Poems
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- Song: “Full fathom five thy father lies”
- Song: “Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings”
- Song: “O Mistress mine where are you roaming?”
- Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”
- Song: “Orpheus with his lute made trees”
- Song: “Take, oh take those lips away”
- Song: “Under the greenwood tree”
- Sonnet 15: When I consider everything that grows
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
- Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
- Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
- Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
- Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
- Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
- Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore
- Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
- Sonnet 66: Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry
- Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
- Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
- Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
- Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Sonnet 129: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
- Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
- Deeply repentant of my sinful ways
- Ladies, who of my lord would fain be told
- Lighter Than Air
- The Mother
- The Pear
- Another Feeling
- 1941
- At Eighty-three She Lives Alone
- Eden, Then and Now
- Genesis
- It Follows
- Look to the Future
- OVERNIGHT GUEST
- Peripheries
- The Question
- Romance
- Shapes
- Speculation
- The Wound
- Platonic Love
- River Road
- The Road
- Thinking of Darwin
- My Mother Would Be a Falconress
- This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom
- from Dante Études: Book Three: In My Youth Not Unstaind
- from Dante Études, Book One: We Will Endeavor
- Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens
- An African Elegy
- A Little Language
- A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
- Poetry, a Natural Thing
- from Rites of Passage
- Styx
- Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing
- What I Saw
- Childhood’s Retreat
- Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
- Silent Prophet
- Carpentry
- Days of Heaven
- The God Who Loves You
- Candles
- Progressive Health
- Worms
- The Children
- Goats
- The Blue Stairs
- 20
- Barrels
- Eating Chocolate Ice Cream: Reading Mayakovsky
- Passage
- A Reason
- Roses
- Dissonance Royal Traveller
- Otranto
- Prairie Houses
- Santa Fe Trail
- The Screen of Distance
- A Way of Being
- Words
- Finnish Opera
- Photographs
- From “Five Poems”
- The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
- Drifting
- Longing for Prophets
- Of the Death of Sir T. W. The Elder
- The Things That Cause a Quiet Life
- "Alas, so all things now do hold their peace!"
- Complaint of the Absence of Her Love Being Upon the Sea
- Wyatt Resteth Here
- Bastille
- Coming and Going
- Elegy
- Passing the Frontier
- Wine
- Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement (tr. by John Ashbery)
- In the Past
- And, the Last Day Being Come, Man Stood Alone
- Be Still. The Hanging Gardens were a Dream
- I Hear a River thro’ the Valley Wander
- I Used to Think
- Leave him now Quiet by the Way
- Live Blindly and upon the Hour
- Mnemosyne
- Near Helikon
- The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
- Service
- Sir, Say no More
- Tho’ Lack of Laurels and of Wreaths Not One
- You Say, Columbus with his Argosies
- from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
- The Eemis Stane
- Gairmscoile
- The Little White Rose
- from On a Raised Beach
- The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
- Stony Limits
- from Water Music
- The Watergaw
- When Last We Parted
- Anthology of Rapture
- The Worm
- An Altogether Different Language
- Of What is Real
- Rivus
- Triptych for Believers
- For William McN. who studied with Ezra Pound
- Lemon Tree
- Before Christmas
- A Poem That Starts Out Wrong
- Recycling
- Valentine, Valentine
- What's Wrong
- The Green Car
- Time to Play
- Bessie Dreaming Bear
- Dog Music
- Brief Eden
- One’s Ship Comes In
- God's Absence
- God Speaks to the Soul
- How God Answers the Soul
- I cannot dance, O Lord
- Of all that God has shown me
- I was passionate
- “Although the wind ...”
- Blue Grace
- The Islands of Africa
- A Little Washington DC Dream
- Meadowlark West
- Witness
- St. Patrick’s Day
- He Who Loved Beauty
- Beer
- Expression
- The Clouded Morning
- The Hand and Foot
- Thy Brother’s Blood
- Yourself
- The Garden
- The Hot Dog Factory (1937)
- Wild Life
- Tomato Pies, 25 Cents
- In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport
- Long Island Sound
- 1492
- By the Waters of Babylon
- In Exile
- The New Year
- The South
- Venus of the Louvre
- The New Colossus
- Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower
- Meeting at an Airport
- Love Letters
- Thine Own
- Four Glimpses of Night
- Chicago’s Congo
- Self Portrait
- April Love
- On the Death of Anne Brontë
- The Watchers
- April Midnight
- At the Three Fountains
- Dreams
- To a Grey Dress
- White Heliotrope
- Governor’s Place