Poetry London-New York, Volume 1Tambimuttu Poetry London-New York, 1956 |
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Page 9
... fire for within : Blade after blade of hay , Deserts of dry grains Are stored within the bin Of the color - wheeling tree . Astringent in our veins , Thin life , a pricking pin , Bleeds the summer lie Only the blood retains . Pinion and ...
... fire for within : Blade after blade of hay , Deserts of dry grains Are stored within the bin Of the color - wheeling tree . Astringent in our veins , Thin life , a pricking pin , Bleeds the summer lie Only the blood retains . Pinion and ...
Page 27
... fire leaps on itself : I know that flame . Some rages save us . Did I rage too long ? The spirit knows the flesh it must consume . The dream's an instant that calls up her face . She changed me ice to fire , and fire to ice . III Small ...
... fire leaps on itself : I know that flame . Some rages save us . Did I rage too long ? The spirit knows the flesh it must consume . The dream's an instant that calls up her face . She changed me ice to fire , and fire to ice . III Small ...
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... fire there are birds rising , drifting , Instead of cries , every one of them blackened Without smoke , there is clarity , painful , Without understanding , there are graves Everywhere , ready for the dancing , and Behind every tree ...
... fire there are birds rising , drifting , Instead of cries , every one of them blackened Without smoke , there is clarity , painful , Without understanding , there are graves Everywhere , ready for the dancing , and Behind every tree ...
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American ANNE RIDLER anthologies ARTHUR GREGOR Auden birds blood book of poems Brinnin CLAIRE MCALLISTER critic dark dead death door dream Dylan Thomas Editions Poetry Editor Eliot Empson English experience eyes face feeling fire flowers friends G. S. Fraser George Barker girl grass green hand heart holophrasis Horace Gregory human imagination JEAN GARRIGUE language light lines literary living look magazine Mare ment mind Miss Bogan Modern Poetry modern verse moon move movement nature never night PLNY poet's poetic Poetry London Poetry London-New York poets published pure rain ROBIN SKELTON ROY CAMPBELL seems sense sleep song sound Spender spirit symbol syntax T. S. Eliot TAMBIMUTTU Tamil theme thing tion trees turn University voice W. H. Auden W. S. Graham W. S. MERWIN Wain wind WINTHROP PALMER words writing young