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Léonie Adams

  • “... that enchantment that I lightly took / Out of the lovely April is for ever.”

    • Léonie Adams,
    • "An Old Spell," Those Not Elect ()

  • “Never, my heart, is there enough of living ...”

    • Léonie Adams,
    • "Never Enough of Living," Those Not Elect ()

  • “... death's a cruel note, / Set in a mortal throat.”

    • Léonie Adams,
    • "Every Bird of Nature," High Falcon ()

Léonie Adams, U.S. poet

(1899 - 1988)