Poetry by English women : Elizabethan to Victorian

English women's poetry.

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock -- Written on a Wall at Woodstock -- Written in her French Psalter -- Doubt of Future Foes -- On Monsieur's Departure / from The Admonition by the Auctor -- Wyll and Testament / Psalm 57: Miserere Mei, Deus -- Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique -- Psalm 92: Bonum Est Confiteri -- Psalm 139: Domine, Probasti / Description of Cooke-ham / Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus -- from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Prologue -- To my Dear and loving Husband -- Before the Birth of one of her Children -- letter to her Husband -- Upon the Burning of our House / Song -- Another Song / Excuse for so much writ upon my Verses -- ^ 'A Poet I am neither born, nor bred' -- Of the Theam of Love -- Natures Cook -- Dissert -- Soule, and Body -- Woman drest by Age -- Of the Animal Spirits -- Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind -- from The Fort or Castle of Hope -- Discourse of Beasts / Friendship's Mystery -- To my Excellent Lucasia -- Answer to another persuading a Lady to marriage -- To the Queen of Inconstancy -- Epitaph on her Son H.P. -- Lucasia, Rosania and Orinda parting at a Fountain / Love Arm'd -- Song: The Willing Mistriss -- Disappointment -- To Alexis -- To the fair Clarinda / from The Ladies Defence -- To the Ladies / On a Bashful Shepherd -- To One that asked me why I loved J.G. -- Maidenhead -- To a Proud Beauty -- In the Person of a Lady, to Bajazet

On Death -- Upon the saying that my verses were made by another / Introduction -- Letter to Daphnis -- from The Spleen -- Unequal Fetters -- Nocturnal Reverie / from The Female Advocate -- Liberty -- Emulation / To Celinda -- Expostulation -- from To one that persuades me to leave the Muses -- To Orestes -- from A Paraphrase on the Canticles / from Six Town Eclogues -- Lover -- Receipt to Cure the Vapours -- 'Between your sheets' / Womans Labour / Wish -- Dol and Roger -- Song -- Song -- Fair and Softly goes far / from Essay on Friendship -- from The Head-ache -- Sacrifice -- On Winter -- Mira's Will / from An Epistle to Lady Bowyer -- After the Small Pox -- Soliloquy on an empty Purse / On a Lady's Writing -- Tomorrow -- Washing-Day -- Rights of Woman / Verses inviting Mrs C -- to Tea -- from Colebrook Dale -- Invocation, To the Genius of Slumber / from The Bas Bleu -- Riot / Written at the Churchyard at Middleton -- On the Aphorism: 'L'Amitie est l'amour sans ailes' -- from Beachy Head -- Thirty-Eight / Grasmere -- a Fragment -- Floating Island at Hawkshead -- Thoughts on my sick-bed / Recreation -- Squire's Pew / Homes of England -- Indian Woman's Death Song / from Sonnets from the Portuguese -- To George Sand -- ^ from Casa Guidi Windows -- from Aurora Leigh

Musical Instrument / 'Again I find myself alone' -- 'What does she dream of' -- Diving -- from Retrospection / 'High waving heather' -- Plead for Me -- Remembrance -- 'No coward soul is mine' -- Stanzas / Song / from Divided -- High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571 / Scherzo -- Sunflower / Remember -- World -- From the Antique -- Echo -- In an Artist's Studio -- Birthday -- Up-Hill -- Amor Mundi -- Thread of Life / Morning -- Afternoon -- Twilight -- Midnight -- from Two Songs -- Wrestling / Renouncement -- Shepherdess -- Maternity -- Parentage -- Dead Harvest -- Chimes / Song -- Among His Books -- Gray Folk -- Villeggiature / London Poets -- Epitaph -- London Plane-Tree -- In the Mile End Road -- Old House / Other Side of a Mirror -- Moment -- In Dispraise of the Moon -- Poison Flower -- Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar -- Marriage -- White Woman.

