John Berryman's Poetry, by written

• Dream Song 172

  Your face broods from my table, Suicide.
  Your force came on like a torrent toward the end

  18 lines, 1 comment
• The Ball Poem

  What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
  What, what is he to do? I saw it go

  25 lines
• Dream Song 324

  Henry in Ireland to Bill underground:
  Rest well, who worked so hard, who made a good sound

  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
• Keep your eyes open when you kiss

  Keep your eyes open when you kiss: do: when
  You kiss. All silly time else, close them to;

  14 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 Curse

  Cedars and the westward sun.
  The darkening sky. A man alone

  20 lines
• Dream Song 2

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

  18 lines
• Dream Song 10

  There were strange gatherings. A vote would come
  that would be no vote. There would come a rope.

  17 lines
• Dream Song 19

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

  18 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
• Epilogue

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

  5 lines
• Sonnet 104 - A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece

  A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece,
  Diminutive, but room enough . . like clay

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet 115 - All we were going strong last night this time

  All we were going strong last night this time,
  the mosts were flying & the frozen daiquiris

  14 lines
• Winter Landscape

  The three men coming down the winter hill
  In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds

  28 lines, 1 comment
• Dream Song 46

  I am, outside. Incredible panic rules.
  People are blowing and beating each other without mercy.

  18 lines
• Dream Song 1: Huffy Henry hid the day

  Huffy Henry hid the day,
  unappeasable Henry sulked.

  18 lines
• Dream Song 13: God bless Henry

  God bless Henry. He lived like a rat,
  with a thatch of hair on his head

  18 lines
• Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring

  Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
  After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,

  19 lines
• Dream Song 22: Of 1826

  I am the little man who smokes & smokes.
  I am the girl who does know better but.

  18 lines
• Dream Song 26: The glories of the world struck me

  The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.
  —What happen then, Mr Bones?

  18 lines
• Dream Song 29: There sat down, once, a thing

  There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart
  só heavy, if he had a hundred years

  18 lines
• Dream Song 4: Filling her compact & delicious body

  Filling her compact & delicious body
  with chicken páprika, she glanced at me

  18 lines
• Dream Song 61: Full moon. Our Narragansett gales subside

  Full moon. Our Narragansett gales subside
  and the land is celebrating men of war

  18 lines
• Dream Song 75: Turning it over, considering

  Turning it over, considering, like a madman
  Henry put forth a book.

  19 lines
• Dream Song 77: Seedy Henry rose up shy

  Seedy Henry rose up shy in de world
  & shaved & swung his barbells, duded Henry up

  20 lines
• Dream Song 11: His mother goes. The mother comes & goes.

  His mother goes. The mother comes & goes.
  Chen Lung's too came, came and crampt & then

  18 lines
• Dream Song 12: Sabbath

  There is an eye, there was a slit.
  Nights walk, and confer on him fear.

  18 lines
• Dream Song 15: Let us suppose, valleys & such ago

  Let us suppose, valleys & such ago,
  one pal unwinding from his labours in

  18 lines
• Dream Song 16: Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls

  Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls
  where it did much resemble Henry and

  18 lines

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