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TO RILKE by DENISE LEVERTOV

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: ONCE, IN DREAM, / THE BOAT
Last Line: Your silence was just such a song
Subject(s): CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

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