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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHIAROSCURO, by JOHN BEAUCHAMP THOMPSON
First Line: Beauty growing on a thorn
Last Line: Prove life's immortality!
Subject(s): Immortality
First Line: Beauty growing on a thorn
Last Line: Prove life's immortality!
Subject(s): Immortality
Beauty growing on a thorn,
Love victorious on a tree—
Conquer every cynic's scorn,
Prove life's immortality!
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WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS by ROBERT BLY
DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING by DAVID IGNATOW
I CLOSE MY EYES by DAVID IGNATOW
IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE
THE THINGS THAT DIE by GREGORY ORR
THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON