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Kenneth Rexroth's Poetry, by popularity

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  • Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
    For a month now, wandering over the Sierras,
    A poem had been gathering in my mind,
    53 lines
  • A Letter To Yvor Winters
    Again tonight I read “Before Disaster,”
    The tense memento of a will
    28 lines
  • Proust’s Madeleine
    Somebody has given my
    Baby daughter a box of
    28 lines
  • The Bad Old Days
    The summer of nineteen eighteen
    I read The Jungle and The
    43 lines
  • The Wheel Revolves
    You were a girl of satin and gauze
    Now you are my mountain and waterfall companion.
    49 lines
  • Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
    The mountain road ends here,
    Broken away in the chasm where
    59 lines
  • A Lesson In Geography
    The stars of the Great Bear drift apart
    The Horse and the Rider together northeastward
    128 lines
  • Toward An Organic Philosophy
    SPRING, COAST RANGE
    133 lines
  • Vitamins And Roughage
    Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked,
    The daughters of California
    12 lines
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill
    A Memorial for Dylan Thomas
    335 lines
  • Rogation Days
    Under the orchards, under
    The tree strung vines, little blue
    30 lines
  • Sottoportico San Zaccaria
    It rains on the roofs
    As it rains in my poems
    14 lines
  • Discrimination
    I don’t mind the human race.
    I’ve got pretty used to them
    19 lines
  • Hojoki
    A thing unknown for years,
    Rain falls heavily in June,
    11 lines
  • Floating
    Our canoe idles in the idling current
    Of the tree and vine and rush enclosed
    37 lines
  • Confusion
    I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn,
    The blinds are drawn, and the windows are open.
    12 lines
  • Yin And Yang
    It is spring once more in the Coast Range
    Warm, perfumed, under the Easter moon.
    19 lines
  • Runaway
    There are sparkles of rain on the bright
    Hair over your forehead;
    15 lines, 2 comments
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