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The Legend Of Qu'Appelle Valley

by Emily Pauline Johnson

I am the one who loved her as my life,
Had watched her grow to sweet young womanhood;
Won the dear privilege to call her wife,
And found the world, because of her, was good.
I am the one who heard the spirit voice,
Of which the paleface settlers love to tell;
From whose strange story they have made their choice
Of naming this fair valley the "Qu'Appelle."

She had said fondly in my eager ear--

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The Horses

by Edwin Muir

Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
Late in the evening the strange horses came.
By then we had made our covenant with silence,
But in the first few days it was so still
We listened to our breathing and were afraid.
On the second day
The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer.
On the third day a warship passed us, heading north,
Dead bodies piled on the deck. On the sixth day

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You Can'T Have It All

by Barbara Ras

But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands
gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger
on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back.
You can have the purr of the cat and the soulful look
of the black dog, the look that says, If I could I would bite
every sorrow until it fled, and when it is August,
you can have it August and abundantly so. You can have love,
though often it will be mysterious, like the white foam
that bubbles up at the top of the bean pot over the red kidneys
until you realize foam's twin is blood.

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Let It Enfold You

by Charles Bukowski

Either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you

when I was a young man
I felt these things were
dumb, unsophisticated.
I had bad blood, a twisted
mind, a precarious
upbringing.

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Sonnet 07

by Robert Southey

(to the rainbow)

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray
Each in the other melting. Much mine eye
Delights to linger on thee; for the day,
Changeful and many-weather'd, seem'd to smile
Flashing brief splendor thro' its clouds awhile,
That deepen'd dark anon and fell in rain:
But pleasant is it now to pause, and view

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Recent Sorrow Poems

Mijn kleine vlinders

by Mario Odekerken

Mijn kleine vlinders,
die ik nooit heb mogen zien opstijgen,
jullie namen fluisteren stil in mijn borst,
waar hoop ooit voorzichtig begon.

Ik droeg jullie in gedachten,niet in armen,
voelde vaderschap zonder wiegen of nachten,
mijn handen bleven leeg,maar mijn hart leerde wachten,
op iets dat geen tijd of plaats nodig had.

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You made me cry

by Mario Odekerken

You made me cry,
not with words that hurt,
but with silence that understood
what I never said.

Something softened inside me,
like a door left open too long,
I stood there feeling seen,
and didn't know how to stop the tears.

On another's sorrow

by Mario Odekerken

I stand beside what I cannot carry
listening to a pain that is not mine
my hands empty,my words careful
aware of the distance between us.

Their sorrow moves through the room
changing the air without a sound
I do not try to fix its shape
I stay,and let it be seen.

The Knight (Pt. 2)

by Arjun Rohilla

Out of the ashes of the knight,
a creature forged in hatred was born—
a being carved from the knight’s
regret, sorrow, love, and rage.

He rose to rewrite destiny,
to bend the threads of fate,
born from a single burning thought:
to win the heart of the princess.

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The Genius

by Somali Mukherjee

I had told you long, long ago
That I can be no genius;
Still, you never wanted to know
Why I had to say it thus.

Such a grinding sense of regret
Haunts me often, pretty often;
Be it at sunrise or at sunset,
My Manna becomes Leaven.

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