Poems
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- The American Soldier
- The Indian Burying Ground
- At the Executed Murderer's Grave
- Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
- Beginning
- A Blessing
- In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
- Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
- A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
- The Minneapolis Poem
- A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
- Sappho
- A Secret Gratitude
- To the Muse
- A Way to Make a Living
- Youth
- A Barred Owl
- Lying
- After the Last Bulletins
- A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
- For C.
- Junk
- Looking into History
- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
- Ceremony
- Advice to a Prophet
- The Beautiful Changes
- “Because he swings so neatly through the trees,”
- “If you’re fond of road-blocks, this one can’t be beat:”
- Still, Citizen Sparrow
- “When in your neighborhood you hear a neigh,”
- Year’s End
- Axe Handles
- Getting in the Wood
- Old Woman Nature
- Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
- Above Pate Valley
- Kyoto: March
- A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
- Piute Creek
- Riprap
- Saying Farewell at the Monastery after Hearing the Old Master Lecture on “Return to the Source”
- Seaman’s Ditty
- The Bath
- Burning Island
- A Dent in a Bucket
- Four Poems for Robin
- I Went into the Maverick Bar
- Meeting the Mountains
- Waiting for a Ride
- Song
- Pacemaker
- Who Steals My Good Name
- “After Experience Taught Me ...”
- April Inventory
- The Campus on the Hill
- Dr. Joseph Goebbels (22 April 1945)
- Heart’s Needle
- A Locked House
- Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
- Mementos, 1
- Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
- The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical Academics
- Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (1 April 1945)
- Song Observe the cautious toadstools
- Vuillard: “The Mother and Sister of the Artist”
- Nightwatchman's Song
- from Beachy Head
- from The Emigrants: A Poem
- Huge Vapours Brood above the Clifted Shore
- Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes
- On the Departure of the Nightingale
- Sonnet: On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
- Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y
- To the Shade of Burns
- Political Reflection
- To the Mannequins
- The Consent
- Magnitudes
- To David, About His Education
- A Day on the Big Branch
- Life Cycle of Common Man
- The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House
- The Town Dump
- I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
- Money
- The War in the Air
- The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
- The Brief Journey West
- The Dependencies
- The Goose Fish
- Gyroscope
- The Icehouse in Summer
- Learning the Trees
- The Murder of William Remington
- Storm Windows
- To D, Dead by Her Own Hand
- The Vacuum
- The View from an Attic Window
- Writing
- Young Woman
- The College Colonel
- The House-top
- In the Prison Pen
- Malvern Hill
- The Martyr
- Sheridan at Cedar Creek
- The Apparition
- Art
- Misgivings
- “The ribs and terrors in the whale”
- After the Pleasure Party: Lines Traced Under an Image of Amor Threatening
- The Bench of Boors
- The Berg (A Dream)
- Dupont’s Round Fight (November, 1861)
- Greek Architecture
- The Maldive Shark
- The March into Virginia Ending in the First Manassas (July, 1861)
- Monody
- The Portent
- Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)
- The Swamp Angel
- Tom Deadlight (1810)
- Gone Away Blues
- The Little Odyssey of Jason Quint, of Science, Doctor
- Many in the Darkness
- Poem
- The Progress of the Soul
- Such Simple Love
- Ode for the American Dead in Asia
- All the Dead Soldiers
- Anniversaries
- Beyond the Red River
- The Buffalo Coat
- Celebration for June 24
- Deep South
- Encounter
- Nocturne Militaire
- The Topography of History
- Woodcut
- Elegies, Book One, 5
- from Hero and Leander: "It lies not in our power to love or hate"
- Hero and Leander
- Ancestral
- Immortal Autumn
- Way-Station
- Ars Poetica
- Definition of the Frontiers
- Hypocrite Auteur
- Invocation to the Social Muse
- Liberty
- Lines for a Prologue
- The Rock in the Sea
- The Sheep in the Ruins
- You, Andrew Marvell
- Brancusi’s Golden Bird
- Café du Néant
- Joyce's Ulysses
- Love Songs
- Sketch of a Man on a Platform
- Wing Shows on Starway Zodiac Carousel
- Parturition
- Religious Instruction
- The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
- Giovanni Franchi
- Human Cylinders
- Lunar Baedeker
- 'My own heart let me more have pity on'
- Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
- The Wreck of the Deutschland
- At the Wedding March
- In the Valley of the Elwy
- Spring
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- Binsey Poplars
- The Caged Skylark
- Carrion Comfort
- Duns Scotus's Oxford
- Felix Randal
- God's Grandeur
- 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
- 'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.'
- Pied Beauty
- Spring and Fall
- The Starlight Night
- That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
- 'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
- The Sound I Listened For
- Nothing Is Far
- Eagle Plain
- Part for the Whole
- My Country ’Tis of Thee
- The Song of the Smoke
- Ghana Calls
- Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
- what if a much of a which of a wind
- All in green went my love riding
- the bigness of cannon
- O sweet spontaneous
- into the strenuous briefness