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With crayons the child draws a rigid house
and a winding pathway. Then the child
puts in a man with buttons like tears
Elizabeth Bishop
art | artists | houses and homes
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I know what I know, says the almanac.
Elizabeth Bishop
almanacs | knowledge
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Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove ...
Elizabeth Bishop
almanacs | singing | art | artists
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We have climbed the mountain,
There's nothing more to do. ...
Donald Justice
mountains | traveling | travelers | valleys
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Gawd bless this world! Whatever she 'ath done--
Excep' when awful long--I've found it good. ...
Rudyard Kipling
epitaphs | blessings
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For 'im that doth not work must surely die;
But that's no reason man should labour all ...
Rudyard Kipling
labor | mortality
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It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world,
Which you can read and care for just so long,
Rudyard Kipling
world, the | books
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Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!
And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing, ...
Ezra Pound
war | hell | battle
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Bah! there's no wine like the blood's crimson!
Ezra Pound
blood | wine
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The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson ...
Ezra Pound
war | fear
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