Classic and Contemporary Poets

DENISE LEVERTOV

Poems found: 1038

SOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD

IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL

ST. PETER AND THE ANGEL

THE BROKEN SANDAL

THE GREAT BLACK HERON

THE M??TIER OF BLOSSOMING

WHEN WE LOOK UP

A CURE OF SOULS

A MAP OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX IN ENGLAND

A RING OF CHANGES

A STRAW SWAN UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE

AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NOVEMBER 15, 1969

EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL

FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK

GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE

LEAVING FOREVER

IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY

LIVING WITH A PAINTING

PARTIAL RESEMBLANCE

PSYCHE IN SOMERVILLE

SEEMS LIKE WE MUST BE SOMEWHERE ELSE

SOMEBODY TRYING

THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE

THE WEALTH OF THE DESTITUTE

TO LIVE IN THE MERCY OF GOD

TO R.D., MARCH 4TH 1988

WHAT MY HOUSE WOULD BE LIKE IF IT WERE A PERSON

TALKING TO GRIEF

A HUNDRED A DAY

ANCIENT AIRS AND DANCES

ANOTHER REVENANT

BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE

CANDLES IN BABYLON

DON'T YOU HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWIN' ...

DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 1. WHEN WE LOOK UP

DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT

EARLIEST SPRING

EROS AT TEMPLE STREAM

FRAGRANCE OF LIFE, ODOR OF DEATH

IN PRAISE OF ALLIUM

IN THAI BINH (PEACE) PROVINCE

MAN WEARING BIRD

MEETING THE FERRET

MIDNIGHT GLADNESS

NEWS REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1991 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF

ON A THEME BY THOMAS MERTON

OVERHEARD OVER S.E. ASIA

PEOPLE AT NIGHT (DERIVED FROM RILKE)

POET AND PERSON

SANDS OF THE WELL

SEEING FOR A MOMENT

SPRING IN THE LOWLANDS

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

THE CABBAGE FIELD

THE DAY THE AUDIENCE WALKED OUT ON ME, AND WHY

THE DEAD BUTTERFLY

THE GYPSY'S WINDOW

THE MALICE OF INNOCENCE

THE POEM UNWRITTEN

THE POSTCARDS: A TRIPTYCH

THE SUN GOING DOWN UPON OUR WRATH

THINKING ABOUT PAUL CELAN

TO ONE STEEPED IN BITTERNESS

VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE

WATCHING 'DARK CIRCLE'

WAYS OF CONQUEST

COME INTO ANIMAL PRESENCE

THE ACHE OF MARRIAGE

I LEARNED THAT HER NAME WAS PROVERB'

A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS

FLICKERING MIND

GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL

HYPOCRITE WOMEN

ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTORS

IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR

O TASTE AND SEE

ON A THEME FROM JULIAN'S CHAPTER 20

SALVATOR MUNDI: VIA CRUCIS

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE PEPPERTREES

SONG FOR ISHTAR

STEPPING WESTWARD

TENEBRAE (FALL OF 1967)

THE DRAGONFLY-MOTHER

THE JACOB'S LADDER

THOSE WHO WANT OUT

WHAT WERE THEY LIKE

WRITING IN THE DARK

AGAIN THAT OTHER

ARE WE RULED BY THE WIND

COME INTO ANIMAL PRESENCE

IN TONGA THE SACRED BATS

ACHE OF MARRIAGE

MOUNTAIN'S DAILY SPEECH IS SILENCE

TOO EASY: TO WRITE OF MIRACLES

WHAT WILD DAWNS THERE WERE

WHERE IS THE ANGEL FOR ME TO WRESTLE?

