Poems by John Berryman
Dream Song 60: Afters eight years, be less dan eight percent
... Bit by bit our immemorial moansbrown down to all dere moans ...
Dream Song 265: I don't know one damned butterfly from another
... ferns except that around my house one destroys the other ...
Dream Song 136: While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henry
... that I may no longer have to earn my living as a rabbi ...
Dream Song 224: Lonely in his great age
... bowed to them with his thoughtsit's hard to know them though ...
Dream Song 114: Henry in trouble whirped out lonely whines
... from them blue depths nor choppering down skies ...
Dream Song 133: As he grew famousah, but what is fame?
... I am cold & weary, said Henry, fame makes me feel lazy, ...
Dream Song 106: 28 July
... the scene of a vision of friendlies who withstand ...
Dream Song 72: The Elder Presences
... Greed may like a fuse, but with the high shore we is stuck, ...
Dream Song 27: "The greens of the Ganges delta foliate."
... come. My friends,he has been known to mourn,I'll die ...
Our Sunday morning when dawn-priests were applying
... Our vestments wanted, but Francis' friends were crying ...
Dream Song 56: Hell is empty. O that has come to pass
... What roar solved once the dilemma of the Ancient of Days, ...
Dream Song 117: Disturbed, when Henry's love returned with a hubby
... that which needs which, corresponding to Henry's mother ...
The Curse
... A man alone Watches beside the fallen wall ...
Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring
... as bad as achilles,Who loves people and valiant art, which bores me ...
The Ball Poem
... I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then ...
