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Seed Shop, The  (by: Muriel Stuart (1889-))
Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie,
Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand,
Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry -
Meadows and gardens running through my hand.
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She Died At Play  (by: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
She died at play,
Gambolled away
Her lease of spotted hours...
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Song Of The Silent Land  (by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882))
Into the Silent Land!
Ah! who shall lead us thither?
Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather,
And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand.
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Songs Of Innocence: A Dream  (by: William Blake (1757 - 1827))
Once a dream did weave a shade,
O'er my Angel-guarded bed,
That an Emmet lost it's way
Where on grass methought I lay.
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Soul And Body  (by: William Shakespeare (1546 - 1616))
Poor Soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
Foil'd by those rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
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Death Poems Books

Southern Mansion  (by: Arna Bontemps (1902 - 1973))
Poplars are standing there still as death
And ghosts of dead men
Meet their ladies walking
Two by two beneath the shade
And standing on the marble steps.
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Spring of the Year, The  (by: Allan Cunningham (1784-1842))
Gone were but the winter cold,
And gone were but the snow,
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Story Of Mrs. W  (by: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967))
My garden blossoms pink and white,
A place of decorous murmuring,
Where I am safe from August night
And cannot feel the knife of Spring.
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Summer For Thee, Grant I May Be  (by: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
Summer for thee, grant I may be
When Summer days are flown!
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Terror of Death, The  (by: John Keats (1795 - 1821))
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
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