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Anne Spencer

Ah, how poets sing and die!
Make one song and Heaven takes it;
Have one heart and Beauty breaks it;
Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I—
Ah, how poets sing and die!




Quotes of the Day

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
• W. Clement Stone


Poems of the Day
  • Ben Belitt
    The Trespasser
    by Ben Belitt
    When last we came this pleasant way The hedgerows blossomed, high and hard, And blue with shade the violets lay In every cherry-lightened yard. Now, in commemorative rain, I walk the quiet way ...