Poems
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- It Is There
- Lioness Asleep
- Natural Law
- Need
- The Net
- Then and Now
- Visit to the Zoo
- A Farmer Remembers Lincoln
- No One Goes to Paris in August
- Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving
- Revelation at Cap Ferrat
- San Diego and Matisse
- Sand Flesh and Sky
- On the Cards and Dice
- As You Came from the Holy Land (attributed)
- A Farewell to False Love
- Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love
- “If Cynthia Be a Queen, a Princess, and Supreme”
- The Lie
- Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk
- The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
- The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
- Prais’d be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light
- A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
- Walsinghame
- The Bend
- Someone, and no matter
- Ach/Last Call
- The cars
- Die Verschwundenen/The Vanished
- Grieve Not
- I Have Not Lived
- The House of the Sun
- Teach Me
- The Tiger-Woman
- The Amulet
- Pot Macabre
- Censored
- Prie-Dieu
- Seasons
- Signing on a Crew
- Cookie
- Are We There Yet?
- The First Sam Hazo at the Last
- Light the Festive Candles
- Brother
- Fish
- The Folk Who Live in Backward Town
- Autopsychography
- Belongings
- The Paris Mouse
- Thirty Years Later I Meet Your Seventeen-Year-Old Daughter the Poet
- Colonoscopy Sonnet
- IT'S BEEN TWO THOUSAND YEARS NOW
- At Days Bay
- Autumn Testament (1)
- East Coast Journey
- The Ikons
- Jerusalem Sonnets (1)
- Jerusalem Sonnets (11)
- Jerusalem Sonnets (27)
- New Zealand
- Summer 1967
- To a Print of Queen Victoria
- Wild Bees
- Letter from the Mountains
- The Air Smelled Dirty
- To be of use
- To have without holding
- The birthday of the world
- The cup of Eliyahu
- The late year
- Maggid
- Ne’ilah
- Season of skinny candles
- The seder's order
- Toad dreams
- More Than Enough
- The cat’s song
- Colors passing through us
- For the young who want to
- The friend
- My mother’s body
- Visiting a dead man on a summer day
- Brother, I’ve seen some
- Chewing slowly
- His death in Benares
- How do you
- I won’t come
- Plucking your eyebrows
- To tonsured monks and dreadlocked Rastas
- The Animal Store
- After Fifty Years
- A Poplar
- Sapphics
- I Was Always Leaving
- A Dandelion for My Mother
- Pauline Is Falling
- Posthumous
- Woman’s Rights
- Invitation To JBC
- Letter to ARC On Her Wishing to be Called Anna
- The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
- Slavery
- The Love of an Orange
- The Second Trying
- Lotem Abdel Shafi
- A Declaration, Not of Independence
- Passing Rez School the Day before Thanksgiving Day, Unoriginal Sin and a Redskin Pilgrim’s Retrogression
- Six Prayers
- Glad
- Paths
- Bermudas
- Bread
- Kumina
- I was Wash-Way in Blood
- Soweto
- On the Death of Friends in Childhood
- Pantoum of the Great Depression
- “There is a gold light in certain old paintings”
- Absences
- A Dancer’s Life
- Lethargy
- Poem “This poem is not addressed to you”
- The Evening of the Mind
- Variations on a Text by Vallejo
- The Toys
- The Revelation
- Ode 44
- Ode 487
- "For years my heart inquired of me‚"
- An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan
- Attempted Assassination of the Queen
- The Battle of Omdurman
- The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
- The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
- Descriptive Jottings of London
- The Famous Tay Whale
- Greenland’s Icy Mountains
- Jottings of New York: A Descriptive Poem
- The Little Match Girl
- The Rattling Boy from Dublin
- The Tay Bridge Disaster
- "I know that all beneath the moon decays"
- Kisses Desired
- Madrigal: "Like the Idalian queen"
- Stolen Pleasure
- Cui Bono
- Fortuna
- Today
- Lament For The Makers
- Done is a Battle
- Plaster Cast Torso of Apollo
- Song of the Dwarf
- The Beggars
- Day in Autumn
- Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner
- Poppies
- To His Mother, Whose Name Was Maria
- Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
- The Doubt of Future Foes
- In Defiance of Fortune
- On Monsieur’s Departure
- When I Was Fair and Young
- Written in her French Psalter
- Written on a Wall at Woodstock
- Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
- Hot Sun, Cool Fire
- The Day of Judgment
- Our God, Our Help
- A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy
- Psalm 114
- Psalm 58
- Stanzas "Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!"
- The Bridge Builder
- The Description of Cooke-ham
- Catch a Little Rhyme
- Infelix
- Benediction
- End of Summer
- The Layers
- I Dreamed That I Was Old
- Footnote to Howl
- Kaddish
- America
- Homework
- Howl
- Mugging (I)
- My Sad Self
- New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
- Sunflower Sutra
- A Supermarket in California
- Upon Nothing
- Constancy
- The Disabled Debauchee
- The Imperfect Enjoyment
- Love and Life: A Song
- The Mock Song
- A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover
- To His Mistress