Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
Seascape
... and down to the suggestively Gothic arches of the mangrove roots ...
A Prodigal
... with pitchforks, faint forked lightnings, catching light, ...
Lines Written In The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
... Nevertheless, you'll find, Frank dear, ...
Visits To St. Elizabeths
... These are the years and the walls and the door ...
While Someone Telephones
... Hear nothing but a train that goes by, must go by, like tension ...
To Be Written On The Mirror In Whitewash
... I live only here, between your eyes and you, ...
Little Exercise
... in dark, coarse-fibred families, where occasionally a heron may undo his head, ...
North Haven
... and that they're free within the blue frontiers of bay ...
Strayed Crab
... eat them up. What is that big soft monster, like a yellow cloud, stifling ...
The Burglar Of Babylon
... Were freighters passing by,Or climbing the wall, and climbing ...
Arrival At Santos
... away like the former, slipping the way the latterdo when we mail the letters we wrote on the boat, ...
Squatter's Children
... Children, the threshold of the storm ...
Cape Breton
... Whatever the landscape had of meaning appears to have been abandoned, ...
Cirque D'Hiver
... that pierces both her body and her souland goes through his, and reappears below, ...
Songs For A Colored Singer
... faster, faster than the weeds, all the shining seeds take root, ...
