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Poem by Theodore Roethke


Memory


IN THE slow world of dream,
We breathe in unison.
The outside dies within,
And she knows all I am.

She turns, as if to go,
Half-bird, half-animal.
The wind dies on the hill.
Love’s all. Love’s all I know.

A doe drinks by a stream,
A doe and its fawn.
When I follow after them,
The grass changes to stone.



Theodore Roethke


Theodore Roethke's other poems:
  1. Child on Top of a Greenhouse
  2. The Sloth
  3. Big Wind
  4. Root Cellar
  5. She


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Oliver Goldsmith Memory ("O MEMORY, thou fond deceiver")
  • William Browne Memory ("SO shuts the marigold her leaves")
  • Christina Rossetti Memory ("I nursed it in my bosom while it lived")
  • John Tabb Memory ("I go not to the grave to weep")
  • Jones Very Memory ("Soon the waves so lightly bounding")
  • Edgar Guest Memory ("I stood and watched him playing")
  • George Horton Memory ("Sweet memory, like a pleasing dream")
  • Thomas Aldrich Memory ("My mind lets go a thousand things")
  • Charles Lamb Memory ("For gold could Memory be bought")
  • Anne Lynch Botta Memory ("Maiden of the lofty brow")
  • William Yeats Memory ("ONE had a lovely face")
  • William Wordsworth Memory ("A pen — to register; a key —")

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