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“Half broken hearted to _______ for years” - When We Two Parted

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“Half broken hearted to sever for years” - When We Two Parted

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“A ______ to mine ear” - When We Two Parted

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“A knell to mine ear” - When We Two Parted

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“Why wert thou so _____?” - When We Two Parted

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“Why wert thou so dear” - When We Two Parted

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“Long, long shall I ____ thee, Too deeply to tell” - When We Two Parted

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“Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tell” - When We Two Parted

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“All things by a law _______” - Love’s Philosophy

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“All things by a law divine” - Love’s Philosophy

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“In one another’s being _____ - Why not _______ with thine?” - Love’s Philosophy

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“In one another’s being mingle - Why not I with thine?” - Love’s Philosophy

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“No sister-flower would be forgiven If it ______ its brother” - Love’s Philosophy

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“No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain’d its brother” - Love’s Philosophy

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“And the __________ kiss the sea” - Love’s Philosophy

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“And the moonbeams kiss the sea” - Love’s Philosophy

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“When _______ in Porphyria” - Porphyria’s Lover

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“When glided in Porphyria” - Porphyria’s Lover

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“That moment she was ______, _____, fair, Perfectly ____ and good” - Porphyria’s Lover

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“That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good” - Porphyria’s Lover

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“I am quite sure she felt no _____” - Porphyria’s Lover

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“I am quite sure she felt no pain” - Porphyria’s Lover

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“My thoughts do twine and bud about thee, as ______ ______ about a tree” - Sonnet 29

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“My thoughts do twine and bud about thee, as wild vines about a tree” - Sonnet 29

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“I will not have my ______ instead of thee” - Sonnet 29

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“I will not have my thoughts instead of thee” - Sonnet 29

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“Set thy ______ all bare” - Sonnet 29

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“Set thy trunk all bare” - Sonnet 29

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“I do not think of thee - I am too _____ thee” - Sonnet 29

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“I do not think of thee - I am too near thee”

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“As though ______ of God” - Neutral tones

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“As though chidden of God” - Neutral tones

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“Eyes that rove over _______ ______ of years ago” - Neutral tones

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“Eyes that rove over tedious riddles of years ago” - Neutral tones

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[her smile was] “the _________ thing alive enough to have the _______ to die” - Neutral tones

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[her smile was] “the deadest thing alive enough to have the strength to die” - Neutral tones

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“Grin of _______” - Neutral tones

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“Grin of bitterness” - Neutral tones

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“Keen lessons that love ______” - Neutral tones

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“Keen lessons that love deceives” - Neutral tones

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[words] “________ between us” … “on which lost the more by our ______” - Neutral tones

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[words] “played between us” … “on which lost the more by our love” - Neutral tones

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“Knuckles _______ ” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“Knuckles singing” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“It’s not ________, simply how things are” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“It’s not romance, simply how things are” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“Is your life more _____ because you dig and sow?” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“Is your life more real because you dig and sow?” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“Pouring air and _____ into an envelope” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“Pouring air and light into an envelope” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“Our ______ tap out messages across the _____ miles” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles” - Letters from Yorkshire

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“She turned ______ of love and me and all things ______” - Farmer’s Bride

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“She turned afraid of love and me and all things human” - Farmer’s Bride

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“More’s to do at harvest time than _____ and ____” - Farmer’s Bride

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“More’s to do at harvest time than bide and woo” - Farmer’s Bride

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“Her smile went out, and ‘twasn’t a _______ More like a frightened ______” - Farmer’s Bride

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“Her smile went out, and ‘twasn’t a woman More like a frightened fay” - Farmer’s Bride

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“Turned the ____ upon her, _____” - Farmer’s Bride

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Turned the key upon her, fast - Farmer’s Bride

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“She does the work about the house As well as most but like a _____” - Farmer’s Bride

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“She does the work about the house As well as most but like a mouse” - Farmer’s Bride

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“Sweet as the first wild ______, she, To her wild self. But what to _____? - Farmer’s Bride

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“Sweet as the first wild violets, she, To her wild self. But what to me? - Farmer’s Bride

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“‘Tis but a _____ Betwixt us” - Farmer’s Bride

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“‘It’s but a stair Betwixt us” - Farmer’s Bride

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“Her _____, her _______, her hair!” - Farmer’s Bride

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“Her eyes, her hair, her hair!”

