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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAMENT, by WILLIAM G. RYAN Poet's Biography
First Line: One breathing more, I might have been
Last Line: Had throttled blanched infinity!
Subject(s): Regret
First Line: One breathing more, I might have been
Last Line: Had throttled blanched infinity!
Subject(s): Regret
One breathing more, I might have been
The one that noosed the crouching sky;
The first of all the cells to glean
The harvest from the shadowed 'why'.
Another beat of that great heart,
And I had drank the salted sea;
Divided one unyielding part,
Had throttled blanched infinity!
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