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"All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Vigil (l. 77-78). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:
The word outleaps the world, and light is all."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Vigil (l. 95-96). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"A tree swayed overwater.
A voice said:
Stay. Stay by the slip-ooze. Stay."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Visitant (l. 2-4). . .
Poetry in English; an Anthology. M. L. Rosenthal, general ed. (1987) Oxford University Press. |
"Slow, slow, as a fish she came,
Slow as a fish coming forward,
Swaying in a long wave;
Her skirts not touching a leaf,
Her white arms reaching towards me."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Visitant (l. 10-14). . .
Poetry in English; an Anthology. M. L. Rosenthal, general ed. (1987) Oxford University Press. |
"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Waking (l. 16-19). . .
100 Poems by 100 Poets; an Anthology. Harold Pinter, Geoffrey Godbert, and Anthony Astbury, comps. (1986) Grove Press. |
"We think by feeling. What is there to know?"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Waking (l. 4). . .
100 Poems by 100 Poets; an Anthology. Harold Pinter, Geoffrey Godbert, and Anthony Astbury, comps. (1986) Grove Press. |
"I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing,
In my veins, in my bones I feel it,—
The small waters seeping upward,
The tight grains parting at last."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. "This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks," (l. 5-8). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"May you live out your life
Without hate, without grief
And your hair ever blaze,
In the sun, in the sun,
When I am undone,
When I am no one."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Wish for a Young Wife (l. 6-11). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press. |
"She sailed until the calm morning,
Carrying her full cargo of roses."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Big Wind (l. 32-33). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"But she rode it out,
That old rose-house,
She hove into the teeth of it,"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Big Wind (l. 21-23). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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