The Enlightened heart : an anthology of sacred poetry

Upanishads: Golden God, the self, the immortal swan -- Two birds, one of them mortal, the other immortal. -- Book of Psalms: Psalm 1, Psalm 19, Psalm 104, Psalm 131.-- Lao-tzu: Tao that can be told -- Every being in the universe -- Ancient masters were profound and subtle -- Empty your mind of all thoughts -- Good traveler has no fixed plans -- Some say that my teaching is nonsense -- Bhagavad Gita: Those who realize true wisdom. -- Chuang-tzu: Cutting up an ox. --- Odes of Solomon: My heart was split, and a flower. --- Seng-tsan: Mind of absolute trust. --- Han-shan: Clambering up the Cold Mountain path -- My home was at Cold Mountain from the start. --- Li Po: You ask who I make my home in the mountain forest -- Birds have vanished into the sky. -- Tu Fu: Written on the wall at Chang's Hermitage. -- Layman Pang: When the mind is at peace -- My daily affairs are quite ordinary. -- Kukai: Singing image of fire. -- Tung-shan: If you look for the truth outside yourself. -- Symeon the new theologian: We awaken in Christ's body. -- Izumi Shikibu: Watching the moon. -- Su Tung-po: Roaring waterfall. -- Hildegard of Bingen: Holy Spirit. -- Francis of Assisi: Canticle of the sun. -- Wu-men: One instant is eternity -- Great Way has no gate -- Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn -- Moon and clouds are the same. -- Dogen: On the treasury of the true Dharma eye -- On non-dependence of mind. -- Rumi: Don't grieve. -- Anything you lose comes round -- Morning: a polished knifeblade -- When grapes turn -- Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing -- I have lived on the lip -- Forget your life. Say "God is great." Get up -- All day and night, music -- You are the notes, and we are the flute -- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing -- Drunkards are rolling in slowly -- Outside, the freezing desert night -- When it's cold and raining -- Praise to the emptiness that blanks our existence. -- Mechthild of Magdeburg: Fish cannot drown in water -- Effortlessly -- Of all that God has shown me. -- Dante: "This mountain of release is such that the" -- "Love of God, unutterable and perfect" -- "But you who are so happy here, tell me" -- Kabir: Between the conscious and the unconscious -- Inside this clay jar there are meadows -- Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat -- My friend, this body is His lute -- I have been thinking of the difference between water -- Swan, tell me your old story -- Student, do the simple purification. -- Mirabai: Why Mira can't go back to her old house -- Clouds -- O my friends. -- William Shakespeare "Be cheerful, sir." -- George Herbert: Prayer -- Elixir -- Love. -- Bunan: Die while you're alive. -- Gensei: Poem without a category. -- Angelus Silesius: God, whose love and joy -- It depends on you -- God is a pure no-thing. -- Thomas Traherne: Salutation. -- Basho: Old pond -- Though I'm in Kyoto. -- William Blake: to see a world in a grain of sand -- Eternity. -- Ryokan: First days of spring -- the sky -- In all ten directions of the universe -- Too lazy to be ambitious. -- Issa: Man pulling radishes -- In the cherry blossom's shade -- Flying out from. -- Ghalib: For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river -- World is no more than the Beloved's single face -- Colors of tulips and roses are not the same -- Even at prayer, our eyes look inward -- Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise. -- Bibi Hayati: Before there was a trace of this world of men. -- Walt Whitman: Trippers and askers surround me -- I have said that the soul is not more than the body. -- Emily Dickinson: I dwell in possibility -- Not "revelation" -- 'tis -- that waits -- Soul's superior instants -- Brain -- is wider than the sky -- Nature -- the gentlest mother is. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame -- God's grandeur -- Pied beauty -- That nature is a Heraclitean firer and of the comfort of the Resurrection. -- Uvanmuk: Great sea has set me in motion. -- Anonymous Navaho: I ask all blessings. -- W.B. Yeats: Gratitude to the unknown instructors -- -- Lapis lazuli. -- Antonio Machado: In our souls everything -- Between living and dreaming. -- Rainer Maria Rilke: Buddha in glory -- Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were -- As once the winged energy of delight -- We are the driving ones -- Call me to the one among your moments -- Seventh duino elegy -- Ninth duino elegy -- Ah, not to be cut off -- Dove that ventured outside -- Silent friend of many distances, feel -- Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy. -- Wallace Stevens: Snow man -- To an old philosopher in Rome. -- D.H. Lawrence: Pax. -- Robinson Jeffers: Treasure.

Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks

Introduction: Of memory and revision / Foreword / Child-free / Barbed wire / I, too, am the mother / The unmother / Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Motherhood / First journey / Daystar / My mother's clothes / Washer woman / Tax deadline / Fixing face / [Untitled] / Milk bath / Horse and carriage on the plaza / A slip into history / My face / blk(s) / The night after you have been fired from your job / A burning lesson / She was my first / Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday

Sister Flossie's jam / Recipe / Radio / For the lover who eats my poems ... / To be in love / To be / Knife in the wall / Chalk / When your silence will not save you / Fine art school / Combatives / Stay / Abracadabra / Psalm 23 at 15 / Visitation one / Dog in a dead man's house / Babes / On Spring / Bitter winter / Suicide one / Lovely love / Sweet stalk / Genetic codes / The Samaritan woman / Look behind / Deuce and a quarter / Convenience / Anacostia suite / Sold to the man with the mouth / Kenny's friend / Run Johnny run / Foun(d) poem / Silly stories / Dying of laughter / Sleep smoking / Five belly buttons / Yaakov's jackets / The hammers / Mama Gwendolyn kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus on de forehead / Civility / Tribal differences / Players online dating service / Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. goes to heaven / Looking for Venture Smith / Sonnet for Gordon Parks / Oriki for John Oliver Killens

Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks / Quatrain for Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/LaQuan McDonald / Many sons, many mothers / A depraved indifference 2 human life / The short answer / A neighborhood boy / Rite of passag / We real / Roots / News item : police seek African-American man / History of static / East Texas blues / Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / We real / WWW2015 / The tragedies / Skin / Keloid cells / Landscape with chalk-marked silhouette / Everyday horrors / When racism dies / Overheard at tea, near Kensington and DeVeers, London / A feast of whispers / In praise of wisdom / Halloween / Who needs the stars if the full moon loves you? / Prayer for Jordan / The corner / A deaf old lady / Street woman / Black woman in Russia / Artwork gallery ; Recollections / Urban couple / The tenant / Meanwhile, a Lawndale girl burns cornbread / R. Taylor's Project girl / Final frontier / Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the Mecca / The last supper / Second Ave. ceiling / Steel canary / Crime in Bluesville / Eating in the after life / Hotel Hades / Lincoln Cemetery / The blinking apple / & later / Geometry / Cedar / Fun in the backyard / Day 4, somewhere between Athens and Serifos, Greece / June 9, Serifos, Greece / Blackbirding / Seven years

