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| 3811. | We Are Those People by Robinson Jeffers | | I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened
And forecast victory; never one moment's doubt.
But now not far, over the... |
| 3812. | The Epic Stars by Robinson Jeffers | | The heroic stars spending themselves,
Coining their very flesh into bullets for the lost battle,
They must burn out at length like used candles;
An... |
| 3813. | Praise Life by Robinson Jeffers | | This country least, but every inhabited country
Is clotted with human anguish.
Remember that at your feasts.
And this is no new thing but from ti... |
| 3814. | Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers | | While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops a... |
| 3815. | The Purse-Seine by Robinson Jeffers | | Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark
of the moon; daylight or moonlight
They could not tell where to spread the net,
una... |
| 3816. | Birthday (Autobiography) by Robinson Jeffers | | Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me,
A twelve-pound baby with a big head,
Her first, it was plain torture. Finally they used the forceps
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| 3817. | The Great Explosion by Robinson Jeffers | | The universe expands and contracts like a great heart.
It is expanding, the farthest nebulae
Rush with the speed of light into empty space.
It will... |
| 3818. | Carmel Point by Robinson Jeffers | | The extraordinary patience of things!
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroke... |
| 3819. | Promise Of Peace by Robinson Jeffers | | The heads of strong old age are beautiful
Beyond all grace of youth. They have strange quiet,
Integrity, health, soundness, to the full
They've dea... |
| 3820. | Divinely Superfluous Beauty by Robinson Jeffers | | The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals,
Over and under the ocean ...
Divinely superfluous beauty
Rules the games, presides over desti... |
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