Fables of identity; studies in poetic mythology.

Post subject : a fable

Akron series in poetry

Akron series in poetry.

Door

Penguin poets

Penguin poets.

Door (World Fills Up) -- Bee -- Hand (Giotto) -- Habitat -- Table -- Ingredients -- Fragment (Stone) -- Garden -- Ovation For Now -- Horizon -- Door (I Don't Know Who) -- An Interior -- Count -- As If -- Dune Apparition -- Door (Urgency Of Almost) -- The Mines (Magritte) -- Tally -- Entanglement (Delacroix) -- Syntax -- Door (The Said Closes) -- Door (Let's Explore) -- Fly -- Fable Of The Barn -- Untitled (Bicycle) -- Nights In The Asyntactical World -- Untitled (Crow) -- Elegy In January -- Alarm -- Revision -- Coincidence Of The Hoe -- Door (And Then We Fell) -- Ethos -- And Then -- Song (Ukraine) -- The Belated -- Dis -- On Relation -- Hearsay -- Company -- A Supplication -- The Blue Door -- Nocturne -- Door (Small Incident).

Collected poems, 1930-1960 : including 51 new poems

Poems. Selections

The cave : selected and new poems

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Selected poems -- The old man made it -- At a lake in Minnesota -- Calibrations -- My oldest companion -- To be a danger -- Two faces : a fable -- Room for doubt -- Caretaking at the Bohemian Cemetery outside Owatonna, Minnesota -- The temple in the wilderness -- A poem to my friends -- The one song -- Living out the year -- Inward -- C.G. Hanzlicek -- From "A dozen for Leah" -- Simple truths -- Men at forty-five -- Adrenalin -- Night game -- Mystery -- Primitive sand -- Egg -- Cobalt -- Reader -- This life -- Mahler 1 -- Mahler 2 -- Mahler 3 -- Mahler 4 -- Mahler 5 -- Mahler 6 -- Mahler 7 -- Mahler 8 -- Mahler 9 -- New poems -- On turning fifty-five -- Bad habit -- Feeding frenzies -- Osprey -- The cave -- Intensity, not duration -- Belle Creek -- DeStalinization in Prague -- Elegy -- The funeral -- Sierra noon -- The sea -- Stroked -- Dimensions -- Blue light -- High pressure -- Moment -- Acknowledgments.

The essential Etheridge Knight

Poems. Selections

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Genesis -- Hard Rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane ; Cell song ; He sees through stone ; The idea of ancestry ; On the yard ; A wasp woman visits a black junkie in prison ; Haiku ; For freckle-faced Gerald ; The warden said to me the other day ; My life, the quality of which ; A poem for black relocation centers -- You are ; The violent space ; A poem for a certain lady on her 33rd birthday ; The stretching of the belly ; As you leave me ; No moon floods the memory of that night ; Upon your leaving ; Feeling fucked up -- Indiana haiku-2. Vigo County ; The penal farm ; Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis ; Indianapolis war memorial ; Harlem -- For Langston Hughes ; Welcome back, Mr. Knight : love of my life ; Another poem for me ; The bones of my father ; Evolutionary poem no. 1 ; Evolutionary poem no. 2 -- A poem for myself ; Report to the mother ; The sun came ; It was a funky deal ; Dark prophecy : I sing of shine ; For Malcolm, a year after ; A poem of attrition ; For black poets who think of suicide ; For Mary Ellen McAnally ; The keeping of a promise ; Ilu, the talking drum ; Poem for the liberation of southern Africa ; Television speaks ; On watching politicians perform at Martin Luther King's funeral -- A fable ; Memo #9 ; Memo #32 ; Memo #2 ; Memo #5 ; Portrait of Mary ; My uncle is my honor and a guest in my house ; I and your eyes ; On the birth of a black/baby/boy ; Birthday poem ; Cop-out session ; A poem to Galway Kinnell -- Missouri haiku. Boone County ; Outside St. Louis ; Clay County ; Mizzu -- Indiana haiku. Riverside Park ; Indiana Avenue ; Indianapolis winter, 1973 -- We free singers be ; Talking in the woods with Karl Amorelli ; Boston 5:00 a.m., 10/74 ; A poem on the Middle East "peace process" ; Haiku 1 ; Memo #43 ; And tell me poet, can love exist in slavery? ; Green grass and yellow balloons ; Belly song ; Apology for apostasy? ; Con/tin/U/way/shun blues -- On seeing the black male as #1 sex object in America ; Last words by "Slick" ; Haiku ; Genesis 11 ; Eat Helen B happy ; Various protestations from various people ; At a VA hospital in the middle of the United States of America : an act in a play ; On the projects playground ; Circling the daughter ; For a Brookline lady I love ; Once on a night in the delta : a report from hell ; A black poet leaps to his death ; Rehabilitation & treatment in the prisons of America.

