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Elegy (Watersong, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as elegy)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,819 ratings — published 2013
The Abridged History of Rainfall (Mcsweeney's Poetry)
by (shelved 2 times as elegy)
avg rating 4.04 — 225 ratings — published 2016
Cold Enough for Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.66 — 20,718 ratings — published 2022
The Furrows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.20 — 5,657 ratings — published 2022
The Elegy of an Erupting Spirit: An Immersive Collection of Poetry and Raw Emotion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.92 — 51 ratings — published
The Yellow Room: Love Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.59 — 17 ratings — published
My Heart Is Not Asleep - Kindle version (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.81 — 225,948 ratings — published 1927
Platero y yo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,654 ratings — published 1914
Hereafter (Song Cave, 57)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published 2024
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.39 — 135 ratings — published 2024
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,351 ratings — published 1955
The Pendulum Moves Off: poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Jane: A Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,500 ratings — published 2005
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,452 ratings — published 2022
The Ruins of Nostalgia (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.46 — 52 ratings — published
24 Pages and other poems (Wave Books)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.10 — 30 ratings — published 2015
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,660 ratings — published 1975
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.78 — 440,690 ratings — published 1993
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,211 ratings — published 2011
Gunshot, Peacock, Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2018
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Night Ocean [Rane Arroyo Series, #17] (hand-tied chapbook)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
Brother Sleep (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.31 — 71 ratings — published 2022
A Treatise on Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.82 — 292 ratings — published 2020
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,590 ratings — published 2020
Site of Ambush (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1975
Broken Ground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.64 — 59 ratings — published 1964
a Year & other poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.41 — 169 ratings — published 2022
Brave New World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published
Foreign Bodies: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 3.72 — 183 ratings — published 2020
Best Barbarian: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.08 — 439 ratings — published 2022
My Mojave: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.25 — 56 ratings — published 2003
National Anthem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.17 — 170 ratings — published 2008
This One Tree (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.14 — 29 ratings — published 2006
What the Living Do: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as elegy)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,452 ratings — published 1997
“On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
some pious drops the closing eye requires;
even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
even in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
― Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
some pious drops the closing eye requires;
even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
even in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
― Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
