Poems
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- A Vulnerary
- The Wreck on the A-222 in Ravensbourne Valley
- Psalm
- The Solitary Land
- A Vision
- The Wound The leaves sleeping beneath the wind
- The Beginning of Speech
- Celebrating Childhood
- Desert
- Song
- The Wound
- The New Noah
- On Beauty
- On Buying and Selling
- On Clothes
- On Freedom
- On Laws
- On Love
- On Marriage
- On Pleasure
- On Teaching
- Ambition
- And When My Sorrow was Born
- The Astronomer
- The Blessed City
- Crucified
- Defeat
- The Eye
- Faces
- The Fox
- God
- The Good God and the Evil God
- The Grave-Digger
- The Great Longing
- The Greater Sea
- My Friend
- The New Pleasure
- Night and the Madman
- On Giving and Taking
- On the Steps of the Temple
- The Other Language
- “The Perfect World”
- The Pomegranate
- Said a Blade of Grass
- The Scarecrow
- The Seven Selves
- The Sleep-Walkers
- The Three Ants
- The Two Cages
- The Two Hermits
- The Two Learned Men
- War
- When My Sorrow Was Born
- The Wise Dog
- The Wise King
- From Under the Mat Where Sat the Cat
- The Great Form is Without Shape
- A Poem of Love in Eleven Lines
- How We Sizzled in the Pasture
- Ephemeroptera
- At a Solemn Musick
- Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
- In the Green Morning, Now, Once More
- Lincoln
- Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
- Father and Son
- In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave
- Narcissus
- The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
- Baudelaire
- Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
- The Foggy, Foggy Blue
- The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
- The True-Blue American
- Christ’s Nativity
- The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
- I Walk’d the Other Day
- The Morning-Watch
- The Night
- Peace
- Regeneration
- The Retreat
- The Star
- They are all Gone into the World of Light
- The Water-fall
- The World
- Words nd Ends from Ez IX. From Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII
- from Rubaiyat: "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough"
- from The Manifestations of the Voyage
- from The Spring Flowers Own: “The morning after / my death”
- from The Spring Flowers Own: “This unfinished business of my / childhood”
- XLIV from The Arab Apocalypse
- XXXIX from The Arab Apocalypse
- XXXVI from The Arab Apocalypse
- A Poem of Changgan
- The Solitude of Night
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
- Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
- Damp Rot
- Damselfly, Trout, Heron
- Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
- The Homer Mitchell Place
- West Topsham
- When in Wisconsin Where I Once Had Time
- Across the Border
- Armistice
- Defeated
- Destiny
- If Spirits Walk
- In Harvest
- Midwinter
- The Pilgrim
- Song
- To a Child
- White Head
- Lines
- Longing
- The Sévres Road
- Joe
- Marshlands
- Two-Part Inventions
- The Armada
- Day and Night in Virginia and Boston
- The Depot
- The Key to the City
- Night Wash
- Wall and Pine: The Rain
- Works on Paper
- An Immigrant Woman
- The Mill-Race
- Hardy’s Catalogues
- “No, Master, Never!”
- Away to Canada
- The Misanthropist
- Mobile-Buck
- Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
- The Poster Girl’s Defence
- Of Modern Books
- Introductory to Second Edition
- Wish for an Overcoat
- from “The Octoroon”
- A Paradise of Poets
- Der Gilgul (The Possessed)
- Dreamwork Three
- I Am the President of Regulation
- I Fail As a Celibate
- I Will Not Save the World
- Butchering
- Weighing In
- “Find Work”
- Bilingual/Bilingüe
- The Golden Schlemiel
- My Olson Elegy
- Six Sailors
- Bartow Black
- The Farmer’s Soliloquy
- Our Family Tree
- A January Dandelion
- To Theodore
- De Linin’ ub De Hymns
- Charles Sumner
- An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
- An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
- A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
- The Anti-Suffragists
- Christian Virtues
- Homes
- The Mother’s Charge
- The Housewife
- I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
- More Females of the Species
- One Girl of Many
- Queer People
- Similar Cases
- To The Indifferent Women
- To the Young Wife
- Whatever Is
- The Clote (Water-Lily)
- The Fall
- Tokens
- The Wind at the Door
- Zun-zet
- O Heart Uncovered
- Blue Work Shirt
- Forbidden City
- Instance of Me
- Inventory
- Unveiling
- Michaelangelo: To Giovanni Da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel
- I Wish I Want I Need
- At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
- Baseball
- Evening
- Girl in a Library
- Ice
- In Houston
- Maternal
- Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
- Poem for Christian, My Student
- Ballet School