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 In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transf...
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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.