Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988)

poet Robert Duncan

Poems of Robert Duncan

1. A Little Language 4/17/2010
2. A Poem Beginning With A Line From Pindar 4/17/2010
3. An African Elegy 4/17/2010
4. Bending The Bow 4/17/2010
5. Childhood’s Retreat 4/17/2010
6. My Mother Would Be a Falconress 1/20/2003
7. Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow 1/20/2003
8. Passage Over Water 4/17/2010
9. Poetry, A Natural Thing 4/17/2010
10. Rites of Passage II 4/17/2010
11. Styx 4/17/2010
12. Such Is The Sickness Of Many A Good Thing 4/17/2010
13. The Song of the Borderguard 8/3/2003
14. What I Saw 4/17/2010

Poetry, A Natural Thing

Neither our vices nor our virtues
further the poem. “They came up
and died
just like they do every year
on the rocks.”

The poem
feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse,
to breed itself,

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