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Numerous\n\t\t052\t1  There are things… \n\t\t060\t2   So spoke of the existence of things…\n\t\t064\t3   The emotions are engaged\n\t\t068\t4   For the people of that flow\n\t\t071\t5   The great stone\n\t\t075\t6   We are pressed\n\t\t078\t7   Obsessed, bewildered\n\t\t081\t8   Amor Fati\n\t\t085\t9   Whether, as the intensity of seeing increases\n\t\t090\t10  Or, in that light…\n\t\t096\t11  It is that light…\n\t\t108\t12  In these explanations\n\t\t115\t13  Unable to begin\n\t\t123\t14  I cannot even now…\n\t\t131\t15  Chorus (androgynous)…\n\t\t134\t16  He who will not work…\n\t\t139\t17  The roots of words…\n\t\t144\t18  It is the air of atrocity…\n\t\t146\t19  Now in the helicopters…\n\t\t150\t20  They await\n\t\t160\t21  There can be a brick\n\t\t163\t22  Clarity\n\t\t166\t23  Half free\n\t\t173\t24  In this nation\n\t\t175\t25  Strange that the youngest…\n\t\t182\t26  They carry nativeness\n\t\t210\t27  It is difficult now to speak of poetry  \n\t\t226\t28  The light\n\t\t229\t29  My daughter, my daughter, what can I say\n\t\t243\t30  Behind their house\n\t\t247\t31  Because the known and the unknown\n\t\t250\t32  Only that it should be beautiful\n\t\t257\t33  Which is ours, which is ourselves\n\t\t260\t34  Like the wind in the trees and the bells\n\t\t272\t35  … or define\n\t\t276\t36  Tho the world\n\t\t286\t37  ‘…approached the window as if to see…’\n\t\t297\t38  You are the last\n\t\t302\t39  Occuring neither for self…\n\t\t305\t40  Whitman: ‘April 19, 1864’\n\t\t316\t“Anyway but back”\n\t\t343\tEnds"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553734348804,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.173Z","score":5.019931}]