WITH EYES AT THE BACK OF OUR HEADS

... ELSE A GREAT PRINCE IN PRISON LIES'

...THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING'

ELLE EST DEBROUILLARDE'

I LEARNED THAT HER NAME WAS PROVERB'

IN WHOM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING'

POEM RISING BY ITS OWN WEIGHT'

3 A.M., SEPTEMBER 1, 1969

COMMON GROUND, SELS

DARK SUMMER DAY

DEFEAT IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS

DOORKEY FOR CORDOVA

LETTER TO MAREK ABOUT A PHOTOGRAPH

LITTLE VISIT TO DOVES AND CHICKENS

LOOK AT THE NIGHT (TEMPLE, EARLY '60S)

MAP OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX IN ENGLAND

MARIGOLD FROM NORTH VIETNAM

MYSTERY (OAXACA, MEXICO)

PILGRIM DREAMING

PLACE OF KINDNESS

POEM AT CHRISTMAS, 1972, DURING THE TERROR-BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM

PSALM PRAISING THE HAIR OF MAN'S BODY

SONG OF DEGREES

SPEECH: FOR ANTIDRAFT RALLY, D.C., MARCH 22, 1980

STONE FROM IONA

TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS

WOMAN MEETS AN OLD LOVER

WOMAN PACING HER ROOM, READING A LETTER, RETURNING AGAIN AND ....

YOUNG MAN TRAVELLING

ABOUT POLITICAL ACTION IN WHICH EACH INDIVIDUAL ACTS FROM THE HEART

ADAM'S COMPLAINT

ADVISING MYSELF

AGAINST INTRUSION

AIRSHOW PRACTICE

ALICE TRANSFIXED

ALIENATION IN SILICON VALLEY

ARRIVAL (NORTH WALES, 1897)

EMBROIDERY (IV) SWISS CHEESE

ENGLISH FIELD IN THE NUCLEAR AGE

OLD FRIEND'S SELF PORTRAIT

ANAMNESIS AT THE FAULTLINE

ANCIENT AIRS AND DANCES

ANCIENT STAIRWAY

ANOTHER JOURNEY

ANOTHER REVENANT

ARTIST TO INTELLECTUAL (POET TO EXPLAINER)

AS THE MOON WAS WANING

AT DAVID'S GRAVE

AT THE MASS AVE POETRY HAWKERS' READING

AUGUST DAYBREAK

AUGUST HOUSEPLANT

BEARING THE LIGHT

BEYOND THE FIELD

BLAKE'S BAPTISMAL FONT

BULLFROGS TO FIREFLIES TO MOTHS

BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE

CANDLES IN BABYLON

CHANT: SUNSET, SOMERVILLE, LATE FALL '75

CHEKHOV ON THE WEST HEATH

CHILDHOOD'S END

CLOUD POEMS: 1. THE CLOUD

CLOUD POEMS: 2. THE RECOLLECTION

CLOUD POEMS: 3. THE CUTTING-BEAM

COMPLAINT AND REJOINDER

CONSULTING THE ORACLE

CONTRASTING GESTURES

CONVERSATION IN MOSCOW

CONVERSION OF BROTHER LAWRENCE

CREATURE TO CREATURE

DEATH IN MEXICO

DEATH PSALM: O LORD OF MYSTERIES

DEATHLY DIVERSIONS

DECEMBER VENICE

DESCENDING SEQUENCE

DOM HELDER CAMARA AT THE NUCLEAR TEST SITE

DON'T YOU HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWIN' ...

DRAGON OF REVOLUTIONARY LOVE

DREAM INSTRUCTION

DREAM: CHATEAU DE GALAIS

DURING A SON'S DANGEROUS ILLNESS

DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 1. WHEN WE LOOK UP

DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 2. THE PEACHTREE

DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT

DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT

DWELLERS AT THE HERMITAGE

EARLIEST SPRING

EL SALVADOR: REQUIEM AND INVOCATION

EMBRACING THE MULTIPEDE: 1. EMBRACING THE MULTIPEDE

EMBRACING THE MULTIPEDE: 2. QUESTIONING THE CREATURE

EMBRACING THE MULTIPEDE: 3. PONDERING THE CREATURE

EMBRACING THE MULTIPEDE: 4. CREATURE ABSENT: AN UNDERPASS

ENTERING ANOTHER CHAPTER

ENTR'ACT: AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NOVEMBER 15, 1969

