A Map Of The Western Part Of The County Of Essex In England (Denise Levertov Poems)
Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathersand mothers came from Cordova and Vitepsk and Caernarvon,and though I am a ...
Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathersand mothers came from Cordova and Vitepsk and Caernarvon,and though I am a ...
The clouds as I see them, risingurgently, roseate in themounting of somber powersurging in evening haste overroofs and hermeticgrim walls-Last ...
Genial poets, pink-facedearnest wits-you have given the worldsome choice morsels,gobbets of language presentedas one presents T-bone steakand Cherries Jubilee.Goodbye, goodbye,I ...
The old wooden steps to the front doorwhere I was sitting that fall morningwhen you came downstairs, just awake,and my ...
All others talked as iftalk were a dance.Clodhopper I, with clumsy feetwould break the gliding ring.Early I learned tohunch myselfclose ...
As the stores close, a winter lightopens air to iris blue,glint of frost through the smokegrains of mica, salt of ...
ii GloriaPraise the wet snowfalling early.Praise the shadowmy neighor's chimney casts on the tile roofeven this gray October day that ...
The flowerlikeanimal perfumein the god's curlyhair -don't assumethat like a flowerhis attributesare there to temptyou ordirect the moth'shunger -simply he ...
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears ...
In the Japanese tongue of the mind's eye one two syllable word tells of the fringe of rain clinging to ...
Intricate and untraceable weaving and interweaving, dark strand with light: designed, beyond all spiderly contrivance, to link, not to entrap: ...
Fully occupied with growing--that's the amaryllis. Growing especially at night: it would take only a bit more patience than I've ...
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over the line and slapping my ...
Let me be at the place of the castle. Let the castle be within me. Let it rise foursquare from ...
Innocent decision: to enjoy. And the pathos of hopefulness, of his solicitude: --he in mended serape, she having plaited carefully ...
iiGloria Praise the wet snow falling early. Praise the shadow my neighor's chimney casts on the tile roof even this ...
I was welcomed here-clear gold of late summer, of opening autumn, the dawn eagle sunning himself on the highest tree, ...
That dog with daisies for eyes who flashes forth flame of his very self at every bark is the Dog ...
Down through the tomb's inward arch He has shouldered out into Limbo to gather them, dazed, from dreamless slumber: the ...
We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a ...
At sixteen I believed the moonlight could change me if it would. I moved my head on the pillow, even ...
What is green in me darkens, muscadine. If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I ...
Delivered out of raw continual pain, smell of darkness, groans of those others to whom he was chained-- unchained, and ...
Elves are no smaller than men, and walk as men do, in this world, but with more grace than most, ...
As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie among ...
O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me. Let the shadow of thy wings brush me. Let thy presence enfold me, ...
Since I stroll in the woods more often than on this frequented path, it's usually trees I observe; but among ...
An old man whose black face shines golden-brown as wet pebbles under the streetlamp, is walking two mongrel dogs of ...
"Adam, where are you?" God's hands palpate darkness, the void that is Adam's inattention, his confused attention to everything, impassioned ...
"I am a landscape," he said, "a landscape and a person walking in that landscape. There are daunting cliffs there, ...
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