Poems
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- An Offering for Patricia
- Dilemma
- A Friend Killed in the War
- Mathematics Considered as a Vice
- The Plate
- The Feast of Stephen
- “It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.”
- “More Light! More Light!”
- Third Avenue in Sunlight
- Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror
- At Carmel Highlands
- Country Burial
- Days
- Helen Grown Old
- Helen, the Sad Queen
- Two Fusiliers
- Sergeant-Major Money
- A Boy in Church
- Nursery Memories
- The Spoilsport
- To an Ungentle Critic
- The God Called Poetry
- The Kiss
- A Renascence
- Ghost-Raddled
- On the Poet’s Birth
- A Valentine
- Vain and Careless
- Down, Wanton, Down!
- Fable for Blackboard
- Of Late
- On Reading John Hollander’s Poem “Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)“
- Sign
- Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree
- Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line
- A Tapestry for Bayeux
- Translations from the English
- Working Habits
- Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door
- The Essential Shakespeare, Volume XII: Space-Saver Sonnets
- To a Real Standup Piece of Painted Crockery
- Mistletoe
- The Children of Stare
- The Empty House
- Gloria Mundi
- The Listeners
- The Market-Place
- The Sleeper
- Winter Dusk
- Trench Poets
- War and Peace
- Winter Warfare
- Propositions
- Always Something More Beautiful
- In Love, His Grammar Grew
- Connubial
- Sweetness
- Plaisir
- Beyond Hammonton
- Checklist
- Salvation
- Dismantling the House
- Mary Shelley in Brigantine
- Bereavement
- Evening
- On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
- To -
- Her House
- Whatever Can Be Done, Will Be Done
- Aesthetics of the Asylum
- The Luggage
- The Old Maid Factory
- Reflections on History in Missouri
- To Live with a Landscape
- Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
- Cherry-Ripe
- I Care Not for These Ladies
- Kind Are Her Answers
- My Life’s Delight
- My Sweetest Lesbia
- Never Love Unless
- Now Winter Nights Enlarge
- Vobiscum Est Iope
- When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
- Follow Thy Fair Sun
- Follow Your Saint
- Rose-Cheeked Laura
- There Is A Garden In Her Face
- Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes
- When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground
- The Presence
- Beauty and the Illiterate
- For Efessos
- The Little Mariner
- from Anactoria
- Before Parting
- A Cameo
- Dead Love
- In the Orchard
- Love and Sleep
- The Oblation
- Ave Atque Vale
- A Ballad of Death
- A Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers
- A Channel Crossing
- Choriambics
- The Complaint of Lisa
- Cor Cordium
- Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)
- The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to be Hanged along with Them
- Étude Réaliste
- Faustine
- A Forsaken Garden
- The Garden of Proserpine
- Hendecasyllabics
- Hertha
- The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
- Hymn to Proserpine (After the Proclamation in Rome of the Christian Faith)
- In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
- In the Bay
- Itylus
- Laus Veneris
- A Leave-Taking
- March: An Ode
- Nephelidia
- The Pilgrims
- The Roundel
- Sapphics
- A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
- Sestina
- A Swimmer's Dream
- To a Cat
- The Triumph of Time
- Ars Poetica
- Encounter in the Local Pub
- What loves, takes away
- Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s
- Facing into It
- The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
- The Last Man
- The Messenger
- Reading the Bible Backwards
- "Wreck" and "rise above"
- Bat Cave
- Ex Libris
- High Noon at Los Alamos
- Hunting Manual
- Without Regret
- Magnificat
- Last Hope
- Ars Poetica
- In Muted Tone
- Innocents We
- Moonlight
- How We Heard the Name
- Love Song: I and Thou
- Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
- On Hurricane Jackson
- Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, after Asôka
- Against a Sickness: To the Female Double Principle God
- Prison Song
- Remembering an Account Executive
- Two Quits and a Drum, and Elegy for Drinkers
- Fabrication of Ancestors
- Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
- On Being a Householder
- On the Civil War on the East Coast of the United States of North America 1860-64
- Plague of Dead Sharks
- Portrait from the Infantry
- Prayer
- “Speciously individual ...”
- Untitled Poem “Why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust?”
- The Soldier and the Snow
- Hunger Moon
- The Curse
- Queens
- The Glories of Our Blood and State
- from Ajax: Dirge
- Reflections of an Old Man on Writing
- The Afternoon Sun
- Che Fece ... Il Gran Rifiuto
- The City
- In Sparta
- In the Same Space
- Ithaka
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Crate
- Rain
- Snails
- The Trees Delete Themselves Inside a Fog-Sphere
- Going Deaf
- For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
- June Twenty, Three Days After
- Of History and Hope
- A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
- The Curator
- If Ever There Was One
- The Letter Scale
- Un Citadin / A City Dweller
- Before Dark