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

poet Robinson Jeffers
#113 on top 500 poets

Poems of Robinson Jeffers

101. The Cruel Falcon 4/12/2010
102. The Cycle 4/12/2010
103. The Day Is A Poem (September 19, 1939) 4/12/2010
104. The Dead To Clemenceau: 4/12/2010
105. The Deer Lay Down Their Bones 1/13/2003
106. The Epic Stars 1/13/2003
107. The Excesses Of God 1/13/2003
108. The Eye 1/13/2003
109. The Giant’s Ring 4/12/2010
110. The Great Explosion 1/13/2003
111. The Great Sunset 4/12/2010
112. The Loving Shepherdess 4/12/2010
113. The Low Sky 4/12/2010
114. The Machine 1/13/2003
115. The Maid's Thought 1/13/2003
116. The Old Man’s Dream After He Died 4/12/2010
117. The Place For No Story 4/12/2010
118. The Purse-Seine 1/13/2003
119. The Silent Shepherds 1/13/2003
120. The Songs Of The Dead Men To The Three Dancers 4/12/2010

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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