Jennings Elizabeth

The Collected Poems

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Selected Poems draws on all the books Elizabeth Jennings published before Growing-Points. It represents the poet's own distillation of the first two decades of her writing — the poems which established her as one of the most passionate and precise of our writers, a woman of humane values, religious vision and natural sympathy. 'The outstanding thing about Jennings's poetry,' wrote Douglass Dunn, 'is its wisdom, hard-earned from grief and religious faith.' And Peter Levi says, 'She is one of the few living poets we could not do without.'
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56 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • chapagain987has quoted8 years ago
    REMINISCENCE

    When I was happy alone, too young for love
    Or to be loved in any but a way
    Cloudless and gentle, I would find the day
    Long as I wished its length or web to weave.
    I did not know or could not know enough
    To fret at thought or even try to whittle
    A pattern from the shapeless stony stuff
    That now confuses since I’ve grown too subtle.
    I used the senses, did not seek to find
    Something they could not touch, made numb with fear;
    I felt the glittering landscape in the mind
    And O was happy not to have it clear.

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