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they came running.
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drawn
they came running
toward the King—
(Don L. Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti) (b. 1942), U.S. poet. Assassination (l. 10-15). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
And five nose running brats in love with Batman
(Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 83-84). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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What a woman says to her avid lover
Should be written in wind and running water.
(Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (87-54 B.C.), Roman lyric poet. Carmina, no. 70, l. 3-4.)
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My thoughts are children
With uneasy faces
That awake and rise
Beneath running skies
From buried places.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Winter.")
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They built by rivers and at night the water
Running past windows comforted their sorrow;
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Paysage Moralisé (l. 13-14). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Art and Antiquity, III (1821).)
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And finally
(apart from running the household)
Brought up and educated the children.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The Literary World.")
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... with dozens of as yet
Unrealized projects, and a strict sense
Of time running out, of evening presenting
The tactfully folded-over bill?
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Pyrography.")
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
(Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 10, l. 24 (22-8 B.C.).)
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