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The Bird With The Dark Plumes

The bird with the dark plumes in my blood,

That never for one moment however I patched my

Consented to make peace with the people,

It is pitiful now to watch her pleasure In a breath of

Breaking the sad promise of spring.

Are these that morose hawk's wings, vaulting, a mere        mad swallow's,

The snow-shed peak, the violent precipice?

Poor outlaw that would not value their praise do you        prize their blame?"Their liking" she said "was a long creance,

But let them be kind enough to hate me that opens the        sky."It is almost as foolish my poor

To want hatred as to want love; and harder to win.

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Robinson Jeffers

John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of…

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