Robinson Jeffers's Poetry, by popularity

• The Wind-Struck Music

  Ed Stiles and old Tom Birnam went up to their cattle on the
  bare hills

  45 lines
• Oh, Lovely Rock

  We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of Ventana Creek,
  up the east fork.

  35 lines
• To The Rock That Will Be A Cornerstone Of The House

  Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen,
  How long a rime since the brown people who have vanished from

  26 lines
• Shakespeare’s Grave

  Doggerel," he thought, "will do for church-wardens,
  Poetry's precious enough not to be wasted,"

  17 lines
• The Coast-Road

  A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur of the mountain
  over Mirmas Canyon draws rein, looks down

  34 lines
• Thebaid

  How many turn back toward dreams and magic, how many
  children

  33 lines
• New Year’s Eve

  Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy
  drunkard

  25 lines
• Love-Children

  The trail’s high up on the ridge, no one goes down
  But the east wind and the falling water the concave slope without a name to the

  33 lines
• To His Father

  Christ was your lord and captain all your life,
  He fails the world but you he did not fail,

  13 lines
• No Resurrection

  Friendship, when a friend meant a helping sword,
  Faithfulness, when power and life were its fruits, hatred, when

  26 lines
• Nova

  That Nova was a moderate star like our good sun; it stored no
  doubt a little more than it spent

  36 lines
• Night Without Sleep

  The world's as the world is; the nations rearm and prepare to
  change; the age of tyrants returns;

  37 lines
• Woodrow Wilson

  (FEBRUARY, 1924)
  It said "Come home, here is an end, a goal,

  52 lines
• The Old Man’s Dream After He Died

  from CAWDOR
  Gently with delicate mindless fingers

  47 lines
• Where I?

  This woman cannot live more than one year.
  Her growing death is hidden in a hopeless place,

  13 lines
• Steelhead

  The sky was cold December blue with great tumbling clouds,
  and the little river

  94 lines
• Going To The Horse Flats

  Amazingly active a toothless old man
  Hobbled beside me up the canyon, going to Horse Flats, he said,

  78 lines
• The Beaks Of Eagles

  An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the
  precipice-footed ridges

  29 lines
• Salmon-Fishing

  The days shorten, the south blows wide for showers now,
  The south wind shouts to the rivers,

  16 lines
• The Tower Beyond Tragedy

  You'd never have thought the Queen was Helen's sister- Troy's
  burning-flower from Sparta, the beautiful sea-flower

  1923 lines
• Phenomena

  Great-enough both accepts and subdues; the great frame takes
  all creatures;

  19 lines
• The Treasure

  Mountains, a moment's earth-waves rising and hollowing; the
  earth too's an ephemerid; the stars-

  21 lines
• The Caged Eagle’s Death Dream

  from CAWDOR
  While George went to the house

  104 lines
• The Low Sky

  No vulture is here, hardly a hawk,
  Could long wings or great eyes fly

  14 lines
• The Broadstone

  NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM
  We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath,

  22 lines
• The Giant’s Ring

  BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST
  Whoever is able will pursue the plainly

  27 lines
• Iona: The Graves Of The Kings

  I wish not to lie here.
  There's hardly a plot of earth not blessed for burial, but here

  14 lines
• Ghosts In England

  At East Lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them
  peek from their ancient earthworks on the coast hills

  62 lines
• Subjected Earth

  Walking in the flat Oxfordshire fields
  Where the eye can find no rock to rest on but little flints

  32 lines
• Notes To "Descent To The Dead"

  It seems hardly necessary to stipulate that the elegiac tone of
  these verses reflects the writer's mood, and is not meant for econom

  31 lines

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