Potential Titles: Denise Levertov

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No longing to shatter himself - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"

Grind granite to sand - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"

My shadow, in your dark boat - Denise Levertov "A Defeat"

Stirs with tentative song - Denise Levertov "Early"

Gathered testimony of terror - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"

Knowledge of the old harmonies - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"

Who refused to be bought - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"

Nevertheless persists in beauty - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"

Tranquil as this young moon - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"

Drinking light from the vanished sun - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"

For a silence almost present - Denise Levertov "Intimation"

Elusive among my heartbeats - Denise Levertov "Intimations"

At my lips before darkness - Denise Levertov "Midnight Gladness"

That lives on the imagination's tongue - Denise Levertov "O Taste and See"

To break on the tongue - Denise Levertov "On the Parables of the Mustard Seed"

Not noticing paradox - Denise Levertov "On the Parables of the Mustard Seed"

My need roams history - Denise Levertov "The Past (II)"

No inch of all untouched - Denise Levertov "The Past (II)"

With his shadow on equal terms - Denise Levertov "The Sculptor (Homage to Chillida)"

The arcane power of right angles - Denise Levertov "The Sculptor (Homage to Chillida)"

The abandoned cup's parched hollow - Denise Levertov "Soutine (Two Paintings)"

Weather and water in its perfecting - Denise Levertov "A Stone from Iona"

Glowing behind the dark others - Denise Levertov "A Surrogate"

All voice, though silent - Denise Levertov "To Rilke"

Chance the pilgrim sandals - Denise Levertov "A Traveler"

Strangling other throats - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

The detritus of our ambitions - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Ash and cinder of star-fire - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Tinder for primal light - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Flame on our lips - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Not you but our hope of you - Denise Levertov "Variation on a Theme by Rilke"

We dustmotes in the cosmos - Denise Levertov "Variation on a Theme by Rilke"

Had a brilliance more insistent - Denise Levertov "The Winter Stars"


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