Robinson Jeffers's Poetry, by written

• New Mexican Mountain

  I watch the Indians dancing to help the young corn at Taos
  pueblo. The old men squat in a ring

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• The Eye

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

  20 lines
• Carmel Point

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

  15 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
• Promise Of Peace

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

  14 lines
• Shine, Perishing Republic

  While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire
  And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass,

  11 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,

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• The Great Explosion

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

  40 lines
• Birth-Dues

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

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• July Fourth By The Ocean

  The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains,
  Powerful and servile; here is for plowland, here is

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• On Building With Stone

  To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother
  Like swarthy Cheops, but my own hands

  8 lines
• The Epic Stars

  The heroic stars spending themselves,
  Coining their very flesh into bullets for the lost battle,

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• The Excesses Of God

  Is it not by his high superfluousness we know
  Our God? For to be equal a need

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• The Machine

  The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field
  And carries passengers brief rides,

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• Tamar

  A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl,
  No, like a drunkard's last half-dollar

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• The Songs Of The Dead Men To The Three Dancers

  I. TO DESIRE
                                   

  112 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
• The Truce And The Peace

  (NOVEMBER, 1918)
  Peace now for every fury has had her day,

  172 lines
• Point Joe

  Point Joe has teeth and has torn ships; it has fierce and solitary
  beauty;

  41 lines
• The Cycle

  The clapping blackness of the wings of pointed cormorants,
  the great indolent planes

  29 lines
• Salmon-Fishing

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

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• 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
• Continent's End

  At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, wreathed
  with wet poppies, waiting spring,

  38 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

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• Roan Stallion

  The dog barked; then the woman stood in the doorway, and hearing
  iron strike stone down the steep road

  617 lines
• Night

  The ebb slips from the rock, the sunken
  Tide-rocks lift streaming shoulders

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• Birds

  The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrowhawks hunting
  on the headland,

  23 lines
• Fog

  Invisible gulls with human voices cry in the sea-cloud
  "There is room, wild minds,

  18 lines
• Boats In A Fog

  Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
  The exuberant voices of music,

  23 lines

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