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    Couldn´t help it: By the Solist of the Viena Singer Boys
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtRiumMQz8

    "Lord, I ask a garden in a quiet spot" Lord, I Ask a Garden by Alfonso Guillén Zelaya - (1887-1947)
    https://poets.org/poem/lord-i-ask-garden
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Enjoyed the music very much... another joyful strain

    re: "Lord, I ask a garden in a quiet spot" - A delightful prayer poem of the most humble sort

    "maggie and milly and molly and may" - ee cummings; Maggie And Milly And Molly And May... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...y-e-e-cummings
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    Maggie And Milly And Molly And May... Enigmatic children poem.

    "Neither clown nor child nor black" Magellanic Penguin by Pablo Neruda
    http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...da/poems/15735
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    Wonderful Neruda poem... questioning "astronaunt" in translation.
    "I am a worm in the sand."

    "O my own Italy! though words are vain" - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVI. Italia mia, benchè 'l parlar sia indarno. / To The Princes of Italy, Exhorting Them to Set Her Free... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...ca/canzone-xvi
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    Oh,my! Didn't notice the "astronaunt". Too many mistakes these days, including my own.
    Canzone XVI-Majestic poem!
    Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?-Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?...by Emily Dickinson
    https://www.litscape.com/author/Emil..._A_Flower.html
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    Another delightful lilting poem by Emily!

    "Quiet form of silent nun," - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell; Soeur Monique... https://www.poetrycat.com/alice-chri.../soeur-monique
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    Most emphatic poem on a nun I ever saw. Looking for a story, I found this:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=Soue...id:NHB1a-8EhKQ


    "Radiant notes" Cactus Seed by Lola Ridge
    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...tus-seed-29128
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Enigmatic poem by an Avant-garde poet... enjoyed

    Volatile link for me... finally found a way to have a pleasant classical piece play

    "Silence! stir not! for a whisper" - H. P. Nichols; The Fishers... https://www.poetrycat.com/h-p-nichols/the-fishers
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    Enjoyed!


    "The truth is dark under your eyelids." Against Winter by Charles Simic
    https://www.best-poems.net/charles_s...st_winter.html. Interview with Charlie Simic:
    https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/...charles-simic/
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Interesting poem... the poet even more so.

    "Up in heaven," - Jo; In Heaven... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/in-heaven-2
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    Sad poem "Up in Heaven". Hope you are well!

    "Very old are the woods; "All That's Past" by Walter De La Mare

    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ats-past-33472
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Tired, but well (seasonal). We've had a stretch of sunny, albeit cool, weather... and my wife returned after 3-weeks on holiday Tuesday

    Masterful economy of words; wonderful poem.

    "We mourn the loss of our little pet," Louisa May Alcott; A Lament For S. B. Pat Paw... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-la...r-s-b-pat-paw/
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    Sad aaaiii! For one moment one forgets that Snoball lived long ago and may have lived other lives since.

    "Ye distant Hills, ye smiling glades,".Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Ever Getting To The Hills by John Kendall (Dum-Dum)

    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...he-hills-21588
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Lol

    "Zephyr returns; and in his jocund train" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Death. Sonnet XLII. Zefiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena. / Returning Spring Brings to Him Only Increase of Grief.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...th-sonnet-xlii
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    Enjoyed specially the second translation by WOODHOUSELEE.

    I forgot to mention that Charles Simic died some days ago

    "As an ant is powerless". The Supreme Moment by Charles Simic
    https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-supreme-moment/
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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