John Berryman's Poetry, by popularity

• Epilogue

  He died in December. He must descend
  Somewhere, vague and cold, the spirit and seal.

  5 lines
• Dream Song 2

  The jane is zoned! no nightspot here, no bar
  there, no sweet freeway, and no premises

  18 lines
• Dream Song 19

  Here, whence
  all have departed orwill do, here airless, where

  18 lines
• Go, ill-sped book

  Go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her or
  storm out the message for her only ear

  18 lines
• Our Sunday morning when dawn-priests were applying

  Our Sunday morning when dawn-priests were applying
  Wafer and wine to the human wound, we laid

  14 lines
• The Traveller

  They pointed me out on the highway, and they said
  'That man has a curious way of holding his head.'

  16 lines
• Dream Song 92: Room 231: the fourth week

  Something black somewhere in the vistas of his heart.
  Tulips from Tates teazed Henry in the mood

  19 lines
• Dream Song 93: General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General

  General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General,
  Captain Fatigue, and at the base of all

  16 lines
• Dream Song 89: Op. posth. no. 12

  In a blue series towards his sleepy eyes
  they slid like wonder, women tall & small,

  18 lines
• Dream Song 95: The surly cop looked out at me in sleep

  The surly cop looked out at me in sleep
  insect-like. Guess, who was the insect.

  18 lines
• Dream Song 94: Ill lay he long, upon this last return

  Ill lay he long, upon this last return,
  unvisited. The doctors put everything in the hospital

  17 lines
• Dream Song 96: Under the table, no. That last was stunning

  Under the table, no. That last was stunning,
  that flagon had breasts. Some men grow down cursed.

  20 lines
• Dream Song 72: The Elder Presences

  Shh! on a twine hung from disastered trees
  Henry is swinging his daughter. They seem drunk.

  18 lines
• Dream Song 8: The weather was fine. They took away his teeth

  The weather was fine. They took away his teeth,
  white & helpful; bothered his backhand;

  18 lines
• Dream Song 84: Op. posth. no. 7

  Plop, plop. The lobster toppled in the pot,
  fulfilling, dislike man, his destiny,

  18 lines
• Dream Song 69: Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts

  Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts
  into that young woman

  18 lines
• Dream Song 79: Op. posth. no. 2

  Whence flew the litter whereon he was laid?
  Of what heroic stuff was warlock Henry made?

  18 lines
• Dream Song 97: Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig

  Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig,
  bred when he was brittle, bred when big,

  18 lines
• Dream Song 64: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need

  Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need,
  thoughtless I go out.    Dawn.    Have I my cig's,

  18 lines
• Dream Song 68: I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing

  I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing,
  and I went on: Miss Bessie soundin good

  18 lines
• Dream Song 70: Disengaged, bloody, Henry rose from the shell

  Disengaged, bloody, Henry rose from the shell
  where in theior racing start his seat got wedged

  18 lines
• Dream Song 71: Spellbound held subtle Henry all his four

  Spellbound held subtle Henry all his four
  hearers in the racket of the market

  18 lines
• Dream Song 73: Karensui, Ryoan-ji

  The taxi makes the vegetables fly.
  'Dozo kudasai,' I have him wait.

  21 lines
• Dream Song 86: Op. posth. no. 9

  The conclusion is growing . . . I feel sure, my lord,
  this august court will entertain the plea

  18 lines
• Dream Song 88: Op. posth. no. 11

  In slack times visit I the violent dead
  and pick their awful brains. Most seem to feel

  18 lines
• Dream Song 52: Silent Song

  Bright-eyed & bushy tailed woke not Henry up.
  Bright though upon his workshop shone a vise

  18 lines
• Dream Song 57: In a state of chortle sin--once he reflected

  In a state of chortle sin—once he reflected,
  swilling tomato juice—live I, and did

  18 lines
• Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13

  In the night-reaches dreamed he of better graces,
  of liberations, and beloved faces,

  18 lines
• Dream Song 27: "The greens of the Ganges delta foliate."

  The greens of the Ganges delta foliate.
  Of heartless youth made late aware he pled:

  18 lines
• Dream Song 59: Henry's Meditation in the Kremlin

  Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giralda
  in a land no crueller, and over the walls

  18 lines

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