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Quotation by Archibald MacLeish
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"America Was Promises" (1940)"Apologia" Harvard Law Review (Cambridge, June 1972)Ars PoeticaEpistle to Be Left in the Earth"Heaven and Earth and the Cage of Form" Rockefeller University Forum (January-February 1968)Related Subjects
day (7) moon (7) darkness (6) love (6) stars (5) flowers (5) animals (5) sleep (4) camping (4) sea (1)
Nor now the long light on the sea—
And here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on . . .
And here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on . . .
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. You, Andrew Marvell (l. 33–36). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
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