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. Sonnet XIII On days you do not need my sound embrace, When tenderness and warmth envelop you And Fortune...

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. The Noble Train of Artillery ---from Legends of Liberty Volume 3 The cold, gray dawn illuminated flakes Of snow...

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. Sally  November rains brought to our basement door From the woods some pleading, needy eyes Staring from a fur...

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. Bonanza The March of rains has staked its claim, its boast _To brag upon these thousand hills, and opened...

. Jargon The devil will manipulate, through jargoneers who fabricate non sequitur profundity tuned with the proper frequency that will,...

. Going Home to Campania I come back to my cool and quiet road, Testudo-shielded by umbrella pines, Where pavement...

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. If You Ever Break Down If you ever break down somewhere far from your friends _And you stick out...

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. Pressed for Time Though life is good, it doesn’t last that long, And so we’re always left desiring more....

. Ogre Food My parents, dear, although you love me so; and in your love, wish only for my best....

. May 12 is National Limerick Day in the United States, corresponding to Limerick-writer Edward Lear's birthday. Poet James A....

. Written in a Cubicle What spurs me, in this breathing grave of coffee mouths and cheeks unshaved, to stand...

. Back in the U.S.S.R. ---St. Petersburg, Russia. The present. Your borscht, Dmitri. Come and eat, smart boy. You asked...

. Genevieve Perhaps those languid eyes are looking up At angels hymning in the dove-grey sky, So soft and saccharine...

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