Source of muse from the greats!

Alright so I just ended my other contest, and I somehow managed to end up with 300 points to spare
This contest will have little bits of poems/stories to get your sweet little musies flowing
The poems/bits of stories below serve as great inspiration and meaning to me, and I hope they prove to be the same way to you!

~~**Option 1**~~ Poems from the greats
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A) Mirror-Sylvia Plath

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful ‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
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B ) For An Unknown Lady-Dorothy Parker


Lady, if you'd slumber sound,
Keep your eyes upon the ground.
If you'd toss and turn at night,
Slip your glances left and right.
Would the mornings find you gay,
Never give your heart away.
Would they find you pale and sad,
Fling it to a whistling lad.
Ah, but when his pleadings burn,
Will you let my words return?
Will you lock your pretty lips,
And deny your finger-tips,
Veil away your tender eyes,
Just because some words were wise?
If he whistles low and clear
When the insistent moon is near
And the secret stars are known-
Will your heart be still your own
Just because some words were true? ...
Lady, I was told them, too!
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C) When I Heard the Learned Astronomer-Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide,
and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with
much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars
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~~**Option 2**~~ Bits from other stuff
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A) Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe-The Raven

B ) "Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 5

C) "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing.
You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be."
--Chapter 46- The Handmaid's Tale

D) "It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here.
And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or
thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of
hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their
hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 10

E) "It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
The the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me. "
Slyvia Plath's- I am Vertical
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Those are your options! Sorry if it was a lot of reading, I thought they were very meaningful though. Image was from google by the way. Now for a few rules..

RULES:
1)No epics please
2)Put Option number and letter in your A.N

SUGGESTIONS:
-I'll add at least a second place
-Put your name in the A.N if you would like for me to read more of your poetry, but I'll only base judging on your entry

Thats it! Hope I get some good stuff