It was something like love From another world that seized her From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head Out of dew, without ever looking, her b… - James Dickey

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It was something like love
From another world that seized her
From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head
Out of dew, without ever looking, her best
Self to that great need.

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About James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey (2 February 1923 – 19 January 1997) was a popular American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.

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