Hinge & sign : poems, 1968-1993

Hinge and sign

What He Thought -- Tornado -- Lightning -- Window: Thing as Participle -- Curve -- Dry Time -- Seal -- Two-Legged -- Fast -- Coming -- Glimpse of Main Event -- My Shepherd -- Untitled -- The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary -- Eastport -- Well -- Unguent -- Some Kind of Pine -- Numberless -- To Go -- Connubial -- Prothalamion -- The Size of Spokane -- Auto -- Better or Worse -- Two St. Petersburgs -- White Mind and Roses -- Scenes from a Death -- 32 Adults (1990) -- Postcard from Provincetown -- Circus -- Sebastian's Mirror -- A -- Just Man -- Live -- Five Threes (Fast Bike) -- Two Holidays -- A Night in a World -- For a Sad God -- The Song Calls the Star Little -- Faith -- Kind of Poor -- For a Good Man -- Lifelike -- Disappearee's Song -- The Act -- Where -- Household -- To a Christian -- A Hurricane Can Cast -- Denomination -- Literal -- Spectacles -- Orbit -- Pupil -- Preferences -- In Praise of Pain -- The Score -- Ozone -- To See the Light -- A Few Licks -- Tendencies -- Gig at Big Al's -- The Most -- Outcry -- Fable -- Patronage -- Double Agent -- Politics -- Fix -- Excerpt from an Argument with Enthusiasts, Concerning Inspiration -- Reservation -- Against a Dark Field -- Debtors' Prison Road -- It is 70 degrees in late November. Opening a window, you nearly know -- Stroke -- Solitary's Solace in the Natural Sciences -- The Field.

Sad little breathing machine : poems

Introduction to the World Bird Transfer Life-Size Is What We Are (A New History of Photography) To Zanzibar by Motorcar Baked Alaska, a Theory Of No More Frisson Please Toe the Line with Me If You Like Sugar I'll Like Sugar Too Save the Originals Sad Little Breathing Machine Introduction to Eden Equation with Flowers Poem Including the Seven Deadly Sins The Crowds Cheered As Gloom Galloped Away Trouble in the Dyad This Is Not a Glass Door Our Square of Lawn First Person Fabulous Shiver & You Have Weather Introduction to Circumference Poem Including the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Diagram of Pretty Please O the Zoetrope & the Periscope Should Be Friends Sergio Valente, Sergio Valente, How You Look Tells the World How You Feel Ideas Go Only So Far Not So Much Miniature As Far Away The Unconsciousness of Feelings Snowglobe Hypothesis Introduction to Addiction Introduction to a Diction Grand Narrative with Chandelier Machine for Jean Rhys Introduction to the Swanhouse You're Miss Reading Definition of Weather The Crying Fields Address to an Absent Flea Introduction to Narrative Once upon a Time: A Genre Fable Meat Ravioli vs. Spaghetti Bolognese Sentenced: The Subject Objects to Its Long-Distance Relationship with the Object Reverberations in the Snail / World Color by Number The Difference Between the Need for Consistency & the State of Expectation The Transparent Heir Apparent Can We See Introduction to the End Introduction to Disease

