Poems
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- Tenebrae
- from The Triumph of Love
- On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell
- Dol and Roger
- Fair and Softly Goes Far
- A Song: Lying is an occupation
- A Song: Strephon, your breach of faith and trust
- The Wish, By a Young Lady
- Cement Backyard
- For Jane
- Strength to War
- Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
- Musical Moment
- Seder-Night
- Arrowhead
- The Affinity
- Murderer Part I
- Murderer Part IV
- Today We Fly
- Xian of Eight Rivers
- After the War
- August 1914
- Rouen
- For Christmas Day
- For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
- HYMNS: Come on, My Partners in Distress
- HYMNS: My God! I Know, I Feel Thee Mine
- Morning Hymn
- Futility in Key West
- The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish
- The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter
- Mystery and Solitude in Topeka
- No Words Can Describe It
- Eating Poetry
- Orpheus Alone
- The End
- The Idea
- Coming to This
- “The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
- The Garden
- In Celebration
- Keeping Things Whole
- Lines for Winter
- My Life
- The Prediction
- Affirmation
- The Baseball Players
- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
- Her Garden
- The Man in the Dead Machine
- White Apples
- Closings
- Olives
- Advent
- Convergences
- Maple Syrup
- A Sister on the Tracks
- The Black-Faced Sheep
- Eating the Pig
- Ox Cart Man
- Poem with One Fact
- The Seventh Inning
- The Ship Pounding
- The Stump
- The Wreckage
- Songs from The Beggar’s Opera: Air IV-Cotillion
- Songs from The Beggar’s Opera: Air X-“Thomas, I Cannot"
- Songs from The Beggar’s Opera: Air XVI-“Over the Hills, and Far Away”
- Songs from The Beggar’s Opera: Air XXVII-“Green Sleeves”
- To a Young Lady, With Some Lampreys
- Sonnet 1
- Astrophil and Stella 101: Stella is sick, and in that sick-bed lies
- Astrophil and Stella 102: Where be the roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?
- Astrophil and Stella 106: O absent presence, Stella is not here
- Astrophil and Stella 107: Stella, since thou so right a princess art
- Astrophil and Stella 14: Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend
- Astrophil and Stella 2: Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot
- Astrophil and Stella 21: Your words my friend (right healthful caustics) blame
- Astrophil and Stella 25: The wisest scholar of the wight most wise
- Astrophil and Stella 47: What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?
- Astrophil and Stella 48: Soul’s joy, bend not those morning stars from me
- Astrophil and Stella 49: I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try
- Astrophil and Stella 5: It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve
- Astrophil and Stella 52: A strife is grown between Virtue and Love
- Astrophil and Stella 63: O Grammar rules, O now your virtues show
- Astrophil and Stella 72: Desire, though thou my old companion art
- Astrophil and Stella 90: Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame
- Fourth Song
- The Nightingale
- Seventh Song
- What Length of Verse?
- Astrophil and Stella 1: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show
- Astrophil and Stella 15: You that do search for every purling spring
- Astrophil and Stella 20: Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly
- Astrophil and Stella 23: The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness
- Astrophil and Stella 3: Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine
- Astrophil and Stella 31: With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies
- Astrophil and Stella 33: I might!—unhappy word—O me, I might
- Astrophil and Stella 39: Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace
- Astrophil and Stella 41: Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance
- Astrophil and Stella 64: No more, my dear, no more these counsels try
- Astrophil and Stella 7: When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes
- Astrophil and Stella 71: Who will in fairest book of nature know
- Astrophil and Stella 84: Highway, since you my chief Parnassus be
- Astrophil and Stella 92: Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware
- Eleventh Song
- "Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust"
- Ring Out Your Bells
- Song from Arcadia: “My True Love Hath My Heart”
- Horses on the Grass
- New Netherland, 1654
- The Stars and the Moon
- American Solitude
- Balm in Gilead
- Crossing the Square
- The Flight
- Job’s Question on Nevis
- “Dreams Are the Royal Road to the Unconscious”
- Affairs
- “And then we cowards”
- Atlantic Oil
- The Cats Will Know
- The Country Whore
- Deola Thinking
- Passion for Solitude
- Sad Wine (I)
- Sad Wine (II)
- Smokers of Paper
- Words from Confinement
- A Winter Song
- Hurt Hawks
- The Place for No Story
- The Bloody Sire
- A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp
- from Lalla Rookh
- Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
- The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
- When ’Midst the Gay I Meet
- A Diamond
- Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
- Concord Hymn
- “Any fool can get into an ocean . . .”
- Five Poems From “Helen: A Revision”
- Helen: A Revision
- “Imagine Lucifer . . .”
- Letter to Gary Bottone
- A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958
- Response to the Loyalty Oath
- A Second Train Song for Gary
- Medlars and Sorb-Apples
- Peach
- Pomegranate
- Purple Anemones
- Sicilian Cyclamens
- Snake
- Song (“Love has crept...”)
- Almond Blossom
- Bat
- The Bride
- Cruelty and Love
- The Enkindled Spring
- Gloire de Dijon
- Last Words to Miriam
- Lui et Elle
- The Mosquito
- People
- Piano
- Tortoise Gallantry
- Tortoise Shout
- The Wild Common
- A Youth Mowing
- Love's Good-Morrow
- To His Lady
- Cows
- Oh Great Spirit
- Silence for My Father
- Something in the Belly
- Thorn
- Lastness
- After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
- Another Night in the Ruins
- The Bear
- Burning
- The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
- Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
- The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
- Rapture
- Saint Francis and the Sow
- The Seekonk Woods
- Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
- The Disappearance of the Duwamish Salmon
- Little Crow's Ear Nettled by the Slash-eyed Journey
- The Painter
- Ghazal
- Snowy Owl Near Ocean Shores
- Consulting an Elder Poet on an Anti-War Poem
- The Dice Changer
- Love Poem
- Mixed Media
- A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?-1904)