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He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.
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With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.
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I Saw The Horses:
Huge in the dense grey—ten together—
Megalith-still. They breathed, making no move,
With draped manes and tilted hind-hooves,
Making No Sound.
I Passed:
not one snorted or jerked its head.
Grey silent fragments
Of a grey silent world.
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The brassy wood-pigeons
Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun
Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
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You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
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I imagine this midnight moment's forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock's loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
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Stilled legendary depth:
It was as deep as England. It held
Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old
That past nightfall I dared not cast.
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I was a post-war, utility son-in-law!
Not quite the Frog-Prince. Maybe the Swineherd.
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My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly—
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
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Russia and America circle each other;
Threats nudge an act that were without doubt
A melting of the mould in the mother,
Stones melting about the root.
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Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen.
Night passed.
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I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars...
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The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.
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Ted Hughes
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Born:
August 17, 1930
Died:
October 28, 1998
(aged 68)
Bio:
Edward James "Ted" Hughes was an English poet and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
Known for:
Birthday Letters (1998)
The Iron Man (1968)
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
Tales from Ovid (1997)
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