Musical tables : poems

Musical tables -- Highway -- Aa -- The naked eye -- Argument from design -- New calendar -- The Mohawk Diner, 3 AM -- Dog -- An exaltation of frogs -- Look -- Limits -- Last to leave the party -- The dead of winter -- Carbon dating -- From a railing -- Flaubert -- Mute potato -- Headstones -- Creative writing -- The code of the west -- Breaking up -- The sociologist -- Pupil -- Reflections on an Amish childhood -- Night sky -- Used book -- Thelonious Morning -- Seashore -- Random -- Teenager -- Twisting time -- D Major -- Simplicity -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Eyes -- Falling asleep -- A memory -- Poetry -- Motel parking lot -- View -- Flash -- The visit -- The Sunday Times -- The first straw -- Koan in the rain -- Crèche -- ENG 243: The history of egotism -- Hotel room -- New York directions -- A small hotel -- Angelus -- Physical -- 4'33" by John Cage -- Olden plea -- Three for a quarter -- Yamaha -- Quatrain -- Dogma -- November morning -- Google maps -- Oxymorons -- Art revolutionaries -- Medium and message -- The Milky Way -- Envelope -- Jazz man -- Child astronomy -- Children -- Breakfast -- Divorce -- Face up -- Octopus sonneteer -- Dictionary wanderings -- Junior philosopher -- Zen backfire -- Tom Thumb's thumb -- Neighborhood -- Wet morning -- Covid -- Empty house -- View from a bridge -- Spacing -- Poetry collection -- Orphans -- Departure -- Deep Mexican night -- Charmed -- Celtic interlacing -- Corridor -- Deer hit -- Awake -- Page-turner -- Pianissimo -- Card sharp -- Carpe diem -- Italian palindrome -- Avoidance -- Nurse -- Refrigerator light -- Summer -- Morning walk -- 3:00 AM -- Poems -- Saying -- Angler -- Corn field -- A rake's progress -- Sunday morning -- The student -- The English professor -- Fay -- Young Webster -- Birthday poem -- After the concert -- Light-year -- Cornish -- Symphony No. 4 (Brahms) -- Reclining on clouds -- The exception -- Quickie ekphrasis -- Medieval photography -- Bad hotel -- Siren -- Halloween -- Elegy -- Disappointing freak show -- Coincidence -- Lazy creator -- Weekday -- Card table -- Transitive death -- Music -- Narcissism -- Early tattoo -- Small audience -- Precocious -- Simile -- The children's table -- Supine -- As time goes by.

Poetry speaks who I am

Eternity / Perhaps the world ends here / Still I rise / Cinderella's diary / Vampire's serenade / Alone / Alone / Caroline / "What are friends for..." / I loved my friend / In the fifth-grade locker room / Bra shopping / Blood charm / Pause / The delight song of Tsoai-talee / Indian education / One art / Here / Haiku / Good girl / Bad boats / No images / won't you celebrate with me / What I'm telling you / How I learned to sweep / Sonnet 130 / Litany / A teenage couple / Free period / Zodiac / The Skokie theater / Valentine / An angry Valentine / What great grief has made the empress mute / Mad girl's love song / How we heard the name / The gladiator / Worth / I am a Black / Lost sister / Flash cards / Arithmetic / Dream variations / Dreams / Blackberry-picking / Manners / Mascara / from For a girl beginning / Every day it is always there / Dear Mama (4) / A boy in a bed in the dark / The talk / A small poem / Fears of the eighth grade / When I have fears that I may cease to be / Death of a snowman / Oatmeal / Eating poetry / The bagel / Hope is the thing with feathers / If I can stop one heart from breaking / The Duke's castle / Ozymandias / The sacred / The road not taken / Prowess / What we might be, what we are / Sideman / XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you / Sometimes with one I love / In the desert / Annabel Lee / The summer of black widows / Permanently / A dog on his master / Mowing / Seal / Seahorses / So far / The germ / Baseball / Poetry slalom / How I discovered poetry / Used book shop / The survivor / New clothes / Mediation / A fable / Houses / Snowmen / The floral apron / Abuelito who / Legacies / Instead of her own / Tia Chucha / The adversary / What your mother tells you now / 33 / 49 / What are heavy? / The wind / Acquainted with the night / When you are old / "Nobody can counsel and help you" / "Live a while in these books" / Here yet be dragons / Sedna / The wr

