The Poet in America, 1650 to the PresentAlbert Gelpi |
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... wings , the storm of the wings . " -This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game . Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast , Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame . Does it matter whether you hate your ...
... wings , the storm of the wings . " -This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game . Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast , Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame . Does it matter whether you hate your ...
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... wings Lift agonized quittance , tilting from the invisible brink Now eagle - bright , now quarry - hid , twist- -ing , sink with Enormous repercussive list- -ings down 145 Giddily spiralled gauntlets , upturned , unlooping 34 In ...
... wings Lift agonized quittance , tilting from the invisible brink Now eagle - bright , now quarry - hid , twist- -ing , sink with Enormous repercussive list- -ings down 145 Giddily spiralled gauntlets , upturned , unlooping 34 In ...
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... wings of his fellow , and both in immortal danger of dwindling , of dropping into the remote forms of a lesser being . But as these angels , the only halted ones among the many who passed and repassed , trod air as swimmers tread water ...
... wings of his fellow , and both in immortal danger of dwindling , of dropping into the remote forms of a lesser being . But as these angels , the only halted ones among the many who passed and repassed , trod air as swimmers tread water ...
Contents
Anne Bradstreet 16121672 | 4 |
Philip Pain d 1668? | 11 |
from Preparatory Meditations First Series | 17 |
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¹The Allen Tate American poetry angels beat beauty bird blue breath bright burning Cantos Copyright dance dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth Edwin Arlington Robinson Eliot Emily Dickinson eyes Ezra Pound face fire flame flesh flower grass green hand Harvard head hear heart heaven Jeffers land leaves light live look Lord Lowell Marianne Moore mind moon morning mountain never night o'er poem poet Pound Reprinted by permission river Robert Lowell Robinson Jeffers rock rose round shadow shore silence sing sleep snow song soul sound spirit spring stand stars stone sweet T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought trees turn University Press verse voice W. D. Snodgrass walk waves Whitman William Carlos Williams William Everson Williams wind wings wood words York Yvor Winters