Testifying / Language of the unheard / Jazz June / To the recorder of history / A note on Gwendolyn Brooks / Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks / Nobody knows my name / A haiku for Gwendolyn Brooks / Journaling with Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : a pastiche of poetic reports on her life & works / The weight of the word / Baggage / Smolder / Artist statements. Anecdote / Reflections : experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Reflection / Gwendolyn Brooks reminiscence / Being born into Brooks / Description of portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks / My Gwendolyn Brooks experience / Remembrance / Finding my own sunset and thoughts on reading Gwendolyn Brooks / My first contact with Gwendolyn Brook / A slice of prose for Gwendolyn Brooks, poet / To make a thing sing and mean : reflections on Gwendolyn Brooks / Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / A Bluesviile tribute for Gwendolyn Brooks / Brooks biography. We remember Sunday : portrait of the artist as an ancestor / Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015

Collected poems, 1930-1976 : including 43 new poems

Poems. Selections

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 ...

The complete poems of Emily Jane Brontë

Poems. (Hatfield)

Cold, clear, and blue, the morning heaven -- Will the day be bright or cloudy -- Tell me, tell me, smiling child -- The inspiring music's thrilling sound -- High waving heather, 'neath stormy blasts bending -- Woods, you need not frown on me -- Redbreast, early in the morning -- Through the hours of yesternight -- A.G.A. There shines the moon, at noon of night -- All day I've toiled, but not with pain -- I am the only being whose doom -- The night of storms has passed -- Woe for the day: Regina's pride -- I saw thee, child, one summer's day -- O God of heaven! the dream of horror -- A.G.A. to A.E. Lord of Elbe, on Elve hill -- Song A.G.A. Lord of Elbe, on Elbe hill -- Lord of Elbe, on Elbe hill: The battle had passed from the height -- How golden bright from earth and heaven -- Not a vapour had stained the breezeless blue -- Only some spires of bright green grass -- The sun has set, and the long grass now -- Lady, in your palace hall -- And first an hour of mournful musing -- Wind, sink to rest in the heather -- Long neglect has worn away -- Awaking morning laughs from heaven -- Alone I sat, the summer day -- The organ swells, the trumpets sound -- A sudden chasm of ghastly light -- 'Tis evening now, the sun descends -- The old church tower and garden wall -- Lines. Far away is the land of rest -- Now trust a heart that trusts in you -- A.G.A. sleep brings no joy to me -- Strong I stand, though I have borne -- The night is darkening round me -- I'll come when thou art saddest -- I would have touched the heavenly key -- To a wreath of snow, by A.G. Almeda, O transient voyager of heaven -- Song by Julius Angora, awake, awake, how loud the stormy morning -- J.A. Song, awake, awake how loud the stormy morning -- Lines -- I die but when the grave shall press -- O mother, I am not regretting -- H.G. weaned from life and torn away -- I'm happiest when most away -- All hushed and still within the house -- Ierne's eyes were glazed and dim -- But the hearts that once adored me -- Deep, deep down in the silent grave -- Here, with my knee upon thy stone -- O come again, what chains withhold -- Was it with the fields of green -- How loud the storm sounds round the hall -- What use is it to slumber here -- O evening, why is thy light so sad -- It's over now: I've known it all -- The wide cathedral aisles are lone -- O hinder me by no delay -- Darkness was overtraced on every face -- Harp of wild and dream-like strain -- A.G.A. why do I hate that lone green dell -- A.G.A. to A.S. o wander not so far away -- Lines by A.G.A. to A.S. o wander not so far away -- Song to A.A. This shall by thy lullaby -- Song, this shall be thy lullaby -- Gleneden's dream, tell me, watcher, is it winter -- None of my kindred now can tell -- 'Twas one of those dark, cloudy days -- Lonely at her window sitting -- There are two trees in a lonely field -- What is that smoke that ever still -- Still as she looked the iron clouds -- Away, away, resign me now -- It will not shine again -- None but one beheld him dying -- Coldly, bleakly, drearily -- Old hall of Elbe, ruined, lonely now -- Douglas's ride, well, narrower draw the circle roundg -- Song, what rider up Gobelrin's glen -- A.G.A. for him who struck thy foreign string -- The lady to her guitar, for him who struck thy foreign string -- Arthr ex to -- in dungeons dark I cannot sing -- The evening sun was sinking down -- Fall, leaves, fall -- die, flowers, away -- Song by Julius Brenzaida to G.S. Geraldine, the moon is shining -- Song by J. Brenzaida to G.S., I knew not 'twas so dire a crime -- Last words, I knew 'twas so dire a crime -- A.G.A. where were ye all, and where wert thou -- I paused on the threshold, I turned to the sky -- O come with me, thus ran the song -- F. De. Samara to A.G.A., light up thy halls, 'tis closing day -- O dream, where art thou now -- When days of beauty deck the earth -- Still beside that dreary water -- There swept adown that dreary glen -- The starry night shall tidings bring -- The starry night shall comfort bring -- Loud without the wind was roaring -- Loud without the wind was roaring -- Stanzas, loud without the wind was roaring -- A little while, a little while -- Stanzas, a little while, a little while -- How still, how happy, those are words -- The blue bell is the sweetest flower

