Poems
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- Modest Proposals
- Beech Forest
- Value Added
- Charley
- Earth Day Story
- Gulf Memo
- New England Graveyard
- Photo of Melville; Back Room, Old Bookstore
- Roofs
- Student Letter
- Key to the Dollar Store
- Dream: The Night of December 23rd
- The Chamber
- Mexico Seen from the Moving Car
- The Mystery of the Hunt
- The Coming Woman
- Serenade
- In Memorium: Alphonse Campbell Fordham
- Arguing with Something Plato Said
- Bald Eagle Count
- Ecology
- February
- little report of the day
- Sonnet for Alice N.
- Hard-time blues
- Nineteen-twenty-nine
- No Images
- The Peach
- Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away
- Sonnet
- I Sit and Sew
- The Lights at Carney’s Point
- To Madame Curie
- To the Negro Farmers of the United States
- You! Inez!
- The Idler
- If I Had Known
- An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire
- The Third Sermon on The Warpland
- truth
- The Children of the Poor
- the rites for Cousin Vit
- Mayor Harold Washington
- Primer For Blacks
- Riot
- The Sermon on the Warpland
- The Blackstone Rangers
- The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
- when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
- The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
- Boy Breaking Glass
- Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
- kitchenette building
- The Life of Lincoln West
- The Lovers of the Poor
- the mother
- my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
- of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
- Of Robert Frost
- A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
- Sadie and Maud
- a song in the front yard
- A Sunset of the City
- the vacant lot
- We Real Cool
- Young Afrikans
- The Bean Eaters
- Almost Nowhere in the World, as Far as Anyone Can Tell
- Calligraphy Accompanied by the Mood of a Calm but Definitive Sauce
- With Drizzled Warm Butter, Intensely Rendered
- You May Leave a Memory, Or You Can be Feted by Crows
- Cloud No Bigger than a Man’s Hand
- The Accompanist
- Zen Living
- Lineage
- Childhood
- For Malcolm X
- Love Song for Alex, 1979
- For My People
- Sorrow Home
- Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-ropes
- Clorinda and Damon
- The Coronet
- Damon the Mower
- A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure
- A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
- The Gallery
- The Mower against Gardens
- On a Drop of Dew
- The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
- The Unfortunate Lover
- Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
- Young Love
- An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
- Bermudas
- The Character of Holland
- The Definition of Love
- A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body
- The Fair Singer
- The Garden
- The Mower’s Song
- The Mower
- The Mower to the Glow-Worms
- The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
- To His Coy Mistress
- from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax
- Another Country
- Man Dog
- The River
- Solstice Litany
- A Variation on Machado
- Vows
- The Girls of Winter
- The Present
- Marching
- Invictus
- I Grant You Ample Leave
- In a London Drawingroom
- Songs for the People
- Let the Light Enter
- Learning to Read
- Bible Defense of Slavery
- A Double Standard
- Eliza Harris
- Lines
- The Slave Mother
- The Slave Auction
- Ode to Himself “Come leave the loathéd stage”
- An Elegy
- Inviting a Friend to Supper
- On English Monsieur
- On Gut
- On My First Daughter
- On Playwright
- On Spies
- Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
- Song: to Celia Come, my Celia, let us prove
- A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
- “Though I am young, and cannot tell”
- To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
- To Fool or Knave
- To Penshurst
- To Sir Henry Cary
- To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison
- To the Reader
- An Epitaph on S.P.
- An Ode to Himself
- A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
- A Celebration of Charis: IV. Her Triumph
- Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
- Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
- A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
- A Hymn to God the Father
- My Picture Left in Scotland
- On my First Son
- Song: to Celia “Drink to me only with thine eyes”
- “Still to be neat, still to be dressed”
- To Heaven
- To John Donne
- To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
- To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
- Book 1, Epigram 34: Ad. Thomam Freake armig. de veris adventu.
- Book 1, Epigram 39: Ad librum suum.
- Book 1, Epigram 5: Ad lectorem de subjecto operis sui.
- Book 2, Epigram 21: In Momum.
- Book 2, Epigram 22
- Book 2, Epigram 4: Ad Henricum Wottonum.
- Book 2, Epigram 40: De libro suo.
- Book 2, Epigram 8
- Book 3, Epigram 36
- Book 4, Epigram 7: "Our fathers did but use the world before"
- Book 5, Epigram 20: In Misum & Mopsam.
- Book 6, Epigram 14: De Piscatione.
- Book 6, Epigram 17: In Sextum.
- Book 6, Epigram 30
- Book 6, Epigram 7: In prophanationem nominis Dei.
- Book 7, Epigram 36: De puero balbutiente.
- Book 7, Epigram 42
- Book 7, Epigram 47: De Hominis Ortu & Sepultura.
- Book 7, Epigram 9: De senectute & iuuentute.
- Intensive Care Unit
- Soliloquy on an Empty Purse
- Prothalamium
- Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence
- Difficulties of a Heavy Body
- from The Ambition of Ghosts: I. Remembering into Sleep
- Representation
- The Round World
- The Senses Barely or The Necessities of Life
- Like Holderlin
- Conversation 12: On Hieroglyphs
- Conversation 23: On Cause
- Conversation 4: On Place
- Conversation 9: On Varieties of Oblivion
- A Song
- To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
- The Midnite Show
- On Cowee Ridge
- Symphony No.3, in D Minor
- Two Pastorals for Samuel Palmer at Shoreham, Kent