Poems by John Berryman
The Traveller
... Their courage. When the train stopped and they knew ...
Dream Song 1: Huffy Henry hid the day
... I see his point,âa trying to put things over ...
Dream Song 172: Your face broods
... and went on round the bendtill the oven seemed the proper place for you ...
Dream Song 128: A hemorrhage of his left ear of Good Friday
... The cabins at eight thou' are pressurized, they swore, my love, bad forâ ...
Dream Song 4: Filling her compact & delicious body
... kept me from springing on heror falling at her little feet and crying ...
Dream Song 20: The Secret of the Wisdom
... you did somebody: others you hurt short: ...
Dream Song 38: The Russian grin bellows his condolence
... âwhile he begins to have it out with Horace ...
Dream Song 55: Peter's not friendly. He gives me sideways looks
... A chill fell. Talk slackened,died, and began to give me sideways looks ...
Dream Song 43: 'Oyez, oyez!' The Man Who Did Not Deliver
... I must sting. Listen! the grave ground-rhythm of a gone ...
Dream Song 104: Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one!
... heavy clubs from belowand fromâGod save the bloody markâabove ...
Sonnet 104 - A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece
... . Who'd throw her black hair back, and hang, and tease ...
Dream Song 36: The high ones die, die. They die
... What if I roiling & babbling & braining, brood on why and ...
Dream Song 112: My framework is broken, I am coming to an end
... shows her good soul, as true as a healed bone,â ...
Dream Song 24: Oh servant Henry lectured till
... & the saddhu in maha mudra, the great River,and Henry was happy & beside him with excitement ...
Dream Song 22: Of 1826
... I am two eyes screwed to my set, whose blindâIt is the Fourth of July ...