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Born in 1895 / Died in 1985 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Robert Graves

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Vain and Careless

...   Up above the chimney pots, ...

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Allie

...   A minnow and a miller's thumb, ...

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Ghost-Raddled

... Sing to you? Choose from the clouded tales of wrong ...

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The Picture Book

...   Where weak things must creep underground, ...

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A Valentine

... Smile your forgiveness: each bright ghost ...

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The Kiss

...   Then the lips that you have kissed ...

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A Rhyme Of Friends

...   There was old Jacques Caron, ...

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The Promised Lullaby

...   When buds come striking through the bough, ...

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On the Poet’s Birth

... “Whether of high or low, of smooth or rough, ...

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A Renascence

... s part   Though the woman screams inside&mdash ...

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The God Called Poetry

... s shoulder Rustling the thick stands of his hair ...

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The Dead Fox Hunter

... His fingers were tight clenched between his teeth ...

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A Slice Of Wedding Cake

...   How well women behave, and always have behaved) ...

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The General Elliott

...   And paint shall keep his buttons bright ...

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It's A Queer Time

... The next, you choke and clutch at your right breast - ...