ENTR'ACTE: 'LET US SING UNTO THE LORD A NEW SONG'

ENTRE LOUP ET CHIEN

EROS AT TEMPLE STREAM

EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL

EYES AND NO-EYES

FEBRUARY EVENING IN BOSTON, 1971

FEBRUARY EVENINING IN NEW YORK

FELLOW PASSENGERS

FLICKERING MIND

FLOWERS BEFORE DARK

FLOWERS OF SOPHIA

FOLDING A SHIRT

FOR CHILE, 1977

FOR NIKOLAI, MANY THOUSAND MILES AWAY

FOR PAUL AND SALLY GOODMAN

FOR STEVE BLEVINS

FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1981

FOR THOSE WHOM THE GODS LOVE LESS

FOREST ALTAR, SEPTEMBER

FRAGRANCE OF LIFE, ODOR OF DEATH

FROM THE IMAGE-FLOW - DEATH OF CHAUSSON, 1899

FROM THE IMAGE-FLOW - SOUTH AFRICA 1986

FROM THE IMAGE-FLOW - SUMMER OF 1986

FROM THE TRAIN, EASTWARD

GOETHE'S BLUES: 1

GOETHE'S BLUES: 2

GOETHE'S BLUES: 3

GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE

GREETING TO THE VIETNAMESE DELEGATES TO THE U.N.

GROWTH OF A POET

HE-WHO-CAME-FORTH

HEIGHTS, DEPTHS, SILENCE, UNCEASING SOUND OF THE SURF

HIDDEN MONSTERS AT THE MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, A FOUND POEM

HOLIDAY: 1. POSTCARD

HOLIDAY: 2. MEETING AGAIN

HOLIDAY: 3. TO EROS

HOLIDAY: 4. LOVE LETTER

HOLIDAY: 5. POSTCARD

HUNTING THE PHOENIX

HYMNS TO DARKNESS

HYPOCRITE WOMEN

IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL

ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTORS

IMPROBABLE TRUTH

IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR

IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY

IN MEMORY OF MURIEL RUKEYSER

IN MEMORY: AFTER A FRIEND'S SUDDEN DEATH

IN PRAISE OF ALLIUM

IN THAI BINH (PEACE) PROVINCE

IN THE LAND OF SHINAR

IT SHOULD BE VISIBLE

KNOWING THE UNKNOWN

KNOWING THE WAY

L'ETE SE CLOT, SELS.

LAND OF DEATH-SQUADS

LAST NIGHT'S DREAM

LAYING THE DUST

LETTER TO A FRIEND

LIFE IN THE FOREST

LIFE IS NOT A WALK ACROSS A FIELD

LIKE LOVING CHEKHOV

LIKE NOAH'S RAINBOW

LISTENING TO DISTANT GUNS

LIVING ALONE: 1

LIVING ALONE: 2

LIVING ALONE: 3

LIVING WITH A PAINTING

LOOKING THROUGH

LOOKING, WALKING, BEING

LOVERS II: REMINDER

MAN WEARING BIRD

MARTA (BRAZIL, 1928)

MASS FOR THE DAY OF ST. THOMAS DIDYMUS: 1. KYRIE

MASS FOR THE DAY OF ST. THOMAS DIDYMUS: 2. GLORIA

MASS FOR THE DAY OF ST. THOMAS DIDYMUS: 3. CREDO

MASS FOR THE DAY OF ST. THOMAS DIDYMUS: 4. SANCTUS

MASS FOR THE DAY OF ST. THOMAS DIDYMUS: 5. BENEDICTUS

MASS FOR THE DAY OF ST. THOMAS DIDYMUS: 6. AGNUS DEI

MASS OF THE MOON ECLIPSE

MAY OUR RIGHT HANDS LOSE THEIR CUNNING

MEETING THE FERRET

MEMORIES OF JOHN KEATS

MERRITT PARKWAY

METAMORPHIC JOURNAL

MID-AMERICAN TRAGEDY

MIDNIGHT GLADNESS

MISSING BEATRICE

MYOPIC BIRDWATCHER

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MAY'S PAST PERFECT

NATIVITY: AN ALTARPIECE

NEW ITEMS: 1. AMERICA THE BOUNTIFUL

NEW ITEMS: 2. IN THE RIDDLE

NEW YEAR'S GARLAND FOR MY STUDENTS

NEWS REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1991 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF

