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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 109: She mentioned 'worthless' & he took it in

... Love finally took over,after their two adopted: she has a month to go ...

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Dream Song 51: Our wounds to time, from all the other times

... —Is that thing on the front of your head what it seems to be, pal ...

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Dream Song 99: Temples

... It is very dark here in this groping forth Gulp rhubarb for a guilty heart, ...

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Dream Song 84: Op. posth. no. 7

... The military establishments perpetuate themselves forever ...

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Dream Song 32: And where, friend Quo, lay you hiding

... where Lie-by-the-fire is waiting for his cream ...

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Dream Song 94: Ill lay he long, upon this last return

... perched, her. One word he heardinsistent his broad shortcomings, then lay still ...

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Dream Song 121: Grief is fatiguing. He is out of it

... Henry is half in love with one of his students ...

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Dream Song 58: Industrious, affable, having brain on fire

... Sire. His heart stiffened, and he failed to smile, ...

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Dream Song 133: As he grew famous—ah, but what is fame?

... but where are the delightsof long-for fame, unless fame makes him feel easy ...

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Dream Song 23: The Lay of Ike

... he lay in the White House—sob!!—who never understood his own strategy—whee— ...

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Dream Song 110: It was the blue & plain ones. I forget all that

... Here was there less or nothing in question but horror ...

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Dream Song 65: A freaking ankle crabbed his blissful trips

... crowding his luck,flowed down along the cliffs to the Big Sur ...

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Dream Song 88: Op. posth. no. 11

... more, beat on the floor,where Bhain is stagnant, dear of Henry's friends, ...

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Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13

... It would not be easy, accustomed to these things, ...

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Dream Song 42: O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane

... (I am skilled: I hear, I see)—your honour was troubled: when you wondered—'No' ...