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10/27/17

10/8/17

ancient, dusky rivers

POEMS Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

10/1/17

It is Margaret you mourn for

POEM Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1880

to a young child


Margaret, are you grieving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.