Denise Levertov's Poetry, by popularity

• The Springtime

  The red eyes of rabbits
  aren't sad. No one passes

  19 lines
• Partial Resemblance

  A doll's hair concealing
  an eggshell skull delicately

  21 lines
• Prisoners

  Though the road turn at last
  to death’s ordinary door,

  41 lines
• To Live In The Mercy Of God

  To lie back under the tallest
  oldest trees. How far the stems

  56 lines
• Song For Ishtar

  The moon is a sow
  and grunts in my throat

  18 lines
• News Report, September 1991

  U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF WAR
  

  89 lines
• Matins

  
  The authentic! Shadows of it

  145 lines
• Clouds

  The clouds as I see them, rising
  urgently, roseate in the

  52 lines
• A Map Of The Western Part Of The County Of Essex In England

  Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathers
  and mothers came from Cordova and Vitepsk and Caernarvon,

  41 lines
• Eros

  The flowerlike
  animal perfume

  24 lines
• Hypocrite Women

  Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
  of our own doubts, while dubiously

  32 lines
• In California: Morning, Evening, Late January

  Pale, then enkindled,
  light

  84 lines
• A Time Past

  The old wooden steps to the front door
  where I was sitting that fall morning

  35 lines
• February Evening In New York

  As the stores close, a winter light
      opens air to iris blue,

  22 lines
• The Garden Wall

  Bricks of the wall,
  so much older than the house -

  26 lines
• Caedmon

  All others talked as if
  talk were a dance.

  32 lines
• The Dog Of Art

  That dog with daisies for eyes
  who flashes forth

  14 lines
• To The Reader

  As you read, a white bear leisurely
  pees, dyeing the snow

  11 lines
• Goodbye To Tolerance

  Genial poets, pink-faced
  earnest wits—

  49 lines
• Triple Feature

  Innocent decision: to enjoy.
  And the pathos

  16 lines
• The Rainwalkers

  An old man whose black face
  shines golden-brown as wet pebbles

  21 lines
• The Elves

  Elves are no smaller
  than men, and walk

  13 lines
• Wanting The Moon

  Not the moon. A flower
  on the other side of the water.

  27 lines
• 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
• St. Peter And The Angel

  Delivered out of raw continual pain,
  smell of darkness, groans of those others

  28 lines
• Zeroing In

  "I am a landscape," he said.
  "a landscape and a person walking in that landscape.

  36 lines
• Talking To Grief

  Ah, Grief, I should not treat you
  like a homeless dog

  23 lines
• To The Snake

  Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck
  and stroked your cold, pulsing throat

  17 lines
• Settling

  I was welcomed here—clear gold
  of late summer, of opening autumn,

  15 lines
• The Great Black Heron

  Since I stroll in the woods more often
  than on this frequented path, it's usually

  26 lines

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