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DESOLATION by AMY LOWELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: UNDER THE PLUM-BLOSSOMS ARE NIGHTINGALES
Last Line: And they are silent
Subject(s): NIGHTINGALES;

UNDER the plum-blossoms are nightingales;
But the sea is hidden in an egg-white mist,
And they are silent.



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