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Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur

57 songs

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2004

Advice to a Prophet

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Advice to a Prophet

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2000

Zea

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Zea

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1968

A Late Aubade

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A Late Aubade

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1961

Junk

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Junk

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1950

Death of a Toad

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Death of a Toad

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Terza Rima

Zea

To the Etruscan Poets

The Writer

The Sundial

The Reader

The Pardon

The Juggler

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Terza Rima

In this great form, as Dante proved in Hell, There is no dreadful thing that can’t be said In passing. Here, for instance, one could tell Ho…

Zea

Once their fruit is picked , The cornstalks lighten, and th oug h Keeping to their strict Rows , begin to be The tall grasses that they are …

To the Etruscan Poets

Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young Took with your mother's milk the mother tongue, In which pure matrix , joining world and mind…

The Writer

In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My daughter is writing a story. I pause in …

The Sundial

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The Reader

She is going back, these days, to the great stories That charmed her younger mind. A shaded light Shines on the nape half-shadowed by her cu…

The Pardon

My dog lay dead five days without a grave In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine And a jungle of grass and honey-suckle vine. I who …

The Juggler

A ball will bounce, but less and less. It’s not A light-hearted thing, resents its own resilience . Falling is what it loves, and the earth …

The House

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The Beautiful Changes

One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On water; it glides So from the walker, it turns Dry gra…

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57

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57

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