Poems
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- The Blade of Grass from Ponar
- “What potion should I give the night so she’ll always wonder?”
- What Will Stay Behind
- from Epitaphs
- enuresis
- Under Cancer
- An Old-Fashioned Song
- Adam’s Task
- For “Fiddle-de-de”
- August 5, 1942
- Tamer and Hawk
- The Hug
- In Trust
- On the Move
- The Annihilation of Nothing
- Considering the Snail
- The Man with Night Sweats
- Moly
- From the Wave
- Duncan
- A Toast for Men Yun-Ch’ing
- The Ball Poem
- Dream Song 76 (Henry's Confession)
- Not to Live
- The Song of the Demented Priest
- Sonnet 13
- Eleven Addresses to the Lord
- Staggerlee wonders
- The giver (for Berdis)
- Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne)
- Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)
- Untitled
- The Ruins of Timoleague Abbey
- Switch
- Joan Miró
- René Magritte
- Yves Tanguy
- Christmas Night
- By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 28: “During the Second World War”
- The Lamps Are Burning
- A Short History of Israel, Notes and Glosses
- Autobiography: New York
- Jews in Babylonia, Part 4: “The bread has become moldy”
- Deerfield:1703
- Depression
- A Deserter
- The English in Virginia, April 1607
- Ghetto Funeral
- His father carved umbrella handles...
- His mother stepped about her kitchen ...
- from By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part III, Section 11: “The house in which we now lived was old”
- from By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 18: “I saw him walking along slowly at night”
- Inscriptions, 16: "The lamps are burning in the synagogue"
- from By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 1: “Leaving the beach on a Sunday in a streetcar”
- New Nation
- Night-Piece
- Passing the shop after school...
- Slave Sale: New Orleans
- A Son with a Future
- Spain: Anno 1492
- Domestic Scenes
- Negroes
- Jesus Wept.
- The Winter Beach at Sanderling
- Variation on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop’s “Five Flights Up”
- Off A Side Road Near Staunton
- Cheer
- The Foundry Garden
- The Marriage in the Trees
- Tree Ferns
- Wight
- Alienation
- And the Exhibition Will Be Closed by Madge Wildfire
- The Round
- In the Theatre
- Snake
- Song for Pythagoras
- The Water Diviner
- X Ray
- Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium
- To A Lady Who Said It Was Sinful to Read Novels
- from The Lady of the Lake: Boat Song
- from The Lady of the Lake: The Western Waves of Ebbing Day
- Lochinvar
- Proud Maisie
- The Guards Came Through
- A Lay of the Links
- A Parable
- Religio Medici
- Retrospect
- The Song of the Bow
- Charles Augustus Fortescue
- The Bison
- The Frog
- On the Gift of a Book to a Child
- The Whale
- The Yak
- Ballade of Modest Confession
- Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
- Lines to a Don
- from A Moral Alphabet
- The Rebel
- Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
- Dawn on the Somme
- The Secret
- Battery Moving Up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn
- Thanksgiving
- The Builders
- The Haunted
- The Racer
- The Ship and Her Makers
- Sea-Fever
- Breakfast
- The Messages
- Fragment
- Jealousy
- Retrospect
- The Dead
- The Dead
- Peace
- Safety
- The Soldier
- Sonnet Reversed
- Tiare Tahiti
- Black Kief and the Intellectual
- Addiction to an Old Mattress
- Oath
- Running Away
- The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas
- Gullinge Sonnets 4: “The hardness of her heart and truth of mine”
- Nosce Teipsum: of Human Knowledge
- Defence of Fort M'Henry
- On the Grasshopper and Cricket
- Ode on Indolence
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
- "The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!"
- "I cry your mercy-pity-love! -aye, love!"
- Modern Love
- On a Dream
- "This living hand, now warm and capable"
- To -
- To Fanny
- “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art”
- from Endymion
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- Fancy
- The Human Seasons
- Hyperion
- If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
- Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
- Meg Merrilies
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode on Melancholy
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode to Psyche
- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
- On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
- Robin Hood
- To Homer
- To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
- To Sleep
- When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
- At a Solemn Music
- On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
- Paradise Lost: Book 2 (1674 version)
- from At a Vacation Exercise
- Paradise Lost: Book 10 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 3 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 4 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 5 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 6 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 8 (1674 version)
- On Shakespeare. 1630
- Paradise Lost: Book 1 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 11 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 12 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 7 (1674 version)
- Paradise Lost: Book 9 (1674 version)
- Sonnet 13: Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song
- Sonnet 21: Cyriack, whose grandsire on the royal bench
- Il Penseroso
- L'Allegro
- Lycidas
- Sonnet 10: Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son
- Sonnet 12: I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
- Sonnet 15: Fairfax, whose name in arms through Europe rings
- Sonnet 16: Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud
- Sonnet 18: Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones
- Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent
- Sonnet 22: Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear
- Sonnet 23: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
- Sonnet 7: How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth
- Berryman
- For a Coming Extinction
- Thanks
- To the New Year
- In Time
- Memorandum
- Night Singing