Ebook: Selected Poems

Presents a selection of poems by twentieth-century poet Denise Levertov, composed over the course of six decades.;Preface / Robert Creeley -- Listening to distant drums -- Childhood's end -- Poem ("Some are too much at home in the role of wanderer") -- Too easy: to write of miracles -- The earthwoman and the waterwoman -- The marriage -- The marriage (II) -- Laying the dust -- Everything that acts is natural -- Overland to the islands -- The instant -- Illustrious ancestors -- Action -- Merritt Parkway -- With eyes at the back of our heads -- Pleasures -- To the snake -- Obsessions -- The dead -- Terror -- A common ground -- Come into animal presence -- A map of the western part of the County of Essex in England -- Three meditations -- The Jacob's Ladder -- The tulips -- During the Eichmann trial: "when we look up" -- The ache of marriage -- Song for Ishtar -- Claritas -- The secret -- September 1961 -- O taste and see -- Eros at Temple Stream -- The stone-carver's poem -- The disclosure -- About marriage -- The prayer -- Hypocrite women -- In mind -- The wings -- Joy -- Annuals -- The mutes -- The cat as cat -- Living -- A lamentation -- Olga poems -- The closed world -- Second didactic poem -- Life at war -- To speak -- Bedtime -- Relearning the alphabet -- The broken sandal -- The cold spring -- At David's grave -- What wild dawns there were -- July 1968 -- A cloak -- A tree telling of Orpheus -- Advent 1966 -- Tenebrae -- "Staying alive" -- i. At the justice department November 15, 1969 -- ii. Gandhi's gun (and Brecht's vow) -- Entr'acte 'Let us sing unto the Lord a new song' -- Love poem -- 3 a.m., September 1, 1969 -- The wanderer -- The old king -- Memories of John Keats -- To Antonio Machado -- The life around us -- Living alone (I) -- Living alone (II) -- Living alone (III) -- Divorcing -- Libation -- Prayer for revolutionary love -- The freeing of the dust -- The woman -- The life of others -- A woman alone -- Chekhov on the West Heath -- The 90th year -- A soul-cake -- Talking to grief -- Wedding-ring -- Talking to oneself -- Poet and person -- The dragon-fly mother -- Candles in Babylon -- Williams: an essay -- Mass for the day of St. Thomas Didymus -- Beginners -- Concurrence -- She and the muse -- Decipherings -- The avowal -- St. Peter and the angel -- The antiphon -- Of being -- " ...That passeth all understanding" -- The servant girl at Emmaus -- "I learned that her name was Proverb" -- Hunting the phoenix -- The spirits appeased -- Caedmon -- Making peace -- During a song's dangerous illness -- On a theme from Julian's Chapter XX -- The showings: Lady Julian of Norwich, 1342-1416) -- Variation and reflection on a theme by Rilke (The book of hours, Book 1, Poem 7) -- Annuniciation -- Braiding -- Flickering mind -- The love of morning -- Wings in the pedlar's pack -- St. Thomas Didymus -- The life of art -- To Rilke -- A traveler -- A woodcut -- Web -- Ikon: the harrowing of Hell -- Suspended -- Settling -- Elusive -- Effacement -- Presence -- Open secret -- For Bet -- Flowers of Sophia -- Evening train -- Witness -- Salvador mundi: via crucis -- What harbinger? -- Le motif -- In question -- The mystery of deep candor -- Sojourns in the parallel world -- The change -- For those whom the gods love less -- Conversion of Brother Lawrence -- Pentimento -- Sands of the well -- Primary wonder -- Crow spring -- In whom we live and move and have our being -- Celebration -- First love -- Roast potatoes -- The mountain's daily speech is silence -- Once only -- The metier of blossoming -- Enduring love -- Afterword / Paul A. Lacey.