"Only
With words and people and love you move at ease."
John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (l. 13-14). . .
How Does a Poem Mean? John Ciardi and Miller Williams, eds. (2d ed., 1975) Houghton Mifflin Company. |
"The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The drunk clambering on his undulant floor."
John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (l. 6-8). . .
How Does a Poem Mean? John Ciardi and Miller Williams, eds. (2d ed., 1975) Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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