Poems by Denise Levertov
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell
... the world again, closed into days and weeks again, ...
Sojourns in the Parallel World
... just where we've been, when we're caught up again ...
An excerpt from "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus"
... even this gray October day that should, they say, ...
Settling
... into my days, having come here to live, not to visit ...
The Dog of Art
... and his voice measures forth the treasure ...
Web
... shaking, changing,foreverforming, transforming:all praise,all praise to thegreat web ...
The Métier of Blossoming
... traces of reddish purple at the base, and almost ...
From the Roof
... s traffic (the Hudson and the hidden river, who can say which it is we see, we see something of both ...
Triple Feature
... all regarding the stills with full attention, preparing ...
Come into Animal Presence
... that the rabbit inspects his strange surroundings ...
Clouds
... close and enclosed, unlike the space in which these clouds move&mdash ...
Song for Ishtar
... Her great shining shines through me ...
Matins
... to the place where I must kill you and you step out ...
The Wealth of the Destitute
... How gray and hard the brown feet of the wretched of the earth ...
To Live in the Mercy of God
... stretched like the wings of flying foxes ...
