Archibald MacLeish

1892-1982 / American

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Ars PoeticaA poem should be palpable and mute / As a globed fruit, / Dumb

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The End Of The WorldQuite unexpectedly, as Vasserot / The armless ambidextrian was lighting / A match between his great and second toe,

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The Snowflake Which Is Now And Hence ForeverWill it last? he says. / Is it a masterpiece? / Will generation after generation

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The Too-Late BornWe too, we too, descending once again / The hills of our own land, we too have heard / Far off—Ah, que ce cor a longue haleine—

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You, Andrew MarvellAnd here face down beneath the sun / And here upon earth’s noonward height / To feel the always coming on

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