Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Find out more
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Robert Lowell (1917 – 1977)


American poet.
Page 1 of 1
Robert Lowell I agree | disagree
Once fishing was a rabbit's foot--
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,
Let suns stay in or suns step out:
Life danced a jig on the sperm-whale's spout--
The fisher's fluent and obscene
Catches kept his conscience clean.
Lowell quotes I agree | disagree
A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket--
The sea was still breaking violently and night
Had steamed into our North Atlantic Fleet,
When the drowned sailor clutched the drag-net. Light
Flashed from his matted head and marble feet,
He grappled at the net
With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs:
The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites,
Its open, staring eyes
Were lustreless dead-lights
Or cabin-windows on a stranded hulk
Heavy with sand.
Page 1 of 1
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact