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SLEEPING OUT IN A COLLEGE CLOISTER by WILLIAM EMPSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: STEVENSON SAYS THEY WAKE AT TWO O'CLOCK
Last Line: DROWNED UNDER FLOUNCES AND BELL-CALM OF TREES

Poem Sources:

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON. EDITED BY JOHN HAFFENDEN.
  EMPSON, WILLIAM
  (2000)
 



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