American poetry

The Prologue -- Contemplations -- The Flesh and the Spirit -- The Author to Her Book -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old -- Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 / Prologue (from "Preparatory Meditations) -- Meditation I -- The Reflexion -- Meditation 6 -- Meditation 8 -- Meditation 20 -- Meditation 29 -- Meditation 38 -- Meditation 40 -- Meditation 68A, Second Series -- from "Gods Determinations Touching His Elect -- The Preface -- The Glory of and Grace in the Church Set Out -- The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended -- Miscellaneous Poems -- An Address to the Soul Occasioned By a Rain -- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly -- Huswifery -- Upon Wedlock and Death of Children -- The Ebb and Flow / The Power of Fancy -- Death (from "The House of Night") -- The Vanity of Existence -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans -- The Hurricane -- The Wild Honey Suckle -- The Indian Burying Ground -- To Sir Toby -- Ode -- Amanda's Complaint -- On a Honey Bee -- On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature / The Hasty-Pudding -- from "The Columbiad" [One Centred System] / Thanatopsis -- The Yellow Violet -- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood -- To a Waterfowl -- Green River -- A Winter Piece -- Summer Wind -- A Forest Hymn -- "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids" -- The Evening Wind -- To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe -- To the Fringed Gentian -- The Prairies -- Earth -- The Antiquity of Freedom -- "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race" -- The Poet -- The Death of Lincoln

The Sphinx -- Each and All -- The Problem -- Uriel -- Alphonso of Castile -- Mithridates -- Hamatreya -- The Rhodora -- The Snow-Storm -- Ode -- Ode to Beauty -- Give All to Love -- The Apology -- Merlin -- Bacchus -- Blight -- Musketaquid -- Threnody -- Concord Hymn -- Brahma -- Days -- Two Rivers -- Waldeinsamkeit -- Terminus -- Compensation / Hymn to the Night -- The Skeleton in Armor -- The Arsenal at Sspringfield -- Seaweed -- The Fire of Driftwood -- In the Churchyard at Cambridge -- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport -- The Ropewalk -- My Lost Youth -- Snow-Flakes -- Killed at the Ford -- Divina Commedia -- The Challenge -- Aftermath -- The Sicilian's Tale -- Chaucer -- Milton -- Keats -- The Sound of the Sea -- The Harvest Moon -- Nature -- The Chamber over the Gate -- The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls -- Jugurtha -- The Cross of Snow / Memories -- Proem -- Ichabod -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- The Old Burying-Ground -- Telling the Bees -- My Playmate -- Barbara Frietchie -- Snow-Bound -- Laus Deo! -- Prelude (from"Among the Hills") -- At Last / Tamerlane -- Evening Star -- A Dream Within a Dream -- Sonnet-To Science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The City in the Sea -- The Sleeper -- Lenore -- The Valley of Unrest -- The Coliseum -- To One in Paradise -- The Haunted Palace -- Sonnet-Silence -- The Conqueror Worm -- Dream-Land -- The Raven -- Ulalume-A Ballad -- Eldorado -- For Annie -- To My Mother -- Annabel Lee / The Ballad of the Oysterman -- Old Ironsides -- The Last Leaf -- The Chambered Nautilus -- The Living Temple -- The Deacon's Masterpiece -- Contentment -- The Two Streams -- Manhood (from "Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts") -- Dorothy Q. -- Two Sonnets: Harvard -- The Peau De Chagrin of State Street

