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By Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Set with raindrops, displayedbetween the king’s mantle and the litchi tree,was the cobweb I almost walked...
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One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
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