Theodore Roethke: Poems Glossary

Theodore Roethke: Poems Glossary

wren

a songbird often found in the New World

romped

to roughly play

countenance

to tolerate

despair

to feel a sense of loss

nobility

to have goodness and be virtuous

heron

a fish eating bird

correspondence

to communicate

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