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Wesleyan University Press
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[1971]
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English
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From the Book - [1st ed.]
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).
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