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“The varied carols I hear”

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I Hear America Singing : Walt Whitman

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“Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else”

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I Hear America Singing : Walt Whitman

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“Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs”

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I Hear America Singing : Walt Whitman

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“I celebrate myself, and sing myself”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“I loafe and invite my soul”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“Creeds and schools in abeyance”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“Nature without check with original energy”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“Unscrew the locks from the doors! /Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“Whoever degrades another degrades me, /And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their / counterpart of on the same terms.”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“Through me many long dumb voices”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“Through me forbidden voices”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“Copulation is no more rank to me than death is”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“I believe in the flesh and the appetites”

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Song of Myself : Walt Whitman

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“From under the yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen /as if with tears”

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Out of Cradle Endlessly Rocking : Walt Whitman

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“Nor return’d thay afternoon, nor the next, /Nor ever appear’d again.”

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking : Walt Whitman

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“O darkness! O in vain! /O I am very sick and sorrowful”

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking : Walt Whitman

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“The aria sinking, /All else continuing, the stars shining”

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking : Walt Whitman

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“With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly /moaning”

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking : Walt Whitman

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“The sea whisper’d me”

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking : Walt Whitman

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“I never hear the word “escape””

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77 : Emily Dickinson

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“By the soldiers battered down /But I tug childish at my bars /Only to fail again!”

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77 : Emily Dickinson

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“Hope is the thing with feathers”

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254 : Emily Dickinson

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“And never stops - at all -“

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254 : Emily Dickinson

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26
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“That kept so many warm”

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254 : Emily Dickinson

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“Yet, never, in Extremity, /It asked a crumb - of Me”

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254 : Emily Dickinson

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28
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“There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House”

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389 : Emily Dickinson

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“They wonder if it died - on that”

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389 : Emily Dickinson

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“The Minister - goes stiffly in - /As if the House were His- /And He owned all the Mourners - now-“

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389 : Emily Dickinson

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“And then the Milliner”

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389 : Emily Dickinson

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32
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“There’ll be that Dark Parade”

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389 : Emily Dickinson

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“The Intuition of the News- /In just a Country Town”

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389 : Emily Dickinson

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34
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“Much Madness is divinest Sense-“

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435 : Emily Dickinson

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“Much Sense - the starkest Madness - /’Tis the Majority”

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435 : Emily Dickinson

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“Assent - and you are sane- /Demur - you’re straightway dangerous- /And handled with a Chain”

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435 : Emily Dickinson

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37
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“I heard a Fly buzz - when I died-“

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465 : Emily Dickinson

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38
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“Between the Heaves of Storm”

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465 : Emily Dickinson

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39
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“-when the King /Be witnessed - in the Room”

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465 : Emily Dickinson

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40
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“I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away”

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465 : Emily Dickinson

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“Between the light - and me- /And then the Windows failed - and then /I could not see to see”

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465 : Emily Dickinson

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“Because I could not stop for Death - /He kindly stopped for me- “

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712 : Emily Dickinson

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43
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“Were toward Eternity”

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712 : Emily Dickinson

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44
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“She dreams a little, and she feels the dark, /Encroachment of that old catastrophe”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

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“Over the seas, to silent Palestine, /Dominion of the blood and sepulchre”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

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46
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“Why should she give her bounty to the dead? /What is divinity if it can come /Only in silent shadows and in dreams?”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

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47
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“Divinity must live within herself:”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

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48
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“Jove in the clouds had his inhuman birth”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

49
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“The sky will be much friendlier then than now”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

50
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“Not this dividing and indifferent blue”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

51
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“The need of some imperishable bliss /Death is the mother of beauty”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

52
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“Is there no change of death in paradise? /Does ripe fruit never fall?”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

53
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“Death is the mother of beauty, mystical”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

54
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“Supple and turbulent, a ring of men /shall chant”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

55
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“Not as a god, but as a god might be”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

56
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“The tomb in Palestine /Is not the porch of spirits lingering. /It is the grace of Jesus, where he lay”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

57
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“Downward to darkness, on extended wings”

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Sunday Morning : Wallace Stevens

58
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“She sang beyond the genius of the sea”

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The Idea of Order at Key West : Wallace Stevens

59
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“For she was the maker of the song she sang”

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The Idea of Order at Key West : Wallace Stevens

60
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“She was the single artificer of the world /In which she sang.”

