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Dolphin Lyrics by Robert Lowell

Selected Poems (1967-1977)

1976

My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise,
a captive as Racine, the man of craft,
drawn through his maze of iron composition
by the incomparable wandering voice of Phèdre.
When I was troubled in mind, you made for my body
caught in its hangman's-knot of sinking lines,
the glassy bowing and scraping of my will. . . .
I have sat and listened to too many
words of the collaborating muse,
and plotted perhaps too freely with my life,
not avoiding injury to others,
not avoiding injury to myself---
to ask compassion . . . this book, half fiction,
an eelnet made by man for the eel fighting

my eyes have seen what my hand did.

About “Dolphin” by Robert Lowell

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"Dolphin" is credited to Robert Lowell. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Dolphin" appears on "Selected Poems (1967-1977) " in 1976.

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