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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... Turn to your dripping horses , because of a tune , under Aetna ? We must look into the matter . Bacchus and Apollo in favour of it , There will be a crowd of young women doing homage to my palaver , Though my house is not propped up by ...
... Turn to your dripping horses , because of a tune , under Aetna ? We must look into the matter . Bacchus and Apollo in favour of it , There will be a crowd of young women doing homage to my palaver , Though my house is not propped up by ...
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... turning of the second stair I left them twisting , turning below ; There were no more faces and the stair was dark , Damp , jagged , like an old man's mouth drivelling , beyond repair , Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark . At the ...
... turning of the second stair I left them twisting , turning below ; There were no more faces and the stair was dark , Damp , jagged , like an old man's mouth drivelling , beyond repair , Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark . At the ...
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... Turns you , like them , to stone , Transforms the heaving air Till plunged to a heavier world below You shift your ... Turn to the inscrutable infantry rising Demons out of the earth they will not last . Stonewall , Stonewall , and the ...
... Turns you , like them , to stone , Transforms the heaving air Till plunged to a heavier world below You shift your ... Turn to the inscrutable infantry rising Demons out of the earth they will not last . Stonewall , Stonewall , and the ...
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ANNE BRADSTREET ?16121672 | 1 |
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | 14 |
JOEL BARLOW 17541812 | 24 |
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