James Arlington Wright - The branch will not break: poems

The branch will not break: poems — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The branch will not break: poems" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

123456

---

title	:	The Branch Will Not Break : Poems
author	:	Wright, James Arlington.
publisher	:	Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0819510181
print isbn13	:	9780819510181
ebook isbn13	:	9780585371474
language	:	English
subject	American poetry.
publication date	:	1963
lcc	:	PS3545.R58B7 1963eb
ddc	:	811.54
subject	:	American poetry.

Page 1 The Branch Will Not Break

Page 2 ALSO BY JAMES WRIGHT Saint Judas Shall We Gather at the River Collected Poems

Page 3 The Branch Will Not Break Poems by James Wright Ach, knt' ich dorthin kommen, Und dort mein Herz erfreu'n, Und aller Qual entnommen, Und frei und selig sein. Ach, jedes Land der Wonne! Das seh' ich oft im Traum. Doch kommt die Morgensonne, Zerfliesst's wie eitel Schaum.

Page 4 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 Copyright 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 by James Wright All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 20 19 18 17 16 For permission to reprint some of these poems, the author wishes to make due acknowledgment to the editors of the following: The Fifties, The Sixties, The Minnesota Review, Big Table, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Audience, Botteghe Oscure, Poetry (Chicago), The Kenyon Review, The New York Times (daily), The Nation, Chicago Choice, and The Hudson Review. The poem "By a Lake in Minnesota" appeared originally in The New Yorker. I am also grateful to three particular friends: Miss Mary Bly, for her self and for the poem which bears her name; Heinrich Heine, for his beautiful song "Aus alten Mrchen winkt es"; and Allen Tate, for his friendship in a difficult time. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Wright, James Arlington, 1927 The branch will not break; poems. [1st ed.] Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press [1963] 59 p. 21 cm. 1. Title. PS3545.R58B7 811.54 638858 Library of Congress [3]

Page 5 ELEUTHERIA (Sappho)

Page 6 Contents As I Step over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor 11 Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium 12 In Fear of Harvests 13 Three Stanzas from Goethe 14 Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio 15 Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota 16 The Jewel 17 In the Face of Hatred 18 Fear is What Quickens Me 19 A Message Hidden in an Empty Wine Bottle That I Threw into a Gully of Maple Trees One Night at an Indecent Hour 20 Stages on a Journey Westward 21 How My Fever Left 23 Miners 24 In Ohio 25 Two Poems about President Harding 26 Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959 29 In Memory of a Spanish Poet 31 The Undermining of the Defense Economy 32 Twilights 33 Two Hangovers 34 Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me 36

Page 7 Two Horses Playing in the Orchard

Next page

123456

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The branch will not break: poems»

Look at similar books to The branch will not break: poems. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Sandburg

Harvest Poems 1910-1960

Hass

A little book on form: an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry

Dewdney

The radiant inventory poems

David Lehman

Best American Poetry 2017

Wislawa Szymborska

Poems New and Collected

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Selected Poems

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Poems

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Pulitzer Prize Poetry

Wright

Gods silence

C. D. Wright

Spring and All

James Wright

Collected poems

James Tate

Selected poems

Discussion, reviews of the book The branch will not break: poems and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.