Robert Lowell Speak Poems

  • 1.
    "The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open.
    Our magnolia blossoms.Life begins to happen.
    My hopped up husband drops his home disputes,
    and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes,
    ...
  • 2.
    An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that he is Aeneas at the funeral of Pallas, an Italian prince.


    The sun is blue and scarlet on my page,
    ...
  • 3.
    'It is the future generation that presses into being by means of
    these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ours.'
    - Schopenhauer

    ...
  • 4.
    [February 1954]
    Your nurse could only speak Italian,
    but after twenty minutes I could imagine your final week,
    and tears ran down my cheeks....
    ...
  • 5.
    My old flame, my wife!
    Remember our lists of birds?
    One morning last summer, I drove
    by our house in Maine. It was still
    ...
Total 5 Speak Poems by Robert Lowell

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Sinners, Obey The Gospel-Word!
 by Charles Wesley

Sinners, obey the gospel-word!
Haste to the supper of my Lord!
Be wise to know your gracious day;
All things are ready, come away!

Ready the Father is to own
And kiss his late-returning son;
Ready your loving Saviour stands,
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