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 "title": "Poe",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Mina Loy",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
 "book_slug": null,
 "book_kind": "compilation",
 "sequence": null,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1921,
  "venue": "The Dial, vol. LXXI (October 1921), p. 406",
  "note": "Read on the page: the poem stands under the heading POE over the byline BY MINA LOY in the October 1921 number, and the running head over that page reads “406 POE”. The volume index for vol. LXXI lists two Loy items, Perlun and one more, though the OCR of that line is damaged. The text held here follows the 1923 Lunar Baedecker printing, not this one.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_dial_1921-10_71"
  ]
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  "repo": "standardebooks/mina-loy_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
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   "https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/17374476",
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_others-a-magazine-of-the-new-verse_1916-07_3_1/page/27",
   "https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/17390662",
   "https://archive.org/details/othersanantholo01kreygoog",
   "https://archive.org/details/cu31924022030351",
   "https://archive.org/details/littlereview07mcke/page/n199",
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_others-a-magazine-of-the-new-verse_1917-04_3_6",
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_dial_1921-06_70/page/672",
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_dial_1921-08_71/page/n15",
   "https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106010168349",
   "https://archive.org/details/contact-collection-of-contemporary-writers/page/137",
   "https://personal.colby.edu/~isadoff/map/loy.doc",
   "https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/digital_objects/211477",
   "https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/transatlantic/1/"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "a lyric elixir of death",
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   },
   {
    "text": "embalms",
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   },
   {
    "text": "the spindle spirits of your hour glass loves",
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   {
    "text": "on moon spun nights",
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   {
    "text": "sets",
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   {
    "text": "icicled canopy",
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   {
    "text": "for corpses of poesy",
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    "text": "with roses and northern lights",
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   {
    "text": "Where frozen nightingales in ilix aisles",
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   {
    "text": "sing burial rites",
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