Poets/Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

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The old wooden steps to the front door …

Denise Levertov

Brown gas-fog, white …

Denise Levertov

The clouds as I see them, rising …

Denise Levertov

From the tawny light …

Denise Levertov

As the stores close, a winter light …

Denise Levertov

Genial poets, pink-faced …

Denise Levertov

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak …

Denise Levertov

Pale, then enkindled, …

Denise Levertov

After I had cut off my hands …

Denise Levertov

Silent, about-to-be-parted-from house. …

Denise Levertov

A voice from the dark called out, …

Denise Levertov

A doll's hair concealing …

Denise Levertov

I like to find …

Denise Levertov

Though the road turn at last …

Denise Levertov

I am angry with X, with Y, with Z, …

Denise Levertov

I thought I was growing wings— …

Denise Levertov

‘That creep Tolstoy,’ she sobbed. …

Denise Levertov

The ache of marriage: …

Denise Levertov

Two girls discover …

Denise Levertov

The red eyes of rabbits …

Denise Levertov

How gray and hard the brown feet of the wretched of the earth. …

Denise Levertov

To lie back under the tallest …

Denise Levertov

My wedding-ring lies in a basket …

Denise Levertov

This person would be an animal. …

Denise Levertov

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