NIGHTINGALE ROAD

NOBLESSE OBLIGE

O TASTE AND SEE

OBSTINATE FAITH

OCTOBER MOONRISE

OLD PEOPLE DOZING

ON A THEME BY THOMAS MERTON

ON A THEME FROM JULIAN'S CHAPTER 20

ON BELIEF IN THE PHYSICAL RESURRECTION OF JESUS

ON THE 32ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

ON THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION

ON THE PARABLES OF THE MUSTARD SEED

ONE DECEMBER NIGHT

OVERHEARD OVER S.E. ASIA

OVERLAND TO THE ISALNDS

PARTIAL RESEMBLANCE

PEOPLE AT NIGHT (DERIVED FROM RILKE)

PERHAPS NO POEM BUT ALL I CAN SAY AND I CANNOT BE SILENT

PHOTO TORN FROM THE TIMES

POET AND PERSON

POETICS OF FAITH

POPLAR IN SPRING

PORTRAIT OF A MAN

PRAISE OF A PALMTREE

PRAYER FOR REVOLUTIONARY LOVE

PROLOGUE: AN INTERIM

PROTESTING AT THE NUCLEAR TEST SITE

PSALM CONCERNING THE CASTLE

PSALM FRAGMENTS (SCHNITTKE STRING TRIO)

PSALM: PEOPLE POWER AT THE DIE-IN (1)

PSALM: PEOPLE POWER AT THE DIE-IN (2)

PSYCHE IN SOMERVILLE

RAGE AND RELENTING

RAIN SPIRIT PASSING

RAINBOW WEATHER

RELEARNING THE ALPHABET

REPRESENTATIONS: ALLELUIA

REPRESENTATIONS: DAYBREAK

REPRESENTATIONS: IN PRIVATE

REPRESENTATIONS: MALE VOICE CHOIR

REPRESENTATIONS: MOONGAZE

REPRESENTATIONS: PILGRIMS

REPRESENTATIONS: SEEING THE UNSEEN

REPRESENTATIONS: STATION OF SOLITUDE

REPRESENTATIONS: TIME RETREIVED

SALVATOR MUNDI: VIA CRUCIS

SANDS OF THE WELL

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE PEPPERTREES

SCORNFUL REPRIEVE

SECOND DIDACTIC POEM

SECRET DIVERSION

SECRET FESTIVAL; SEPTEMBER MOON

SEEING FOR A MOMENT

SEEMS LIKE WE MUST BE SOMEWHERE ELSE

SETH THOMAS: A LOVE POEM

SHE AND THE MUSE

SHE WEPT AND THE WOMEN CONSOLED HER

SHEEP IN THE WEEDS

SOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD

SOMEBODY TRYING

SONG FOR ISHTAR

SOUND OF THE AXE

SOUTINE (TWO PAINTINGS)

SOUVENIR D'AMITIE

SPRING IN THE LOWLANDS

ST. PETER AND THE ANGEL

ST. THOMAS DIDYMUS

STAYING ALIVE, SELS.

STAYING ALIVE: 2. GANDHI'S GUN (AND BRECHT'S VOW)

STELE (I-II C. B.C.)

