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Richard Wilbur (March 1, 1921)
Poems of Richard Wilbur
| 1. | A Fable | 1/3/2003 |
| 2. | A Fire-Truck | 1/13/2003 |
| 3. | A Hole In The Floor | 1/13/2003 |
| 4. | A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness | 6/23/2003 |
| 5. | Advice to a Prophet | 1/3/2003 |
| 6. | Boy at the Window | 1/3/2003 |
| 7. | Epistemology | 8/12/2003 |
| 8. | Exeunt | 1/3/2003 |
| 9. | For K.R. on her Sixtieth Birthday | 1/3/2003 |
| 10. | Having Misidentified a Wild-Flower | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | In a Churchyard | 6/29/2003 |
| 12. | In the Smoking Car | 1/3/2003 |
| 13. | Juggler | 7/3/2003 |
| 14. | June Light | 1/20/2003 |
| 15. | Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World | 1/13/2003 |
| 16. | March 26, 1974 | 1/3/2003 |
| 17. | Matthew VIII,28 ff. | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | Museum Piece | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | Orchard Trees, January | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | Parable | 1/3/2003 |
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Advice to a Prophet
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,
Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,
Not proclaiming our fall but begging us
In God's name to have self-pity,
Spare us all word of the weapons, their force and range,
The long numbers that rocket the mind;
Our slow, unreckoning hearts will be left behind,
Unable to fear what is too strange.
