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Devotions: the selected poems of Mary Oliver
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Oliver, Mary Author
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9780399563249
9780399563263
9780399563256
9780399563263
9780399563256
Table of Contents
From the Book
From Felicity --
I wake close to morning --
This morning --
The world I live in --
Whistling swans --
Storage --
For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E. (1945-2014) --
I know someone --
That little beast --
The pond --
I have just said --
The gift --
From blue horses --
After reading Lucretius, I go to the pond --
I don't want to be demure or respectable --
Stebbin's gulch --
Franz Marc's blue horses --
On meditating, sort of --
Loneliness --
Do stones feel? --
Drifting --
Blueberries --
The vulture's wings --
What gorgeous thing --
From dog songs --
The storm --
Percy (one) --
Little dog's rhapsody in the night (Percy three) --
Percy (nine) --
Benjamin, who came from who knows where --
The dog has run off again --
Bazougey --
Her grave --
The poetry teacher --
The first time Percy came back --
From a thousand mornings --
I go down to the shore --
I happened to be standing --
Three things to remember --
Lines written in the days of growing darkness --
An old story --
The instant --
Tides --
The poet compares human nature to the ocean from which we came --
Life story --
Varanasi --
From swan --
I worried --
I own a house --
Don't hesitate --
Swan --
Passing the unworked field --
How I go to the woods --
On the beach --
From evidence --
Violets --
We shake with joy --
It was early --
With thanks to the field sparrow, whose voice is so delicate and humble --
A lesson from James Wright --
Almost a conversation --
To begin with, the sweet grass --
Evidence --
Prayer --
Mysteries, yes --
At the river Clarion --
From the Truro bear and other adventures --
The other kingdoms --
The gift --
Coyote in the dark, coyotes remembered --
From red bird --
Night herons --
Mornings at Blackwater --
The orchard --
Sometimes --
invitation --
From this river, when I was a child, I used to drink --
We should be well prepared --
Meadowlark sings and I greet him in return --
Of the empire --
Red --
Night and the river --
Self-portrait --
With the blackest of Inks --
From thirst --
When I am among the trees --
When the roses speak, I pay attention --
Six recognitions of the Lord --
Gethsemane --
The poet thinks about the donkey --
Praying --
Doesn't every poet write a poem about unrequited love? --
On thy wondrous works I will meditate (Psalm 145) --
The chat --
Thirst --
From new and selected poems: volume two --
Hum --
Lead --
Oxygen --
White heron rises over Blackwater --
Honey Locust --
Song for autumn --
Fireflies --
The poet with his face in his hands --
Wild, wild --
North country --
Terns
From blue iris --
Just lying on the grass at Blackwater --
Sea leaves --
Morning at Blackwater --
How would you live then? --
How the grass and the flowers came to exist, a god-tale --
From why I wake early --
Why I wake early --
Spring at Blackwater: I go through the lessons already learned --
Mindful --
Lingering in happiness --
Daisies --
Goldenrod, late fall --
The old poets of China --
Logos --
Snow geese --
At black river --
Beans --
The arrowhead --
Where does the temple begin, where does it end? --
From long life --
Just as the calendar began to say summer --
Can you imagine? --
Softest of mornings --
Carrying the snake to the garden --
From owls and other fantasies --
The dipper --
Spring --
While I am writing a poem to celebrate summer, the meadowlark begins to sing --
Catbird --
Backyard --
From what do we know? --
Summer poem --
The loon --
Winter at Herring Cove --
Mink --
Blue iris --
You are standing at the edge of the woods --
The roses --
Stones --
One hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day --
From the leaf and the cloud --
Flare --
From the book of time --
From west wind --
Have you tried to enter the long black branches --
Seven white butterflies --
At round pond --
Black oaks --
Am I not among the early risers --
Fox --
From the poem "West Wind" --
From white pine --
May --
Yes! No! --
In Pobiddy, Georgia --
Porcupine --
Wrens --
Mockingbirds --
I found a dead fox --
Morning glories --
August --
Toad --
I looked up --
The sea mouse --
From new and selected poems: volume one --
The sun --
Goldenrod --
When death comes --
Whelks --
Goldfinches --
Poppies --
Water snake --
White flowers --
Peonies --
The egret --
Rice --
Rain --
Picking blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 --
October --
From house of light --
Some questions you might ask --
The Buddha's last instruction --
The summer day --
Spring --
Little owl who lives in the orchard --
The kookaburras --
Roses, late summer --
White owl flies into and out of the field --
Singapore --
The hermit crab --
The kingfisher --
The swan --
Turtle --
The loon on Oak-Head pond --
Five A.M. in the pinewoods --
Some herons --
From dream work --
One or two things --
Morning poem --
Wild geese --
Shadows --
The journey --
Poem --
Two kinds of deliverance --
Black snakes --
1945-1985: poem for the anniversary --
The sunflowers --
From American primitive --
August --
The kitten --
Moles --
Clapp's pond --
First snow --
Ghosts --
Skunk cabbage --
The snakes --
White night --
The fish --
Humpbacks --
A meeting --
The roses --
Blackberries --
Tecumseh --
In Blackwater woods
From three rivers poetry journal and "three poems for James Wright" --
At Blackwater Pond --
The rabbit --
Three poems for James Wright --
From twelve moons --
Sleeping in the forest --
Snakes in winter --
Music lessons --
Entering the kingdom --
The night traveler --
Beaver moon-the suicide of a friend --
Last days --
The black snake --
The Truro bear --
Mussels --
Snow moon-black bear gives birth --
Strawberry moon --
Pink moon-the pond --
Aunt leaf --
Farm country --
The lamps --
From the river Styx, Ohio --
Learning about the Indians --
Going to Walden --
Night flight --
From no voyage and other poems --
No voyage --
Jack --
Beyond the snow belt --
The swimming lesson --
On winter's margin --
The return --
Morning in a new land.
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