The bluebell, the bluebell is the sweetest flower -- The night was dark, yet winter breathed -- A.G.A. what winter floods, what showers of spring -- By R. Gleneden, from our evening fireside now -- Lines by R.G., from our evening fireside now -- Song, King Julius left the south country -- Lines, the soft unclouded blue of air -- A.G.A. to the bluebell, sacred watcher, wave thy bells -- To a bluebell by A.G.A., sacred watcher, wave thy bells -- May flowers are opening -- Lines by Claudia, I did not sleep, 'twas noon of day -- I know not how it falls on me -- Written on returning to the P. of I. on the 10th of January, 1827, The busy day has hurried by -- The hours of day have glided by -- The busy day has glided by -- Month after month, year after year -- She dried her tears, and they did smile -- And now the house-dog stretched once more -- A farewell to Alexandria, I've seen this dell in July's shine -- Come hither, child -- who gifted thee -- To A.G.A. thou standest in the greenwood now -- I'm standing in the forest now -- I gazed upon the cloudless moon -- Shed no tears o'er that tomb -- A.A.A. sleep not, dream not, this bright day -- Mild the mist upon the hill -- How long will you remain, the midnight hour -- It is not pride, it is not shame -- Fair sinks the summer evening now -- Alcona, in its changing mood -- Song, o between distress and pleasure -- There was a time when my cheek burned -- The wind, I hear it sighing -- Love and friendship, love is like the wild rose-briar -- Love and friendship, love is like the wild rose-briar -- There should be no despair for you -- Sympathy, there should be no despair for you -- Well, some may hate, and some may scorn -- Stanzas to -- well, some may hate, and some may scorn -- The wind was rough which tore -- His land may burst the galling chain -- Start not, upon the minster wall -- That wind, I used to hear it swelling -- I've been wandering in the greenwoods -- That dreary lake, that midnight sky -- Heaven's glory shone where he was laid -- Upon her soothing breast -- I gazed within thine earnest eyes -- F. De Samara, written in the gaaldine prison caves to A.G.A., thy sun is near meridian height -- Far, far away is mirth withdrawn -- It is too late to call thee now -- I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me -- Stanzas, I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me -- A.G.A. to A.S., at such a time, in such a spot -- If grief for grief can touch thee -- 'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight -- The night-wind, in summer's mellow midnight -- The night-wind, in summer's mellow midnight -- R. Gleneden, companions all day long we've stood -- There let thy bleeding branch atone -- The death of A.G.A., were they shepherds, who sat all day -- And like myself lone, wholly lone -- M.A.A. methinks this heart should rest awhile -- Riches I hold in light esteem -- The old stoic, riches I hold in light esteem -- Shall earth no more inspire thee -- Aye, there it is, It wakes to-night -- Ay-there it is, it wakes to-night -- I see around me tombstones grey -- Geraldine, 'twas night, her comrades gathered all -- Rosina, weeks of wild delirium past -- A.S. to G.S., I do not weep, I would not weep -- Encouragement, I do not weep, I would not weep -- H.A. and A.S. in the same place, when nature wore -- Written in Aspin Castle, how do I love on summer nights -- The evening passes fast away -- Self interrogation, the evening passes fast away -- On the fall of Zalona, all blue and bright, in glorious light -- How clear she shines, how clear she shines, how quietly -- How clear she shines, how clear she shines, how quietly -- To A.S. 1830, where beams the sun the brightest -- E.G. to M.R., thy guardians are asleep -- It was night, and on the mountains -- Had there been falsehood in my breast -- Yes, holy be thy resting place -- In the earth, the earth, thou shalt be laid -- Warning and reply, in the earth, the earth, thou shalt be laid -- Rodric Lesley, 1830, lie down and rest, the fight is done -- Hope, hope was but a timid friend -- Hope, hope was but a timid friend -- M.G. for the U.S., 'twas yesterday, at early dawn -- A.S. castle wood, the day is done, the winter sun -- My comforter, well hast thou spoken, and yet not taught -- My comforter, well hast thou spoken, and yet not taught -- A.G.A. to A.S., this summer wind, with thee and me

A day dream, on a sunny brae alone I lay -- A day dream, on a sunny brae alone I lay -- E.W. to A.G.A., how few, of all the hearts that loved -- The wanderer from the fold, how few of all the hearts that loved -- Come, walk with me -- The linnet in the rocky dells -- Song, the linnet in the rocky dells -- To imagination, when weary with the long day's care -- To imagination, when weary with the long day's care -- D.G.C. to J.A., come, the wind may never again -- O thy bright eyes must answer now -- Plead for me, oh, thy bright eyes must answer now -- I.M. to I.G. the winter wind is loud and wild -- Faith and despondency, the winter wind is loud and wild -- J.B., Sept, 1825, from a dungeon wall in the southern college, "listen, when your hair, like mine" -- The elder's rebuke, listen, when your hair, like mine -- M. Douglas to E.R. Gleneden, the moon is full this winter night -- Honour's Martyr. The moon is full this winter night -- A.G.A., Sept. 1826, From A.D.W. in the N.C., o day, he cannot die -- A death-scene, o day, he cannot die -- Enough of thought, philosopher -- The philosopher, enough of thought, philosopher -- R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida, cold in the earth and the deep snow piled above thee -- Remembrance, cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee -- Death, that struck when I was most confiding -- Death, death, that struck when I was most confiding -- Ah, why, because the dazzling sun -- Stars, ah, why, because the dazzling sun -- A thousand sounds of happiness -- A.E. to R.C. heavy hangs the raindrop -- Child of delight, with sunbright hair -- The two children, heavy hangs the raindrop -- Child of delight with sun-bright hair -- How beautiful the earth is still -- Anticipation, how beautiful the earth is still -- M.A. written on the dungeon wall, N.C., I know that tonight the wind is sighing -- Julian M. and A.G. Rochelle, silent is the house, all are laid asleep -- The prisoner, a fragment, in the dungeon crypts idly did I stray -- The visionary, silent is the house, all are laid asleep -- No coward soul is mine -- No coward soul is mine -- Why ask to know the date, the clime -- Why ask to know what date, what clime -- Not many years but long enough to see / Stanzas, often rebuked, yet always back returning.

