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Devotions, The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love.”—The Washington Post Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her sharply crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the forceful bonds between all living things. Identified as “far an Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

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  1. 1 01 - Devotions The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver 00:00:16
  2. 2 02 - Dedication 00:00:05
  3. 3 03 - From Felicity 2015 I Wake Close to Morning 00:00:38
  4. 4 04 - This Morning 00:00:52
  5. 5 05 - The World I Live In 00:00:39
  6. 6 06 - Whistling Swans 00:01:18
  7. 7 07 - Storage 00:01:13
  8. 8 08 - For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E. (1945-2014) 00:00:41
  9. 9 09 - I Know Someone 00:00:39
  10. 10 10 - That Little Beast 00:01:11
  11. 11 100 - From Blue Iris 2004 Just Lying on the Grass at Blackwater 00:02:24
  12. 12 101 - Sea Leaves 00:01:26
  13. 13 102 - Morning at Blackwater 00:01:20
  14. 14 103 - How Would You Live Then 00:01:27
  15. 15 104 - How the Grass and the Flowers Came to Exist, a God-Tale 00:01:01
  16. 16 105 - From Why I Wake Early 2004 Why I Wake Early 00:01:03
  17. 17 106 - Spring at Blackwater I Go Through the Lessons Already Learned 00:00:34
  18. 18 107 - Mindful 00:01:13
  19. 19 108 - Lingering in Happiness 00:01:01
  20. 20 109 - Daisies 00:01:46
  21. 21 11 - The Pond 00:01:25
  22. 22 110 - Goldenrod, Late Fall 00:01:47
  23. 23 111 - The Old Poets of China 00:00:31
  24. 24 112 - Logos 00:00:56
  25. 25 113 - Snow Geese 00:01:47
  26. 26 114 - At Black River 00:01:10
  27. 27 115 - Beans 00:01:18
  28. 28 116 - The Arrowhead 00:00:52
  29. 29 117 - Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End 00:01:38
  30. 30 118 - From Long Life 2004 Just As the Calendar Began to Say Summer 00:01:06
  31. 31 119 - Can You Imagine 00:01:24
  32. 32 12 - I Have Just Said 00:01:03
  33. 33 120 - Softest Of Mornings 00:01:10
  34. 34 121 - Carrying the Snake to the Garden 00:01:09
  35. 35 122 - From Owls and Other Fantasies 2003 The Dipper 00:02:23
  36. 36 123 - Spring 00:01:43
  37. 37 124 - While I Am Writing a Poem to Celebrate Summer, the Meadowlark Begins to Sing 00:01:18
  38. 38 125 - Catbird 00:02:31
  39. 39 126 - Backyard 00:00:49
  40. 40 127 - From What Do We Know 2002 Summer Poem 00:00:58
  41. 41 128 - The Loon 00:01:19
  42. 42 129 - Winter at Herring Cove 00:01:37
  43. 43 13 - The Gift 00:00:47
  44. 44 130 - Mink 00:02:23
  45. 45 131 - Blue Iris 00:01:15
  46. 46 132 - You Are Standing at the Edge of the Woods 00:01:48
  47. 47 133 - The Roses 00:01:12
  48. 48 134 - Stones 00:02:10
  49. 49 135 - One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day 00:02:29
  50. 50 136 - From The Leaf and the Cloud 2000 Flare 00:08:41
  51. 51 137 - From the Book of Time 00:08:31
  52. 52 138 - From West Wind 1997 Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches 00:04:41
  53. 53 139 - Seven White Butterflies 00:01:16
  54. 54 14 - From Blue Horses 2014 After Reading Lucretius, I Go To the Pond 00:00:46
  55. 55 140 - At Round Pond 00:01:05
  56. 56 141 - Black Oaks 00:01:29
  57. 57 142 - Am I Not Among the Early Risers 00:03:50
  58. 58 143 - Fox 00:01:49
  59. 59 144 - From the Poem "West Wind" 00:02:29
  60. 60 145 - From White Pine 1994 May 00:01:39
  61. 61 146 - Yes! No! 00:01:27
  62. 62 147 - In Pobiddy, Georgia 00:01:56
  63. 63 148 - Porcupine 00:01:09
  64. 64 149 - Wrens 00:00:58
  65. 65 15 - I Don't Want To Be Demure or Respectable 00:01:33
  66. 66 150 - Mockingbirds 00:01:52
  67. 67 151 - I Found a Dead Fox 00:01:56
  68. 68 152 - Morning Glories 00:01:04
  69. 69 153 - August 00:02:05
  70. 70 154 - Toad 00:01:34
  71. 71 155 - I Looked Up 00:00:53
  72. 72 156 - The Sea Mouse 00:02:15
  73. 73 157 - From New and Selected Poems Volume One 1992 The Sun 00:01:35
