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2023 Copies of The Poems
2023 Copies of The Poems
Section A
Poetry
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From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4, the
following 15 poems:
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The City Planners
BY MARGARET ATWOOD
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The Planners
BY BOEY KIM CHENG
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The Man with Night Sweats
BY THOM GUNN
I grew as I explored
The body I could trust
Even while I adored
The risk that made robust,
A world of wonders in
Each challenge to the skin.
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Night Sweat
BY ROBERT LOWELL
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Rain
BY EDWARD THOMAS
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The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument
BY ANNE STEVENSON
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From Long Distance
By TONY HARRISON
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Funeral Blues
BY W H AUDEN
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good
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He Never Expected Much
BY THOMAS HARDY
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The Telephone Call
BY FLEUR ADCOCK
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A Consumer's Report
BY PETER PORTER
I had it as a gift,
I didn’t feel much while using it,
in fact I think I’d have liked to be more excited.
It seemed gentle on the hands
but left an embarrassing deposit behind.
It was not economical
and I have used much more than I thought
(I suppose I have about half left
but it’s difficult to tell)—
although the instructions are fairly large
there are so many of them
I don’t know which to follow, especially
as they seem to contradict each other.
I’m not sure such a thing
should be put in the way of children—
It’s difficult to think of a purpose
for it. One of my friends says
it’s just to keep its maker in a job.
Also the price is much too high.
Things are piling up so fast,
after all, the world got by
for thousand million years
without this, do we need it now?
(Incidentally, please ask your man
to stop calling me ‘the respondent’,
I don’t like the sound of it.)
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There seems to be a lot of different labels,
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Request To A Year
BY JUDITH WRIGHT
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On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book
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Ozymandias
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
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Away, Melancholy
BY STEVIE SMITH
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.
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Speak not to me of tears,
Tyranny, pox, wars,
Saying, Can God
Stone of man's thoughts, be good?
Say rather it is enough
That the stuffed
Stone of man's good, growing,
By man's called God.
Away, melancholy, let it go.
Man aspires
To good,
To love
Sighs;
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go
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