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Denise Levertov's Poetry, by first line

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  • Looking, Walking, Being
    "The World is not something to
    look at, it is something to be in."
    24 lines
  • Losing Track
    Long after you have swung back
    away from me
    18 lines
  • The Secret
    Two girls discover
    the secret of life
    36 lines
  • The Great Black Heron
    Since I stroll in the woods more often
    than on this frequented path, it's usually
    26 lines
  • September 1961
    This is the year the old ones,
    the old great ones
    46 lines
  • In Mind
    There's in my mind a woman
    of innocence, unadorned but
    17 lines
  • Aware
    When I found the door
    I found the vine leaves
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • The Rainwalkers
    An old man whose black face
    shines golden-brown as wet pebbles
    21 lines
  • Web
    Intricate and untraceable
    weaving and interweaving,
    14 lines
  • Triple Feature
    Innocent decision: to enjoy.
    And the pathos
    16 lines
  • Settling
    I was welcomed here—clear gold
    of late summer, of opening autumn,
    15 lines
  • Intrusion
    After I had cut off my hands
    and grown new ones
    8 lines
  • Zeroing In
    "I am a landscape," he said.
    "a landscape and a person walking in that landscape.
    36 lines
  • Celebration
    Brilliant, this day – a young virtuoso of a day.
    Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors,
    14 lines
  • Hymn To Eros
    O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me.
    Let the shadow of thy wings
    23 lines
  • The Quest
    High, hollowed in green
    above the rocks of reason
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • The Sea's Wash In The Hollow Of The Heart...
    Turn from that road's beguiling ease; return
    to your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stair
    16 lines
  • Adam's Complaint
    Some people,
    no matter what you give them,
    16 lines
  • An Embroidery
    Rose Red's hair is brown as fur
    and shines in firelight as she prepares
    43 lines, 1 comment
  • Pleasures
    I like to find
    what's not found
    24 lines
  • The Avowal
    As swimmers dare
    to lie face to the sky
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Bearing The Light
    Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears the
    0 lines
  • What Were They Like?
    Did the people of Viet Nam
    use lanterns of stone?
    31 lines, 12 comments
  • The Breathing
    An absolute
    patience.
    20 lines
  • Contraband
    The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason.
    That's why the taste of it
    24 lines
  • The Elves
    Elves are no smaller
    than men, and walk
    13 lines
  • Everything That Acts Is Actual
    From the tawny light
    from the rainy nights
    32 lines
  • The Garden Wall
    Bricks of the wall,
    so much older than the house -
    26 lines
  • Grey Sparrow Addresses The Mind's Ear
    In the Japanese tongue of the mind's eye one two syllable word tells of the fringe of rain clinging to the eaves and of the grey-green fronds of wild parsley.
    0 lines
  • The Mutes
    Those groans men use
    passing a woman on the street
    41 lines
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