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Glimpses of Childhood





Emily Dickinson



Yevgeny Yevtushenko



William Butler Yeats



John Updike



Rainer Maria Rilke



Gwendolyn Brooks




Molly & James
Molly & James

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day).

And maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles
and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles,
and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
It's always ourselves we find in the sea.
--e. e. cummings
     
Sara Booth



Mary Oliver



William Blake



e. e. cummings



Thom Gunn
 

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