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Born in 1901 / Died in 1987 / United States / English

Poems by Robert Francis

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In Memoriam: Four Poets

... Who gave to plunging hawks his hearts ...

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The Bulldozer

... His watchword Let not a witch liveHis battle cry ...

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Squash in Blossom

... But let me be the fiber-disciplined treeWhose leaf (with something to say in wind) is small, ...

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Thoreau in Italy

... musical enough but not enough to call musicSo he conversed with stones, imperial and papal ...

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Waxwings

... and all together--for this I have abandoned ...

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Eagle Plain

... When orators advertise the American eagle&rsquo ...

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Part for the Whole

... To catch from window-glass, fragment of fragment, ...