Apology For Bad Dreams (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
IIn the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward,Headlong convexities of forest, drawn in together to the steepravine. ...
Robinson Jeffers Poems on People (21 Poems)
A Redeemer (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
The road had steepened and the sun sharpened on the highridges; the stream probably was dry,Certainly not to be come ...
Ascent To The Sierras (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive risingBegins to possess the ground, the flatness gathersto little humps andbarrows, low aimless ...
Birth-Dues (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merelycontemptible, the dangledCarrot the ass follows to market or precipice;But limitary ...
Contrast (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, buthere is the shore of the one ocean.And here the heavy future hangs ...
Carmel Point (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
The extraordinary patience of things!This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-How beautiful when we first beheld it,Unbroken ...
Ave Caesar (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
No bitterness: our ancestors did it.They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.Their children will learn ...
The Bird With The Dark Plumes (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The bird with the dark plumes in my blood, That never for one moment however I patched my truces Consented ...
Ascent To The Sierras (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising Begins to possess the ground, the flatness gathers to little humps and ...
Meditation On Saviors (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
On Building With Stone (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother Like swarthy Cheops, but my own hands For only slaves, ...
Ghost (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
There is a jaggle of masonry here, on a small hill Above the gray-mouthed Pacific, cottages and a thick-walled tower, ...
Birth-Dues (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely contemptible, the dangled Carrot the ass follows to market or ...
Wise Men In Their Bad Hours (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Wise men in their bad hours have envied The little people making merry like grasshoppers In spots of sunlight, hardly ...
Contrast (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, but here is the shore of the one ocean. And here the heavy ...
The Broken Balance (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
Ave Caesar (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
No bitterness: our ancestors did it. They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too. Their children ...
Cassandra (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Hooked in the stones of the wall, The storm-wrack ...
Carmel Point (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses- How beautiful when we first ...
Be Angry At The Sun (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has ...
Hurt Hawks (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, ...