STEPPING WESTWARD

SUN, MOON, AND STONES

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

SUNDOWN SENTENCES

SWAN IN FALLING SNOW

SWAN THAT SINGS AND

TALK IN THE DARK

TALKING TO GRIEF

TALKING TO ONESELF

TENEBRAE (FALL OF 1967)

6:30 BUS, LATE MAY

ALTARS IN THE STREET

ART OF THE OCTOPUS: VARIATIONS ON A FOUND THEME

BEGINNING OF WISDOM

BLIND MAN'S HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF

BLUE RIM OF MEMORY

BOOK WITHOUT WORDS

CABDRIVER'S SMILE

DAY LONGS FOR THE EVENING

DAY THE AUDIENCE WALKED OUT ON ME, AND WHY

DRAGONFLY-MOTHER

EARTHWOMAN AND THE WATERWOMAN

FOUR ALARM CLOCKS

FREEING OF THE DUST

GAZE SALUTES LYONEL FEININGER WHILE CROSSING ...

GLITTERING NOISE

GREAT BLACK HERON

HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE, WANDERS AGAIN

LAST HEAVY FAIRYTALE, IN WHICH ONE LAYS ONE'S HEART ...

LOVE OF MORNING

MALICE OF INNOCENCE

METIER OF BLOSSOMING

MOCKINGBIRD OF MOCKINGBIRDS

MOUNTAIN ASSAILED

MYRIAD PAST, IT ENTERS US AND DISAPPEARS ...

MYSTERY OF DEEP CANDOR

NEWS AND A GREEN MOON. JULY 1994

POET LI PO ADMIRING A WATERFALL

POET'S LATE AUTUMN

POSTCARDS: A TRIPTYCH

QUALITY OF GENIUS

SCULPTOR (HOMAGE TO CHILLIDA)

SEA'S REPEATED GESTURE

SERVANT-GIRL AT EMMAUS (A PAINTING BY VELAZQUEZ)

SHOWINGS: LADY JULIAN OF NORWICH, 1342-1416

SPIRITS APPEASED

STONECARVER'S POEM

STRICKEN CHILDREN

SUN GOING DOWN UPON OUR WRATH

THIRD DIMENSION

VRON WOODS (NORTH WALES)

WEALTH OF THE DESTITUTE

WILLOWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

THINKING ABOUT EL SALVADOR

THINKING ABOUT PAUL CELAN

THIRD HYPOTHESIS ON THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES

THOSE WHO WANT OUT

THREE MEDITATIONS: 1

THREE MEDITATIONS: 2

THREE MEDITATIONS: 3

TIME FOR RIVETS

TIME TO BREATHE

TO ANTONIO MACHADO

TO KEVIN O'LEARY, WHEREVER HE IS

TO LIVE IN THE MERCY OF GOD

TO ONE STEEPED IN BITTERNESS

TO R. D., MARCH 4TH 1988

TO THE MORTON BAY FIGTREE, AUSTRALIA, A TREE-GOD

TOO MUCH TO HOPE

TWO THARENODIES AND A PSALM

TWO VARIATIONS: ENQUIRY

TWO VARIATIONS: THE SEEING

UNCERTAIN ONEIROMANCY

UNDER A BLUE STAR

VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE

VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE

VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE (1)

VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE (3)

VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE (THE BOOK OF HOURS, BK I, 1)

VENERABLE OPTIMIST

VISITATION. OVERFLOW

WANDERER'S DAYSONG

WANTING THE MOON (I)

WANTING THE MOON (II)

WAVING TO THE DEVIL

WAYS OF CONQUEST

WHAT GOES UNSAID

WHAT HARBINGER?

WHAT IT COULD BE

WHAT MY HOUSE WOULD BE LIKE IF IT WERE A PERSON

WHAT ONE RECEIVES FROM LIVING CLOSE TO A LAKE

WHAT SHE COULD NOT TELL HIM

WHAT THE FIGTREE SAID

WHAT TIME IS MADE FROM

WHAT WERE THEY LIKE

WILLIAMS: AN ESSAY

WINGS IN THE PEDLAR'S PACK

WINTER AFTERNOONS IN THE V. &A., PRE-W.W.II

WITNESS: INCOMMUNICADO

WITNESSING FROM AFAR THE NEW ESCALATION OF SAVAGE POWER

WRITER AND READER

WRITING IN THE DARK

WRITING TO AARON

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