Collected poems : 1950-2012

Poems

A change of world (1951). Storm warnings -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers -- Vertigo -- The ultimate act -- What ghosts can say -- The kursaal at Interlaken -- Reliquary -- Purely local -- A view of the terrace -- By no means native -- Air without incense -- For the felling of an elm in the Harvard yard -- A clock in the square -- Why else but to forestall this hour -- This beast, this angel -- Eastport to Block Island -- At a deathbed in the year two thousand -- Afterward -- The uncle speaks in the drawing room -- Boundary -- Five o'clock, Beacon Hill -- From a chapter on literature -- An unsaid word -- Mathilde in Normandy -- At a Bach concert -- The rain of blood -- Stepping backward -- Itinerary -- A revivalist in Boston -- The return of the evening grosbeaks -- The springboard -- A change of world -- Unsounded -- Design in living colors -- Walden 1950 -- Sunday evening -- The innocents -- "He remembereth that we are dust" -- Life and letters -- For the conjunction of two planets --

Poems (1950-1951). The prisoners -- Night -- The house at the Cascades -- The roadway -- Pictures by Vuillard -- Orient wheat -- Versailles -- Annotation for an epitaph -- Ideal landscape -- The celebration in the plaza -- The tourist and the town -- Bears -- The insusceptibles -- Lucifer in the train -- Recorders in Italy -- At Hertford House -- The wild sky -- The prospect -- Epilogue for a masque of Purcell -- Villa Adriana -- The explorers -- Landscape of the star -- Letter from the land of sinners -- Concord River -- Apology -- Living in sin -- Autumn equinox -- The strayed village -- The perennial answer -- The insomniacs -- The snow queen -- Love in the museum -- I heard a hermit speak -- Colophon -- A walk by the Charles -- New year morning -- In time of carnival -- The middle-aged -- The marriage portion -- The tree -- Lovers are like children -- When this clangor in the brain -- A view of Merton College -- Holiday -- The capital -- The platform -- Last song -- The diamond cutters --

Snapshots of a daughter-in-law (1963). At majority -- From morning-glory to Petersburg -- Rural reflections -- The knights -- The loser. I kissed you, bride and lost, and went -- Well, you are tougher than I thought. -- The absent-minded are always to blame -- Euryclea's tale -- September 21 -- After a sentence in "Malte Laurids Brigge" -- Snapshots of a daughter-in-law. You, once a belle in Shreveport, -- Banging the coffee-pot into the sink -- A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. -- Knowing themselves too well in one another: -- Dulce ridens, dulce loquens -- When to her lute Corinna sings -- "To have in this uncertain world some stay -- "You all die at fifteen, " said Diderot, -- Not that it is done well, but -- Well, -- Passing on -- The raven -- Merely to know. Wedged in by earthworks -- Let me take you by the hair -- Spirit like water -- Antinoüs: the diaries -- Juvenilia -- Double monologue -- A woman mourned by daughters -- Readings of history. The evil eye -- The confrontation -- Memorabilia -- Consanguinity -- The mirror -- The covenant -- To the airport -- The afterwake -- Artificial intelligence -- A marriage in the 'sixties -- First things -- Attention -- End of an era -- Rustication -- Apology -- Sisters -- In the north -- The classmate -- Peeling onions -- Ghost of a chance -- The well -- Novella -- Face -- Prospective immigrants please note -- Likeness -- The lag -- Always the same -- Peace -- The roofwalker --

Poems (1955-1957). At the Jewish new year -- Moving in winter -- Necessities of life (1966). Poems 1962-1965. Necessities of life -- In the woods -- The corpse-plant -- The trees -- Like this together. Wind rocks the car. -- They're tearing down, tearing up -- We have, as they say, -- Our words misunderstand us. -- Dead winter doesn't die, -- Breakfast in a bowling alley in Utica, New York -- Open-air museum -- Two songs. Sex, as they harshly call it, -- That "old last act"! -- The parting -- Night-pieces: for a child. The crib -- Her waking -- The stranger -- After dark. You are falling asleep and I sit looking at you -- Now let's away from prison-- -- Mourning picture -- "I am in danger--sir--" -- Halfway -- Autumn sequence. An old shoe, an old pot, an old skin, -- Still, as sweetness hardly earned -- Your flag is dried-blood, turkey-comb -- Skin of wet leaves on asphalt. -- Noon -- Not like that -- The knot -- Any husband to any wife -- Side by side -- Spring thunder. Thunder is all it is, and yet -- Whatever you are that weeps -- The power of the dinosaur -- A soldier is here, an ancient figure, -- Over him, over you, a great roof is rising, -- Moth hour -- Focus -- Face to face -- Translations from the Dutch. Martinus Nijhoff, the song of the foolish bees -- Hendrik de Vries, my brother -- Hendrik de Vries, fever -- Gerrit Achterberg, Eben Haëzer -- Gerrit Achterberg, accountability -- Gerrit Achterberg, statue -- Leo Vroman, our family -- Chr. J. van Geel, homecoming -- Chr. J. van Geel, sleepwalking -- Poems (1962-1965). To Judith, taking leave -- Roots -- The parting: II -- Winter --

