An Artist (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and thenwas ...
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and thenwas ...
I.Here is the skull of a man: a man's thoughts and emotionsHave moved under the thin bone vault like cloudsUnder ...
Farther up the gorge the sea's voice fainted and ceased.We heard a new noise far away ahead of us, vague ...
The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrowhawks huntingon the headland,Hovering and darting, their heads northwestward,Prick like silver arrows ...
Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,The exuberant voices of music,Have charm for children but lack ...
It is likely enough that lions and scorpionsGuard the end; life never was bonded to be endurable nor theact of ...
It is good for strength not to be merciful To its own weakness, good for the deep urn to run ...
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
What's the best life for a man? --Never to have been born, sings the choros, and the next best Is ...
The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive life, not to take sides. Leave it for children, and ...
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is ...
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
The deer were bounding like blown leaves Under the smoke in front the roaring wave of the brush-fire; I thought ...
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze ...
Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where ...
This country least, but every inhabited country Is clotted with human anguish. Remember that at your feasts. And this is ...
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