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The rose is a symbol of love, so perhaps the "invisible worm" is the Invisible Friend of the black-robed priests that Blake so despised.

Ignorant, I took up my burden in the wilderness.

My tale was heard and yet it was not told, My fruit is fallen, yet my leaves are green, My youth is spent and yet I am not old, I saw the world and yet I was not seen; My thread is cut and yet it is not spun, And now I live and now my life is done.

Why doesn't God have compassion on fallen fledglings, one wonders? This is a wonderfully moving poem about memories of a lost childhood.

Though women do everything in their power to serve everyone — especially the men — around them, she gets no appreciation or respect in return.

I was willing to do anything for him.

Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, and more.

Other Poems and Songs of Note "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is an eerie ballad by John Keats "A Picture from Life's Other Side" was the favorite song of Woody Guthrie "The Needle and the Damage Done" is a song about drug abuse written by Neil Young for a friend who died soon thereafter "Fire and Rain" is a similar song by James Taylor "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground" is a song about a suffering human angel written and performed by Willie Nelson "Angie" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and performed by the Rolling Stones "As Tears Go By" was written by Jagger, Richards and Andres Loog Oldham, and performed by Marianne Faithful "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was written and performed by Hank Williams Sr.

Many poets raptly praise God and Nature, but Robert Frost seems too honest and wise for such shenanigans.

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This is the shell's iridescence And the wild bird's wing.