(10 January 1887 – 20 January 1962 / Allegheny, Pennsylvania)

poet Robinson Jeffers
#119 on top 500 poets

Poems of Robinson Jeffers

41. Hurt Hawks 1/13/2003
42. Inscription For A Gravestone 4/12/2010
43. Intellectuals 4/12/2010
44. Iona: The Graves Of The Kings 4/12/2010
45. Joy 4/12/2010
46. July Fourth By The Ocean 1/13/2003
47. Let Them Alone 1/13/2003
48. Life From The Lifeless 4/12/2010
49. Love The Wild Swan 1/13/2003
50. Margrave 4/12/2010
51. Meditation On Saviors 1/13/2003
52. Natural Music 4/12/2010
53. New Mexican Mountain 4/12/2010
54. New Year’s Eve 4/12/2010
55. Night 4/12/2010
56. Night Without Sleep 4/12/2010
57. No Resurrection 4/12/2010
58. November Surf 4/12/2010
59. Now Returned Home 4/12/2010
60. On Building With Stone 1/13/2003

Fawn's Foster-Mother

The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels
With her meagre pale demoralized daughter.
Once when I passed I found her alone, laughing in the sun
And saying that when she was first married
She lived in the old farmhouse up Garapatas Canyon.
(It is empty now, the roof has fallen
But the log walls hang on the stone foundation; the redwoods
Have all been cut down, the oaks are standing;
The place is now more solitary than ever before.)

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