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"The self persists like a dying star,
In sleep, afraid."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 24-25). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"The whisky on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death;
Such waltzing was not easy."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. My Papa's Waltz (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"When I saw that clumsy crow
Flap from a wasted tree,
A shape in the mind rose up:"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Night Crow (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press. |
"Wheels shake the roadbed stone,
The pistons jerk and shove,
I stay up half the night
To see the land I love."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Night Journey (l. 24-27). . .
New Yorker Book of Poems, The. (1969) The Viking Press. (Paperback edition of 1974 published by William Morrow & Company). |
"Nothing would give up life;
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Root Cellar (l. 10-11). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch,
Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark,"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Root Cellar (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"But still the delicate slips keep coaxing up water;
The small cells bulge;
One nub of growth
Nudges a sand-crumb loose,"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. "Sticks-in-a-drowse droop over sugary loam," (l. 3-6). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Bat (l. 9-10). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press. |
"Is that dance slowing in the mind of man
That made him think the universe could hum?"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Dance (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
She slowed to sigh, in that long interval."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Dream (l. 17-18). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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