Leaflets (1969). Night watch. Orion -- Holding out -- Flesh and blood -- In the evening -- Missing the point -- City (from the Dutch of Gerrit Achterberg) -- Dwingelo (from the Dutch of Gerrit Achterberg) -- The demon lover -- Jerusalem -- Charleston in the 1860's -- Night watch -- There are such springlike nights (from the Yiddish of Kadia Molodowsky) -- For a Russian poet. The winter dream -- Summer in the country -- The demonstration -- Night in the kitchen -- 5:30 A.M. -- The break -- Two poems (adapted from Anna Akhmatova). There's a secret boundary hidden in the waving grasses: -- On the terrace, violins played -- The key -- Picnic -- The book -- Abnegation -- Leaflets. Women -- Implosions -- To Frantz Fanon -- Continuum -- On edges -- Violence -- The observer -- Nightbreak -- Gabriel -- Leaflets. The big star, and that other -- Your face -- If, says the Dahomeyan devil, -- Crusaders' wind glinting -- The strain of being born -- The rafts -- Ghazals (homage to Ghalib). The clouds are electric in this university. -- The ones who camped on the slopes, below the bare summit, -- In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice. -- Did you think I was talking about my life? -- Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever-- -- When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed -- Armitage of scrapiron for the radiations of a moon. -- When your sperm enters me, it is altered; -- The sapling springs, the milkweed blooms: obsolete nature. -- The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. -- Last night you wrote on the wall: revolution is poetry. -- A dead mosquito, flattened against a door; -- So many minds in search of bodies -- The order of the small town on the riverbank, -- If these are letters, they will have to be misread. -- From here on, all of us will be living -- A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design, -- Poems (1967-1969). Postcard -- White night (from the Yiddish of Kadia Molodowsky) -- The days: spring -- Tear gas --

The will to change (1971). November 1968 -- Study of history -- Planetarium -- The burning of paper instead of children. My neighbor, a scientist and art-collector, ... -- To imagine a time of silence -- "People suffer highly in poverty... -- We lie under the sheet -- I am composing on the typewriter late at night, ... -- I dream I'm the death of Orpheus -- The blue ghazals. Violently asleep in the old house. -- One day of equinoctial light after another, -- A man, a woman, a city. -- Ideas of order...sinner of the Florida keys, -- Late at night I went walking through your difficult wood, -- They say, if you can tell, clasped tight under the blanket, -- There are days when I seem to have nothing -- Frost, burning. The city's ill. -- Pain made her conservative. -- Pierrot Le Fou. Suppose you stood facing -- On a screen as wide as this, I grope for the titles. -- Suppose we had time -- The island blistered our feet. -- When I close my eyes -- To record -- Letters: March 1969. Foreknown. The victor -- Hopes sparkle like water in the clean carafe. -- "I am up at sunrise -- Six months back -- Pieces. Breakpoint -- Relevance -- Memory -- Time and place -- Revelation -- Our whole life -- Your letter -- Stand up -- The stelae -- Snow -- The will to change. That Chinese restaurant was a joke -- Knocked down in the canefield -- Beardless again, phoning -- At the wings of the mirror, peacock plumes -- The cabdriver from the Bronx -- The photograph of the unmade bed -- Images for Godard. Language as city:: Wittgenstein -- To know the extremes of light -- To love, to move perpetually -- At the end of Alphaville -- Interior monologue of the poet: -- A valediction forbidding mourning -- Shooting script. 11/69-2/70. We were bound on the wheel of an endless conversation. -- Ghazal V (adapted from Mirza Ghalib) -- The old blanket. The crumbs of rubbed wool turning up. -- In my imagination I was the pivot of a fresh beginning. -- Of simple choice they are the villagers; ... -- You are beside me like a wall; ... -- Picking the wax to crumbs... -- 3-7/70. A woman waking behind grimed blinds... -- (Newsreel) -- They come to you with their descriptions of your soul. -- The mare's skeleton in the clearing: another sign of life. -- I was looking for a way out of a lifetime's consolations. -- We are driven to odd attempts; ... -- Whatever it was: the grains of the glacier... --

Diving into the wreck (1971-1972). Trying to talk with a man -- When we dead awaken -- Waking in the dark -- Incipience -- After twenty years -- The mirror in which two are seen as one -- From the prison house -- The stranger -- Song -- Dialogue -- Diving into the wreck -- The phenomenology of anger -- Merced -- A primary ground -- Translations -- The ninth symphony of Beethoven understood at last as a sexual message -- Rape -- Burning oneself in -- Burning oneself out -- For a sister -- For the dead -- From a survivor -- August -- Meditations for a savage child -- Poems (1973-1974). Dien bien phu -- Essential resources -- Blood-sister -- The wave -- Re-forming the crystal -- The fourth month of the landscape architect -- The alleged murderess walking in her cell -- White night -- Amnesia -- For L.G.: unseen for twenty years -- Family romance -- From an old house in America -- The fact of a doorframe --

