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Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me: 'Why do you let me lie here wastefully?...

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Only one ship is seeking us a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake...

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Only our hearts go beating towards the east.

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Over the threshold Nothing like death stepped, nothing like death paused,...

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Oh, no one can deny That Arnold is less selfish than I. He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

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Now you become my boredom and my failure, Another way of suffering, a risk, A heavier-than-air hypostasis.

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Never to walk from the station's lamps and laurels Carrying my father's lean old leather case...

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No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

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No, I have never found The place where I could say...

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Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow....

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Long since had the dead Become untroubled In the light soil.

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Life is an immobile, locked, Three-handed struggle between...

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Joy has no cause: Though cut to pieces with a knife,...

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In fact, may you be dull If that is what a skilled,...

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If hands could you free you, heart, Where would you fly?

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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare....

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I thought all girls the same, but yes, You bag real birds, though they're from alien covers.

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I cannot halt The tread, the beat of it, it is my own heart,...

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Half life is over now, And I meet full face on dark mornings...

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For in the word death There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;...

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For nations vague as weed, For nomads among stones,...

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For sometimes it is shown to me in dreams The Eden that all wish to recreate...

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Frogmarched by old need They chaffer for a partner....

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For (as you will guess) it was death I had in mind; Who covets our breath, who seeks and will always find;...

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Dying smokers sense Walking towards them through some dappled park...

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Endlessly, time-honoured irritant, A bubble is restively forming at your tip....

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Death quarrels, and shakes the tree, And fears are flowers, and flowers are generation,...

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Death will be such another thing, All we have done not mattering.

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Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan The future was, in which temptingly spread All that elaborative nature can.

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Clearly money has something to do with life....

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