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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOOK OF VISIONS: THE RETURN, by PAUL FORT
First Line: Ivy has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since
Last Line: Earth!
Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The
First Line: Ivy has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since
Last Line: Earth!
Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The
Ivy has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since last we
loved? How many years?
No roses now. Ivy has crushed the vine. Soul, whither didst thou go? Climbing
across the nests of nightingales, ivy has stifled the whole chateau.
Wind, the deep wells are choked with the roses of yesterday. Is that your
hiding-place, O my dead wife?
No one replies? Who would reply? . . . Is it not best to listen to the wind that
sighs through the grasses "My sweet love?"
Flush with the roof the ancient, crimson sun is cut through the midst so
mournfully!
Shall I bid the gardener come? The gardener? No. It would be better to summon
Death to reap the long grass,
so many memories and so much love, and the setting sun at the level of the
earth!
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TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT
CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND
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