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At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at ...

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I Can't Stay Long

She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, aft...

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It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on t...

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Cider With Rosie

Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of t...

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Cider With Rosie

God's codpiece, you're very kind

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when i...

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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...

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I Can't Stay Long

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand th...

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Me dad planted that tree,’ she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window.The great ...

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Cider With Rosie

This tiny, white-washed Infants' room was a brief but cosy anarchy. In that short time allowed us we...

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Cider With Rosie

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Laurie Lee

Poet

Born: 1914-06-26

Died: 1997-05-13

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter.More