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JANE HIRSHFIELD

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Poems found: 231

1973

20-Oct-83

A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING

A CEDARY FRAGRANCE

A DAY IS VAST

A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS

ADAMANTINE PERFECTION OF DESIRE

AFTER LONG SILENCE

AFTER WORK

AGAINST LOSS

ALL SUMMER YOU KEPT TRYING TO ANSWER

ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES

ALWAYS SHE READS THE SAME TRANSLATION

ARS POETICA

ASK MUCH, THE VOICE SUGGESTED

AT NIGHT

AT NIGHTFALL

AT NIGHTFALL

AT THE ROOSEVELT BATHS

ATTEMPT

AUTUMN

AUTUMN QUINCE

AUTUMN QUINCE

BETWEEN THE MATERIAL WORLD AND THE WORLD OF FEELING

BONSAI

BREAKABLE SPELL

CHILDHOOD, HORSES, RAIN

COMPLETING THE WEAVE

CONTINUOUS EMBROIDERY

CONTRACT

COOK

COURTSHIP

CYCLADIC FIGURE: THE HARP PLAYER

DA CAPO

DARK-GRAINED, SURPRISINGLY HEAVY

DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD

DESIRE

DESTINATION

DIALOGUE

DIFFERENT RISING

DOG STILL BARKING AT MIDNIGHT

DOOR

DOPPELGANGER

DOPPELGANGER

DOWNED BRANCH

EACH HAPPINESS RINGED BY LIONS

EACH STEP

EARTHLY BEAUTY

EMPEDOCLES' PHYSICS

EVEN THE VANISHING HOUSED

EVENING, LATE FALL

FADO

FLOOR

FLOWERING VETCH

FOR A GELDING

FOR A WEDDING ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS

FOR A WEDDING ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS

FOR THE AUTUMN DEAD: ELECTION DAY, 1984

FOR THE WOMEN OF POLAND: DECEMBER 1981

FOR WHAT BINDS US

GODS ARE NOT LARGE

GREAT POWERS ONCE RAGED THROUGH YOUR BODY

GREEN-STRIPED MELONS

GROUNDFALL PEAR

HALF-SLEEPING

HAND

HAPPINESS

HAWK CRY

HEART AS ORIGAMI

HEART STARTNG AND STOPPING IN THE LATE DARK

HEAT

HEAT

HEAT

HEAT OF AUTUMN

HESITATION

HISTORY AS THE PAINTER BONNARD

HOUSE IN WINTER

HUNGRY GHOSTS

I HAVE NO USE FOR VIRGINS

I IMAGINE MYSELF IN TIME

I WRITE THESE WORDS TO DELAY

IN A NET OF BLUE AND GOLD

IN APRIL SOMETHING STARTED

IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES

IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES

IN THAT WORLD, THE ANGELS WEAR FINS

IN THAT WORLD, THE ANGELS WEAR FINS

IN THE YEAR EIGHT HUNDRED

IN YELLOW GRASS

IN YOUR HANDS

INFLECTION FINALLY UNGRASPABLE BY GRAMMAR

INSPIRATION

INVOCATION

IT IS EASY TO BE FASCINATED WITH DEATH

IT IS NIGHT. IT IS VERY DARK

IT WAS LIKE THIS: YOU WERE HAPPY

ITHACA IN ARMS

JUST BELOW THE SURFACE

JUST BELOW THE SURFACE

JUSTICE WITHOUT PASSION

KINGDOM

KNOWING NOTHING

LAKE AND MAPLE

LAKE AND MAPLE

LEAVING THE OCTOBER PALACE

LETTER TO HUGO FROM LATER

LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN

LIKE TWO NEGATIVE NUMBERS MULTIPLIED BY RAIN

LIVES OF THE HEART

LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES

LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES

LOVE OF AGED HORSES

LULLABYE

MATHEMATICS

MEETING

MEETING THE LIGHT COMPLETELY

MESMER

MILK

MOMENT

MOMENT

MOUNTAIN

MULBERRIES

MULE HEART

MUSIC

MUSIC LIKE WATER

MY WEATHER

NARCISSUS: TEL AVIV, BAGHDAD, SAN FRANCISCO; FEBRUARY 1991

NEEDLES OF PINE, OF MORNING

NOT MOVING EVEN ONE STEP

NOVEMBER ANGELS

NOVEMBER, REMEMBERING VOLTAIRE

OF GRAVITY & ANGELS

OF THE BODY

ON READING BRECHT

ON THE BEACH

ON THE BEACH

ON THE CURRENT EVENTS

ONE LIFE IS SPENT, THE OTHER SPENDS US

OPTIMISM

OSIRIS

OTHER EARTH

PATCHED CARPET

PATTERN THAT CONNECTS

PERCEPTIBILITY IS A KIND OF ATTENTIVENESS

PERCOLATION

PERISHABLE, IT SAID

PLENITUDE

POE: AN ASSAY (I)

POEM WITH TWO ENDINGS

POMEGRANATES

PROMISE

PROTEUS ENTERING WATER

RAIN IN MAY

REBUS

RECALLING A SUNG DYNASTY LANDSCAPE

RECURRING POSSIBILITY

RED POPPIES

REFUSAL

RESPITE

RESTRINGING THE BEADS

RIPENESS

RITUAL

ROOM

ROSES OF THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY

SEAWATER STIFFENS CLOTH

SEE HOW THE ROADS ARE STREWN

SENTENCINGS

SHADOW

SILENCE

SILK CORD

SLEEP

SLEEPING

SLEEPING IN THE AFTERNOON

SONG

SONOMA FIRE

SPEED AND PERFECTION

SPEED WITH WHICH BLUE NEEDLES MOVE

SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP

SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP

STANDING DEER

STING

STORM: YADDO, 1989

STORY

STREAM OF IT

SURROUNDED BY ALL THE FALLING

SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS

TAMARA STANDS IN STRAW

TASK

THAT FALLING

THE DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD

THE DECISION

THE ENVOY

THE HEAT OF AUTUMN

THE PEAR

THE RITUAL

THE STONE OF HEAVEN

THE WOODPECKER KEEPS RETURNING

THEOLOGY

THIEF

THINGS KEEP SORTING THEMSELVES

THIS LOVE

THIS RIPENESS

THIS WAS ONCE A LOVE POEM

THREE TIMES MY LIFE HAS OPENED

TO DRINK

TO HEAR THE FALLING WORLD

TO JUDGMENT: AN ASSAY

TONIGHT THE INCALCULABLE STARS

TOWARD THE INFINITE

TOWARD THE SOLSTICE

TREE

TROMPE L'OEIL

TWO WASHINGS

UKIYO-E

UNDER THE RIVER

VILNIUS

VINEGAR AND OIL

WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP

WAKING THIS MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP

WATER DIAMONDS

WEDDING

WEIGHING

WHAT FALLS

WHAT IS USUAL IS NOT WHAT IS ALWAYS

WHAT THE HEART WANTS

WHITE CURTAIN IN SUNLIGHT AND WIND

WINDOW

WITH SINGING AND BANNERS

WITHIN THIS TREE

WOMAN IN RED COAT

WORLD



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