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Hometown
Sitting on my bed / Gazing out at the view / Laptop in lap
@randy123
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Hero’s Lamp
That lamp thou fill’st in Eros name to-night, / O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs take / To-morrow, and for drowned Leander’s sake
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Atalanta In Camden -Town
AY, 'twas here, on this spot, / In that summer of yore, / Atalanta did not
Lewis Carroll
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Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos
If, in the month of dark December, / Leander, who was nightly wont / (What maid will not the tale remember?)
Lord Byron
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Afternoon Nap
I met an old woman on Leander Avenue / who told me, “Don’t breathe or the earth / will swallow you whole.” I
@kate-sims
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A Nice Dream
Bougainvilleas line the house, dedicated, stoic sentinels / Ivy has replaced mortar as the only thing keeping the walls from crumbling / The windows have no glass,
@el-bookish
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Epigrams by John Donne
A Lame Beggar / I am unable, yonder beggar cries, / To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.
@LisaJeanineWinett
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The Troublesome Life and Lamentable Death of Christopher Marlowe
Marlowe! Dark and dangerous Kit Marlowe / Whose hooded eyes, like a subtle serpent’s, held / In mysterious charms Hero, and too
@lawrence-hall
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Of Leander Toiling I've No...Word
Keats swooned over a world that never was, except in dreams, and I've no use for that. / (sonnet #MMMMMMMDCCLXIII) / In lieu of aught we know: blue skies t'avail
@JennyGordon
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Hero and Leander
I'd like to see your eyes, / maybe one more time. / I'd like to see the blue,
@boyfinch
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Hero to my Leander
As the thoughts of Night cruelly meander / I await your light like a Czech Leander / to guide me over the river of sadness
@tichozpytec
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