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Eight O'clock

by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Eight o'clock;
The postman's knock!
Five letters for Papa;
One for Lou,
And none for you,
And three for dear Mamma.




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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

• Maya Angelou



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