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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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Alone Hatton Lying Midnight Orion Prone Rain Strike Wester
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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Book Learning Poet Poetry Reading
When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Enough Journey Sleep Time
Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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Effort Myself Time
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Content Lost Myself Plain Shine
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Business Chance Luck Motivation One Liner Think Thinking Trouble Young
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Animal Definition Myself Poetry
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
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Fire Friend Hollow Light Shoulder
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Human Knowledge Precious Service
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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Free Funny Humor Ignorance Irksome Object Plan Time
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Afraid Myself Stranger World
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Goodness Sick World
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Faith Grass Leave Myself Stone Wonder
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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Concur Glory Knowledge Literature Man Masterwork Men P Writing
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

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