To the Canary Bird -- Thy Beauty Fades -- The New Birth -- Nature -- Life -- The Garden -- The columbine -- The Dead -- The Slave -- Love -- Thy Brother's Blood -- The Hand and Foot -- Psyche -- The Barberry-Bush -- Man in Harmony with Nature -- On the Completion of the Pacific Telegraph -- The Broken Bowl -- The April Snow -- Soul-Sickness -- The Clouded Morning -- Abdolonymus the Sidonian -- The Fugitive Slaves -- On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau -- The New Man -- The New World / Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life -- Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf -- Light-Winged Smoke, Icarian Bird -- Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind -- Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze -- Lately, Alas, I Knew a Gentle Boy -- The Inward Morning -- My Books I'd Fain Cast Off, I Cannot Read -- I Am A Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied -- Inspiration -- The Fall of the Leaf / To the Dandelion -- From "A Fable for Critics" [Emerson] -- [Bryant] -- [Whittier] -- [Hawthorne] -- [Cooper] -- [Poe and Longfellow] -- [Lowell] -- Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration -- Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line -- The Washers of the Shroud -- Auspex -- The Recall -- On Receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson's "Old World Idylls" -- Verses, Intended to Go With a Posset Dish / Song of Myself -- From "To Think of Time" -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking -- From "Children of Adam" -- To the Garden the World -- From Pent-up Aching Rivers -- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals -- As adam Early in the Morning -- From "Calamus" In Paths Untrodden -- Scented Herbage of My Breast -- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing -- When I Heard at the Close of the Day -- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me -- I Dream'd in a Dream -- From "Drum-Taps" Beat! Beat! Drums! -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford -- Bivouac on a Mountain Side -- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame -- The Wound-Dresser -- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim -- To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod -- O Captain! My Captain! -- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd -- Sparkles From the Wheel -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- To a Locomotive in Winter -- Good-Bye My Fancy!

The Portent -- Misgivings -- The Conflict of Convictions -- The March into Virginia -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight -- Shiloh -- Malvern Hill -- The House-Top -- A Dirge for McPherson -- On the Grave of a Young Cavalry Officer Killed in the Valley of Virginia -- Commemorative of a Naval Victory -- Epilogue (from "Clarel") -- The Æolian Harp -- The Maldive Shark -- The Berg -- Pebbles -- After the Pleasure Party -- The Ravaged Villa -- Monody -- Art / The Question -- Refrigerium -- Sonnets: Part I - XXII -- XXIV -- XXV -- XXVI -- Sonnets: Part II - VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XI -- XII -- XIII -- XIV -- XV -- XVI -- XVII -- XXXI -- XXXII -- XXXIII -- XXXIV / Charleston -- Spring -- The Unknown Dead -- Ode / 49 I never lost as much but twice -- 67 Success is counted sweetest -- 76 Exultation is the going -- 80 Our lives are Swiss -- 126 To fight aloud, is very brave -- 128 Bring me the sunset in a cup -- 130 These are the days when birds come back -- 160 Just lost, when I was saved -- 165 A wounded deer, leaps highest -- 187 How many times these low feet staggered -- 214 I taste a liquor never brewed -- 216 Safe in their alabaster chambers -- 241 I like a look of agony -- 249 Wild nights-wild nights -- 258 There's a certain slant of light -- 280 I felt a funeral, in my brain -- 287 A clock stopped -- 290 Of bronze-and blaze -- 303 The soul selects her own society -- 318 I'll tell you how the sun rose -- 322 There came a day at summer's full -- 328 A bird came down the walk -- 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- 348 I dreaded that first robin, so -- 376 Of course-I prayed -- 378 I saw no way-the Heavens were stitched -- 401 What soft-cherubic creatures -- 435 Much madness is divinest sense

