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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedAunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull. The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand. When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie Still ringed with ordeals she w
Why His Sonnets Break Our Hearts (And How to Steal that Style) (opens the original)
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Four hundred years later, fourteen lines of rhymed pentameter are still the ultimate tool for capturing messy human obsession.If you’ve ever stared at your phone waiting for a text to change from “delivered” to “read”—feeling that weird cocktail of desperate longing and low-key resentment—congratulations, you already speak Shakespeare.Most of us learn his 154 sonnets in school like they’re dusty museum artifacts we just have to memorize for a test and immediately forget. Once you look past the o
There Will Come Soft Rains (1918) (opens the original)
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;And frogs in the pools singing at night,And wild plum trees in tremulous white;Robins will wear their feathery fire,Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;And not one will know of the war, not oneWill care at last when it is done.Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,If mankind perished utterly;And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,Would scarcely know that we were gone.<div class="
Poem of the Month: The Darkling Thrush (opens the original)
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I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey,And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.The land’s sharp features seemed to be The Century’s corpse outleant,His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament.The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry,And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I.At once a voic
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