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Poetry Library

— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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noun

A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television.

“The lead actor delivered a powerful performance that moved the entire audience to tears.”

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Ifi COMMENDATORY POEMS.

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Ben Jonson·1572–1637
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h ! none to weep this with a worthy tear. But he, that cannot, Beaumont that hes here. Who now shall pay thy tomb with such a verse As thou that lady's didst, ^ir Butland*s hearse?* A monument that will then lasting be, When all her marble is more dust than she. In thee alPs lost : A sudden dearth and want Hath seiz'd on Wit, good epitaphs are scant; We dare not write thy elegy, whilst each feart He ne'er shall match that copy of thy tears. Scarce in an age a poet, and yet he Scarce lives the third part of his age to see ^ But quickly taken off, and only known.
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