Collected poems

The quest

Sitting in a small screenhouse on a summer morning

from The green wall

A fit against the country

The seasonless

The Horse

The fishermen

A girl in a window

On the skeleton of a hound

Three steps to the graveyard

Father

Elegy in a firelit room

Arrangements with earth for three dead friends

Lament for my brother on a hayrake

She hid in the trees from the nurses

To a defeated saviour

To a troubled friend

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

To a Fugitive

Eleutheria

Autumnal

The shadow and the real

Witches waken the natural world in spring

Morning hymn to a dark girl

The Quail

Sappho

A gesture by lady with an assumed name

Mutterings over the crib of a deaf child

The angel

The assignation

Come forth

Erinna to Sappho

A little girl on her way to school

My grandmother s ghost

Saint Judas

I. Lunar Changes

Complaint

Paul

An offering for Mr. Bluehart

Old man drunk

Sparrows in a hillside drift

A note left in Jimmy Leonard's shack

At Thomas Hardy's birthplace

Evening

Dog in a cornfield

On minding one's own business

The morality of poetry

At the Slackening of the Tide

All the beautiful are blameless

In a Viennese cemetery

A Prayer in my sickness

The cold divinities

The revelation

A winter day in Ohio.

II. A sequence of love poems

A breath of air

In shame and humiliation

The accusation

The ghost

The alarm

A girl walking into a shadow

But only mine

III. The part nearest home

What the earth asked me

The refusal

American twilights

Devotions

At the executed murderer's grave

Saint Judas

Some translations

Ten short poems (from the Spanish of Juan Ramon Jimenez)

1. Rose from the sea, from Diario de Poeta y Mar

from eternidades

from eternidades

Rosebushes, from Diario de Poeta y Mar

Dreaming from Diario de Poeta y Mar

From Diario de Poeta y Mar

On the city ramparts of Cadiz, from Diario de Poeta y Mar

From Diario de Pieta y Mar

Moguer, From Diario de Poeta y Mar

Life, from eternidades

I want to sleep (from the Spanish of Jorge Guillen)

Nature alive (Guillen)

Love song to a morning (Guillen)

Some beasts (from the Spanish of Pablo Neruda)

The heights of Macchu Picchu, III (Neruda)

Trumpets (from the German of George Trakl)

De profundis (Trakl)

The rats (Trakl)

A winter night (Trakl)

Sleep (Trakl)

I am freed (from the Spanish of Cesar Vallejo)

White rose (Vallejo)

A divine falling of leaves (Vallejo)

Our daily bread (Vallejo)

The eternal dice (Vallejo)

The big people (Vallejo)

Down to the dregs (Vallejo)

Not in marble palaces (from the Spanish of Pedro Salinas)

Anacreon s grave ( from the German of Goethe)

The branch will not break.

As I step over a puddle at the end of winter, I think of an ancient Chinese governor

Goodbye to the poetry of calcium

In fear of harvests

Three stanzas from Goethe

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Lying in a hammock at William Duffy s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

The Jewel

In the face of hatred

Fear Is what quickens me

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

How my fever left

Miners

In Ohio

Two poems about President Harding

Eisenhower s visit to Franco, 1959

In memory of a Spanish Poet

The undermining of the defense economy

Twilights

Two hangovers

Depressed by a book if bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me

Two horses playing in the orchard

By a lake in Minnesota

Beginning

From a bus window in central Ohio, just before a thunder shower

March

Trying to pray

Two spring charms

Spring images

Arriving in the country again

In the cold house

Snowstorm in the midwest

Having lost my sons, I confront the wreckage of the moon: Christmas, 1960

American wedding

A prayer to escape from the market place

Rain

Today I was happy, so I made this poem

Mary Bly

To the evening star: central Minnesota

I was afraid of dying

A blessing

Milkweed

A dream of burial

Shall we gather at the river

A Christmas greeting

The Minneapolis poem

Inscription for the tank

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

Old age compensation

Before a cashier's window in a department store

Speak

Outside Fargo, North Dakota

Living by the Red River

To flood stage again

A poem written under an archway in a discontinued railroad station, Fargo, North Dakota

Late November in a field

The frontier

Listening to the mourners

Youth

Rip

The life

Three sentences for a dead swan

Brush fire

The lights in the hallway

The small blue heron

Willy Lyons

A prayer to the lord Ramakrishna

In Memory of Leopardi

Two postures beside a fire

For the Marsh's birthday

Lifting Illegal nets by flashlight

Confession to J. Edgar Hoover

To the poet in New York

The river down home

In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, has been condemned

Poems to a brown cricket

To the muse.

New poems

The idea of the good

Blue Teal's Mother

Moon

A poem about breasts

Sun tan at dusk

A mad fight song for William S. Carpenter, 1966

The pretty redhead (from the French of Guillaume Apollinaire)

Echo for the promise of George Trakl's life

A centenary ode: inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862

Red Jacket's grave

To the August fallen

A secret gratitude

So she said

Trouble

Humming a tune for an old lady in West Virginia

To a dead drunk

Small frogs killed on the highway

A way to make a living

A summer memory in the crowded city

A poem by Garnie Braxton

Written in a copy of Swift's poems, for Wayne Burns

Eclogue at Nash's Grove

In memory of the horse David, who ate one of my poems

Larry

The offense

To a friendly Dun

To Harvey, who traced the circulation

Katy did

Many of Our waters: variations on a poem by a black child

A moral poem freely accepted from Sappho

Northern pike

"Bleibe, bleibe bei mir" (Goethe).