The Avowal (Denise Levertov Poem)
As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air ...
As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down here in an iron car On a long cable; here ...
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is ...
I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, ...
The ancient oaks long losing their leaves their branches shattered the bark bled away the wood underneath turning like ivory ...
The hawks in the deeper woods, somewhere else after the storm the snow new-fallen, heavy snow on their branch high ...
1 Searock his tower above the sea, Searock he built, not ivory. Searock as well his haunted art Who gave ...
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
Pan came out of the woods one day,-- His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, The gray ...
I wake and hearing it raining. Were I dead, what would I give Lazily to lie here, Like this, and ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
I He wakes in darkness. All around are sounds of stones shifting, locks unlocking. As if some one had lifted ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating ...
THERE was a lass, and she was fair, At kirk or market to be seen; When a' our fairest maids ...
Chorus.-MY lady's gown, there's gairs upon't, And gowden flowers sae rare upon't; But Jenny's jimps and jirkinet, My lord thinks ...
A monosyllabic European called Sax Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted Brazen clarinet, but with its ...
There's never a stone at the sleeper's head, There's never a fence beside, And the wandering stock on the grave ...
Filaments of light slant like windswept rain. The orange seller hawks into the sky, a man with a hat stops ...
"I've been where it hurts." the Kid He becomes Sierra Kid I passed Slimgullion, Morgan Mine, Camp Seco, and the ...
The moon's a brass-hooped water-keg, A wondrous water-feast. If I could climb the ridge and drink And give drink to ...
"Order A. P. Hill to prepare for battle." "Tell Major Hawks to advance the Commissary train." "Let us cross the ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray That o'er the general leafage boldly grew, He summ'd the woods in song; ...
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