The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals,
Over and under the ocean...
Divinely superfluous beauty
Rules the games, presides over destinies, makes trees grow
And hills tower, waves fall.
The incredible beauty of joy
Stars with fire the joining of lips, O let our loves too
Be joined, there is not a maiden
Burns and thirsts for love
More than my blood for you, by the shore of seals while the wings
Weave like a web in the air
Divinely superfluous beauty.
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The Selected Poetry Of Robinson Jeffers
PoetryAll poems belong to Robinson Jeffers. I own nothing. Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is a major voice in twentieth-century American poetry, a poetic alternative to the high modernism of Eliot and Pound. An important figure for contemporary poets who ha...