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The Idea of Order at Key West : Wallace Stevens

61
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“I shall pass her on the street /We shall say trivial things /To each other /But I shall never cease /To search her eyes /For that quiet look”

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The Revelation : William Carlos Williams

62
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“Why do I write today?”

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Apology : William Carlos Williams

63
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“the set pieces /of your faces stir me- /leading citizens- /but not /in the same way.”

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Apology : William Carlos Williams

64
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“I will teach you my townspeople /how to perform a funeral-“

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

65
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“Knock the glass out! /My God - glass, my townspeople?”

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

66
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“No wreaths please- /especially no hot house flowers. /Some common memento is better, /something he prized and is known by:”

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

67
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“Take off the silk hat! In fact /that’s no place at all for him- /up there unceremoniously /dragging our friend out to his own dignity!”

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

68
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“I’d not have him ride /on the wagon at all - damn him - /the undertaker’s understrapper”

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

69
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“Go with some show /of inconvenience; sit openly- /to the weather as to grief”

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

70
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“Share with us /share with us - it will be money /in your pockets”

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

71
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“Go now /I think you are ready”

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Tract : William Carlos Williams

72
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“as at the explosion /of a bomb, a bomb that has laid /all the world waste”

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To a Dog Injured in the Street : William Carlos Williams

73
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“but sing about it /and so I am assuaged /from my pain.”

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To a Dog Injured in the Street : William Carlos Williams

74
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“I kicked /one of them /thinking, in my alarm, /that they /were biting her breasts /to destroy her”

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To a Dog injured in the Street : William Carlos Williams

75
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“Rene Char /you are a poet who believes /in the power of beauty /to right all wrongs.”

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To a Dog Injured In the Street : William Carlos Williams

76
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“But at Spring mending-time we find them there. /i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; /And on a day we meet to walk the line /And set the wall between us once again /We keep the wall between us as we go.”

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Mending Wall : Robert Frost

77
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“We have to use a spell to make them balance: /”Stay where you are until our backs are turned!””

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Mending Wall : Robert Frost

78
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"”Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it /Where there are cows? But here here are no cows.”

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Mending Wall : Robert Frost

79
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“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know /What I was walling in or walling out, /And to whom I was like to give offense.”

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Mending Wall : Robert Frost

80
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“In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed /He moves in darkness as it seems to me.”

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Mending Wall : Robert Frost

81
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“And sorry I cold not travel both /And be one traveler, long I stood /And looked down one as far as I could /To where it bent in the undergrowth”

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The Road Not Taken : Robert Frost

82
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“And having perhaps the better claim /Because it was grassy and wanted wear”

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The Road Not Taken : Robert Frost

83
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“Though as for that, the passing there /Had worn them really about the same”

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The Road Not Taken : Robert Frost

84
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“And both that morning equally lay /In leave no step had trodden black”

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The Road Not Taken : Robert Frost

85
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- /I took the one less traveled by, /And that has made all the difference”

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The Road Not Taken : Robert Frost

86
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“His house is in the village, though; /He will not see me stopping here /To watch his woods fill up with snow”

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening : Robert Frost

87
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“My little horse must think it queer /To stop without a farmhouse near”

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening : Robert Frost

88
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“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go before I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep.”

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening : Robert Frost

89
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“If I ever cursed my white old man /I take my curses back.”

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Cross : Langston Hughes

90
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“I’m sorry for that evil wish /And now I wish her well.”

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Cross : Langston Hughes

91
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“My old man died in a fine big house. /My ma died in a shack.”

