She was deep within herself, like a woman heavy with child
Ithaka
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad
Peer Gynt: The Priest's Monologue
while grass and buildings and the somnolent river, who know they are allowed to last forever,
- Not all rivers are allowed to last forever. Our village's river has dried up.
That everything's remade With shovel and spade;
No painting had ever made me cry
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day.
"Paternal Love will only use Force in the last resort On those too bumptious to repent."
So many poems about the deaths of animals. Wilbur’s toad, Kinnell’s porcupine, Eberhart’s squirrel,
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