The Victors

The day-star is painted red,
The sun stands red on the mountain.
They whisper our name
In the land we are leaving.

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -- …

Emily Dickinson

EDITH L. TIEMPO …

Edith L. Tiempo

Strolling from libraries and fountains tall with lore, learning, …

Claire McAllister

Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling …

Paul Smyth

Your dandelions dotting half …

Robert B. Shaw

She begins, and my grandmother joins her. …

Li-Young Lee

I years had been from home, …

Emily Dickinson

If Mary came would Mary …

Gwendolyn Brooks

The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.