back to poetry
Robert Bly
🇺🇸
(
23 Dec 1926
–
21 Nov 2021
)
“Abraham”
“After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem”
“After Long Busyness”
“After Working”
“Afternoon Sleep”
“An American Dream”
“Approaching Winter”
“At the Funeral of Great-Aunt Mary”
“Awakening”
“Bach’s B Minor Mass”
“The Bear and the Man”
“The Beauty of Women”
“Boards on the Ground”
“A Boy on the Farm”
“Brahms”
“The Bridegroom”
“A Caterpillar on the Desk”
“The Clear Air of October”
“Come with Me”
“The Confusion of America”
“Depression”
“A Dream on the Night of First Snow”
“Driving North from San Francisco”
“Driving through Ohio”
“Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter”
“Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River”
“Driving West in 1970”
“Fall”
“Fall”
“Fall Rain”
“The Fat Old Couple Whirling Around”
“For the Old Gnostics”
“Getting Up Early”
“The Greek Ships”
“He Wanted to Live His Life Over”
“The Hermit”
“Herons”
“Hunting Pheasants in a Cornfield”
“Hurrying Away from the Earth”
“Images Suggested by Medieval Music”
“In a Train”
“In Bowling Green, Kentucky”
“Iseult and the Badger”
“A Journey with Women”
“Late at Night during a Visit of Friends”
“A Late Spring Day in My Life”
“Laziness and Silence”
“The Life of Weeds”
“Living at the End of Time”
“Looking at Some Flowers”
“Love Poem”
“A Man Writes to a Part of Himself”
“The Moose”
“Morning in Marrakesh”
“Night”
“Old Boards”
“On the Ferry Across Chesapeake Bay”
“One Source of Bad Information”
“Poem”
“Poem Against the British”
“Poem Against the Rich”
“Poem in Praise of Solitude”
“Poem in Three Parts”
“Prayer for My Father”
“A Ramage for Awakening Sorrow”
“A Ramage for the Star Man, Mourning”
“Remembering in Oslo the Old Picture of the Magna Carta”
“Return to Solitude”
“Riderless Horses”
“Seeing the Eclipse in Maine”
“September Night with an Old Horse”
“Shabistari and the Secret Garden”
“Silence”
“Snowfall in the Afternoon”
“Solitude Late at Night in the Woods”
“Suddenly Turning Away”
“Summer, 1960, Minnesota”
“Sunset at a Lake”
“Surprised by Evening”
“Taking the Hands”
“The Testament”
“Things to Think”
“Thinking of High School Girls”
“Thinking of Wallace Stevens on the First Snowy Day in December”
“Three Kinds of Pleasures”
“Unanswered Letters”
“Unrest”
“Waking from Sleep”
“Waking in the Middle of the Night”
“Waking on the Farm”
“Wanting Sumptuous Heavens”
“Watering the Horse”
“What Jesus Said”
“What Kept Horace Alive”
“When I Am with You”
“When I Was Twenty-Six”
“When the Dumb Speak”
“When the Master is United”
“Where We Must Look for Help”
“Why We Don’t Die”
“With Pale Women in Maryland”
“The World is a Confusion of Three Worlds”
“Written near Rome”