false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172465567m/178965.jpg 178965 3 Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. 2548067 book 8 4 1992 House of Light total:237|5:107|4:97|3:22|2:8|1:3| 237 1008 319 28 4 1 false false Tue Apr 08 14:58:14 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 26 19:13:12 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 19:40:52 -0800 2007

I have been thinking
about living
like the lilies
that blow in the fields.

They rise and fall in the wedge of the wind,
and have no shelter
from the tongues of the cattle,

and have no closets or cupboards,
amd have no legs. ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Sep 20 12:25:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 12:25:27 -0700 2009
<...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Thu Apr 30 21:09:28 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 21:29:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 17:23:29 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 11:04:31 -0700 2009 House of Light is a lovely collection of Mary Oliver poems. Favorites of mine in this collection are The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond, Looking for Snakes, and The Summer Day. Oliver uses simple language to describe the natural world, and from that exploration she contemplates the univ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 17 12:29:06 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:30:02 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 06:39:24 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 06:40:03 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Nov 19 10:36:44 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 10:40:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 30 20:15:55 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 20:18:13 -0700 2007 "Tell me what do you plan t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 11:28:56 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 12:44:41 -0800 2008

Is the soul solid, like iron
Or is it tender and breakable, like
The wings of a moth in the beak of an owl?

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