Poems
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- Wobbly Rock
- Army of Occupation
- Counsel—In the South
- Giving Back the Flower
- Hearing the Battle.—July 21, 1861
- The Old Slave-Music
- The Cherry Tree
- Peacock Display
- The Best Slow Dancer
- Their Bodies
- For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
- For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall
- In Rubble
- That Child
- Conduct
- East River’s Charm
- The Glass Bubbles
- Full Moon
- Epitaph
- Little Elegy
- Speed the Parting—
- Valentine
- Cold Blooded Creatures
- A Crowded Trolley Car
- The Picket-Guard
- The Great Fires
- Meanwhile
- Going There
- Going Wrong
- Rain
- Alone
- Failing and Flying
- I Imagine the Gods
- Michiko Dead
- Three Hundred Thousand More
- The Nineteenth of April
- Weaving
- The Black Regiment
- In the Wilderness
- Sonnet
- Hymn: Thou Hidden Love of God
- At Sixty
- New Yor I
- Under the Roof of Memory
- The Unfrocked Governess
- The Face in the Field
- Opening Up
- Peaches
- Album — A Runthru
- Argument Over, Amounting
- Blues for Alice
- But It Says Nothing
- The Country Autumns
- The Fall Returns
- They Say It’s New
- Poetry
- American Poetry
- A Story About Chicken Soup
- Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain
- Vandergast and the Girl
- After Midnight
- Carentan O Carentan
- I Dreamed That in a City Dark as Paris
- from The Laurel Tree
- Lines Written Near San Francisco
- The Man Who Married Magdalene
- My Father in the Night Commanding No
- On the Lawn at the Villa
- Sway
- There Is
- Things
- To the Western World
- White Oxen
- from &: A Serial Poem
- The Copper Beech
- Don Juan in Amsterdam
- Echo
- The Lake
- Last Words
- The Marché aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes
- On This Rock
- A Thousand Words
- Vowel Movements
- Sonnet 84: While one sere leaf, that parting Autumn yields
- Sonnet 91: On the fleet streams, the Sun, that late arose
- Sonnet 92: Behold that tree, in Autumn’s dim decay
- Sonnet: To the Poppy “While summer roses all their glory yield”
- On Education
- All Hallows’ Eve
- Coming to That
- Lucky
- Never Mind
- Sequestrienne
- The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day
- Thanksgiving Day “Over the river and through the wood”
- Discovered
- The Wind Chimes
- Aloha’oe (Farewell to Thee)
- Ka Waiapo Lani (Heavenly Showers)
- Sanoe
- An Entertainment for W.S. Graham for Him Having Reached Sixty-Five
- Thirteen Implements
- To Sheila Lanyon, on the Flyleaf of a Book
- Enter a Cloud
- Approaches to How They Behave
- Listen. Put on Morning
- The Night City
- To Alexander Graham
- The Dance in Jinotega
- Autumn
- Unravelling / Shock
- Gifts
- The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
- “When I’d reported to the couple, thus”
- Hollywood Elegies
- On the Term of Exile
- Song of the Storm Trooper
- The Village: Book I
- Fall
- What the Frost Casts Up
- Cave Dwellers
- a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
- 8 count
- About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
- the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
- Hello, Willie Shoemaker
- I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
- i can't stay in the same room with that woman for five minutes
- i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife
- Interview by a Guggenheim Recipient
- The Japanese Wife
- the trash men
- Trollius and trellises
- trouble with spain
- vegas
- wax job
- the weather is hot on the back of my watch
- x-pug
- At Dawn
- The Barrel-Organ
- The Highwayman
- Immortal Sails
- Niobe
- The Old Meeting House
- On The Western Front
- The Deserted Village
- When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
- Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go?
- Subway
- The Ebb and Flow
- Huswifery
- I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51
- The Preface
- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
- Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
- from Fanny
- A Disappointment
- A Mother to Her Waking Infant
- A Reverie
- Song
- To Cupid
- Lost Desire
- The Dentist and the Crocodile
- The Tummy Beast
- Everything
- The Grand Silos of the Sacramento
- Healing Gila
- Memory
- My Father and Myself Facing the Sun
- This One, That One
- Holy Days
- “My hat”
- An Order Prescribed, by Is. W., to two of her Younger Sisters Serving in London
- A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Poesy, Containing a Hundred and Ten Philosophical Flowers
- To her Sister Mistress A. B.
- Will and Testament
- A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will
- from The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing
- Tossing and Turning
- Burning Trash
- Ex-Basketball Player
- FLIGHT TO LIMBO
- Penumbrae
- Returning Native
- Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers
- VENETIAN CANDY
- On the Road
- Pura Vida
- Arroyo: Flash Flood
- Hospital
- The Hero
- Midwinter
- Photographs
- Song at Drumholm
- ...Within, Into, Inside, Under, Within...
- Best Loved of Africa
- The Christmas Soiree and the Missing Object of African Art
- The Convert
- The Elevator Man Adheres to Form
- The Painted Lady