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Cross : Langston Hughes

92
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“I wonder where I’m gonna die, /Being neither white nor black?”

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Cross : Langston Hughes

93
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“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”

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Mother to Son : Langston Hughes

94
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“But all the time /I’se been a-climbin’ on /And reachin’ landin’s, /And turnin’ corners,”

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Mother to Son : Langston Hughes

95
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“And sometimes goin’ in the dark /Where there ain’t been no light”

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Mother to Son : Langston Hughes

96
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“Don’t you fall now- /For I’se still goin’, honey, /I’se still climbin’ /And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.”

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Mother to Son : Langston Hughes

97
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“My name is Johnson- /Madam Alberta K. /The Madam stands for business /I’m smart that way”

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Madam (Madam’s Past History) : Langston Hughes

98
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“The depression put /The prices lower”

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Madam (Madam’s Past History) : Langston Hughes

99
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“Cause I had a insurance /The WPA /Said, We can’t use you /Wealthy that way

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Madam (Madam’s Past History) : Langston Hughes

100
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“She wasn’t mean /But she had a twelve-room /House to clean”

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Madam (Madam and Her Madam) : Langston Hughes

101
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“It was too much, /Nearly broke me down”

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Madam (Madam and Her Madam) : Langston Hughes

102
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“I said, Madam, /Can it be /You trying to make a /Pack-horse out of me?”

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Madam (Madam and Her Madam) : Langston Hughes

103
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“She opened her mouth. /She cried, Oh no! /You know, Alberta, /I love you so!”

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Madam (Madam and Her Madam) : Langston Hughes

104
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“I said, Madam, /That may be true /But I’ll be dogged /If I love you!”

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Madam (Madam and Her Madam) : Langston Hughes

105
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“I wasn’t no mint /But I hankered to see /My name in print”

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Madam (Madam’s Calling Cards) : Langston Hughes

106
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“Shall I use Old English /Or a Roman letter? /I said, Use American. American’s better”

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Madam (Madam’s Calling Cards) : Langston Hughes

107
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“There’s nothing foreign /To my pedigree: /Alberta K. Johnson- /American that’s me.”

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Madam (Madam’s Calling Cards) : Langston Hughes

108
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“Before I’d pay /I’d go to Hades /And rot away!”

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Madam (Madam and the Rent Man) : Langston Hughes

109
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“He said, Madam, /I ain’t pleased! /I said, Neither am I. /So we agrees!”

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Madam (Madam and the Rent Man) : Langston Hughes

110
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“He said, Are you Madam? /I said, What’s the score?”

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Madam (Madam and the Wrong Visitor) : Langston Hughes

111
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“But I’ve come to call /On you just the same.”

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Madam (Madam and the Wrong Visitor) : Langston Hughes

112
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“I’m just Old Death /And I thought I might /Pay you a visit /Before night”

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Madam (Madam and the Wrong Visitor) : Langston Hughes

113
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“I said, Yes- but Albert /Ain’t goin’ with you today!”

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Madam (Madam and the Wrong Visitor) : Langston Hughes

114
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“Nurse, put her on a diet, /And buy her some chicken. /I said, Better buy two- /Cause I’m still here kickin’!”

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Madam (Madam and the Wrong Visitor) : Langston Hughes

115
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“But he hated to write /The K that way.”

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Madam (Madam and the Census Man) : Langston Hughes

116
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“I said, If you do, /You lie”

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Madam (Madam and the Census Man) : Langston Hughes

117
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“My mother christened me /ALBERTA K /You leave my name /Just that way!”

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Madam (Madam and the Census Man) : Langston Hughes

118
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“I said, I don’t /Give a damn! /Leave me and my name /Just like I am!”

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Madam (Madam and the Census Man) : Langston Hughes

119
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“Furthermore, rub out /That MRS., too- /I’ll have you know /I’m Madam to you!”

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Madam (Madam and the Census Man) : Langston Hughes

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