Poems
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- The Fountain
- Destruction
- The Ragpickers' Wine
- The Tunning of Elenor Rumming
- from Colin Clout
- Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
- To Mistress Margaret Hussey
- “Womanhood, wanton, ye want”
- The Book of Phillip Sparrow
- Amour 30: Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee
- Idea 20: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still
- Idea 31: Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer
- Idea 37: Dear, why should you command me to my rest
- Idea 51: Calling to mind since first my love begun
- Idea 53: Clear Ancor, on whose silver-sanded shore
- Idea 6: How many paltry, foolish, painted things
- Idea: To the Reader of these Sonnets
- To the Virginian Voyage
- Idea 14: If he from heaven that filched that living fire
- Idea 43: Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace
- Idea 59: As Love and I, late harbour’d in one inn
- Idea 61: Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part
- A Roundelay between Two Shepherds
- from My Emily Dickinson
- from Cabbage Gardens
- from A Bibliography of the King’s Book or, Eikon Basilike
- from Chanting at the Crystal Sea
- from Hinge Picture
- Silence Wager Stories
- Jealousy
- Marriage
- A Moment
- Pied Booty
- The House of Rest
- from Lyrics of the Street: Outside the Party
- from Lyrics of the Street: Street Yarn
- Battle-Hymn of the Republic
- Coquette et Froide
- Mother Mind
- My Last Dance
- Charleston
- The Two Armies
- Katie
- La Belle Juive
- Ode
- Our Willie
- The Past
- Retirement
- A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night
- Sonnet: Grief Dies
- Sonnet: I Scarcely Grieve
- Sonnet: I Thank You
- Sonnet: They Dub Thee Idler
- The Summer Bower
- A Summer Shower
- To a Captive Owl
- Two Portraits
- The Unknown Dead
- A Vision of Poesy
- Ode on Solitude
- Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation
- Impromptu
- The Universal Prayer
- An Essay on Criticism: Part 1
- An Essay on Criticism: Part 2
- An Essay on Criticism: Part 3
- An Essay on Man: Epistle I
- An Essay on Man: Epistle II
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
- Eloisa to Abelard
- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
- Imitations of Horace
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5
- You know where you did despise
- And Now She Has Disappeared in Water
- Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
- Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
- Belly Dancer
- Blue Monday
- The Father of My Country
- Inside Out
- The Photos
- Uneasy Rider
- Afternoon Happiness
- Food of Love
- Semele Recycled
- Ingathering
- October 1973
- What the Bones Know
- Where I've Been All My Life
- Bitch
- Amusing Our Daughters
- The Erotic Philosophers
- Fanny
- The Great Blue Heron
- The Intruder
- Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve
- A Muse of Water
- Pro Femina
- Summer near the River
- Through a Glass Eye, Lightly
- The Alphabet
- Aside
- Buick
- The Conscientious Objector
- Conscription Camp
- The Dome of Sunday
- The Fly
- I Am an Atheist Who Says His Prayers
- The Intellectual
- Love for a Hand
- Sunday: New Guinea
- Troop Train
- University
- Aphrodite Metropolis (1)
- Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
- Ballad of the Salvation Army
- Dirge
- Q & A
- St. Agnes' Eve
- X Minus X
- Lines
- “Nothing Is Really Hard but to Be Real—”
- About the Teeth of Sharks
- Abundance
- Bees and Morning Glories
- The Catalpa
- The Dolls
- An Emeritus Addresses the School
- High Tension Lines across a Landscape
- Most Like an Arch This Marriage
- On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset behind Me
- The Pilot in the Jungle
- Port of Aerial Embarkation
- Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo
- An Apartment with a View
- For Instance
- For the Union Dead
- To Frank Parker
- July in Washington
- Randall Jarrell
- Epilogue
- Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
- I’m thankful that my life doth not deceive
- I Was Made Erect and Lone
- The moon now rises to her absolute rule
- Tall Ambrosia
- To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
- I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied
- Men Say They Know Many Things
- Zero Hour
- Drake in the Southern Sea
- A. E. F.
- Doors
- The Abracadabra Boys
- Buffalo Dusk
- The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany
- Mr. Attila
- Number Man
- Wilderness
- Bilbea
- How Much?
- Sea-Wash
- I Am the People, the Mob
- Boy and Father
- from The People, Yes
- The Windy City sections 1 and 6
- Cool Tombs
- Graceland
- Knucks
- Bronzes
- Choose
- Fog
- Grass
- Harrison Street Court
- Languages
- Theme in Yellow
- They Will Say
- At a Window
- Chicago
- The Hammer
- The Harbor
- Jan Kubelik
- Lost
- Momus
- The Road and the End
- Who Am I?
- The Snow Arrives After Long Silence
- The Migration of Bicycles
- How to Stuff a Pepper
- The Vanity of the Dragonfly
- Prospects
- Naming the Animals