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''And you are here beside me, small,
Contained and fragile, and intent
On things that I but half recall—''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. At the San Francisco Airport (l. 6-8). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976...
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''The rain of matter upon sense
Destroys me momently. The score:
There comes what will come.''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. At the San Francisco Airport (l. 16-18). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (19...
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Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligen...
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. literary critic. In Defense of Reason, foreword (1960).
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''Metal, intrinsic value, deep and dense,
Preanimate, inimitable, still,
Real, but an evil with no human sense,
Dispersed the mind to concentrate the will.''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. John Sutter (l. 17-20). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford Univer...
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''What calm catastrophe will yet assuage
This final drouth of penitential tears?''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. John Sutter (l. 35-36). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford Univer...
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''By practice and conviction formed,
With ancient stubbornness ingrained,
Although her body clung and swarmed,
My own identity remained.''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (l. 21-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and ...
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''Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
Green as a bough of yew the beard;
He bent his head, and so I smote;''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (l. 1-3). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Ro...
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''And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. The Slow Pacific Swell (l. 26-28). . .
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''Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. The Slow Pacific Swell (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxfo...
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''The land is numb.
It stands beneath the feet, and one may come
Walking securely, till the sea extends
Its limber margin, and precision ends.''
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Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. The Slow Pacific Swell (l. 33-36). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Ox...
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