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If I share my sunset with you  Will you share your sunrise  With me?  
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I can read the clouds now and know (somewhere ... over there), you are reading them too                                            
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  Still here (in my memory),  the echo of voices (within words) Clearer today than yesterday/year      
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the tiny flowers their names I can’t remember  you now forgotten *not *                                              
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beauty in silence; a soundless existence, where only the silent sounds of your Soul *and those of the dead * can be heard   
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  Subscribe The Guardian - Back to home News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show caption Poetry The best recent poetry – review roundup The Trojan Women by Anne Carson with Rosanna Bruno; The Gododdin by Gillian Clarke; Hotel Raphael by Rachel Boast; American Mules by Martina Evans; pandemonium by Andrew McMillan Fiona Sampson Fri 14 May 2021 07.00 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Even at its best, the poetic mainstream we call the lyric tradition can run the risk of appearing po-faced. So it’s a joy to come across a mistress of the art taking rumbustious pleasure in revisiting the matter of poetry itself.  Anne Carson ’s new version of  Euripides ’  The Trojan Women  (Bloodaxe), with artist and cartoonist Rosanna Bruno, is resolutely subtitled  A Comic ;   and a graphic novel is exactly what it is. But of course the words are Carson’s. Simultaneously straight-talking and experimental, the Canadian has been reclaiming the classical tradition as an essential resou
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  https://www.tatler.com/article/emily-bronte-rare-handwritten-poems-1-million-the-honresfield-library-auction handwritten Emily Brontë poems set to fetch £1 million at auction The autograph verses are part of a literary treasure trove going under the hammer this summer By Hope Coke THE BRONTË SISTERS, PAINTED BY THEIR BROTHER, PATRICK BRANWELL BRONTË, IN 1834 VCG WILSON / CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES When it comes to England’s literary heritage, few figures command quite as much fascination as the Brontë sisters. Over two centuries on from their births, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849) remain celebrated figures, heralded for works like  Jane Eyre ,  Wuthering Heights  and  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , respectively.......
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The early years care An untainted  memory  Grooms growth, of worth                 
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how far (north) will a stream flow, before  dreams reach their destination