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		<title>Stanzas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I shall not now weep. – E&#8217;en tears are a comfort that I scarce can bear, So deeply do I grieve; profound despair I will sit and savor to its bitterest drop: And while the calm and weary hours creep, I will ask of them nothing, – save not to stop. No. – I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Christmas Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall Gently, Christmas Flakes Fall gently, Christmas flakes, Upon my form too cold, too cold to care; It matters not my poor heart breaks; It matters not the chill is in the air: Fall gently, Christmas flakes, on me alone: – For she is gone. If I were small and white, And careless as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afterthought</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An acrostic Gone are the moments, fall&#8217;n to Time&#8217;s great slaughter! Only a few sad memories remain: Only dead hope, like puddles after rain, Dissolving as a snowflake on the water; But still one bond not Time or Chance may strain: – Yes! though our lesser, earthly ties must end, En Cristo hen esmen [i]. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh! the moon is in the sky, And the glow is on the lake, And the coyote&#8217;s lonely howl Shivers in the starry wake; – And you are in my soul, And your name is on my sigh. And ah! would that sigh could tell How my throbbing senses ache: I sit, – and see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then Come Away, My Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then come away, my love, Let the world rush on by; While the heavens are fleeting above, Come away, you and I: For the light fades on the plain, And the lark flies to her nest, And the fox seeks out his den, – And I long for your breast. The night was made for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Me Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask me not, my love, To tell you how I love you. Can the sun Tell how he pours out radiance from above? The leopard tell you how he has each spot? Can greyhounds tell you how they run? Then ask me not. Darling! ask me not, – But ask the ocean how he fills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ao Meu Amor [i]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See daylight leap to western skies? See all the glories of the night Spring up in raptured evening sighs To tangle in a soft delight? How dull that passioned red romance, Those mingled shafts of night and day! Ah, but a memory of a glance Dissolves their beauty fast away. A glance, a look, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanzas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written on a Wyoming mountain top How still is the hour! As numbingly the shades of darkness creep, Passionlessly upon each nodding flower The night-dews weep. The lone breeze that wanders Now fondles the forlorn clouds in the sky, Now teases at the tree-tops, as it ponders Its course, ere it die. My heart on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Darla</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written during a drowsy afternoon session on sleep deprivation Darla! it&#8217;s time to rest those bloodshot eyes; Are you not drowsy? go on, take your rest. Relax – it matters not the daylight flies: Let it fly on without you, time-oppressed! All of your senses thicken to a crawl; Listen to Mr. Phil&#8217;s low-droning voice, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poet&#8217;s Last Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On being asked why he forsook the composition of poetry, and ceaselessly importuned to take up the practice again. Cease! here a dry-tongued, weeping child sucks his dead mother&#8217;s empty breast; Here a soot-blackened street-waif labors, hollow-eyed for want of rest; Here an unwanted, unloved beggar clutches his rags against the cold: See! his empty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ΑΓΩΝ ΠΟΙΗΤΟΥ [i]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As serpent-charmers suck from deadly fangs The antidote sought by the world&#8217;s snake-bit, And bitten themselves, cast into racking pangs, In seeking the world&#8217;s cure give their lives for it, So I: my pen cast forth a sacred flame, Blossoming red and healing from the start: – But touching my hand, the deadly gall became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poet and the Singer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Poet dipped his quill into the flame, And wrought a fair and finely-crafted thing; But no one cared until the Singer came, And took it up, and set the truth a-wing.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and Melancholy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I sad? In this life only: Faith apprehends what the heart cannot feel. Heart-blows add To the hopeful lonely Bruises Eternity hastens to heal.]]></description>
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		<title>Sorrowful John</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Ballad Well met, well met, good gentleman, Why haste you on your way? Oh, I flee the scene of a bloody crime, A crime done but today. And why does your lancet drip with blood, And why does it shine so red? Oh, I have killed my truest friend, And I have struck him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paparazzi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blood-leaches, swollen grossly fat On vital fluids not their own; The carrion-crow, who strips the bone Of rotten flesh; the sewer rat Who ekes existence from decay; Pale maggot-worms, whose foul breath Is putrid with the smell of death; Dung beetles gorged on sewage; – they Are nearest kin to these who cry And clamor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Died the Beautiful?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When died the beautiful? Above the din Of modern mock and clamor, Truth’s lone voice, Once sad and lovely, now but adds the noise Of banal chatter – now the poet’s pen Is silenced by the chatty screen – oh, when Did regal Truth, once crowned with solemn joys, Go walking out dressed as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bittersweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a joy that is akin to madness, And there is a wisdom far removed from mirth; But who would trade the giddy lie of gladness For all the wretched knowledge on the earth?]]></description>
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		<title>An Insignificant Crisis in the Life of J. Dwight Nelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ‘This is all I know of human nature: Men have always labored to build walls, Definite angles and straight lines, Always regular designs, Mass-replicated bricks, a singular plural feature; It really doesn&#8217;t matter if one falls, For wallness matters more than any wall, And humanness is that they build at all. ‘Sometimes I doubt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asahel Croft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of tyrants, the most fearsome class of all Is those who, leaving goods and bodies whole, Usurp dominion in the human soul, And slowly kill through means unseen; of these, What tyrant is more fierce than sad Regret? What power stronger? save that it be Love, Which conquers at the last; – but when Regret [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claribel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I In the greenest vale of a lovely wood A pleasant little cottage stood, And no place on earth was more good and fair Than the modest hut in the valley there. The sun, at the close of each happy day, Would kiss it to sleep with his last gold ray, And, still reluctant to [...]]]></description>
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