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15 Cards in this Set
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Those Winter Nights
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Author: Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blazed.No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic anders of that house, SPeaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and poliched my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? |
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Dog's Death
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Author: John Updike
She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car. Too Young to know much, She was beginning to learn to use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floor And to win, wetting there, the words, "Good Dog! Good dog!" We thought her malaise was a shot reaction. The autopsy showed a rupture in her liver. As we teased her with play, blood was filling her skin And her heart was learning to lie down forever. Monday morning, as the children were noisly fed And sent to schol, she crawled beneath the youngest's bed. We found her twisted and limp but still alive In the car to the vet's, on my lap, she tried To bite my hand and died. I stroked her warm fur And my wife called in a voice imperious with tears. Though surrounded by love that would have upheld her, Nevertheless she sank and, stiffening, disappeared. Back home, we found that in the night her frame, Drawing near to dissolution, had endured the hame of diarrhoea and had dragged across the floor To a newspaper carelessly left there. Good dog. |
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A Study of Reading Habits
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Author:Philip Larkin
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
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Author: Randall Jarrell
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Hazel Tells LaVerne
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Author: Katharyn Howd Machan
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To His Coy Mistress
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Author: Andrew Marvel
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London
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Author: William Blake
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Dulce et Decorum Est
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Author: Wilfred Owen
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In a Station in the Metro
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Author: Ezra Pound
Apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. |
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Mirror
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Author: Sylvia Plath
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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Author: John Donne
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Acquainted with the Night
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Author: Robert Frost
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Richard Cory
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Author: Edward Arlington Robinson
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A man said to the universe
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Author: Stephen Crane
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An essay on criticism
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alexander pope
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