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Quotation by Robert Lowell
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After the Surprising ConversionsAs a Plane Tree by the WaterChildren of LightColloquy in Black RockEzra PoundRelated Subjects
love (12) longing (3) partings (2) gossip (2) loss (2) time (2) spring (1) loyalty (1) men (1) death (1)
Absence! My heart grows tense
as though a harpoon were sparring for the kill.
as though a harpoon were sparring for the kill.
Robert Lowell (1917–1977), U.S. poet. Waking in the Blue (l. 8–9). . .
Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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