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Born in November 5, 1779 / Died in July 9, 1843 / United States / English

Poems by Washington Allston

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Rosalie

... And something blent of smiles and tears ...

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Thought

... - Those fierce avengers, whom the murdered dead ...

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Myrtilla

... O'er life's drear waste, without a gleam ...

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And Now In Accents Deep And Low

... Which still, though not a breeze was there, ...

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A Smile

... Like flowering graves, the growth of buried care! ...

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On The Late S. T. Coleridge

... And thou art gone, most loved, most honoured friend! ...

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Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock

... One summer off Cap Ferrat we watched a black seagull  ...

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Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond

... crack of deputies' rifles practicing their aim on stray dogs at night,  ...

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Parkinson’s Disease

...   She is leading her old father into the future  ...

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The Bear

... was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived ...

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Another Night in the Ruins

... on blue, lightning-flashed moments of the Atlantic ...

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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

... and smile and touch arms across this little, startlingly muscled body&mdash ...

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The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak

... can’t, even in spring, break through the hard earth ...

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The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students

... their solitude given away in poems, only their loneliness kept ...

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Saint Francis and the Sow

... from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them: ...