A fit against the country
On the skeleton of a hound
Three steps to the graveyard
Arrangements with earth for three dead friends
Lament for my brother on a hayrake
She hid in the trees from the nurses
Poem for Kathleen Ferrier
A song for the middle of the night
A presentation of two birds to my son
To a hostess saying good night
A poem about George Doty in the death house
Witches waken the natural world in spring
Morning hymn to a dark girl.
A guesture by a lady with an assumed name
Mutterings over the crib of a deaf child
A little girl on her way to school
An offering for Mr. Bluehart
Sparrows in a hillside drift
A note left in Jimmy Leonard's shack
At Thomas Hardy's birthplace, 1953
On minding one's own business
At the slackening of the tide
All the beautiful are blameless
A girl walking into a shadow
At the executed murderer's grave
Ten short poems (from the Spanish of Juan Ramon Jimenez)
How close to becoming spirit something is
On the city ramparts of Cadiz
The heights of Machu Picchu, III
Trumpets (from the German of Georg Trakl)
I am freed (from the Spanish of Cesar Vallejo)
A divine falling of leaves (Vallejo)
Down to the dregs (Vallejo)
Our daily bread (Vallejo)
The eternal dice (Vallejo)
Across the fields (from the German of Hermann Hesse)
The first flowers (Hesse)
Opening poem (from the Spanish of Miguel Hernandez).
The wounded man (Hernandez)
July 18, 1936-July 18, 1938 (Hernandez)
Boxer (from the Yiddish of Aleph Katz)
Bowery Motifs - II (Katz)
Bowery Motifs - III (Katz)
Not in marble palaces (from the Spanish of Pedro Salinas)
Anacreon's grave (from the German of Goethe)
As I step over a puddle at the end of winter, I think of an ancient Chinese governor
Goodbye to the poetry of calcium
Three stanzas from Geothe
Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
A message hidden in an empty wine bottle that I threw into a gully of maple trees one night at an indecent hour
Stages on a journey westward
Two poems about President Harding
Eisenhower's visit to Franco.
In memory of a Spanish poet
The undermining of the defense economy
Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me
Two horses playing in the orchard
From a bus window in Central Ohio, just before a thunder shower
Arriving in the country again
Having lost my sons, I confront the wreckage of the moon: Christmas, 1960
A prayer to escape from the market place
Today I was happy, so I made this poem
To the evening star: Central Minnesota
In terror of hospital bills
I am a Sioux brave, he said in Minneapolis
Gambling in Stateline, Nevada
The poor washed up by Chicago winter
An elegy for the poet Morgan Blum
Before a cashier's window in a department store
Outside Fargo, North Dakota
A poem written under an archway in a discontinued railroad station, Fargo, North Dakota
Listening to the mourners
Three sentences for a dead swan.
The lights in the hallway
A prayer to the Lord Ramakrishna
Two postures beside a fire
Lifting illegal nets by flashlight
Confession to J. Edgar Hoover
In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, has been condemned
A mad fight song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
Echo fo the promise of Georg Trakl's life
A centenary ode: inscribed to little crow, leader of the Sioux rebellion in Minnesota
Humming a tune for an old lady in West Virginia
Small frogs killed on the highway
A summer memory in the crowded city
Written in a copy of Swift's poems, for Wayne Burns
In memory of the horse David, who ate one of my poems
To Harvey, who traced the circulation
Many of our waters; variations on a poem by a black child
A moral poem freely accepted from Sappho
Ars Poetica: some recent criticism
Love in a warm room in winter
Afternoon and evening at Ohrid
I wish I may never hear of the United States again
The old WPA swimming pool in Martins Ferry, Ohio
In memory of Charles Coffin
The old man said tomorrow
The last Pieta, in Florence
The old dog in the ruins of the graves at Arles
Voices between waking and sleeping in the mountains
On the liberation of woman
Bologna: a poem about gold
To you, out there (Mars? Jupiter?)
The art of the fugue: a prayer
Names scarred at the entrance to chartres
You and I saw hawks exchanging the prey
Well, what are you going to do?
To the creature of the creation
The language of the present moment
In memory of Hubert Robert
Poppies in Trajan's market
The sunlight falling at peace in moret-sur-loing
Beside the tour magne in nimes
Epistle from the Amphitheatre.
One last look at the Adige: Verona in the rain
The Wheeling gospel tabernacle
A lament for the shadows in the ditches
By the ruins of a gun emplacement: Saint Benoit
The flying eagles of troop 62
What does the bobwhite mean
With the shell of a hermit crab
In defense of late summer
Lighting a candle for W. H. Auden
To the Saguaro Cactus tree in the desert rain
The moorhen and her eight young
What does the king of the jungle truly do
Young don't want to be born
On a phrase from Southern Ohio
A small grove in Torri del Benaco
Written on a Big Cheap postcard from Verona.
Winter, Bassano del Grappa
Names in Monterchi: to Rachel
With a silver of marble from Carrara
To a blossoming pear tree
Entering the Temple in Nimes
Reading a 1979 inscription on Belli's monument
Contemplating the front steps of the Cathedral in Florence as the century dies
In view of the Protestant cemetery in Rome
A reply to Matthew Arnold on my fifth day in Fano
In Gallipoli - The Limpet in Otranto
Lightning bugs asleep in the afternoon
Greetings in New York City
To the silver sword shining on the edge of the crater
With the gift of an Alabaster Tortoise
Small wild crabs delighting on black sand
Entering the kingdom of the moray eel
At peace with the ocean of Misquamicut
In memory of Mayor Richard Daley
Lament: fishing with Richard Hugo
Dawn near an Old Battlefield, in a time of peace
On having my pocket picked in Rome
A finch sitting out a windstorm
In memory of the Ottomans
In a field near Metaponto
To the Adriatic wind, becalmed
Snowfall: a poem about spring
With the gift of a fresh new notebook I found in Florence
Leaving the Temple in Nimes
A winter daybreak above Vence.
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