  74. 74 158 - Goldenrod 00:01:48
  75. 75 159 - When Death Comes 00:02:04
  76. 76 16 - Stebbin's Gulch 00:01:18
  77. 77 160 - Whelks 00:01:41
  78. 78 161 - Goldfinches 00:01:38
  79. 79 162 - Poppies 00:01:25
  80. 80 163 - Water Snake 00:01:13
  81. 81 164 - White Flowers 00:01:32
  82. 82 165 - Peonies 00:01:51
  83. 83 166 - The Egret 00:01:07
  84. 84 167 - Rice 00:00:56
  85. 85 168 - Rain 00:06:11
  86. 86 169 - Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 00:01:40
  87. 87 17 - Franz Marc's Blue Horses 00:01:35
  88. 88 170 - October 00:02:49
  89. 89 171 - From House of Light 1990 Some Questions You Might Ask 00:01:32
  90. 90 172 - The Buddha's Last Instruction 00:01:42
  91. 91 173 - The Summer Day 00:01:26
  92. 92 174 - Spring 00:01:14
  93. 93 175 - Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard 00:01:47
  94. 94 176 - The Kookaburras 00:01:19
  95. 95 177 - Roses, Late Summer 00:01:42
  96. 96 178 - White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field 00:01:34
  97. 97 179 - Singapore 00:02:44
  98. 98 18 - On Meditating, Sort Of 00:01:22
  99. 99 180 - The Hermit Crab 00:01:19
  100. 100 181 - The Kingfisher 00:01:26
  101. 101 182 - The Swan 00:01:25
  102. 102 183 - Turtle 00:02:04
  103. 103 184 - The Loon on Oak-Head Pond 00:00:45
  104. 104 185 - Five A.M. in the Pinewoods 00:01:33
  105. 105 186 - Some Herons 00:01:29
  106. 106 187 - From Dream Work 1986 One or Two Things 00:02:37
  107. 107 188 - Morning Poem 00:01:22
  108. 108 189 - Wild Geese 00:01:14
  109. 109 19 - Loneliness 00:00:42
  110. 110 190 - Shadows 00:01:37
  111. 111 191 - The Journey 00:01:25
  112. 112 192 - Poem 00:01:13
  113. 113 193 - Two Kinds of Deliverance 00:02:13
  114. 114 194 - Black Snakes 00:01:23
  115. 115 195 - 1945-1985 Poem for the Anniversary 00:03:33
  116. 116 196 - The Sunflowers 00:01:31
  117. 117 197 - From American Primitive 1983 August 00:00:54
  118. 118 198 - The Kitten 00:01:06
  119. 119 199 - Moles 00:01:16
  120. 120 20 - Do Stones Feel 00:00:56
  121. 121 200 - Clapp's Pond 00:01:42
  122. 122 201 - First Snow 00:01:30
  123. 123 202 - Ghosts 00:03:38
  124. 124 203 - Skunk Cabbage 00:01:43
  125. 125 204 - The Snakes 00:00:41
  126. 126 205 - White Night 00:01:11
  127. 127 206 - The Fish 00:00:58
  128. 128 207 - Humpbacks 00:02:59
  129. 129 208 - A Meeting 00:01:15
  130. 130 209 - The Roses 00:00:44
  131. 131 21 - Drifting 00:01:20
  132. 132 210 - Blackberries 00:01:01
  133. 133 211 - Tecumseh 00:02:14
  134. 134 212 - In Blackwater Woods 00:01:18
  135. 135 213 - From Three Rivers Poetry Journal 1980 and "Three Poems for James Wright" 1982 At Blackwater Pond 00:00:54
  136. 136 214 - The Rabbit 00:01:12
  137. 137 215 - Three Poems for James Wright 00:05:29
  138. 138 216 - From Twelve Moons 1979 Sleeping in the Forest 00:01:14
  139. 139 217 - Snakes in Winter 00:01:02
  140. 140 218 - Music Lessons 00:01:17
  141. 141 219 - Entering the Kingdom 00:00:54
  142. 142 22 - Blueberries 00:01:53
  143. 143 220 - The Night Traveler 00:01:52
  144. 144 221 - Beaver Moon - The Suicide of a Friend 00:01:37
  145. 145 222 - Last Days 00:00:55
  146. 146 223 - The Black Snake 00:01:22
  147. 147 224 - The Truro Bear 00:01:20
  148. 148 225 - Mussels 00:01:37
  149. 149 226 - Snow Moon - Black Bear Gives Birth 00:01:10
  150. 150 227 - Strawberry Moon 00:02:47
  151. 151 228 - Pink Moon - The Pond 00:02:40
  152. 152 229 - Aunt Leaf 00:01:51
  153. 153 23 - The Vulture's Wings 00:00:48
  154. 154 230 - Farm Country 00:00:35
  155. 155 231 - The Lamps 00:01:15
  156. 156 232 - From The River Styx, Ohio 1972 Learning About the Indians 00:01:10
  157. 157 233 - Going to Walden 00:00:58
  158. 158 234 - Night Flight 00:01:21
  159. 159 235 - From No Voyage and Other Poems 1963 and 1965 No Voyage 00:01:50
  160. 160 236 - Jack 00:01:45
  161. 161 237 - Beyond the Snow Belt 00:01:38
  162. 162 238 - The Swimming Lesson 00:00:54
