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Poem by Robert Creeley


The Warning


For love-I would
split open your head and put
a candle in
behind the eyes.

Love is dead in us
if we forget
the virtues of an amulet
and quick surprise.



Robert Creeley


Robert Creeley's other poems:
  1. The Rain
  2. Ballad of the Despairing Husband
  3. The Conspiracy
  4. Water Music
  5. I Know a Man


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • George Meredith The Warning ("We have seen mighty men ballooning high")
  • Henry Longfellow The Warning ("Beware! The Israelite of old, who tore")
  • John Cunningham The Warning ("Young Colin once courted Myrtilla the prude")

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