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Samuel Greenberg

I lived from 1893-1917. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

I influenced poet Harold Hart Crane.

I was influenced by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Samuel Greenberg died of tuberculosis in a hospital on Wards Island in 1917, when he was only 23. His childhood was spent living in poverty on the Lower East Side of New York City. After leaving school at 14 to begin working to help support his family, he became ill, and spent his final years in and out of charity hospitals (in the Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens), where he did most of his writing.

Links of interest include http://www.logopoeia.com/greenberg/crane.html

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  • Early Ghosts
    When first I beheld
    The sight of self alone,
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  • "Thus Be It Heaven Heavenly"
    In our Bible, the dream of Samuel is death,
    As the clouds consume his form and bare him to Heaven--
    9 lines
  • Enigmas
    I've been ill amongst my fellow kind
    And yet have borne with me joys
    13 lines
  • Conduct
    By a peninsula, the painter sat and
    Sketched the uneven valley groves
    13 lines
  • The Glass Bubbles
    The motion of gathering loops of Water
    Must either Burst - or remain in a moment
    9 lines
  • Secrecy
    The apparent gale, vaned in winding storms
    Has filled the air with hail and mystic frost
    13 lines
  • Immortality
    But only to be memories of spiritual gate
    Letting us feel the difference from the real
    13 lines
  • And this great human rebellion
    And this great human rebellion, has it's scattered laureates - sparks,
    That kindle the flame to repeat my brother will cause the pe
    14 lines
  • The Master's Triumph
    I sat upon a rock, viewing Nature wide. Ere my plant
    In secret hides this wild peace, our thought must bid;
    25 lines
  • On Studies
    The etude of the soul - is in regard to truth of Daily life
    The Bent to relief - the wakeing mind -
    11 lines
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