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Theodore Roethke
(1908 - 1963 / Michigan / United States)
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27 poems of Theodore Roethke
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''The self persists like a dying star,
In sleep, afraid.''
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Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 24-25). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1...
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''The whisky on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death;
Such waltzing was not easy.''
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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 ...
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''When I saw that clumsy crow
Flap from a wasted tree,
A shape in the mind rose up:''
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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 Un...
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''Wheels shake the roadbed stone,
The pistons jerk and shove,
I stay up half the night
To see the land I love.''
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Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Night Journey (l. 24-27). . .
New Yorker Book of Poems, The. (1969) The Viking Press. (Paperback edition ...
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''Nothing would give up life;
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.''
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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...
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''Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch,
Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark,''
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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.,...
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''But still the delicate slips keep coaxing up water;
The small cells bulge;
One nub of growth
Nudges a sand-crumb loose,''
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Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. "Sticks-in-a-drowse droop over sugary loam," (l. 3-6). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richar...
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''For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.''
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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 Un...
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''Is that dance slowing in the mind of man
That made him think the universe could hum?''
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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. ...
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''Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
She slowed to sigh, in that long interval.''
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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.,...
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