What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to en… - Stephen Spender

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What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

Stephen Spender

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Stephen Spender (February 28, 1909 – July 16, 1995) was an English poet and essayist who focused on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

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Birth Name: Stephen Harold Spender

Alternative Names: Sir Stephen Harold Spender • Sir Stephen Spender

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Our single purpose was to walk through snow With faces swung to their prodigious North Like compass iron.

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Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.

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