441 This is my letter to the world -- 448 This was a poet, it is that -- 449 I died for beauty-but was scarce -- 465 I heard a fly buzz-when I died -- 474 They put us far apart -- 502 At least-to pray-is left-is left -- 511 If you were coming in the fall -- 526 To hear an oriole sing -- 536 The heart asks pleasure-first -- 556 The brain, within it's groove -- 585 I like to see it lap the miles -- 620 It makes no difference abroad -- 640 I cannot live with you -- 650 Pain-has an element of blank -- 657 I dwell in possibility -- 664 Of all the souls that stand create -- 675 Essential oils-are wrung -- 712 Because I could not stop for death -- 721 Behind me-dips eternity -- 742 Four trees-upon a solitary acre -- 754 My life had stood-a loaded gun -- 764 Presentiment-is that long shadow-on the lawn -- 813 This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies -- 822 This consciousness that is aware -- 829 Ample make this bed -- 861 Split the lark-and you'll find the music -- 870 Finding is the first act -- 875 I stepped from plank to plank -- 888 When I have seen the sun emerge -- 946 It is an honorable thought -- 949 Under the light, yet under -- 985 The missing all, prevented me -- 986 A narrow fellow in the grass -- 997 Crumbling is not an instant's act -- 1052 I never saw a moor -- 1068 Further in summer than the birds -- 1072 Title divine-is mine -- 1078 The bustle in a house -- 1082 Revolution is the pod -- 1084 At half past three, a single bird -- 1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant -- 1176 We never know how high we are -- 1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow -- 1243 Safe despair it is that raves -- 1304 Not with a club, the heart is broken -- 1333 A little madness in the spring -- 1393 Lay this laurel on the one -- 1463 A route of evanescence -- 1540 As imperceptibly as grief -- 1587 He ate and drank the precious words -- 1612 The auctioneer of parting -- 1624 Apparently with no surprise -- 1670 In winter in my room -- 1672 Lightly stepped a yellow star -- 1695 There is a solitude of space -- 1712 A pit-but Heaven over it -- 1732 My life closed twice before its close / Thar's more in the man than thar is in the land -- Corn -- The Symphony -- The Waving of the Corn -- Evening Song -- Song of the Chattahoochee -- The Harlequin of Dreams -- The Revenge of Hamish -- The Marshes of Glynn -- A Ballad of Trees and the Master / Glouchester Moors -- An Ode in Time of Hesitation -- On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines -- The Menagerie -- The Bracelet of Grass -- Faded Pictures -- Thammuz / George Crabbe -- Luke Havergal -- Credo -- Cliff Klingenhagen -- How Annandale went out -- Miniver Cheevy -- For a Dead Lady -- The Gift of God -- Hillcrest -- Eros Turannos -- Bewick Finzer -- The Man Against the Sky -- Demos -- The Dark Hills -- Mr. Flood's Party -- The Sheaves -- Karma / From "The Black Riders" - I -- III -- VI -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XII -- XIV -- XVIII -- XIX -- XXI -- XXIII -- XXIV -- XXVIII -- XXIX -- XXXIV -- XXXIX -- XLI -- XLVI -- XLIX -- LI -- LIV -- LX -- LXVI -- LXVII -- The Blue Battalions -- From "War is Kind" - [I] -- [VI] -- [VII] -- [XI] -- [XII] -- [XVIII] -- [XIX] -- [XXI] -- [XXIII] -- Three Poems

The Tuft of Flowers -- Mending Wall -- Home Burial -- After Apple-Picking -- The Road Not Taken -- The Oven Bird -- The Witch of Coös -- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening -- For Once, Then, Something -- The Onset -- To Earthward -- Two Look at Two -- Acquainted with the Night -- West-Running Brook -- Two Tramps in Mud Time -- Desert Places -- Neither Out Far Nor in Deep -- Design -- The Gift Outright -- Directive / Chicago -- Sketch -- Fog -- Pool -- Prayers of Steel -- Wilderness -- Handfuls -- Cool Tombs -- Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind -- When Death Came April Twelve 1945 / Domination of Black -- The Snow Man -- Le Monocle de Mon Oncle -- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman -- The Emperor of Ice-Cream -- Sunday Morning -- Anecdote of the Jar -- To the One of Fictive Music -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird -- Sea Surface Full of Clouds -- The Idea of Order at Key West -- Anglais Mort À Florence -- A Postcard from the Volcano -- Study of Two Pears -- The Glass of Water -- The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man -- Mrs. Alfred Uruguay -- Asides on the Oboe -- The Motive for Metaphor -- Credences of Summer -- To an Old Philosopher in Rome -- The Rock -- The World as Meditation -- As You Leave the Room / Tract -- The Widow's Lament in Springtime -- Queen-Ann's-Lace -- Spring and All -- To Elsie -- Rain -- The Yachts -- These -- Preface to Paterson: Book One -- The Semblables -- Burning the Christmas Greens -- The Injury / Portrait d'Une Femme -- The Seafarer -- A Virginal -- The Return -- Lament of the Frontier Guard -- Liu Ch'e -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- Canto I -- Canto II / Adonis -- Heat -- Pear Tree -- Oread -- From Citron-Bower -- Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me in Caelum / Night -- Birds -- Apology for Bad Dreams -- Hurt Hawks -- Promise of Peace -- The Eye -- Ocean -- My Burial Place -- Let Them Alone -- But I am Growing Old and Indolent / Poetry -- The Steeple-Jack -- No Swan so Fine -- The Pangolin -- What are Years? -- The Mind is an Enchanting Thing -- In Distrust of Merits -- Armour's Undermining Modesty -- Tom Fool at Jamaica -- Melchior Vulpius / Winter Remembered -- Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter -- Captain Carpenter -- Vision by Sweetwater -- Piazza Piece -- Antique Harvesters -- The Equilibrists -- Painted Head -- Master's in the Garden Again -- Prelude to an Evening

