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VALEDICTION FOR THE END OF THEYEAR41LoVE SoNG FOR FRIDAY's CHILD44FoR ANNE,WHO BRoUGHT TuLIPS49BALLAD OF MoTHER AND SoN50YEATS AND MAUD GoNNE53EMILY CARR55LETTER TO DoROTHY BAZETT56  \n# Acknowledgments\n\nI wish to thank the editors of ContemporaryVerse,Fiddlehead,Experiment,London Magazine,and Paris Review for permission to print poemsfirst appearing in these magazines.  \nW.W.","cbCaiesupDVioZ7z","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiesupDVioZ7z","pdf",3129025,64,"English","# Invocation\n## O My Poor Darling\n## The White Bird\n## And Should She Ask\n## An Admiration for Dylan Thomas\n## A Contempt for Dylan Thomas\n## Graveyard on a Cliff of White Sand\n## Love Song\n## Ghosts\n## The Pearl\n## To the Shadbolts, with Six Quinces from Duncan\n## Song for St. Lucy's Night\n## Orpheus and Eurydice\n## Tarquin\n## Lines for Elsie Jack\n## Queen of Tarts\n## The Juniper Tree\n## A Curse of Dahlias\n## Of Hendrickje as Bathsheba\n## Lines: I Praise God's Mankind in an Old Woman\n## The Windy 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