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Introduction | |
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From In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960(1962) | |
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Prelude As John to Patmos | |
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A City's Death by Fire | |
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A Far Cry from African Ruins of a Great House | |
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Tales of the Islands Return to D'Ennery; Rain | |
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A Letter from Brooklyn Islands | |
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From The Castaway and Other Poems(1965) | |
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The Castaway Tarpon | |
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The Flock Laventille | |
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The Almond Trees Verandah Crusoe's Island Codicil | |
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From The Gulf and Other Poems(1969) | |
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Mass Man Homage to Edward Thomas | |
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The Gulf Blues Air Landfall, Grenada Homecoming: Anse La Raye Nearing Forty | |
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From Another Life(1973) | |
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"Verandahs, where the pages of the sea" | |
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"In its dimensions the drawing could not trace" | |
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"Maman, / only on Sundays was the Singer silent" | |
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"Old house, old woman, old room" | |
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"About the August of my fourteenth year" | |
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"Our father, / who floated in the vaults of Michangelo" | |
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"Noon, / and its sacred water sprinkles" | |
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"Who could tell, in 'the crossing of that pair'" | |
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"There are already, invisible on canvas" | |
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"Where did I fail? I could draw" | |
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"When the oil green water glows but doesn't catch" | |
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"Smug, behind glass, we watch the passengers" | |
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"Miasma, acedia, the enervations of damp" | |
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From Sea Grapes(1976) | |
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Sea Grapes Adam's Song | |
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The Cloud Parades, Parades | |
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The Bright Field Sainte Lucie Volcano | |
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Sea Canes Midsummer, Tobago Oddjob, a Bull Terrier | |
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To Return to the Tress | |
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From The Star-Apple Kingdom(1979) | |
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The SchoonerFlight | |
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Adios, Carenge | |
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Shabine Leaves the Republic | |
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The Flight, Passing Blanchisseuse | |
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Shabine Encounters the Middle Passage | |
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The Sailor Sings Back to the Casuarinas | |
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The Flight Anchors in Castries Harbour | |
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Fight with the Crew | |
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Out of the Depths | |
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After the Storm | |
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The Sea Is History | |
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The Saddhu of Couva Forest of Europe | |
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From The Fortunate Traveller(1981) | |
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Piano Europa | |
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The Spoiler's Return | |
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Early Pompeian | |
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The Fortunate Traveller | |
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The Season of Phantasmal Peace | |
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From Midsummer(1984) | |
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"The jet bores like a silverfish through volumes of cloud" | |
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"Companion in Rome, whom Rome makes as old as Rome" | |
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"Midsummer stretches beside me with its cat's yawn" | |
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"A wind-scraped headland, a sludgy dishwater sea" | |
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"Since all of your work was really an effort to appease" | |
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"There was one Syrian, with his bicycle, in our town" | |
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"The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me" | |
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From The Arkansas Testament(1987) | |
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Saint Lucia's First Communion | |
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The Light of the World Night Fishing | |
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Elsewhere Winter Lamps For Adrian | |
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The Arkansas Testament | |
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From Omeros (1990) | |
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"'This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes'" | |
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"'Touchez-i, encore: N'ai fendre choux-ous-ou, salope!'" | |
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"I sat on the white terrace waiting for the cheque" | |
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"How fast it fades! Maud thought; the enameled sky" | |
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"From his heart's depth he knew she was never coming" | |
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"Mangrove, their ankles in water, walked with the canoe" | |
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"I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son" | |
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From The Bounty(1997) | |
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Thanksgiving | |
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"Never get used to this; the feathery, swaying casuarinas" | |
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"Alphaeus Prince, What a name! He was one of the Princes" | |
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"The sublime always begins with the chord 'And then I saw'" | |
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"Praise to the rain, eraser of picnics, praise the grey cloud" | |
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Italian Eclogues I | |
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"On the bright road to | |