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Okay, you have stumped me. I cannot find this one anywhere online.

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He heated the flat shovel
in the woodstove till the blade
steamed

Oh, sorry! It's Thomas R. Moore's "Removing the Dross " at American Life in Poetry.

I just pasted "He heated the flat shovel" in Google and it popped right up.

OK. Try this one:

We waded in the shallows,
holding his hands

That is so weird. When I tried to google it, I got nothing. Then I googled it after you left the answer and could find it. Must me gremlins in my internet connection. LOL.

We waded in the shallows,
holding his hands

Answer: "A Grandfather" by Marie Thurmer

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If Socrates drank his portion of hemlock willingly,
if the Appalachians have endured unending ages of erosion

I thought I already responded to this, but I can't find it. In addition to the answer and the next quotation, I said something like, "Yes, those gremlins like to keep things interesting . . . and keep us guessing."

If you already saw this, sorry! Those gremlins again? Or maybe I just forgot to click submit.

If Socrates drank his portion of hemlock willingly,
if the Appalachians have endured unending ages of erosion
ANSWER: Campbell McGrath's "Nox Borealis"

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It is a real chill out,
The genuine thing

It is a real chill out,
The genuine thing

Answer: A Sunset of the City
BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS

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If the beekeeper doesn’t come chasing behind with a hatchet
I’ll wait behind Cobb’s barn watching the distant houses

If the beekeeper doesn’t come chasing behind with a hatchet
I’ll wait behind Cobb’s barn watching the distant houses
Danniel Schoonebeek's "A Woman in the Sun"

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inside my heart
a museum

inside my heart
a museum

Answer: "Poem Without an End" by Yehuda Amichai

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And from that hour did I with earnest thought
Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of lore

And from that hour did I with earnest thought
Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of lore
ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Revolt of Islam"

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They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay

William Wordsworth "Daffodils"
The opening line "I wander’d lonely as a cloud” is better known. But if you've ever seen a magnificent swathe of daffodils in the countryside, it really is quite special. It takes a poet to describe the experience.

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Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
ANSWER: Christina Rossetti's "Remember"

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Some I love who are dead
were watchers of the moon and knew its lore