Poems
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- My Erotic Double
- The Painter
- Paradoxes and Oxymorons
- Pyrography
- Rivers and Mountains
- Soonest Mended
- Street Musicians
- Syringa
- The Tennis Court Oath
- These Lacustrine Cities
- Vetiver
- Late Echo
- The Craftsman
- From the Antique
- In an Artist's Studio
- No, Thank You, John
- A Study (A Soul)
- A Triad
- Winter: My Secret
- Mix a Pancake
- “Crying, my little one, footsore and weary”
- In the bleak midwinter
- Amor Mundi
- After Death
- A Dirge
- Echo
- "I loved you first: but afterwards your love"
- "I wish I could remember that first day"
- "Many in aftertimes will say of you"
- Somewhere or Other
- A Better Resurrection
- A Birthday
- Color
- A Daughter of Eve
- De Profundis
- Dream Land
- Goblin Market
- Remember
- The Three Enemies
- Up-Hill
- When I am dead, my dearest
- Who Has Seen the Wind?
- The City of Dreadful Night
- The Wine of Love
- An Egg Island Equinox
- The Black Finger
- El Beso
- O
- Psalm 150
- Psalm 102
- Psalm 55
- Psalm 57
- Psalm 84
- The Doleful Lay of Clorinda
- Psalm 51
- To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney
- Democracy Poem #1
- Poem for Haruko
- 1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
- Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
- In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- It’s Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean
- July 4, 1974
- Letter to the Local Police
- On the Loss of Energy (and Other Things)
- A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters
- Poem about My Rights
- Poem for My Love
- Poem for Nana
- Problems of Translation: Problems of Language
- A Song for Soweto
- "I stand alone at the foot "
- Buddhist New Year Song
- An Exercise in Love
- First Snow, Kerhonkson
- Paracelsus:
- Song for Baby-O, Unborn
- The Window
- From the Island, 1860
- Alcaic
- Balakirev's Dream (1905)
- From the Snowmelt of '66
- Sorrow Gondola No. 2
- The Stones
- Streets in Shanghai
- The Indoors is Endless
- National Insecurity
- November in the Former DDR
- In Syrup
- Ring Song
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- The Flight
- Feuilleton 5: The Buskers
- January 1919
- Nietzsche’s Hands
- Charles Meryon
- The Diving Apprentices
- The Paradox of Jerome’s Lion
- from In Lovely Blue
- Kalymnos: November 29, 1968
- Eternity
- Haiku
- Inventory—To 100th Street
- Orfeo
- Plena
- Questions and Answers
- Summer (a love poem)
- This Is a Poem About My Life
- Bright Blue Self-Portrait
- Byron
- Epicedium to Potter’s Field
- Felonies and Arias of the Heart
- Heckyll & Jeckyll
- Incidents of Travel in Poetry
- Juarez
- The Invention of Pigs
- Self and Dream Self
- The Head-Spider
- The Margin of Difference
- Holland’s Nadir
- Vertigo
- From My Window
- Butchers
- The Gaffe
- Light
- I Hate
- Wait
- Zebra
- On the Metro
- Unfinished Business
- To Catch a Fish
- The Cometary Script
- Wind, Water, Stone
- from The Return
- Skywriting
- Robert Underhill’s Present
- The Tune He Saw
- The Lullaby of a Lover
- And If I Did, What Then?
- Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
- For That He Looked Not upon Her
- The Steel Glass
- Delia 31: Look, Delia, how w' esteem the half-blown rose (1623 version)
- Delia 31: Look, Delia, how we 'steem the half-blown rose (1592 version)
- Delia 33: When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass
- Delia 45: Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night
- Delia 46: Let others sing of knights and paladins
- Delia 47: Read in my face a volume of despairs
- Delia 6: Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair
- Are They Shadows
- Delia 1: Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty
- Delia 2: Go wailing verse, the infants of my love
- Delia 32: But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again
- Delia 36: But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again
- Delia 37: When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass
- Delia 53: Unhappy pen and ill accepted papers
- Love Is A Sickness Full of Woes
- The Fourth Hour of the Night
- Visions at 74
- Poem Ending with a Sentence by Heath Ledger
- Self-Portrait, 1969
- Stanzas Ending with the Same Two Words
- In Memory of Joe Brainard
- The Third Hour of the Night
- Herbert White
- If See No End In Is
- At the Altar
- Schizotableau
- Small Trek
- Trying to Get Through
- Vita
- Against the Kitchen Wall
- Kitchen Fable
- Limits
- Pain in the House
- Te Deum
- To Future Eleanors
- Where Somebody Died
- The Blessing
- That Other
- Little Albert, 1920
- The First Room
- Sinkholes
- Poetry Is the Gnomic Utterance from Which the Soul Springs, Fluttering
- Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die
- An Age of Miracles
- Occult
- The Suicide
- Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money
- Follower
- Blackberry-Picking
- Clearances
- Death of a Naturalist
- The Grauballe Man
- Mid-Term Break
- Digging
- Casualty
- Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
- Any
- Sense of Time