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Born in March 1, 1900 / Died in April 17, 1985 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Basil Bunting

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Gin The Goodwife Stint

... The ploughland has gone to bent ...

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The Orotava Road

...   save that on sand their soles squeak slightly ...

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At Briggflatts Meetinghouse

... but silence. Look how clouds dance ...

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What The Chairman Told Tom

... Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher, ...

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See! Their Verses Are Laid

... between stones as the frieze strides ...

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Chomei At Toyama

... (Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) ...

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On The Fly-Leaf Of Pound's Cantos

... Who knows what the ice will have scraped on the rock it is smoothing ...

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Nothing

... and the word spoken in shapeless night, the ...

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Chorus Of Furies

... He will shrink, his manhood leave him, slough selfaware ...

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The Earthy Shields

... Hearing an earthy gross year from under ...

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Coda

... ask the sea what’s lost, what’s left, ...

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Briggflatts - Part I

... The clogged cart pushes the horse downhill ...

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Villon

... trodden down the scrub of the desert, run the white moon to a schedule, ...