West wind : poems and prose poems /

The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transf...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • Seven white butterflies
  • At Round Pond
  • Black oaks
  • The dog has run off again
  • Am I not among the early risers
  • Pilot snake
  • So
  • Spring
  • Stars
  • Three songs
  • Shelley
  • Maples
  • The osprey
  • That sweet flute John Clare
  • Sand dabs, three
  • Forty years
  • Black snake this time
  • Morning walk
  • Rain, tree, thunder and lightning
  • The rapture
  • Fox
  • Gratitude
  • Little summer poem touching the subject of faith
  • Dogs
  • At the shore
  • At Great Pond.
  • If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me?
  • You are young. So you know everything.
  • And the speck of my heart ...
  • But how did you come burning down ...
  • There are night birds, in the garden ...
  • When the sun goes down ...
  • We see Bill only occasionally ...
  • The young, tall English poet
  • And what did you think love would be like?
  • Dark is as dark does.
  • Now only the humorous shadows ...
  • The cricket did not actually seek ...
  • It is midnight, or almost.
  • Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches.