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Robinson Jeffers
(1887 - 1962 / Pittsburgh / United States)
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43 poems of Robinson Jeffers
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''If civilization goes down, that
Would be an event to contemplate.
It will not be in our time, alas, my dear,
It will not be in our time.''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 22-25). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Ha...
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It would be better for men
To be few and live far apart, where none could infect another; then
slowly the sanity of field and mountain
And the cold ocean and glittering stars might ente...
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 5-7). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harc...
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''the dive-bomber's screaming orgasm
As beautiful as other passions;''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 12-13). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Ha...
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''And why do you cry, my dear, why do you cry?
It is all in the whirling circles of time.
If millions are born millions must die,''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 16-18). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Ha...
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''They dance with reluctance, they are growing civilized; the old men
persuade them.''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. New Mexican Mountain (l. 4). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Cla...
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''Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. New Mexican Mountain (l. 5). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Cla...
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''civilization is a transient sickness.''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. New Mexican Mountain (l. 12). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Cl...
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''Life is grown sweeter and lonelier,
And death is no evil.''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Night (l. 64-65). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University...
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And life, the flicker of men and moths and the wolf on the hill,
Though furious for continuance, passionately feeding, passionately
Remaking itself upon its mates, remembers deep inward
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Night (l. 51-54). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University...
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''O passionately at peace when will that tide draw shoreward,''
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Night (l. 47). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Pr...
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