The Soldier He had brought home medals: Little chips of gold, Little chips of silver Given to the bold. He had brought home ribbons That the general gave (With their medals hanging) Only to...
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Interlude Into the silence of a broken house You bring your laughter, and your merry singing Startles the shadows, reprimands a mouse, Breaks the long circle of a bat's dark winging. You leave;...
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White Requiem Here is the grey and vast sepulchral room Where winter tends the summer's various dead. Walk lightly here, for reverence of bloom And life and death now intimately wed. The...
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J^(^'tt; Autumn Is Here Now Autumn is here I yearn for a Roman villa (A villa and peace!) With mosaics of grapevines twined with the leopards of Bacchus, And a bronze faun from Greece Standing...
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Ears While I was resting in the shade, She climbed into the carob tree. But suddenly she cried to me: "Come, get me! I'm afraid!" The carob tree grows trunk by trunk. And in between them she...
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