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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"
Next: "I hear it in the deep heart’s core"
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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,â€
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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.â€
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“He felt some need of softening that to me:
“A thousand trees would come to thirty dollars.â€
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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