The dream of a common language (1974-1977). Power. Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev -- Origins and history of consciousness -- Splittings -- Hunger -- To a poet -- Cartographies of silence -- The lioness -- Twenty-one love poems. Wherever in this city, screens flicker -- I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. -- Since we're not young, weeks have to do time -- I come home from you through the early light of spring -- This apartment full of books could crack open -- Your small hands, precisely equal to my own-- -- What kind of beast would turn its life into words? -- I can see myself years back at Sunion, -- our silence today is a pond where drowned things live -- Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through -- Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes, -- Sleeping, turning in turn like planets -- The rules break like a thermometer, -- It was your vision of the pilot -- (The floating poem, unnumbered) -- If I lay on that beach with you -- Across a city from you, I'm with you, -- No one's fated or doomed to love anyone. -- Rain on the West Side Highway, -- Can it be growing colder when I begin -- That conversation we were always on the edge -- The dark lintels, the blue and foreign stones -- Not somewhere else, but here. Upper Broadway -- Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff -- Nights and days -- Sibling mysteries -- A woman dead in her forties -- Mother-right -- Natural resources -- Toward the solstice -- Transcendental etude --

A wild patience has taken me this far (1978-1981). The images -- Coast to coast -- Integrity -- Culture and anarchy -- For Julia in Nebraska -- Transit -- For memory -- What is possible -- For Ethel Rosenberg -- Mother-in-law -- Heroines -- Grandmothers. Mary Gravely Jones -- Hattie Rice Rich -- Granddaughter -- The spirit of place. Over the hills in Shutesbury, Leverett -- The mountain laurel in bloom -- Strangers are an endangered species -- The river-fog will do for privacy -- Orion plunges like a drunken hunter -- Frame -- Rift -- A vision -- Turning the wheel. Location -- Burden baskets -- Hohokam -- Self-hatred -- Particularity -- Apparition -- Mary Jane Colter, 1904 -- Turning the wheel --

Your native land, your life (1981-1985). Sources -- North American time. For the record -- Education of a novelist -- Virginia 1906 -- Dreams before waking -- When/then -- Upcountry -- One kind of terror: a love poem -- In the wake of home -- What was, is; what might have been, might be -- For an occupant -- Emily Carr -- Poetry: I -- Poetry: II, Chicago -- Poetry: III -- Baltimore: a fragment from the thirties -- New York -- Homage to winter -- Blue rock -- Yom Kippur 1984 -- Edges -- Contradictions: tracking poems. Look: this is January the worst onslaught -- Heart of cold. Bones of cold. Scalp of cold -- My mouth hovers across your breasts -- He slammed his hand across my face and I -- She is carrying my madness and I dread her -- Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight -- Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain -- I'm afraid of prison. Have been all these years. Tearing but not yet town: this page -- Night over the great and the little worlds -- I came out of the hospital like a woman -- Violence as purification: the one idea. -- Trapped in one idea, you can't have your feelings, -- Lately in my dreams I hear long sentences -- You who think I find words for everything, -- It's true, these last few years I've lived -- I have backroads I take to places -- The problem, unstated till now, is how -- If to feel is to be unreliable -- The tobacco fields lie fallow the migrant pickers -- The cat-tails blaze in the corner sunflowers -- In a bald skull sits our friend in a helmet -- You know the government must have pushed them to settle, -- Someone said to me: it's just that we don't -- Did anyone ever know who we were -- You: air-driven reft from the tuber-bitten soil -- The Tolstoyans the Afro-American slaves -- This high summer we love will pour its light -- You who think I find words for everything --

Time's power (1985-1988). Solfeggietto -- This -- Love poem -- Negotiations -- In a classroom -- The novel -- A story -- In memoriam: D.K. -- Children playing checkers at the edge of the forest -- Sleepwalking next to death -- Letters in the family -- The desert as garden of paradise -- Delta -- 6/21 -- For an album -- Dreamwood -- Walking down the road -- The slides -- Harpers Ferry -- One life -- Divisions of labor -- Living memory -- Turning -- An atlas of the difficult world (1988-1991). A dark woman, head bent, listening for something -- Here is a map of our country: -- Two five-pointed star-shaped glass candleholders, ... -- Late summers, early autumns, you can see something that binds -- Catch if you can your country's moment, begin -- A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine: -- (The dream-site) some rooftop, water-tank looming, street-racket strangely quelled -- He thought there would be a limit and that it would stop him. He depended on that: -- One this earth, in this life, as I read your story, you're lonely. -- Soledad. =f. solitude, loneliness, homesickness; lonely retreat. -- One night on Monterey Bay the death-freeze of the century: -- What homage will be paid to a beauty built to last -- (Dedications) I know you are reading this poem -- She -- That mouth -- Olivia -- Eastern war time. Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943, -- Girl between home and school, what is that girl -- How telegrams used to come: ring -- What the grown-ups can't speak of would you push -- A young girl knows she is young and meant to live -- A girl wanders with a boy into the woods -- A woman of sixty driving -- A woman wired in memories -- Streets closed, emptied by force guns at corners -- Memory says: want to do right? Don't count on me -- Tattered Kaddish -- Through corralitos under rolls of cloud. Showering after 'flu; stripping the bed; -- If you know who died in that bed, do you know -- That light of outrage is the light of history -- She who died on that bed sees it her way: -- For a friend in travail -- 1948: Jews -- Two arts. I've redone you by daylight. -- Raise it up there and it will -- Darklight. Early day. Grey the air. -- When heat leaves the walls at last -- Final notations --