  163. 163 239 - On Winter's Margin 00:01:07
  164. 164 24 - What Gorgeous Thing 00:00:54
  165. 165 240 - The Return 00:01:58
  166. 166 241 - Morning in a New Land 00:01:04
  167. 167 242 - Credits 00:00:46
  168. 168 25 - From Dog Songs 2013 The Storm 00:00:47
  169. 169 26 - Percy (One) 00:00:38
  170. 170 27 - Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night (Percy Three) 00:00:45
  171. 171 28 - Percy (Nine) 00:00:50
  172. 172 29 - Benjamin, Who Came From Who Knows Where 00:00:48
  173. 173 30 - The Dog Has Run Off Again 00:01:07
  174. 174 31 - Bazougey 00:01:14
  175. 175 32 - Her Grave 00:03:30
  176. 176 33 - The Poetry Teacher 00:01:10
  177. 177 34 - The First Time Percy Came Back 00:01:13
  178. 178 35 - From A Thousand Mornings 2012 I Go Down to the Shore 00:00:42
  179. 179 36 - I Happened to Be Standing 00:01:52
  180. 180 37 - Three Things to Remember 00:00:20
  181. 181 38 - Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness 00:01:09
  182. 182 39 - An Old Story 00:00:47
  183. 183 40 - The Instant 00:00:33
  184. 184 41 - Tides 00:01:34
  185. 185 42 - The Poet Compares Human Nature to the Ocean From Which We Came 00:00:44
  186. 186 43 - Life Story 00:01:32
  187. 187 44 - Varanasi 00:01:31
  188. 188 45 - From Swan 2010 I Worried 00:01:12
  189. 189 46 - I Own a House 00:01:00
  190. 190 47 - Don't Hesitate 00:01:09
  191. 191 48 - Swan 00:01:20
  192. 192 49 - Passing the Unworked Field 00:00:31
  193. 193 50 - How I Go to the Woods 00:01:05
  194. 194 51 - On the Beach 00:00:53
  195. 195 52 - From Evidence 2009 Violets 00:00:55
  196. 196 53 - We Shake With Joy 00:00:18
  197. 197 54 - It Was Early 00:01:18
  198. 198 55 - With Thanks to the Field Sparrow, Whose Voice is So Delicate and Humble 00:00:49
  199. 199 56 - A Lesson From James Wright 00:00:42
  200. 200 57 - Almost a Conversation 00:01:27
  201. 201 58 - To Begin With, the Sweet Grass 00:05:00
  202. 202 59 - Evidence 00:05:11
  203. 203 60 - Prayer 00:00:30
  204. 204 61 - Mysteries, Yes 00:01:02
  205. 205 62 - At the River Clarion 00:05:50
  206. 206 63 - From The Truro Bear and Other Adventures 2008 The Other Kingdoms 00:01:04
  207. 207 64 - The Gift 00:01:18
  208. 208 65 - Coyote in the Dark, Coyotes Remembered 00:01:36
  209. 209 66 - From Red Bird 2008 Night Herons 00:01:19
  210. 210 67 - Mornings at Blackwater 00:00:58
  211. 211 68 - The Orchard 00:00:53
  212. 212 69 - Sometimes 00:03:43
  213. 213 70 - Invitation 00:01:25
  214. 214 71 - From This River, When I Was a Child, I Used to Drink 00:01:02
  215. 215 72 - We Should Be Well Prepared 00:00:49
  216. 216 73 - Meadowlark Sings and I Greet Him In Return 00:00:52
  217. 217 74 - Of the Empire 00:01:10
  218. 218 75 - Red 00:01:18
  219. 219 76 - Night and the River 00:01:22
  220. 220 77 - Self-Portrait 00:00:52
  221. 221 78 - With the Blackest of Inks 00:00:57
  222. 222 79 - From Thirst 2006 When I Am Among the Trees 00:01:14
  223. 223 80 - When the Roses Speak, I Pay Attention 00:01:00
  224. 224 81 - Six Recognitions of the Lord 00:05:48
  225. 225 82 - Gethsemane 00:01:17
  226. 226 83 - The Poet Thinks About the Donkey 00:01:21
  227. 227 84 - Praying 00:00:34
  228. 228 85 - Doesn't Every Poet Write a Poem About Unrequited Love 00:01:23
  229. 229 86 - On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate (Psalm 145) 00:07:20
  230. 230 87 - The Chat 00:01:10
  231. 231 88 - Thirst 00:01:08
  232. 232 89 - From New and Selected Poems Volume Two 2005 Hum 00:02:18
  233. 233 90 - Lead 00:01:18
  234. 234 91 - Oxygen 00:01:36
  235. 235 92 - White Heron Rises Over Blackwater 00:01:06
  236. 236 93 - Honey Locust 00:01:36
  237. 237 94 - Song For Autumn 00:01:14
  238. 238 95 - Fireflies 00:01:20
  239. 239 96 - The Poet With His Face in His Hands 00:01:23
  240. 240 97 - Wild, Wild 00:01:08
  241. 241 98 - North Country 00:01:47
  242. 242 99 - Terns 00:02:16

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