New Collected Poems (34 page)
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Authors: Wendell Berry
The mad farmer, the thirsty one,
137
The mind is the continuity
40
The morning comes. The old woman, a spot
246
The morning lights
68
The opening out and out,
29
The poem is important, but
317
The ripe grassheads bend in the starlight
129
The river is of the earth
374
The river takes the land, and leaves nothing
.
261
The rugs were rolled back to the wall
353
The sea is always arriving,
140
The seeds begin as abstract as their species,
130
The songs of small birds fade away
160
The stepping-stones, once
234
The tall marigolds darken.
25
The valley holds its shadow.
282
The wild cherries ripen, black and fat
,
247
The wind scruffing it, the bay
12
The woods is shining this morning
79
The young woodland remembers
345
They
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They are here again,
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They lived long, and were faithful
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They were into the lambing, up late.
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Thief, The
28
Thirty More Years
314
This is a story handed down.
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This man, proud and young,
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Though the air is full of singing
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Thought of Something Else, The
59
Three Elegiac Poems
55
Three, The
331
Through elm, buckeye, thorn,
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Through the weeks of deep snow
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Throwing Away the Mail
251
To a Siberian Woodsman
107
To a Writer of Reputation
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To be at home on its native ground
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To enrich the earth I have sowed clover and grass
125
To Gary Snyder
230
To Go by Singing
22
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
121
To Hayden Garruth
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To Know the Dark
121
To know the inhabiting reasons
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To love is to suffer âdid I
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To moralize a state, they drag out a man
124
To My Children, Fearing for Them
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To My Mother
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To search for what belongs where it is,
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To Tanya at Christmas
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To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
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To tell a girl you loved herâmy God!â
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To the Holy Spirit
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To the Unseeable Animal
161
To Think of the Life of a Man
80
To What Listens
236
Traveling at Home
252
True harvests no mere intent may reap
242
Tu Fu
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Turn toward the holocaust, it approaches
110
Until I have appeased the itch
309
Vacation, The
323
Venus of Botticelli, The
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Voices Late at Night
309
Walking on the River Ice
251
Want of Peace, The
78
Warning to My Readers, A
248
Washed into the doorway
27
Way of Pain, The
244
We are others and the earth,
287
We lay in our bed as in a tomb
333
We Who Prayed and Wept
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We who prayed and wept
245
We will see no more
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Well, anyhow, I am
357
Wet Time, A
126
What banged?
367
What death means is not this
â
19
What is one to make of a life given
355
What must a man do to be at home in the world?
127
What she made in her body is broken.
195
What we have been becomes
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What we leave behind to sleep
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What wonder have you done to me?
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What year
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Wheel, The
298
When despair for the world grows in me
79
When he goes out in the morning
16
When I cannot be with you
333
When I was a boy here,
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When I was a young man,
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When I was young and lately wed
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Where
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Where the road came, no longer bearing men,
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While Attending the Annual Convocation of Cause Theorists and BigBangists at the Local Provincial Research University, the Mad Farmer Intercedes from the Back Row
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While the summer's growth kept me
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Why
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Why all the embarassment
348
Wild Geese, The
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Wild Rose, The
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Wild, The
23
Willing to die,
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Window Poems
83
Window. Window.
83
Winter Night Poem for Mary
121
Winter Nightfall
122
Winter Rain, The
67
Wish to Be Generous, The
130
Within the circles of our lives
302
Woods
237
Words
355
Work Song
217
You lean at ease in your warm house at night after supper,
107
You put on my clothes
185
You will be walking some night
82
On the pages whose numbers are given below
the page end coincides with a stanza break:
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4 | 151 |
10 | 152 |
24 | 190 |
37 | 253 |
41â44 | 259 |
46â54 | 340 |
134 | 359 |
145 | 362 |
149 | 380 |
