Robert Lowell Light Poems
- 1. Identification In Belfast
(I.R.A. Bombing)
The British Army now carries two rifles,
one with rubber rabbit-pellets for children,
... - 2. Epilogue
Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme--
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?
... - 3. The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket
Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air
and the beasts and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
I
... - 4. After The Surprising Conversions
September twenty-second, Sir: today
I answer. In the latter part of May,
Hard on our Lordâ??s Ascension, it began
To be more sensible. A gentleman
... - 5. Children Of Light
Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones;
Embarking from the Nether Land of Holland,
Pilgrims unhouseled by Geneva's night,
... - 6. The Old Flame
My old flame, my wife!
Remember our lists of birds?
One morning last summer, I drove
by our house in Maine. It was still
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