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	Euripides 2: Hippolytus/Suppliant Women/Helen/Electra/Cyclops by John Frederick Nims, Rachel Hadas, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Harper Anthology of Poetry 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems (Phoenix Series) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sappho to Valéry: Poems in Translation 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1971 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems (New Directions Paperbook, 700) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poems of Michelangelo 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Powers of Heaven and Earth: New and Selected Poems 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zany in Denim 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Local Habitation: Essays on Poetry (Poets on Poetry 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knowedge of the Evening; Poems, 1950-1960 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Be with me, darling, early and late. Smash glasses—
I will study wry music for your sake.
For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.”
― John Frederick Nims

tags: flowers-in-the-attic, john-frederick-nims, love-poem

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“Some people imagine that rhyme interferes with the rational processes of thought by obliging us to distort what we originally had in mind. But are rational processes so important? In many of us, even in poets, they can be dull and predictable. An interruption, a few detours and unexpected turns, might make a trip with them less routine. The necessity of finding a rhyme may jolt the mind out of its ruts, force it to turn wildly across the fields in some more exhilarating direction. Force it out of the world of reason into the world of mystery, magic, and imagination, in which relationships between sounds may be as exciting as a Great Idea.”
― John Frederick Nims and David Mason

tags: poetry, rhyme, rhymes, rime-of-the-ancient-mariner, western-wind, writing, writing-poetry

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“It’s brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief.
Delight’s the lightning; the long thunder’s grief.

— John Frederick Nims, “Days of Our Years,” Selected Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 1982)”
― John Frederick Nims, Selected Poems

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