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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LA FLOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet's Biography
First Line: I had been reading what you have written of your idleness
Last Line: I have imagined of any living thing -- which is now manifest.
Subject(s): Flowers; Writing & Writers
First Line: I had been reading what you have written of your idleness
Last Line: I have imagined of any living thing -- which is now manifest.
Subject(s): Flowers; Writing & Writers
I had been reading what you have written of your idleness,
When I came upon certain worthier selections
From the month's work of our industrious versifiers --
Those who bring their ingenious tapestries to such soft perfection,
Borrowing majesty from a true likeness to natural splendor:
Tracery of branches etched upon a cold sky, a leaf, a flower.
"But what," I then said to myself, "of him who goes,
"Himself surpassing flowers, a flower in that peculiar way which the choice
follows?"
For certainly they take their daring in words carrying splendor,
And certainly his verse is crimson when they speak of the rose.
So I come deliberately to the most exquisite praise
I have imagined of any living thing -- which is now manifest.
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MY LIFE: ONE BEGINS AS A STUDENT BUT BECOMES A FRIEND OF CLOUDS by LYN HEJINIAN
THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN
OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN
WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD
COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD
DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL
LET THEM ALONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS
ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS