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Poems by Randall Jarrell

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Children Selecting Books In A Library

... another's Impossibilities, still unbelieved in, for our own ...

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The Breath Of Night

... Here too, though death is hushed, though joy ...

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Well Water

... Pumped from an old well at the bottom of the world ...

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Mail Call

... One skates like a stone into a beam, falls like a bird ...

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The Elementary Scene

... The dark where the flushed child struggles into sleep) ...

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The House In The Woods

... And will be after, holds me to its backBreasts and rocks me: the oven is cold, the cage is empty, ...

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The Orient Express

... A path through a wood all full of lives, and the train ...

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The Old And The New Masters

... St. Irene's Hands are spread in the gesture of the Madonna, ...

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Jerome

... He holds in his left handThe stone with which he beats his breat, and holds ...

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Seele im Raum

... “This is an antimacassar that I grew from seed,&rdquo ...

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A Man Meets A Woman In The Street

... that she doesn't like Elektra, someone to start on Proust with ...

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A Camp In The Prussian Forest

... The boughs sigh, mile on green, calm, breathing mile, ...

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The Bronze David Of Donatello

... somehow, by the fingers, The sword alien, somehow, to the hand ...