Denis

Portrait of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889

Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit Caps occasion with an intellectual fit. Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber ’ll hit The bald and bóld blínking gold when áll ’s dóne Right rooting in the bare butt’s wincing navel in the sight of the sun. . . . . . . . .

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  1. PETER WARD

    I WANT HAIKU'S NOT STUPID POEMS

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