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She did not need much,
wanted very little.
A kind word, sincerity,
fresh air, clean water,
a garden, kisses,
books to read,
sheltering arms, a cozy bed,
and to love and be loved in return.

Starra Neely Blade

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She Did Not Need Much

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Blade, Starra Neely. Posting of her poem called She Did Not Need Much. Facebook, 4 Oct. 2019. https://www.facebook.com/StarraNeelyBlade/. Accessed 12 Jan. 2023.

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Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand hath provided.
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Thomas O. Chisholm

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Great is Thy Faithfulness

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Chisholm, Thomas. Great is thy Faithfullness. Hope Publishing, 1923.

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I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

John Clare

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Clare, John. "I Am." The Bedford Times, 1 Jan. 1848, I. 13.

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Clare, John. "I Am." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 13.

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert

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Herbert, George. "Love (III)." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, I. 1.

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Herbert, George. "Love (3)." The Temple. Penguin Classics, 2018, I. 1.

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I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their way.

Edward Thomas

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Poems. Henry Holt, 1917, I. 1.

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Selected Poems of Edward Thomas. Faber & Faber, 2011, I. 1.

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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

The Spectator

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 5 Sept. 1712, no. 476.

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History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.

Seamus Heaney

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Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles - Philoctetes. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1991.

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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "Dirge Without Music." The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1928, st. 1.

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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Sir Walter Scott

The Talismam

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Talisman. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1825, ch. 24.

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I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. "The Peace of Wild Things." Openings. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

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Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

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The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.

Carl Sandburg

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." Chicago Poems. Henry Holt and Company, 1916, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.

William Shenstone

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Shenstone, William. "On Politicks." The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq. Vol. 2, London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1764.

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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Old-age, a second child, by Nature cursed
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of pains; in ev'ry breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

Charles Churchill

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Churchill, Charles. Gotham. London: W. Flexney, 1764, bk. 1, I. 215.

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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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Old and ruined, all rotted and broken up
These plum trees function gorgeously
A few days every year
In a way nobody else does.

Philip Whalen

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Whalen, Philip. Scenes of Life at the Capital. Maya Quartos, 1970.

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Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

Robert W. Service

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Service, Robert W. "The Quitter." Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912.

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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.