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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMI GREEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet's Biography
First Line: Not 'a youth with hoary head and haggard eye'
Last Line: Is just arrested growth.
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: Not 'a youth with hoary head and haggard eye'
Last Line: Is just arrested growth.
Subject(s): Youth
NOT "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye,"
But an old man with a smooth skin
And black hair!
I had the face of a boy as long as I lived,
And for years a soul that was stiff and bent,
In a world which saw me just as a jest,
To be hailed familiarly when it chose,
And loaded up as a man when it chose,
Being neither man nor boy.
In truth it was soul as well as body
Which never matured, and I say to you
That the much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth.
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AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA by ROBERT HASS
BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS
THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES
ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALEXANDER THROCKMORTON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS