Denise Levertov
Bio
Breathing the Water
I
Variation on a Theme by Rilke - The Book of Hours
Hunting the Phoenix
August Daybreak
A Blessing
The Spirits Appeased
II Spinoffs, One
A Doorkey for Cordova
Athanor
Window-Blind
The Spy
Embrasure
III
Zeroing In
The Absentee
Captive Flower
The Mockingbirds of Mockingbirds
In Memory: After a Friend's Sudden Death
Missing Beatrice
To Olga
Every Day
To One Steeped in Bitterness
IV
The Stricken Children
During a Son’s Dangerous Illness
Carapace
Urgent Whisper
From the Image-Flow—South Africa 1986
Making Peace
From the Image-Flow - Summer of 1986
V Spinoffs, Two
She wept, and the women consoled her
The day longs for the evening’
The last heavy fairytale
The sea's repeated gesture
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears.
The Holy One, blessed be he...
I learned that her name was Proverb
VI
In Praise of Allium
Poet Power
Wavering
Girls
VII
Caedmon
The Servant Girl at Emmaus
Standoff
On a Theme from Julian’s Chapter XX
Candlemas
Variation and Reflection on a Theme by Rilke - The Book of Hours
La Cordelle
Poems 1960-1967
The Jacob's Ladder
To the Reader
The Ladder
A Common Ground
The World Outside
The Part
A Sequence
The Rainwalkers
Partial Resemblance
Night on Hatchet Cove
The Tide
The Depths
Six Variations
A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England
Come into Animal Presence
Air of November
Song for a Dark Voice
A Window
Else a great Prince in prison lies
Five Poems from Mexico
Three Meditations
In Memory of Boris Pasternak
Ce bruit de la mer…
Stems
Resting Figure
The Jacob’s Ladder
The Well
The Illustration
Deaths
A Music
A Letter to William Kinter of Muhlenberg
Clouds
The Thread
From the Roof
The Presence
Luxury
The Tulips
The Grace-Note
The Fountain
The Necessity
Matins
During the Eichmann Trial
A Solitude
O Taste and See
Song for Ishtar
The Elves
The Ache of Marriage
Love Song
The Message
The Breathing
September 1961
Kingdoms of Heaven
The Ripple
Sparks
Another Spring
The Film
A Cure of Souls
The Secret
Above the Cave
Leaving Forever
To the Muse
The Crack
A Figure of Time
The Victors
A Turn of the Head
The Resolve
Overheard
Claritas
Shalom
The Coming of Fall
The Ground Mist
The Old Adam
Who Is at my Window
Puñal
Grey Sparrow Addresses the Mind’s Ear
O Taste and See
In Abeyance
Eros at Temple Stream
The Novices
The Stonecarver’s Poem
Gone Away
The Garden Wall
The Disclosure
Melody Grundy
Into the Interior
The Novel
Threshold
Looking-glass
About Marriage
Hypocrite Women
In Mind
Our Bodies
Losing Track
The Prayer
October
A Walk Through the Notebooks
A March
Earth Psalm
Seedtime
A Psalm Praising the Hair of Man’s Body
The Runes
The Sorrow Dance
The Earth Worm
For Floss
Eros
Joy
The Willows of Massachusetts
Message
Living While It May
Annuals
The Cat as Cat
Revivals
The Mutes
As it Happens
The Whisper
Travels
A Lamentation
Skew Lines
The Closed World
To Speak
Psalm Concerning the Castle
Perspectives
The Postcards: A Triptych
Remembering
City Psalm
A Vision
The Pulse
Life at War
Didactic Poem
What Were They Like?
Two Variations
The Altars in the Street
A Note to Olga (1966)
Living
Second Didactic Poem
The Wings
Abel’s Bride
Face to Face
Stepping Westward
Bedtime
The Son
A Man
Hymn to Eros
Thirst Song
The Unknown
A Day Begins
The Wings
Olga Poems
Miscellaneous
At the Justice Department November 15, 1969
The Distance
The Communion
Aware
Contraband
People at Night
St. Peter And The Angel
Sojourns In The Parallel World
Seeing For A Moment
Goodbye To Tolerance
Looking, Walking, Being
Settling
A Tree Telling Of Orpheus
Ikon: The Harrowing Of Hell
Everything That Acts Is Actual
Pleasures
In California During The Gulf War
In California: Morning, Evening, Late January
An Embroidery
On The Mystery Of The Incarnation
Intrusion
News Report, September 1991
Celebration
A Time Past
Adam's Complaint
An Excerpt From 'Mass For The Day Of St. Thomas Didymus'
February Evening In New York
Prisoners
Bearing The Light
The Sharks
The Metier of Blossoming
Sojourns
Wedding-Ring
The Quest
The Avowal
Web
The Great Black Heron
Illustrious Ancestors
Talking To Grief
Vocalist - Lisa Klein
Poem Source: Breathing the Water - New Directions - 1987 & Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967 - New Directions 1983
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