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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 64: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need

... & greed & spite, of a crutch,who thought he had, a vile night, been-well-blest ...

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Dream Song 31: Henry Hankovitch, con guítar

... enslaving himself he withdrew from his blueFlorentine leather case an Egyptian black ...

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Dream Song 93: General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General

... My beauty id off duty!—Henry relives a lady, how down vain, ...

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Dream Song 50: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post

... I cave to feel as ifde roses of dawns & pearls of dusks, made up ...

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Dream Song 73: Karensui, Ryoan-ji

... the sand is not quite white: granite sand, grey,—from nowhere can one see all the stones— ...

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Dream Song 103: I consider a song will be as humming-bird

... where they are wondering: does time run backward— ...

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Dream Song 59: Henry's Meditation in the Kremlin

... lips ears breast fists of Kruschev, for Christ knows ...

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Dream Song 80: Op. posth. no. 3

... I miss it. O happies before & during & between the times it got married ...

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Dream Song 68: I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing

... and nobody in the snow on callso, as I say, the house is given hell ...

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Dream Song 17: Muttered Henry:—Lord of matter, thus

... by smug.—What have I tossed you but the least ...

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Dream Song 118: He wondered: Do I love? all this applause

... and Henry returns to rejoicein dark & and still, and one sole beauty only ...

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Dream Song 95: The surly cop looked out at me in sleep

... attend while he is cookeduntil with trembling hands hoist I my true ...

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Dream Song 108: Sixteen below. Our care like stranded hulls

... Chrysanthemums crest, far way, in the Emperor's garden ...

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Dream Song 116: Through the forest, followed, Henry made his silky way

... with everyone, even that abnormally scrubbed & powerful one, ...

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Dream Song 123: Daples my floor the eastern sun, my house faces north

... Colossal in the dawn comes the second lightwe do all die, in the floor, in the morgue ...