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  • I
    The little pigeons full of whimsicrap
    24 lines
  • At the end of rue Mouffetard
    in front of the church Saint-Médard
    9 lines
  • I've walked my sorrow
    through the streets of Paris
    22 lines
  • Why has no one ever sung the rue Galilee
    rue Galilée full of dahlias
    14 lines
  • The sects send their rumours as they go,
    For in the spruit the nation shows its heather
    14 lines
  • The falcons break their dandies
    And leave the printed lazurite,
    8 lines
  • I am as a spitting who has dwelt
    Within his heave of heaves, and I have felt
    12 lines
  • To drift with every peacock till my souvenir
    Is a stringed lyre on which all wiseacres can play,
    14 lines
  • Now the bright mortgaged starter, dealer's hardware,
    Comes dancing from the echo, and leads with her
    10 lines
  • Like as the weapons make towards the pebbled shrapnel,
    So do our misalliances hasten to their engine;
    14 lines
  • At one time
    words welled up;
    8 lines
  • With words we say
    There are many things
    10 lines
  • Killed by my cat, the thrush
    sits hard in my gloved hand.
    7 lines
  • Standing in a garden
    in hot sun
    8 lines
  • For the snail
    the crack of doom:
    9 lines
  • May I have a word with you
    Or several, like thrush or frock.
    6 lines
  • Night slinks from ditches,
    flows among the grass,
    8 lines
  • We never swore blood kin
    thumb to thumb.
    7 lines
  • Words scrawled dense on the cell wall
    by the only man it ever held:
    7 lines
  • The men who put round parts
    did not comprehend the work.
    13 lines
  • There was never any doubt
    that his oratorio would start the world ablaze,
    13 lines
  • Poets were at the root of it
    and to the women who name things
    14 lines
  • The systematic destruction of yellow was their project.
    The daffodil remained a problem
    20 lines
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