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"nursemaid" poems

8 poems containing "nursemaid"
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Four in the MorningCried the navy-blue ghost / Of Mr. Belaker / The allegro ***** cocktail-shaker,
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If everyone were pirates,There'd only plundering be; / If all of us were wolves, / No sheep could flee....
@don-bouchard26
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The Infant NightSun burns away the day, Night is born, / Wrapped in blankets of clouds, handsome lad. / Tell the stars that I am jealous of the moon,
@sherlene28
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Reality verses the Mechanical NursemaidThere is nothing more than composing / sonnets and blank verse, / like Larkin and Heaney never willingly leaving home,
@topaz-oreilly7
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Shadow EmpathyGrowing up in a loud and boisterous world, / makes it easy to seek solace in the / shadows
@BrokenArpeggio19
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ILL IN BED.You’re ill in bed. / You think you’re / Dying, but no one
@terry-collett61
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Four legged RomeoMy three daughters and I / Spot, Blue and sweet Timex, / live within the walls
@wordvango26
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Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and poet. He was a communist in his early life, but after a visit to the Soviet Union, decided that communism was too disciplined and confining. McKay was involved in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award f...

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