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| 871. | The Independent Man by Gwendolyn Brooks | | Now who could take you off to tiny life
In one room or in two rooms or in three
And cork you smartly, like the flask of wine
You are? Not any wo... |
| 872. | The Lovers of the Poor by Gwendolyn Brooks | | arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment
League
Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard br... |
| 873. | The Pig by Roald Dahl | | In England once there lived a big
And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
That Piggy had a massive brain.
He worked out sums inside ... |
| 874. | Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes | | Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks
An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again
Ponders
Ideas that collapse
At the first touch of... |
| 875. | Work and Play by Ted Hughes | | The swallow of summer, she toils all the summer,
A blue-dark knot of glittering voltage,
A whiplash swimmer, a fish of the air.
But the s... |
| 876. | September by Ted Hughes | | We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold:
No clock counts this.
When kisses are repeated and the arms hold
There is no telling where time is.
... |
| 877. | How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes | | To Paint a Water Lily
A green level of lily leaves
Roofs the pond's chamber and paves
The flies' furious arena: study
These, the two minds of ... |
| 878. | Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes | | Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-... |
| 879. | Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Ted Hughes | | Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as t... |
| 880. | Always Marry An April Girl by Ogden Nash | | Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flower... |
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