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ISBN: 978-0-8021-3784-5 (pbk.)
eISBN: 978-0-8021-9207-3
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Contents
1 1. Thy fingers make early flowers of
2 2. All in green went my love riding
7 7. the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
8 8. it may not always be so; and i say
3 11. here is little Effie’s head
4 12. Spring is like a perhaps hand
5 13. who knows if the moon’s
6 14. i like my body when it is with your
1 15. little tree
2 16. Humanity i love you
1 17. POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL
2 18. nobody loses all the time
3 19. mr youse needn’t be so spry
4 20. she being Brand
5 21. MEMORABILIA
6 22. a man who had fallen among thieves
7 23. voices to voices, lip to lip
8 24. “next to of course god america i
9 25. my sweet old etcetera
10 26. here’s a little mouse)and
11 27. in spite of everything
12 28. since feeling is first
13 29. if i have made, my lady, intricate
1 30. i sing of Olaf glad and big
2 31. if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
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