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The Rattle Bag: The U-Z Poems

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The Rattle Bag: The U-Z Poems

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429. "The Unknown Bird," Edward Thomas
430. "The Unquiet Grave." Anon
431. "Ute Mountain," Charles Tomlinson
432. "The Vacuum," Howard Nemerov
433. "Vergissmeinicht," Keith Douglas
434. "The Villain," W. H. Davies
435. "Vision by Sweetwater," John Crowe Ransom
436. "The Visitant," Theodore Roethke
437. "The Vixen," John Clare
438. "A Walk," Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky
439. "Walking West," William Stafford
440. "The Wanderer," W. H. Auden
441. "The Wandering Spectre," Anon
442. "War," Andrei Voznesensky
443. "War God's Horse Song," Anon
444. "'Was it for this?'" William Wordsworth
445. "Watch Your Step—I'm Drenched," Adrian Mitchell
446. "The Weapon," Hugh MacDiarmid
447. "Weathers," Thomas Hardy
448. "The Well Rising," William Stafford
449. "'When I set out for Lyonnesse,'" Thomas Hardy
450. "'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,'" Walt Whitman
451. "'When old corruption first begun,'" William Blake
452. "'When the rain raineth,"' Anon
453. "'The wicked who would do me harm,'" Anon
454. "The Wife of Usher's Well," Anon
455. "Wild Iron," Allen Curnow
456. "Willy Wet-leg," D. H. Lawrence
457. "'The wind blows out of the gates of the day,'" W. B. Yeats
458. "'The wind suffers of blowing,'" Laura Riding
459. "'A Wind that rose,'" Emily Dickinson
460. "The Windhover," Gerard Manley Hopkins
461. "Witches' Chasm," Ben Jonson
462. "'With fairest flowers,'" William Shakespeare
463. "The Woodlark," Gerard Manley Hopkins
464. "'Would you hear of an old-fashion'd sea-fight?'" Walt Whitman
465. "'Yon island carrions desperate of their bones,'" William Shakespeare
466. "You're," Sylvia Plath
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Wild Iron

Sea go dark, dark with wind,
Feet go heavy, heavy with sand,
Thoughts go wild, wild with sound
Of iron on the old shed swinging, clanging:
Go dark, go heavy, go wild, go round,
     Dark with the wind,
     Heavy with the sand,
Wild with the iron that tears at the nail
And the foundering shriek of the gale.

Allen Curnow
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Good poem. Sounds a little dangerous. Here is another good one.

The Well Rising

The well rising without sound,
the spring on a hillside,
the plowshare brimming through deep ground
everywhere in the field—

The sharp swallows in their swerve
flaring and hesitating
hunting for the final curve
coming closer and closer—

The swallow heart from wingbeat to wingbeat
counseling decision, decision:
thunderous examples. I place my feet
with care in such a world.

William Stafford
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Good poem. Sounds a little dangerous.
Yes it does sound a little dangerous, I think it provides a dangerous and rather exciting image ... it also has a masculine tone to it and, in a way, so does the Stafford poem.
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I have only found a few Emily Dickinson poems that I like. This is one.

A Wind that rose

A Wind that rose
Though not a Leaf
In any Forest stirred
But with itself did cold engage
Beyond the Realm of Bird –
A Wind that woke a lone Delight
Like Separation’s Swell
Restored in Arctic Confidence
To the Invisible –
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