Nellie Isabelle Steward Cooper Poems

When robot lips
Speak their robot words
What will hear
But a robot ear.....
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Who looking at violets
Does not think of Keats?

And thinking of Keats
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Bright as disaster
The morning sky
Far above
A burnished sea
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What we love is as mutable and uncertain as any other reality
The passing face - life passing - a smile passing by-
What does it signify- mean - imply
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Her own dying
Was but a Fairy tail
That she invented
From the other side of the mirror
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I will go early
And feast on doughnuts
(The kind with the jelly in the middle)
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Can you turn from the sword
that invites-please
'Hang upon me? '
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All that exists is worthy of love
For all that exist is life
And life is worthy of love
If it be worthy of anything
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My heart is crying.....
Let it cry

I'm desolate.....
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Be it a velvet gown
Be it a laughing clown
Be it a castle tall
Anything at all
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