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Born in October 25, 1914 / Died in January 7, 1972 / United States / English

Poems by John Berryman

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Dream Song 3: A Stimulant for an Old Beast

... unkissed. (—My psychiatrist can lick your psychiatrist ...

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Sonnet 115 - All we were going strong last night this time

... All we were going strong last night this time, ...

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Sonnet 117 - All we were going strong

... All we were going strong last night this time, ...

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Dream Song 16: Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls

... They whistled: This is it!Golden, whilst your frozen daiquiris ...

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Dream Song 89: Op. posth. no. 12

... blazing through darkness till he feels the cold ...

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Dream Song 39: Goodbye, sir, & fare well. You're in the clear

... the rest of us are firedor fired: be with us: we will blow our best, ...

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Dream Song 71: Spellbound held subtle Henry all his four

... No. He by the heart & brains & tail, because ...

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Dream Song 324: An Elegy for W.C.W., the lovely man

... At dawn you rose & wrote—the books poured forth— ...

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Dream Song 70: Disengaged, bloody, Henry rose from the shell

... where in theior racing start his seat got wedged ...

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Dream Song 87: Op. posth. no. 10

... to the foothills of the cultwill come in silence this distinguished one ...

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Dream Song 11: His mother goes. The mother comes & goes.

... while skinning his knees,while he was so beastly with love for Charlotte Coquet ...

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Dream Song 100: How this woman came by the courage

... growled Henry sweating, grownbut not grown used to the goodness of this woman ...

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Dream Song 29: There sat down, once, a thing

... He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing ...

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Dream Song 13: God bless Henry

... instead he stuck, when things like pity were thinning ...

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Dream Song 2: Big Buttons, Cornets: the advance

... Arrive a time when all coons lose dere grip, ...