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Born in January 7, 1919 / Died in February 3, 1988 / United States / English

Poems by Robert Duncan

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The Song of the Borderguard

... (The barbarians have passt over the significant phrase) -When I was asleep, ...

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My Mother Would Be a Falconress

... far, far beyond the curb of her willto horizons of stars beyond the ringing hills of the world where ...

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Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

... that is not mine, but is a made place,that is mine, it is so near to the heart, ...

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Poetry, A Natural Thing

... itself, a spiritual urgency at the dark ladders leaping ...

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Such Is The Sickness Of Many A Good Thing

... Such is the sickness of many a good thing ...

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Passage over Water

... cutting the silence, slyly, the bitter rain in our mouths  ...

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Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens

... g we came from, my version of Who-He-Is-In-Reality, the domain of colouring invading the Responsible ...

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from Dante Études, Book One: We Will Endeavor

... into,   organizations in the sound of them ...

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This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom

...   This place rumord to have been a City surely was, ...

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An African Elegy

... s mountains like a white Afghan hound pass into the forest,  ...

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Childhood’s Retreat

... It’s in the perilous boughs of the tree  ...

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from Dante Études: Book Three: In My Youth Not Unstaind

... [Étude from the Fourth Treatise of the Convivio, Chapter XXVII] ...

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A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar

... o a tower that said, Listen to Me! The oracle had said, Despair! The Gods themselves abhor his power ...

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Styx

...  down-running, carving woundrous ways in basalt resistance,  ...

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A Little Language

... I know a little language of my cat, though Dante says  ...