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The First Four Books of Poems
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Macmillan Pub Co
Publication date August 1, 1975
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780689106941
ISBN-10 0689106947
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $10.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
Collects all the poems, unrevised and unedited, of the distinguished American poet's first four volumes, providing a comprehensive view of his early work and his growth as a poet
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Half Roundel

I make no prayer
For the spoilt season,
The weed of Eden.
I make no prayer.
Save us the green
In the weed of time.

Now is November;
In night uneasy
Nothing I say.
I make no prayer.
Save us from the water
That washes us away.

What do I ponder?
All smiled disguise,
Lights in cold places,
I make no prayer.
Save us from air
That wears us loosely.

The leaf of summer
To cold has come
In little time.
I make no prayer.
From earth deliver
And the dark therein.

Now is no whisper
Through all the living.
I speak to nothing.
I make no prayer.
Save us from fire
Consuming up and down.

Evening with Lee Shore and Cliffs

Sea-shimmer, faint haze, and far out a bird
Dipping for flies or fish. Then, when over
That wide silk suddenly the shadow
Spread skating, who turned with a shiver
High in the rocks? And knew, then only, the waves'
Layering patience: how they would follow after,
After, dogged as sleep, to his inland
Dreams, oh beyond the one lamb that cried
In the olives, past the pines' derision. And heard
Behind him not the sea's gaiety but its laughter.

The Fishermen

When you think how big their feet are in black rubber
And it slippery underfoot always, it is clever
How they thread and manage among the sprawled nets, lines,
Hooks, spidery cages with small entrances.
But they are used to it. We do not know their names.
They know our needs, and live by them, lending them wiles
And beguilements we could never have fashioned for them;
They carry the ends of our hungers out to drop them
To wait swaying in a dark place we could never have chosen.
By motions we have never learned they feed us.
We lay wreaths on the sea when it has drowned them.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780689106682
 
from Scribner (June 1, 1975)
9780689106682 | details & prices | List price $12.50
About: Collects all the poems, unrevised and unedited, of the distinguished American poet's first four volumes, providing a comprehensive view of his early work and his growth as a poet
Paperback
Book cover for 9780689106941 Book cover for 9781556591396
 
from Copper Canyon Pr (April 1, 2000)
9781556591396 | details & prices | 290 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 0.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $18.00
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from Macmillan Pub Co (August 1, 1975)
9780689106941 | details & prices | List price $10.95
About: Collects all the poems, unrevised and unedited, of the distinguished American poet's first four volumes, providing a comprehensive view of his early work and his growth as a poet

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