“It is difficult
to get the news from poems

yet men die miserably every day

for lack”

'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower

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American poet 1883–1963

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