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Animalsfattened for your for your arena suffered lessthan you in dying-yours the lawlessnessof somet...

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For the Union Dead

Mr. Edwards and the Spider"I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree tha...

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I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter Aug...

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Collected Poems

What we love we are.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotio...

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History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and...

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We are all old-timers,each of us holds a locked razor.

Life Studies

And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Lord Weary's Castle

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Robert Lowell

Poet

Born: 1917-03-01

Died: 1977-09-12

Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.More