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"I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. In a Dark Time (l. 9-10). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. In a Dark Time (l. 23-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. In a Dark Time (l. 19-21). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. In a Dark Time (l. 17-18). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance?"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. In a Dark Time (l. 7-8). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"With these I would be.
And with water: the waves coming forward, without cessation,
The waves, altered by sand-bars, beds of kelp, miscellaneous
driftwood,
Topped by cross-winds, tugged at by sinuous undercurrents
The tide rustling in, sliding between the ridges of stone,
The tongues of water, creeping in, quietly."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 30-35). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"Over the low, barnacled, elephant-colored rocks,
Come the first tide-ripples, moving, almost without sound, toward
me,
Running along the narrow furrows of the shore, the rows of dead clam shells;"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 1-3). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"In the first of the moon,
All's a scattering,
A shining."
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 68-70). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"In this first heaven of knowing,
The flesh takes on the pure poise of the spirit,"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 37-38). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"Water's my will, and my way,
And the spirit runs, intermittently,
In and out of the small waves,"
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 63-65). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
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