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Quotation by Galway Kinnell
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After Making Love We Hear FootstepsFirst SongFlower Herding on Mount MonadnockSaint Francis and the SowThe BearRelated Subjects
life (6) sorrow (6) happiness (5) nature (4) love (4) God (3) suffering (3) pain (3) pleasures (2) soul (2)
There is something joyous in the elegies
Of birds. They seem
Caught up in a formal delight,
Though the mourning dove whistles of despair.
Of birds. They seem
Caught up in a formal delight,
Though the mourning dove whistles of despair.
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (l. 25–28). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
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