She lies in the grass and spreads her golden hair
across the grass, as if for simple joy
in being what she is, quietly aware
that she is not a tree or horse or boy.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
by Edwin Arlington RobinsonYet there she gazed
Across the water, over the white waves,
Upon a castle that she had never seen,
And could not see, save as a phantom shape
Against a phantom sky.
He had been all,
And would be ...