World Poetry Translation Project

Please Join My Facebook Page by CLICKING HERE Diccussions, translations and positive people at our Facebook Page A Visitor by Mary Oliver My father, for example, who was young once and blue-eyed, returns on the darkest of nights to the porch and knocks wildly at the door, and if I answer I must be prepared for his waxy face, for his lower lip swollen with bitterness. And so, for a long time, I did not answer, but slept fitfully between his hours of rapping. But finally there came the night when I rose out of my sheets and stumbled down the hall. The door fell open and I knew I was saved and could bear him, pathetic and hollow, with even the least of his dreams frozen inside him, and the meanness gone. And I greeted him and asked him into the house, and lit the lamp, and looked into his blank eyes in which at last I saw what a child must love, I saw what love might have done had we loved in time. Please Join My Facebook Page by CLICKING HERE

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Poems by Mary Oliver Peonies Sleeping In The Forest Honey At The Table Morning Glories Little Summer Poem Touching The Subjec At Blackwater Pond Dogfish The Journey Poem The spirit likes to dress up The Humpbacks The Swan Gannets Mockingbirds Wild Geese Moles A Meeting Some Things The World Gave The Buddhas Last Instruction Clapps Pond The Summer Day Flare Next Time Sand Dabs Five Climbing The Chagrin River The Fish August The Chance To Love Everything Cold Poem The Sun Turtle Black Oaks Fall Song The Kingfisher Egrets When Death Comes Heron Rises From The Dark Summer Pond That Sweet Flute John Clare At Great Pond Music A Visitor An Afternoon In The Stacks Lilies Aunt Leaf Knife Walking To Oak-Head Pond And Thinking Toward The Space Age Marengo The Kookaburras Yes No Moccasin Flowers Morning Poem After Arguing Against The Contention T

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Maggie Estep	Mahmoud Darwish	Margaret Atwood
Marge Piercy	Marianne Moore	Mark Strand
Marvin Bell	Mary Oliver	Matthew Arnold
Matthew Prior	Matthew Rohrer	May Swenson
Michael Drayton	Michael Ondaatje

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