Dark fields of the republic (1991-1995). What kind of times are these. In those years -- To the days -- Miracle ice cream -- Rachel -- Amends -- Calle visión. Not what you thought: just a turn-off -- Calle visión-- Lodged in the difficult hotel -- Calle vision your heart beats on unbroken -- Ammonia -- The repetitive motions of slaughtering -- You can call on beauty still and it will leap -- In the room in the house -- In the black net -- On the road there is a house -- Reversion -- Revolution in permanence (1953, 1993) -- Then or now. Food packages: 1947 -- Innocence: 1945 -- Sunset, December, 1993 -- Deportations -- And now -- Sending love. Voice -- Sending love: Molly sends it -- Sending love is harmless -- Terrence years ago -- Take -- Late Ghazal -- Six narratives. You drew up the story of your life -- You drew up a story about me -- You were telling a story about women to young men -- You were telling a story about love -- I was telling you a story about love -- You were telling a story about war -- From pierced darkness -- Inscriptions. One: comrade -- Two: movement -- Three: origins -- Four: history -- Five: voices -- Six: edgelit -- Midnight salvage (1995-1998). The art of translation -- For an anniversary -- Midnight salvage -- Char -- Modotti -- Shattered head -- 1941 -- Letters to a young poet -- Camino real -- Plaza street and Flatbush -- Seven skins -- "The night has a thousand eyes" -- Rusted legacy -- A long conversation --

Fox (1998-2000). Victory -- Veterans Day -- For this -- Regardless -- Signatures -- Nora's gaze -- Architect -- Fox -- Messages -- Fire -- Twilight -- Octobrish -- Second sight -- Grating -- Noctilucent clouds -- If your name is on the list -- 1999 -- Terza rima -- Four short poems -- Rauschenberg's bed -- Waiting for you at the mystery spot -- Ends of the Earth -- The school among the ruins (2000-2004). Centaur's requiem -- Equinox -- Tell me -- For June, in the year 2001 -- The school among the ruins -- This evening let's -- Variations on lines from a Canadian poet -- Delivered clean -- The eye -- There is no one story and one story only -- USonian journals 2000 -- Territory shared. Address -- Transparencies -- Livresque -- Collaborations -- Ritual acts -- Point in time -- Alternating current. Sometimes I'm back in that city -- No bad dreams. Night, the bed, the faint clockface. -- Take one, take two -- What's suffered in laughter in aroused afternoons -- A deluxe blending machine -- As finally by wind or grass -- When we are shaken out -- Memorize this -- The painter's house -- After Apollinaire & Brassens -- Slashes -- Trace elements -- Bract -- Dislocations: seven scenarios. Still learning the word -- In a vast dystopic space the small things -- City and world: this infection drinks like a drinker -- For recalcitrancy of attitude -- Faces in the mesh: defiance or disdain -- Not to get up and go back to the drafting table -- Tonight someone will sleep in a stripped apartment -- Five o'clock, January 2003 -- Wait -- Don't take me -- To have written the truth -- Screen door -- Tendril --

Telephone ringing in the labyrinth (2004-2006). Voyage to the denouement -- Skeleton key -- Wallpaper -- In plain sight -- Behind the motel -- Melancholy piano (extracts) -- Archaic -- Long after Stevens -- Improvisation on lines from Edwin Muir's "variations on a time theme" -- Rhyme -- Hotel -- Three elegies. Late style -- As ever -- Fallen figure -- Hubble photographs: after Sappho -- This is not the room -- Unknown quantity -- Tactile value -- Midnight, the same day. When the sun seals my eyes the emblem -- Try to rest now, says a voice -- Even then maybe -- Director's notes -- Rereading The dead lecturer -- Letters censored, shredded, returned to sender, or judged unfit to send -- If/as though -- Time exposures. Glance into glittering moisture -- Is there a doctor in the house -- They'd say she was humorless -- When I stretched out my legs beyond your wishful thinking -- You've got ocean through sheet glass brandy and firelog -- The university reopens as the floods recede -- Via insomnia -- A burning kangaroo -- Ever, again -- Draft #2006 -- Telephone ringing in the labyrinth --

Tonight no poetry will serve (2007-2010). Waiting for rain, for music -- Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time -- Benjamin revisited -- Innocence -- Domain -- Fracture -- Turbulence -- Tonight no poetry will serve -- Scenes of negotiation -- From sickbed shores -- Axel Avákar. Axel: a backstory -- Axel, in thunder -- I was there, Axel -- Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house -- Ballade of the poverties -- Emergency clinic -- Confrontations -- Circum/stances -- Winterface -- Quarto -- Don't flinch -- Black locket -- Generosity -- You, again -- Powers of recuperation -- Later poems (2010-2012). Itinerary -- For the young anarchists -- Fragments of an opera -- Liberté -- Teethsucking bird -- Undesigned -- Suspended lines -- Tracings -- From strata -- Endpapers.