Poems by John Berryman
Dream Song 64: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need
... & greed & spite, of a crutch,who thought he had, a vile night, been-well-blest ...
Dream Song 31: Henry Hankovitch, con guÃtar
... enslaving himself he withdrew from his blueFlorentine leather case an Egyptian black ...
Dream Song 93: General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General
... My beauty id off duty!âHenry relives a lady, how down vain, ...
Dream Song 50: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post
... I cave to feel as ifde roses of dawns & pearls of dusks, made up ...
Dream Song 73: Karensui, Ryoan-ji
... the sand is not quite white: granite sand, grey,âfrom nowhere can one see all the stonesâ ...
Dream Song 103: I consider a song will be as humming-bird
... where they are wondering: does time run backwardâ ...
Dream Song 59: Henry's Meditation in the Kremlin
... lips ears breast fists of Kruschev, for Christ knows ...
Dream Song 80: Op. posth. no. 3
... I miss it. O happies before & during & between the times it got married ...
Dream Song 68: I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing
... and nobody in the snow on callso, as I say, the house is given hell ...
Dream Song 17: Muttered Henry:âLord of matter, thus
... by smug.âWhat have I tossed you but the least ...
Dream Song 118: He wondered: Do I love? all this applause
... and Henry returns to rejoicein dark & and still, and one sole beauty only ...
Dream Song 95: The surly cop looked out at me in sleep
... attend while he is cookeduntil with trembling hands hoist I my true ...
Dream Song 108: Sixteen below. Our care like stranded hulls
... Chrysanthemums crest, far way, in the Emperor's garden ...
Dream Song 116: Through the forest, followed, Henry made his silky way
... with everyone, even that abnormally scrubbed & powerful one, ...
Dream Song 123: Daples my floor the eastern sun, my house faces north
... Colossal in the dawn comes the second lightwe do all die, in the floor, in the morgue ...