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Born in 1929 / Died in 2004 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Thom Gunn

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On The Move 'Man, You Gotta Go.'

... That spurts across the field, the wheeling swallows, ...

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Considering The Snail

... He moves in a wood of desire,pale antlers barely stirring ...

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My Sad Captains

... perfectly embodied, allthe past lapping them like a ...

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The Man with Night Sweats

... The pains that will go through me, ...

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To Yvor Winters

... Though night is always close, complete negation ...

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At the Back of the North Wind

... Passing from summer, climbing down through winter ...

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Lament

...   In hope still, courteous still, but tired and thin,  ...

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From the Wave

... Their pale feet curl, they poise their weight ...

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The Annihilation of Nothing

... More space than space, over the cloud and slime, ...

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To Yvor Winters, 1955

... And in the house there rest, piled shelf on shelf,  ...

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Moly

...   These seem like bristles, and the hide is tough ...

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The Antagonism

... Gape gnarled unChristian heads out of whom stream  ...

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Cat island

... but simply a look at their beauty ...

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Painting by Vuillard

... And I think it was whitewashed, in spite of all the shade ...

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The Hug

... In which the full lengths of our bodies pressed: ...