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The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

Alfred Noyes

English Poet

Born: Sep 16, 1880

Died: Jun 28, 1958

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Moon, Ghostly, Tossed, Cloudy, Seas

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Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth

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