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Tell her that goes
With song upon her lips
But sings not out the song, nor knows
The maker of it, some other mouth,
May be as fair as hers,
(Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. Envoi (1919) (l. 17-21). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.)
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Death could drop from the dark
As easily as song—
But song only dropped,
(Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), British poet. Returning, We Hear the Larks (l. 10-12). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. A Coat (l. 1-3). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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In summer, when the days are long,
Perhaps you'll understand the song:
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British poet. Through the Looking-Glass. . ;
pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song:
(Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. Love Me Little, Love Me Long (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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In the swamp in secluded recesses,
A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
Solitary the thrush,
The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,
Sings by himself a song.
Song of the bleeding throat,
Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Memories of President Lincoln (l. 18-20). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay.
I'll wait until November
And sing a song of gray.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "The Crazy Woman.")
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Let thy song be love. This love will undo us all.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Helen, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 1, l. 110-11.
Calling on Pandarus to sing; "undo" = ruin.)
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