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A goal of this community is to create a clear text library of copy & paste-able poems.

It is to make it easier to add more poetry and poets and their publications visible to our digital world. So please format it accordingly.

title could be even if it is duplicated by your username:

TITLE OF POEM by AUTHOR OF POEM

body of post could have:

TITLE OF POEM IN ITALIC

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that is why i haven't taken on ee cumming yet because i want to use only markdown

List any translators please put as a first comment.

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Renegade

To Arthur Chamberlain

But all that now is over.
Dreamers of dreams shall not in me discover
Fallen remembrances of Holy Land;
Looks in mine eyes, that seem to understand
A banished secret; in my common mien,
A charmed communion with high things unseen

For all that now is over.
Mere merchant of earth’s market-place, no lover,
I keep the dusty, trodden road of all.
Though broken echoes fill the mart, and call
Back to my silent memories: down chill air
They die away, and leave me to my care.

Since all that now is over,
And not at any cost can I recover
The abdicated throne, the abandoned crown:
I sit me at the heart of the vast town,
To wear old love looks down to the dull look,
Befitting love unthought on, or forsook.

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