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“Like a ________ Wrenched from its orbit” - Walking Away

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“Like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit” - Walking Away

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[his son] “finds no ______ where the path ______ be” - Walking Away

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[his son] “finds no path where the path should be” - Walking Away

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“Pathos of a half-_____ thing” - Walking Away

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“Pathos of a half-fledged thing” - Walking Away

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“________ away” - Walking Away

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“Eddying away” - Walking Away

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“______ is proved in the letting go” - Walking Away

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“Love is proved in the letting go” - Walking Away

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[the mother’s hair] “takes on the _____” - Eden Rock

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[the mother’s hair] “takes on the light” - Eden Rock

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“Same ____ plates” - Eden Rock

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“Same three plates” - Eden Rock

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[the sky is] “as if lit by three ______” - Eden Rock

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[the sky is] “as if lit by three suns” - Eden Rock

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“________ is not as _____ as you may think” - Eden Rock

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“Crossing is not as hard as you may think” - Eden Rock

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“I had not thought that it would be like _____” - Eden Rock

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“I had not though that is would be like this” - Eden Rock

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“His shoulders _______ like a full sail” - Follower

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“His shoulders globed like a full sail” - Follower

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“Narrowed and _______ at the ground” - Follower

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“Narrowed and angled at the ground” - Follower

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“I _______ (in his hob-nailed wake)” - Follower

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“I stumbled” - Follower

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“All I ever did was ____ in his broad ______” - Follower

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“All I ever did was follow in his broad shadow” - Follower

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[the son was] “_______ always” - Follower

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[the son was] “yapping always” - Follower

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“It is my _______ who keeps _______ behind me and will not go away” - Follower

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“It is my father who keeps stumbling behind me and will not go away” - Follower

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“The _______ of the walls, the ______ of the floors” - Mother any distance

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“The acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors” - Mother any distance

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“You at the _____-end” - Mother any distance

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“You at the zero-end” - Mother any distance

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“__________ year between us. _________. Kite” - Mother any distance

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“Unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite” - Mother any distance

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“I ________-______ “[through the bedrooms] - Mother any distance

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“I space-walk” - Mother any distance

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“Your fingertips still ______ the last one-hundredth of an ______” - Mother any distance

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“Your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch” - Mother any distance

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“To fall or _____” - Mother any distance

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“To fall or fly” - Mother any distance

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“_________ at the pavement” - Before you were mine

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“Shriek at the pavement” - Before you were mine

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[describes how her mother looks] “_______” - Before you were mine

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“Marilyn” - Before you were mine

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“______ with the thousand eyes” - Before you were mine

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“Ballroom with the thousand eyes” - Before you were mine

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“My loud, _______ yell” - Before you were mine

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“My loud possessive yell” - Before you were mine

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“High-heeled red shoes, _______” - Before you were mine

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“High-heeled red shoes, relics” - Before you were mine

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“Your ghost _______” - Before you were mine

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“Your ghost clatters” - Before you were mine

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“Stamping ______ from the ______ pavement” - Before you were mine

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“Stamping stars from the wrong pavement” - Before you were mine

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“Silent and _____” - Winter Swans

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“Silent and apart” - Winter Swans

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“Like ______ righting in ______ weather” - Winter Swans

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“Like boats righting in rough weather” - Winter Swans

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“They mate for _____” - Winter Swans

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“They mate for life” - Winter Swans

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“I noticed our hands, that had, somehow, ______ the distance between ____” - Winter Swans

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“I noticed our hands, that had, somehow, swum the distance between us” - Winter Swans

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“Like a pair of _______ settling after flight” - Winter Swans

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“Like a pair of wings settling after flight” - Winter Swans

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[the Earth is] “_______ for breath” - Winter Swans

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[the Earth is] “gulping for breath” - Winter Swans

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“9 o’clock to __ o’clock” - Singh Song

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“9 o’clock to 9 o’clock” - Singh Song

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“vee ______ in chapatti vee _____ in di chutney” - Singh Song

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“vee share in chapatti vee share in di chutney” - Singh Song

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“effing at my ____” - Singh Song

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“effing at my mum” - Singh Song

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“tiny eyes ov a _____ and di _______ ov a teddy” - Singh Song

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“ting eyes ov a gun and Di tummy ov a teddy” - Singh Song

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“Sikh _____ site” - Singh Song

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“Sikh lover site” - Singh Song

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“di worst Indian _____on Di whole Indian ____” - Singh Song

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“di worst Indian shop on di whole Indian road” - Singh Song