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Crumbling into their infernal chasm - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"

Before the astonished augurs - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"

The convulsions of human error - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"

While horizons were burning - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"

The stone slabs of forces fallen - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

Their entrenched metamorphosis - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

From a slowly surrendering sun - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"

Till my name re-entered me - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"

Missed the chance of answering - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

Scorches the skin of night - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament VII"

As a candle repeats the moment - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

Happier in the loss of love - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

The hills never turned in their sleep - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

In their starlit, metallic sweat - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament VIII"

Nothing to understand in hunger - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XI"

Whose plough was still the sword - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XV"

Wherever the heart hesitates - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XV"

Piercing the dead with the quick - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVII"

Where the history is harder to bear - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVIII"

An afterthought of the state - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XIX"

That turns an idea to acid - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament "XXI"

Stumps in a charred forest - Derek Walcott "Central America"

By the river's consolations - Derek Walcott "Central America"

No distinction in these distances - Derek Walcott "Central America"

Refresh memory with their smell - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

A black vowel barking - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

The lost idea of the visible soul - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

A mirror's tears - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

In the stitched silence - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

From so much symmetry - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

Medicine of bitterness - Derek Walcott "Dark August"

Time and its burden - Derek Walcott "Eulogy to W.H. Auden"

The light of his strange calling - Derek Walcott "Eulogy to W.H. Auden"

In treachery and in union - Derek Walcott "Eulogy to W.H. Auden"

As insubstantial as a sunset - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"

The light behind your veins - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"

Did not invite or invent angels - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"

Have now entered a wisdom - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"

Without an accurate memory - Derek Walcott "French Colonial. "Vers de Societe""

Compare the symmetry - Derek Walcott "French Colonial. "Vers de Societe""

From the dark cribs of doorways - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Full of crystal splinters - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Out of the mirage of water - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Grinds on in smoke - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Bring peace to us in parcels - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

No more broken bottles in heaven - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

The night's moth-eaten sleeve - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Beyond the paradise of our horizon - Derek Walcott "Gros-Ilet"

The bronze dusk of imperial palms - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"

From the roofed harbour - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"

On a sea without seasons - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"

Made one with my horizon - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"

Our hair is ashes - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"

From my pen's eye - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"

When our wars were happier - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"

Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

Outside whose bright doors - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

Tinted by the dyeing dusk - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

Still selling to the empty streets - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

Follows a different star - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

All those distraught recollections - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Recite to that zero - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

For the sand's moonlit linen - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Climbing the wind - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

From the dry yard of my mind - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Her thin, uncontradictable truth - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Welded in ice - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

In drops of patience - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

From the door of your book - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Has learnt your silence - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

The sand's broken sticks - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Give rein to all their sorrows - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

The grave of a pillow - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Like the sea in a window - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

In the surf of trees - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Rattling the foam's chain - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Insomniac remorse - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Wandering in another tense - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Through the erasure of her face - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

The original fault unsettled - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

An echo overheard - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

The mesmerizing wake of History - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Have rehearsed their beauty - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Shake the sweat of nightmare - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Change their idea of heaven - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

A jungle in the head - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"

Better to stand bewildered - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"

These tongues of snow - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"

With slow scriptures of sand - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"

Magnify his shadow - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

The single lance of a candle - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

A candle will guard his sleep - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

Doubting such peace - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

Grapple with crowbars - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

Gently chain the joined wrists - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

The breath of the opium dragon - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

Reads the palm of the sand - Derek Walcott "Salsa"

Bones in the grass - Derek Walcott "Salsa"

The stars themselves did nothing - Derek Walcott "Steam"

Under the black rook's reign - Derek Walcott "Steam"

Forgive our ghosts - Derek Walcott "Steam"

Singeing the mind's ceiling - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

Throughout the storm's harvest - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

Thunder-gone waiting - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

Her drowned face glances - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

The circle of one century - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

Fades into the clouding sand - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

In the wake of the rain-lit sun - Derek Walcott "Stream"

A transferred paradise - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"

The heart puts love above it all - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"

Making sunshine out of shade - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

To have loved one horizon - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

Before you start regretting - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

Cold as an archangel's cheek - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"

Lift so his wings can pass - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"

Beauty through dusty glass - Derek Walcott "The Villa Restaurant"

Mere misdirected will - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"

High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"

What cloaked rumours - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"

Smother her round scream - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"

The unbaptized, unfinished, and uncursed - Derek Walcott "White Magic"

With scarlet moons for eyes - Derek Walcott "White Magic"

Our myths are ignorance - Derek Walcott "White Magic"

My faith lost in answers - Derek Walcott "Winter Lamps"

Make all your sorrow neat - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

The traitor you feel you are - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

The drawers you dare not open - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

To the very edge of that promise - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Break happily into blossom - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Kills everything but Love - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"


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