Selected Poems

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Translated by Robert Friend Foreword introduction from EARLY AND LATE (1959) In the Jerusalem Hills from Love Songs from an Ancient Book (1,5) from River Songs (2,3,4,5) from The Flowering (5) Will the time ever come April Khamsin from The Love of Teresa De Meun The Prodigal Son Night Psalm from My Mother’s Home from WITH THIS NIGHT (1965) Epigraph This Night Song of the Strange Woman A Look at a Bee Poems of Oblivion For One who doesn’t Believe A God once commanded us Far Away Toward Myself from REMNANTS OF LIFE (1971) A young poet suddenly falls silent ... That poem I didn’t write ... Answer from Poems of Spain Hill Excursion It was a wonderful summer ... Yes, I have others ... I shall arise, I shall arise ... Far Reading Dante The Fear Too Of all your forgotten ... At a Small Station There were questions ... On tiptoe, carefully ... The day has turned away Scaled are the sand The eighth part ... Only one step Heavenly Jerusalem, Jerusalem of the Earth You have no right to mercy ... Sickness Nightmare The sky is already dead ... Tomorrow I shall die ... Remnants of Life Not for a long time now ... White Poplar Leaves Afterword