I Have Lived With Shades

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I have lived with Shades so long,
So long have talked to them,
I sped to street and throng,
That sometimes they
In their dim style
Will pause awhile
To hear my say;


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• 
  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 / Lincoln / England
• 
  John Keats
  31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821 / London, England
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  Francis Scott Fitzgerald
  (1896 - 1940) / Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
• 
  Robert Frost
  March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco
• 
  Allen Ginsberg
  June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997 / Newark, New Jersey
• 
  Rainer Maria Rilke
  4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 / Prague / Czech Republic