- 1. “Cowlicks, like fields of yellow corn/All the days of my week”
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Only a plagiarized Emily Dickinson poem could beat this! (From “Phoebe Cheats.”)
- 2. “However you may sweat to hold such darling wrecks/Hived like honey in your head”
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Sylvia Plath
From “Epitaph of Fire and Flower.”
- 3. “Oh so shamed, my Prometheus/Wandering the dismal deserts of my tormented soul”
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From when Helga thought she was dumb. AS IF. (From “The Aptitude Test.”)
- 4. “Farewell for now, Heroic Prince/Our yellow love chariot has arrived”
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Helga’s literary prowess knows no bounds. (From “The Little Pink Book.”)
- 5. “The stain of love Is upon the world/Yellow, yellow, yellow”
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William Carlos Williams
From “A Love Song.”
- 6. “Who need to think of love as a fixed sun/Impervious to our passing in and out of shade?”
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Lisel Mueller
From “Afterthoughts on the Lovers.”
- 7. “All my days have come to this/My secret heart, spent in one kiss”
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Remember when Helga slowly got rid of every understudy so she could play Juliet and kiss Arnold? Wasn’t that the best? (From “School Play.”)
- 8. “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!/I will touch a hundred flowers, and not pick one!”
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
From “Afternoon on a Hill.”
- 9. “If anyone asks, say it was forgotten, long long ago/As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed football in a long forgotten snow”
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Sara Teasdale
From “Song.”
- 10. “And, though it comes from a pretender/Not me, but Juliet, the sender”
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Shakespeare would be proud. (From “School Play.”)
- 11. “Gladly I go now to see to your delicious face/Sadly, I stash my passion deep”
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You Know, when she casually smushes bubblegum in the shape of her beloved’s head, NO BIG DEAL. (From “The Little Pink Book.”)
- 12. “Darling, all night/I have been flickering, off, on, off, on”
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Sylvia Plath
From “Fever 103°.”
- 13. “Some way I could whisper my secret adoring thoughts, so this fever’d brow’d/Dare I even think it?”
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The real tragedy is that Arnold never saw these poems. (From “School Play.”)
- 14. “Each morn, I see you bend to drink/From love’s own crystal pool”
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A little poem for when Arnold drinks from the water fountain. (From “Helga’s Love Potion.”)
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