Poems
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- "Are you the new person drawn toward me?"
- As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
- A Glimpse
- I Hear America Singing
- O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
- On the Beach at Night Alone
- One's-Self I Sing
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- "Out of the rolling ocean the crowd"
- A Passage to India
- from The Sleepers
- Sometimes with One I Love
- Song of the Open Road
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
- Beat! Beat! Drums!
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
- I Sing the Body Electric
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- O Captain! My Captain!
- On the Beach at Night
- Patroling Barnegat
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
- When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
- The World Below the Brine
- For Allen Ginsberg
- I allow myself
- I have to tell you
- I knew something was wrong
- It is not so much that I miss you
- Love Poem
- Noon Concert
- The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car
- Untitled
- The Baby's Dance
- The Cut
- Camping Out
- Tender Arrivals
- An Agony. As Now.
- Babylon Revisited
- Legacy
- Like Rousseau
- Incident
- Meeting Point
- Plurality
- Snow
- The Taxis
- Entirely
- The Chain Gang
- Land's End
- Learning To Mourn
- Opportunity
- Sickroom
- Plans for Altering the River
- The River Now
- Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
- The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
- Not Knowing Why
- Planting the Sand Cherry
- Advice to a Young Prophet
- At This Precise Moment of History
- Aubade-Harlem
- Birdcage Walk
- Fable for a War
- How to Enter a Big City
- Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City
- Proverbs
- Song
- Untitled 1. Now you are all here you might as well know ...
- He Sees Through Stone
- The Violent Space (or when your sister sleeps around for money)
- The Sun Came
- Haiku
- Apology for Apostasy?
- At a VA Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America: An Act in a Play
- The Bones of My Father
- A Fable
- Feeling Fucked Up
- For Freckle-Faced Gerald
- For Malcolm, A Year After
- Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
- Last Words by “Slick”
- No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night
- A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
- Beachcomber
- Chaos
- Silences
- Idling
- New Born
- A Poem Called Day
- The Thing Written
- Winter Flowers
- A Blind Fisherman
- Bright Day
- Poets at Lunch
- Allegory of Evil in Italy
- An Argument
- The Inheritance
- Praise
- Return to Rome
- Squall
- Stowaway
- War Ballad
- You and I
- The Ballad of Villon and Fat Madge
- A dreadful darkness closes in
- A Reminiscence
- Don't Ask/1980
- In the Morning
- Nighttrains
- The Oppressionists
- There It Is
- These New York City Pigeons
- Under the Edge of February
- Faces at the First Farmworkers’ Constitutional Convention
- Los Vatos
- Sunstruck While Chopping Cotton
- Th’ Dog Dreamers
- After the Meal
- Daybreak
- The Garlic
- Images
- Lullaby
- To My Enemies
- Music
- Scrapbook
- The Day
- A Small Story
- The Girl on the Bullard Overpass
- After the Funeral
- A Story Can Change Your Life
- Back from the Fields
- Rain
- Breakage
- White-Eyes
- Ballad of the Moon Moon
- Of the Dark Doves
- Two Evening Moons
- The Unfaithful Housewife
- Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747
- On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
- from The Vanity of Human Wishes
- Spring and All: Chapter XIII Thus, weary of life
- Spring and All: III The farmer in deep thought
- Spring and All: XI In passing with my mind
- Spring and All: XIV Of death
- Spring and All: XIX This is the time of year
- Spring and All: XXV Somebody dies every four minutes
- Sonnet in Search of an Author
- This Is Just To Say
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations XXII
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations XXVII
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations II
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations XI
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations XIV
- Love Song
- Flowers by the Sea
- It Is a Living Coral
- The Great Figure
- To a Poor Old Woman
- Between Walls
- The crowd at the ball game
- Danse Russe
- Postlude
- Queen-Anne’s Lace
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- To Elsie
- Blizzard
- Complete Destruction
- Dedication for a Plot of Ground
- Muier
- Tract
- Winter Trees
- America
- The First Circle
- Found Poem
- Had Death Not Had Me in Tears
- Lament of the Silent Sisters
- Songs of Sorrow
- The Weaver Bird
- Do Not Make Things Too Easy
- Linnaeus in Lapland
- Foreclosure
- Wilderness
- “A monster owl”
- I rose from marsh mud
- Darwin
- His Carpets Flowered
- He Lived—Childhood Summers
- I married
- Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance
- Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths?
- My mother saw the green tree toad
- Old Mother turns blue and from us
- Paean to Place
- Poet’s work
- Popcorn-can cover
- Thomas Jefferson