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Classic poem of the day

G OOARY

Why, hermit Marvan, sleepest thou not
Upon a feather quilt?
Why rather sleepest thou abroad
Upon a pitchpine floor?

M ARVAN

I have a shieling in the wood,
None knows it save my God:
An ash-tree on the hither side, a hazel-bush beyond,
A huge old tree encompasses it.

Two heath-clad doorposts for support,
And a......

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Member poem of the day

Paper cranes carry wishes, fragile as their wings.
Likewise, I bent myself trying to understand you.
I fold my paper feelings.
Smelting the ore of my heart,
I forge my words of steel.