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The Parting Kiss

Posted on July 14, 2011 by literarylee

Robert Burns Humid seal of soft affections, Tenderest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love’s first snowdrop, virgin kiss! Speaking silence, dumb confession, Passion’s birth, and infant’s play, Dove-like fondness, chaste concession, Glowing dawn of future day! … Continue reading →

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The New Colossus

Posted on July 4, 2011 by literarylee

Emma Lazarus, 1883 Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and … Continue reading →

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Trees

Posted on June 29, 2011 by literarylee

Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy … Continue reading →

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A Drink With Something In It

Posted on June 22, 2011 by literarylee

Ogden Nash There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini; I wish that I had one at present. There is something about a Martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell … Continue reading →

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Take a Spoonful of Memorizing Poetry and Call Me in the Morning

Posted on June 10, 2011 by literarylee

Yesterday morning, the steamy start to an unseasonably hot, sultry June day, it looked like I’d be late to work.   I had just missed a bus that would have gotten me there fashionably late, so I had to take a … Continue reading →

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Sonnet 116

Posted on May 14, 2011 by literarylee

William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.  Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove; O, no!  It is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on … Continue reading →

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I Have Longed to Move Away

Posted on April 26, 2011 by literarylee

Dylan Thomas I have longed to move away From the hissing of the spent lie And the old terrors’ continual cry Growing more terrible as the day Goes over the hill into the deep sea; I have longed to move … Continue reading →

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A Little Madness

Posted on April 25, 2011 by literarylee

Emily Dickinson A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown — Who ponders this tremendous scene — This whole Experiment of Green — As if it were his own!

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Loveliest of Trees: Posted too Soon!

Posted on April 8, 2011 by literarylee

Eager beaver blogger that I was, I posted, long before I should have way back in cold January, a poem about cherry blossoms.  One of the first I memorized, “Loveliest of Trees the Cherry, Now” by A.E. Housman, perfectly captures … Continue reading →

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The Blossoms Cry Out

Posted on March 21, 2011 by literarylee

Look upon me ye world weary, tired of winter’s stark, spare beauty. Breathe deeply of us all cynics who despair of ever breathing a fragrance worth inhaling. Marvel, oh people, before our vast tribe’s numberless multitude.

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