19th Century Poets
Marie Ponsot
Sandra Maria Esteves
Michael Fried
Horace Gregory
Kathleen Graber
Christina Rossetti
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Robert Louis Stevenson
Thomas Morris
Alfred Islay Walden
Babette Deutsch
Gordon Bottomley
Timothy Thomas Fortune
Jessie Pope
Romantic Moment
They shut me up in Prose – (445)
They shut me up in Prose –
As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet –
Because they liked me “still”   –

Still! Could themself have peeped –
and seen my Brain – go round –
They…

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