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Sweeney Among the Nightingales -- Gerontion -- The Waste Land -- The Hollow Men -- Ash-Wednesday / The Road -- Sea Holly -- Elder Tree -- The Room -- Doctors' Row -- North Infinity Street -- The lovers -- Music / Ars Poetica -- The End of the World -- You, Andrew Marvell -- Immortal Autumn -- "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments" -- Pole Star -- Theory of Poetry / O Sweet Spontaneous -- A Man Who Had Fallen Among Thieves -- "Next to of Course God America I -- Somewhere I have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond -- Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town -- My Father Moved through Dooms of Love -- Pity this Busy Monster, Manunkind -- What if a Much of a Which of a WInd -- Now Does Our World Descend -- Enter No (Silence is the Blood Whose Flesh) / Black Tambourine -- Praise for an Urn -- Chaplinesque -- Repose of Rivers -- The Wine Menagerie -- For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen -- At Melville's Tomb -- Voyages -- To Brooklyn Bridge (Proem to "The Bridge") -- The River (from "The Bridge") -- The Tunnel (from "The Bridge") -- O Carib Isle! -- Royal Palm -- The Hurricane -- The Broken Tower / Mr. Pope -- The Subway -- Ode to the Confederate Dead -- The Cross -- Sonnets at Christmas (1934) -- The Mediterranean -- Aeneas at Washington -- Pastoral -- Seasons of the Soul -- The Swimmers / Open House -- Cuttings, Later -- Dolor -- The Lost Son -- Elegy for Jane -- Four for Sir John Davies -- The Waking -- Words for the Wind -- The Song -- First Meditation (from "Meditations of an Old Woman") / The Dome of Sunday -- The Potomac -- Nostalgia -- Elegy for a Dead Soldier -- V-Letter -- The Sickness of Adam (from "Adam and Eve') / 90 North -- Second Air Force -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- A Camp in the Prussian Forest -- The Orient Express -- The Woman at the Washington Zoo / Winter Landscape -- Cloud and Flame -- The Dispossessed -- Three Around the Old Gentleman / In Memory of Arthur Winslow -- Christmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue -- The Drunken Fisherman -- Children of Light -- The Exile's Return -- Colloquy in Black Rock -- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket -- As a Plane Tree by the Water -- Mr. Edwards and the Spider -- After the Surprising Conversions -- Where the Rainbow Ends -- Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid -- Words for Hart Crane -- Skunk Hour -- The Public Garden / First Snow in Alsace -- Bell Speech -- Still, Citizen Sparrow -- The Death of a Toad -- Lamarck Elaborated -- Pangloss's song: A Comic-Opera Lyric / The Heaven of Animals -- Between Two Prisoners -- The Scratch -- The Dusk of Horses -- The Beholders / On an East Wind From the Wars -- Love Song: I and Thou -- Funeral Oration for a Mouse -- Elegy -- Plague of Dead Sharks / Pleasures -- The Goddess -- Come into Animal Presence -- The Well -- The Novel / Returned to Frisco, 1946 -- The Campus on the Hill -- April Inventory -- Heart's Needle: 5 -- A Flat One / Hart Crane -- The Way -- The Rose -- The Wife -- The Snow / Dictum: For a Masque of Deluge -- When I Came From Colchis -- The Annunciation -- John Otto -- In the Night Fields / a Man Walking and Singing -- Canticle -- May Song -- Ascent -- The Guest -- November 26, 1963