This fevers me -- O wild chaos! -- The Bells of a Chinese temple -- Maze -- For a Lamb -- Caravan of Silence -- Four Lakes' Days -- Ode to Silence -- The Return of Odysseus -- 'Where are those High and Haunting Skies' -- Suite in Prison -- The Groundhog -- The Rape of the Cataract -- 1934 -- 'In a Hard Intellectual Light' -- 'My Bones Flew Apart' -- The Transfer -- Request for Offering -- Necessity -- The Scarf of June -- Experience Evoked -- Two Loves -- Burnder -- 'In Prisons of Established Craze' -- The Largess -- 'When Doris Danced' -- 'The Critic with his Pained Eye' -- The Young Hunter -- 'When Goolden Flies upon my Carcasss Come' -- 'Now is the Air made of Chiming Balls' -- The Child -- Let the Tight Lizard on the Wall' -- 'I Went to see Irving Babbitt' -- Recollection of Childhood -- Orchard -- The Soul Long To Return whence it Came -- Grave Pice -- The Humanist -- The Virgin -- 'Man's Greed and Envy are so Great' -- 'The Goal of Intellectual Man -- 'If I could only live at the Pitch that is near Madness' -- 'I Walked Out to the Graveyard to see the Dead' -- A Meditation -- 'The Full of Joy do not Know; they Need not' -- Rumination -- 'Cover Me Over' -- The Recapitulation -- 'Imagining How it would be to be Dead' -- 'I walked over the Grave of Henry James' -- The Ineffable -- 'Mysticism Had Not the Patience to wait for God's Revelation' -- The Dream -- THe Moment of Vision -- Restrospective Forelook -- The Lyric Absolute -- 'I Will Not Dare to ask One Question' -- New Hampshire, February -- Triptych -- Ode to the Chinese Paper Snake -- Burr Oaks -- Dam Neck, Virginia -- The Fury of Aerial Bombardment -- An Airman Considers his Power -- At the End of War -- A Ceremony by the Sea -- World War -- Brotherhood of Men -- Indian Pipe -- 'Go to the Shne that's on a Tree' -- 'Sometimes the Longing for Death -- At Night -- A Love Poem -- God and Man -- The Horse Chestnut Tree -- The Tobacconist of Eighth Street -- Seals, Terns, Time -- The Cancer Cells -- Forms of the Human -- Oedipus -- Fragment of New York, 1929 -- Aesthetics after War -- On Shooting Particles beyond the World -- A Legend of Viable Women -- The Verbalist of Summer -- Concord Cats -- On the Fragility of Mind -- Great Praises -- The Dry Rot -- The Skier and the Mountain -- The Human Being is a Lonely Creature -- The Book of Nature -- Cousin Florence -- Sestina -- 'My Golden and My Fierce Assays' -- Ur Burial -- Seeing is Deceiving -- Analogue of Unity in Multeity -- Sea-Hawk -- Sainte Anne de Beaupre -- Mediterranean Song -- To Evan -- The Day-Bed -- Formative Mastership -- The Hand and the Shadow -- Words -- On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn -- Centennial for Whitman -- Soul -- Fables of the Moon -- Salem -- The Return -- The Giantess -- The Wisdom of Insecurity -- Sunday in October -- Sumer Landscape -- Only in the Dream -- Nothing but Chan ge -- Thrush Song at Dawn -- The Voyage -- Off Spectable Island -- The Seasons -- The Noble Man -- The Forgotten Rock -- Attitudes -- An Old Fashioned American Business Man -- A Young Greek, Killed in the Wars -- Protagonists -- A Soldier Rejectis his Times Addressing his Contemporaries -- 'Blessed Are the Angels in Heaven -- Villanelle -- Life as Visionary Spirit -- Fortune's Mist -- Yonder -- Autumnal -- The Sacrifice -- Lucubration -- In After Time -- A Testament -- Request -- Love Among the Ruins -- Anima -- The Supreme Authority of the Imagination -- Perception as a Guided Missile -- By the Stream -- What Gives -- The Oak -- In the Garden -- The Lost Children -- A Commitment -- Apple Buds -- Throwing the Apple -- The Garden God -- Light from Above -- Austere Poem -- Hoot Owls -- Tree Swallows -- The Clam Diggers and Diggers of Sea Worms -- A Ship Burning and a Comet all in One Day -- The Hard Structure of the World -- The Parker River -- At the Canoe Club -- Ospreys in Cry -- Half-bent Man -- Spring Mountain Climb -- The Passage -- The Gods of Washington, D.C. -- Equivalence of Gnats and Mice -- Birth and Death -- The Incomparable Light -- Mais l'amour infini me montera dans lame -- On Seeing an Egyptian Mummy in Berlin, 1932 -- The Spider -- Sea-Ruck -- The Hamlet Father -- Four Exposures -- La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour -- Loss -- To Auden on His Fiftieth -- To William Carlos Williams -- Nexus -- Examination of Psyche: Thoughts of Home -- The Project -- Matador -- Prometheus -- Old Tom -- The Height of Man -- An Evaluation under a Pine Tree, Lying on Pine Needles -- Kaire -- A New England Bachelor -- A Maine Roustabout -- Sea Burial from the Cruiser Reve -- Flux -- Ruby Daggett -- Hardening into Print -- The Lament of a New England Mother -- The Lost -- Moment of Equilibrium among the Islands -- Am I My Neighbor's Keeper? -- Christmas Tree -- Looking at the Stars -- Dream Journey of the Head and Heart -- Winter Kill -- Later or Sooner -- The Gesture -- Ultimate Song -- Vision -- May Evening -- Ways and Means -- Meditation Two -- The Illusions of Eternity -- The Standards -- The Birth of the Spirit -- Extremity -- 'My brains are slipping in the fields of Eros' -- Refrains -- To Harriet Monroe -- 'Whenever I see beauty I see death' -- Recognition -- Opulence -- Memory -- The Vastness and Indifference of the World -- Hill Dream of Youth, Thirty Years Later -- Why? -- R.G.E. -- To the Field Mice -- The Assassin -- Ball Game -- The Enigma -- THe Haystack -- Santa Claus in Oaxaca -- Looking Head On -- Solace -- Evil -- Marrakech -- Lions Copulating -- The Ides of March -- A Wedding on Cape Rosier -- On Returning to a Lake in Spring -- The Explorer of Main Street -- Sanders Theater -- The Young and the Old -- Old Question -- John Ledyard -- Van Black, an Old Farmer in his Dell -- Froth -- The Swallow Return -- The Wedding -- To Kenya Tribesmen, The Turkana -- Kinaesthesia -- The Anxiety I felt in Guanajuato -- Track -- The Bower -- Despair -- Suicide Note -- Evening Bird Song -- The Secret Heart -- Time Passes -- Broken Wing Theory -- The Fisher Cat -- Reading Room, The New York Public Library -- Meaningless Poem -- Homage to the North -- As If You Had Never Been -- The Breathless -- Stealth and Subleties of Growth -- Emily Dickinson -- Hardy Perennial -- Quarrel with a Cloud -- Gnats on my Paper -- The Truncated Bird -- Man's Type -- Long Term Suffering -- You think they are permanent but they pass -- Hatred of the Old River -- Vermont Idyll -- The Scouring -- The Cage -- The Poet -- Man and Nature -- Old Tree by the Penobscot -- Placation of Reality -- Emblem -- Worldly Failure -- A Man who was Blown Dead by the Wind -- The Hop-Toad -- United 555 -- Light, Time, Dark -- Death in the Mines -- Adam Cast Forth (Borges) -- Redemption -- Undercliff Evening -- Portrait of Rilke -- Sphinxd -- The Groundhog Revisiting -- Big Rock -- American Hakluyt -- Life and Death -- Flow of Thought -- Mind and Nature -- Wild Life and Tamed Life -- Inchiquin Lake, Penobscot Bay -- Face, Ocean -- Three Kis -- Trying to Hold It All Together -- A Way Out -- Incidence of Flight -- Slow Boat Ride -- The Poem as Trajectory -- Snow Cascades -- Coast of Maine -- Usurper -- Vision Through Timothy -- Once More, O ye ...