Robinson Jeffers's Poetry, by first line

• To The House

  I am heaping the bones of the old mother
  To build us a hold against the host of the air;

  13 lines
• Wise Men In Their Bad Hours

  Wise men in their bad hours have envied
  The little people making merry like grasshoppers

  22 lines
• The Eye

  The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean,
  The blue pool in the old garden,

  20 lines
• Ave Caesar

  No bitterness: our ancestors did it.
  They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.

  8 lines, 2 comments
• Carmel Point

  The extraordinary patience of things!
  This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-

  15 lines, 1 comment
• Contemplation Of The Sword

  Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
  The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,

  51 lines, 1 comment
• Fire On The Hills

  The deer were bounding like blown leaves
  Under the smoke in front the roaring wave of the brush-fire;

  14 lines
• Hurt Hawks

  I
  The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,

  31 lines
• Let Them Alone

  If God has been good enough to give you a poet
  Then listen to him. But for God's sake let him alone until he is dead;

  10 lines
• Love The Wild Swan

  "I hate my verses, every line, every word.
  Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try

  15 lines, 3 comments
• Promise Of Peace

  The heads of strong old age are beautiful
  Beyond all grace of youth. They have strange quiet,

  14 lines
• Return

  A little too abstract, a little too wise,
  It is time for us to kiss the earth again,

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Rock And Hawk

  Here is a symbol in which
  Many high tragic thoughts

  21 lines
• Shiva

  There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky,
  She killed the pigeons of peace and security,

  14 lines
• So Many Blood-Lakes

  We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were
  slipped in. We have leveled the powers

  16 lines
• Summer Holiday

  When the sun shouts and people abound
  One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of

  14 lines, 2 comments
• The Answer

  Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams.
  To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence,

  19 lines
• The Deer Lay Down Their Bones

  I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain
  Above the deep river-canyon. There was a little cataract crossed the path,

  40 lines
• The Great Explosion

  The universe expands and contracts like a great heart.
  It is expanding, the farthest nebulae

  40 lines
• The Purse-Seine

  Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark
  of the moon; daylight or moonlight

  57 lines
• To The Stone-Cutters

  Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
  Challengers of oblivion

  10 lines
• Vulture

  I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside
  Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling

  23 lines, 1 comment
• Be Angry At The Sun

  That public men publish falsehoods
  Is nothing new. That America must accept

  21 lines, 3 comments
• Meditation On Saviors

  I
  When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element

  149 lines
• Ascent To The Sierras

  Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising
  Begins to possess the ground, the flatness gathers

  39 lines
• Contrast

  The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, but
  here is the shore of the one ocean.

  23 lines, 2 comments
• The Bird With The Dark Plumes

  The bird with the dark plumes in my blood,
  That never for one moment however I patched my truces

  16 lines
• Tor House

  If you should look for this place after a handful
  of lifetimes:

  32 lines
• Birth-Dues

  Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely
  contemptible, the dangled

  29 lines
• Bixby's Landing

  They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down
  here in an iron car

  32 lines

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