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Collected poems 1930-1960 : including 51 new poems / Richard Eberhart.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1960.
- Contents:
- This fevers me
- O wild chaos!
- The bells of a Chinese temple
- Maze
- For a lamb
- Caravan of silence
- Four lakes' days
- Ode to silence
- The return of Odysseus
- 'Where are those high and haunting skies"
- Suite in prison
- The groundhog
- The rape of the cataract
- 1934
- 'In a hard intellectual light'
- 'My bones flew apart'
- The transfer
- Request for offering
- Necessity
- The scarf of June
- Experience evoked
- Two loves
- Burden
- 'In prisons of established craze'
- The largess
- 'When Doris danced'
- 'The critic with his pained eye'
- The young hunter
- 'When golden flies upon my carcass come'
- 'Now is the air made of chiming balls'
- The child
- 'Let the tight lizard on the wall'
- 'I went to see Irving Babbitt'
- Recollection of childhood
- Orchard
- The soul longs to return whence it came
- Grave piece
- The humanist
- The virgin
- 'Man's greed and envy are so great'
- 'The goal of intellectual man'
- 'If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness'
- 'I walked out to the graveyard to see the dead'
- A meditation
- 'The full of joy do not know; they need not'
- Rumination
- 'Cover me over'
- The recapitulation
- 'Imagining how it would be to be dead'
- 'I walked over the grave of Henry James'
- The ineffable
- 'Mysticism has not the patience to wait for god's revelation'
- The dream
- The moment of vision
- Retrospective forelook
- The lyric absolute
- 'I will not dare to ask one question'
- New Hampshire, February
- Triptych
- Ode to the Chinese paper snake
- Burr oaks
- Dam Neck, Virginia
- The fury of aerial bombardment
- An airman considers his power
- At the end of war
- A ceremony by the sea
- World war
- Brotherhood of men
- Indian pipe
- 'Go to the shine that's on a tree'
- 'Sometimes the longing for death'
- At night
- A love poem
- God and man
- The horse chestnut tree
- The tobacconist of Eighth Street
- Seals, terns, time
- The cancer cells
- Forms of the human
- Oedipus
- Fragment of New York, 1929
- Aesthetics after war
- On shooting particles beyond the world
- A legend of viable women
- The verbalist of summer
- Concord cats
- On the fragility of mind
- Great praises
- The dry rot
- The skier and the mountain
- The human being is a lonely creature
- The book of nature
- Cousin Florence
- Sestina
- 'My golden and my fierce assays'
- Ur burial
- Seeing is deceiving
- Analogue of unity in multeity
- Sea-hawk
- Sainte Anne de Beaupré
- Mediterranean song
- To Evan
- The day-bed
- Formative mastership
- The hand and the shadow
- Words
- On a squirrel crossing the road in autumn
- Centennial for Whitman
- Soul
- Fables of the moon
- Salem
- The return
- The giantess
- The wisdom of insecurity
- Sunday in October
- Summer landscape
- Only in the dream
- Nothing but change
- Thrush song at dawn
- The voyage
- Off Spectacle Island
- The seasons
- The noble man
- The forgotten rock
- Attitudes
- An old fashioned American business man
- A young Greek, killed in the wars
- Protagonists
- A soldier rejects his times addressing his contemporaries
- 'Blessed are the angels in heaven'
- Villanelle
- Life as visionary spirit
- Fortune's mist
- Yonder
- Autumnal
- The sacrifice
- Lucubration
- In after time
- A testament
- Request
- Love among the ruins
- Anima
- The supreme authority of the imagination
- Perception as a guided missile
- By the stream
- What gives
- The oak
- In the garden
- The lost children
- A commitment
- Apple buds
- Throwing the apple
- The garden god
- Light from above
- Austere poem
- Hoot owls
- Tree swallows
- The clam diggers and diggers of sea worms
- A ship burning and a comet all in one day
- The hard structure of the world
- The Parker River
- At the canoe club
- Ospreys in cry
- Half-bent man
- Spring Mountain climb
- The passage
- The gods of Washington, D.C.
- Equivalence of gnats and mice
- Birth and death
- The incomparable light.
- Notes:
- "First published 1960."
- "Printed in Great Britain."
- Red cloth binding lettered and ruled in silver on spine.
- OCLC:
- 250333
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