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R.A. Burleigh Poems
- Crows Slide and glide Through the corn field Behind the ...
- Kathleen The daughters ran away into the hills after boys ...
- Poem That Was Late (For Mary Schegel) I was ready for ...
- Dennis Brutus: Entropy Of Resp... When I was eighteen and ...
- The Law Of The Universe The boy and the man are climbing the ...
- I Thought About A Gift. (Revi... for your Highschool ...
- Melville He would not go, not cease, not die Despite the ...
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Melville
He would not go, not cease, not die
Despite the pain that he had seen
Despite the brutality he had seen
Despite his body cuts and boisterous bruises
He walked the twenty years to docks
Where boats brought civil goods
Iike flour to the sleepy bread-man
Like rivets to the grand blank towers
His children grew to hate old novel words
But he kept walking, kept mumbling to his pen
Because he had one last fleeting vision
One image found like silver springs In quiet wood
The whale was gone; no one had cared
The negro was gone; no one was moved ...
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