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Let midnight call the cold dogs home,
sleet in their fur—last one can blow

the streetlights out.
Answer:Conrad Hilberry's "Christmas Night"

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"I hear it in the deep heart’s core"

Answer: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats


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I flew to each bedside, still half in a doze,
Tore open the curtains and threw off the clothes,


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I flew to each bedside, still half in a doze,
Tore open the curtains and threw off the clothes,
Answer: The Night After Christmas by Anonymous

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then when you're quite dressed
you'll stand in the window for everyone to see


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then when you're quite dressed
you'll stand in the window for everyone to see

Answer: "[little tree]" be E.E. Cummings

I loved this poem. It is now one of my favorites!

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“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”


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Glad you like the poem, Sandra. It is cute.

In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know
Answer: Thomas Hardy's "The Oxen"

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This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.


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This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Answer: "Sonnet 73" by William Shakespeare

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"Forced to wear a gaudy gold star,
to surrender their pride,
they do their best to look alive."


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"Forced to wear a gaudy gold star,
to surrender their pride,
they do their best to look alive."
Answer: Chris Green's "Christmas Tree Lots"

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“He felt some need of softening that to me:
“A thousand trees would come to thirty dollars.”


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“He felt some need of softening that to me:
“A thousand trees would come to thirty dollars.”

Answer: "Christmas Trees" by Robert Frost

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"Oh, not with statues’ rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,"


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Oh, not with statues’ rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone
Answer: Robert Hayden's “Frederick Douglass” -- One of my favorite poets!

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As in sleep - all Hue forgotten -
Tenets - put behind -


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As in sleep - all Hue forgotten -
Tenets - put behind -

Answer: "Color - Caste - Denomination - (970)" by Emily Dickinson

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"In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."


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