighty can by half a looks Root up the rocks ...
... things from nothing ; and with ease Can speake all things to nothing , if he please . Whose Little finger at his pleasure Can Out mete ten thousand worlds with halfe a Span : Whose Might Almighty can by half a looks Root up the rocks ...
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... things allowed , Minorities , things under cloud ! Hither ! take me , use me , fill me , Vein and artery , though ye kill me ! Guy Mortal mixed of middle clay , Attempered to the night and day , Interchangeable with things , Needs no ...
... things allowed , Minorities , things under cloud ! Hither ! take me , use me , fill me , Vein and artery , though ye kill me ! Guy Mortal mixed of middle clay , Attempered to the night and day , Interchangeable with things , Needs no ...
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... thing in the rain , the world , these sent things whisper mice , fucked ladies , whisps of cloud still visible four oclock in the nighttime for the expanding or retracting dying or just coming thing we will always be . The Astronomers ...
... thing in the rain , the world , these sent things whisper mice , fucked ladies , whisps of cloud still visible four oclock in the nighttime for the expanding or retracting dying or just coming thing we will always be . The Astronomers ...
Contents
ANNE BRADSTREET ?16121672 | 1 |
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | 14 |
JOEL BARLOW 17541812 | 24 |
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