title: The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (New Directions Paperbook)
author:  Denise Levertov 
description: Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was a British born American poet. She wrote and published 20 books of poetry, criticism, translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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  # Contents
  
  
    1. [Books by Adrian Magson](../Text/Flow_0.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Title Page](../Text/Flow_1.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Dedication](../Text/Flow_2.xhtml)
  
  
  * [One](../Text/Flow_3.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Two](../Text/Flow_4.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Three](../Text/Flow_5.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Four](../Text/Flow_6.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Five](../Text/Flow_7.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Six](../Text/Flow_8.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Seven](../Text/Flow_9.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Eight](../Text/Flow_10.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Nine](../Text/Flow_11.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Ten](../Text/Flow_12.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Eleven](../Text/Flow_13.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Twelve](../Text/Flow_14.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Thirteen](../Text/Flow_15.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Fourteen](../Text/Flow_16.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Fifteen](../Text/Flow_17.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Sixteen](../Text/Flow_18.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Seventeen](../Text/Flow_19.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Eighteen](../Text/Flow_20.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Nineteen](../Text/Flow_21.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Twenty](../Text/Flow_22.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Twenty-one](../Text/Flow_23.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Twenty-two](../Text/Flow_24.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Twenty-three](../Text/Flow_25.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Twenty-