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THOUGHTS OF A YOUNG GIRL by JOHN ASHBERY

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY I HAD TO WRITE YOU A LETTER
Last Line: MAY YOU NOT BE LONG ON THE WAY!
Subject(s): FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS;

Poem Sources:

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
  HALL, DONALD (ED.)
  (1962)
 
MORE LIGHT; FATHER & DAUGHTER POEMS; A TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN SELECTION.
  SHINDER, JASON (ED.)
  (1993)
 
SELECTED POEMS.
  ASHBERY, JOHN
  (1985)
 
THE MOORING OF STARTING OUT; THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF POETRY.
  ASHBERY, JOHN
  (1997)
 



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