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Dorothy Livesay

  • “We prayed to see the racing clouds at bay / Rumpled like sheets after a night of joy, / To stand quite still and let the deluged day / Of rain's releasing, surge up and destroy.”

    • Dorothy Livesay,
    • "The Outrider," Day and Night ()

  • “If I must go, let it be easy, slow / The curve complete, and a sure swerve / To the goal.”

    • Dorothy Livesay,
    • "Improvisation on an Old Theme," Poems for People ()

  • “Green hills be walls / Forever shaping us.”

    • Dorothy Livesay,
    • "Autumn in Wales," Poems for People ()

Dorothy Livesay, Canadian poet`

(1909 - 1996)

Full name: Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay.