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Touched by an angel by Maya Angelou

March 29, 2015

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple …

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Patience by Rabindranath Tagore

December 3, 2013

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and …

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The Introduction; Coda by Louis MacNeice

October 7, 2012

Two poems by Louis MacNeice, The Burning Perch, 1963. THE INTRODUCTION They were introduced in a grave glade And she frightened …

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Two poems by Charles Baudelaire

April 20, 2012

Incompatibility Higher there, higher, far from the ways, from the farms and the valleys, beyond the trees, beyond the hills …

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Baccalaureate by Archibald MacLeish

April 17, 2012

Another poem by Archibald MacLeish http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/baccalaureate/

The snowflake which is now and hence forever by Archibald MacLeish

April 17, 2012

Will it last? he says. Is it a masterpiece? Will generation after generation Turn with reverence to the page? Birdseye …

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