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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

42 songs
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1992
Single
Dec 1992
Nobel Lecture in Literature (1992): The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (Walcott)
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Single
Dec 1992
Nobel Lecture in Literature (1992): The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (Walcott)
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1986
Single
Jan 1986
The Fist
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Single
Jan 1986
The Fist
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Album
Hunter Caribbean Lit

3 tracks

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Album
Hunter Caribbean Lit

3 tracks

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Album
Poems 1965-1980

1 track

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Album
Poems 1965-1980

1 track

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Album
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony

1 track

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Album
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony

1 track

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1953
Single
Jan 1953
Ruins of a Great House
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Single
Jan 1953
Ruins of a Great House
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Top Songs

#1
Sixty Years After
#2
XIV (period 5)
#3
XIV
#4
To a Painter in England (for Harold Simmons)
#5
Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins
#6
The Star-Apple Kingdom
#7
The Sea is History
#8
The Schooner Flight

About Derek Walcott

Discography

Hunter Caribbean Lit
3 tracks
Poems 1965-1980
1 track
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
1 track

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Sixty Years After

In my wheelchair in the Virgin lounge at Vieuxfort, I saw, sitting in her own wheelchair, her beauty hunched like a crumpled flower, the one…

XIV (period 5)

With the frenzy of an old snake shedding its skin , the speckled road , scored with ruts, smelling of mold , twisted on itself and reentered…

XIV

With the frenzy of an old snake shedding its skin , the speckled road, scored with ruts, smelling of mold , twisted on itself and reentered …

To a Painter in England (for Harold Simmons)

Where you rot under the strict, grey industry Of cities of fog and winter fevers, I Send this to remind you of personal islands For which Ga…

Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins

Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins that shrivels fountains, had exhausted him; a cupola in Milan exhaled him like incense, Abruzz…

The Star-Apple Kingdom

There were still shards of an ancient pastoral in those shires of the island where the cattle drank their pools of shadow from an older sky,…

The Sea is History

Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea. The sea has locked them up.…

The Schooner Flight

1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of this Caribbean, I blow out the light b…

The Polish Rider

The grey horse, Death , in profile bears the young Titus To dark woods by the dying coal of day; The father with worn vision portrays the so…

The Glory Trumpeter

Old Eddie's face, wrinkled with river lights, Looked like a Mississippi man's. The eyes, Derisive and avuncular at once, Swivelling, fixed m…

Discography at a glance

42

Songs on Lyrks

3

Albums

37

Singles

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Popular tracks by Derek Walcott include Sixty Years After, XIV (period 5), XIV, To a Painter in England (for Harold Simmons), Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins. Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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