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Allen Tate Quotes about Lying

All Allen Tate Quotes Age Christmas Heart Lying quotes Twilight

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

Lying, Ocean, Sleep

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.67, Macmillan

The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes, The meadow creeps implacable and still; A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies. One two three the cows bulge on the hill.

Dog, Lying, Eye

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.

Christmas, Lying, Love You

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.103, Macmillan

The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying; Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

Christmas, Lying, Fire

Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

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