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And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night


Archibald MacLeish

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r...
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Miles apart, across the ocea...
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and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
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Some smiles and a tear or so,
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wake in us some emblem:
they might point to the ca...
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and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
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But fell upon the sanded floor,...
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is its home.
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Both are in doubt of their lifeless plight
One envies...
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and…
feel the sand
beneath your aimless feet
towards the sparklin...
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Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
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The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
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I’m hearing the stars calling me ;
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you ...
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It was always unnecessar...
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Take him and cut him out in little stars,
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the sharpened edge
where day and night shall...
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As we wave our goodbyes,
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But Athenian found I none,
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May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
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Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the s...
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Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth...
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tourniquets itself around you and
clings

Clubland...
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Hosts to species long since departed,
Mark the mastodon.
The ...
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To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break ...
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sitting on the deck,
settled in to my little jungle of he...
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"What?"
"Thanks for finding me."
"Always.
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At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and wher...
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i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
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And feel myself slowly wilt and die,
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I have w...
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On a dark night,
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"Always," Parker said.
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I don't know you,
But I love you,
Just as God loves me and you.
...
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A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
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when I learned how to fly

I wanted to touch the colors of...
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DENISE LEVERTOV Just let me wait a little while longer,
Under your window in the quite snow.
Let me stand ...
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I had never told...
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my chest exploding
you coming home late
not turning on the light
alw...
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Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before h...
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And nodding by...
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Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, ...
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