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Denise Levertov's Poetry, by title

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  • 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
  • A Time Past
    The old wooden steps to the front door
    where I was sitting that fall morning
    35 lines
  • A Tree Telling Of Orpheus
    White dawn. Stillness.      When the rippling began
        I took it for a sea-wind, coming to our valley wit
    172 lines, 4 comments
  • 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
  • Aware
    When I found the door
    I found the vine leaves
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • 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
  • Caedmon
    All others talked as if
    talk were a dance.
    32 lines
  • Celebration
    Brilliant, this day – a young virtuoso of a day.
    Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors,
    14 lines
  • Clouds
    The clouds as I see them, rising
    urgently, roseate in the
    52 lines
  • Contraband
    The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason.
    That's why the taste of it
    24 lines
  • Ein Baum Erzählt von Orpheus
    Weißer Tagesanbruch. Stille. Als das Kräuseln begann,
            hielt ich es für Seewind, in unser Tal kommend mit
    73 lines
  • Eros
    The flowerlike
    animal perfume
    24 lines
  • Everything That Acts Is Actual
    From the tawny light
    from the rainy nights
    32 lines
  • February Evening In New York
    As the stores close, a winter light
        opens air to iris blue,
    22 lines
  • From The Roof
    This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers
              animal vines twisting over the line
    37 lines
  • Goodbye To Tolerance
    Genial poets, pink-faced
    earnest wits—
    49 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
  • Hymn To Eros
    O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me.
    Let the shadow of thy wings
    23 lines
  • Hypocrite Women
    Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
    of our own doubts, while dubiously
    32 lines
  • Ikon: The Harrowing Of Hell
    Down through the tomb's inward arch
    He has shouldered out into Limbo
    37 lines
  • Illustrious Ancestors
    The Rav
    of Northern White Russia declined,
    18 lines
  • In California During The Gulf War
    Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among
    trees and bushes rusted by Christmas frosts,
    35 lines
  • In California: Morning, Evening, Late January
    Pale, then enkindled,
    light
    84 lines
  • In Mind
    There's in my mind a woman
    of innocence, unadorned but
    17 lines
  • Intrusion
    After I had cut off my hands
    and grown new ones
    8 lines
  • Living
    The fire in leaf and grass
    so green it seems
    13 lines
  • 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
  • Matins

    The authentic! Shadows of it
    145 lines
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