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Anne Spencer

Ah, you are cruel;
You ask too much;
Offered a hand, a finger-tip,
You must have a soul to clutch.




Quotes of the Day

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
• Alphonse de Lamartine


Poems of the Day
  • William Stafford
    Traveling Through The Dark
    by William Stafford
    Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead.