Heaplit magazine's five greatest lines of poetry of all time

5: While you're still sleepin', the saints are still weepin' 'cause
Things you call dead haven't had the chance to be born
-William Blake
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4: On the edge of oblivion
All the world is Babylon
And all the love and ev'ryone
A ship of fools sailing on
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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3: Let's have a party there's a full moon in the sky 
It's the hour of the wolf and I don't want to die
-TS Eliot
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2: "I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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1: Walked in a gypsy's tent with a food stamp 
And walked out with a magical lamp, yeah 
I met Milenko, he gave me 3 wishes 
That night, I fucked 3 fat bitches 
-Emily Dickinson
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