Donald Justice

Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. Quotes The Summer Anniversaries (1960) Merry the green, the green hill shall be merry.Hungry, the owlet shall seek out the mouseAnd Jack his Joan, but they shall never marryAnd snow shall fly, the big flakes fat and furry.Lonely, the traveler shall seek out the house,And Jack his Joan, but they shall never marry.Weary the soldiers go, and come back weary,Up a green hill and down the withered hill,And Jack from Joan, but they shall never marry. Another Song Night Light (1967) Between the lines it must have hurtTo see the neighborhood go down,Your neighbor in his undershirtAt dusk come out to mow his lawn. To the Unknown Lady Who Wrote the Letters Found In the Hatbox Departures (1973) This poem is not addressed to you.You may come into it briefly,But no one will find you here, no one.You will have changed before the poem will. Poem You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you. Poem External links Category:Poets from the United States Category:People from Miami Category:2004 deaths Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:Educators from the United States Category:1925 births Category:Formalist poets