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| Foreword | |
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| Approach to Wildness | |
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| Danse Russe | |
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| Smell! | |
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| Crazy Dog Events | |
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| Four Quatrains | |
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| Much Madness is Divinest Sense | |
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| from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land | |
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| Bread and Wine | |
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| Has Anyone Seen the Boy? | |
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| from The Will to Believe | |
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| from Proverbs from Hell | |
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| from Middle of the Way | |
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| The Wild Mallard Thought | |
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| The Wild Man Comes to the Monastery | |
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| from Song of a Man Who Has Come Through | |
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| Knowing Nothing Shuts the Iron Gates | |
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| from In a Dark Time | |
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| Little Infinite Poem | |
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| The Wild Old Wicked Man | |
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| Mad as the Mist and Snow | |
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| Song of the Cuban Blacks | |
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| Advice | |
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| Fathers' Prayers for Sons and Daughters | |
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| With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach | |
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| A Story | |
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| A Prayer for My Son | |
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| On the Beach at Fontana | |
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| In the Third Month | |
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| On My First Son | |
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| The Idea of Ancestry | |
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| Men and Birth: The Unexplainable | |
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| Lastness | |
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| Changing Diapers | |
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| At the Washing of My Son | |
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| from A Prayer for My Daughter | |
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| A Flower Given to My Daughter | |
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| An Ark for Lawrence Durrell | |
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| The Turtle | |
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| Boy at the Window | |
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| For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old | |
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| After Making Love We Hear Footsteps | |
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| Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper | |
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| A Story That Could Be True | |
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| War | |
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| War | |
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| The Man from Washington | |
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| Rundown Church | |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
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| Postcard | |
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| Dry Loaf | |
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| Ode for the American Dead in Asia | |
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| Words for My Daughter | |
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| To President Bush at the Start of the Gulf War | |
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| Becoming Milton | |
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| from The Homeric Hymn to Ares | |
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| The Secret of Victory | |
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| from Lessons of the War | |
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| Big Dream, Little Dream | |
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| Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind | |
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| The Colonel | |
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| "Keeping Their World Large" | |
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| Passing an Orchard by Train | |
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| I Know the Earth, and I Am Sad | |
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| The Wind, One Brilliant Day | |
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| Sonnets to Orpheus IV | |
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| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
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| Rain | |
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| Melancholy Inside Families | |
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| Walking Around | |
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| No More Auction Block (Spiritual) | |
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| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | |
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| The Day Lady Died | |
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| Sonnets to Orpheus VIII | |
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| Sunflower | |
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| Snowbanks North of the House | |
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| Healing | |
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| Come In | |
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| I Am Going to Speak of Hope | |
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| And What If After So Many Words | |
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| The House of Fathers and Titans | |
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| For, Brother, What Are We? | |
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| from Democracy in America | |
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| The Bones of My Father | |
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| from Theogony | |
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| Saturn | |
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| The Guild | |
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| The Sick Image of My Father Fades | |
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| My Papa's Waltz | |
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| American Primitive | |
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| My Father's Wedding | |
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| The Portrait | |
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| The Core of Masculinity | |
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| The Gift | |
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| The Weight of Sweetness | |
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| Only When My Heart Freezes | |
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| Those Winter Sundays | |
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| My Father Went to Funerals | |
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| Offering | |
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| The Distant Footsteps | |
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| Yesterday | |
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| from Memories of My Father | |
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| The Race | |
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| The Irish Cliffs of Moher | |
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| Language: Speaking Well and Speaking Out | |
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| Magic Words (Eskimo) | |
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| The Mind | |
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| Songs Are Thoughts | |
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| On Being Extravagant | |
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| from Gargantua | |
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| from The Havana Lectures | |
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| Poetry Is a Destructive Force | |
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| In My Craft or Sullen Art | |
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| On the Words in Poetry | |
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| Sound-Posture | |
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| Amergin and Cessair (Traditional) | |
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| from Canto LXXXI | |
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| Sonnet LXV | |
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| Rigorists | |
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| To Autumn | |
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| On the Writing of Poetry | |
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| Thoughts | |
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| Selections | |
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| These Days | |
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| American Poetry | |
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| Catch | |
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| Pitcher | |
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| Library | |
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| from Standing Up | |
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| from The Man with the Blue Guitar | |
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| from Autobiography of Charles Darwin | |
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| Making a Hole in Denial | |
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| The Inner Part | |
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| Miniver Cheevy | |
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| "Next To Of Course God America I | |
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| We Real Cool | |
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| Twenty-First. Night. Monday | |
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| The Invisible King | |
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| Darkmotherscream | |
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| Empty Warriors | |
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| On the Yard | |
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| A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand | |
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| Animals Are Passing from Our Lives | |
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| It Is This Way with Men | |
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| The War Prayer | |
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| The Second Coming | |
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| A First on TV | |
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| Sunday at the State Hospital | |
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| No Theory | |
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| Funeral Eva | |
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| Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop | |
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| Design | |
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| Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense? | |
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| The Spider | |
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| Loving the Community and Work | |
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| A Ritual to Read to Each Other | |
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| Throw Yourself Like Seed | |
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| Until One Is Committed | |
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| Just as the Winged Energy of Delight | |
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| Work | |
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| Lamb | |
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| Why Log Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen | |
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| All the Fruit | |
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| New York | |
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| To the States | |
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| Thoughts | |
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| Thoughts | |
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| What Happened During the Ice Storm | |
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| The Flying Eagles of Troop 62 | |
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| Waxwings | |
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| For Eli Jacobson | |
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| Epitaph | |
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| Death | |
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| The Naive Male | |
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| Which One Is Genuine? | |
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| Onion | |
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| A Story About the Body | |
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| The Rites of Manhood | |
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| He Loved Three Things | |
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| When the Father Is Absent | |
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| The Black Hairs | |
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| The Indian Serenade | |
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| The Good Deeds of the Moon | |
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| In a Tavern | |
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| Faith | |
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| from Song of Myself | |
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| Across the Swamp | |
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| Peer Gynt Tells His Mother About His Newest Adventure | |
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| The Hopeful Spiritual Athlete | |
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| How Much Is Not True | |
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| The Second Layer: Anger, Hatred, Outrage | |
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| The Black Riders | |
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| The Twins | |
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| Indeed Indeed, I Cannot Tell | |
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| I Stand Here, Do You Understand | |
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| Hatred | |
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| Ribh Considers Christian Love Insufficient | |
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| Lines for an Old Man | |
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| The Hill | |
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| The Anger That Breaks the Man into Children | |
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| The Man Watching | |
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| Fire on the Hills | |
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| The Song of the Black Bear | |
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| A Poison Tree | |
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| The English Are So Nice! | |
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| Mine Enemy Is Growing Old | |
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| The Ascensions | |
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| The United Fruit Co | |
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| The White City | |
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| Harlem | |
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| Fire and Ice | |
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| Earthly Love | |
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| Diogenes | |
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| The Mole | |
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| The Guest | |
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| Three Quatrains | |
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| A Glimpse | |
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| Body of a Woman | |
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| and Balls | |
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| O Wha's The Bride? | |
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| Greed and Aggression | |
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| Gentleman Without Company | |
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| Last Gods | |
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| Cocks and Mares | |
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| I Knew a Woman | |
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| Food of Love | |
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| Feeding the Dog | |
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| I Wrung My Hands Under My Dark Veil | |
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| To Women, as Far as I'm Concerned | |
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| Intimates | |
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| Ballad of the Despairing Husband | |
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| All That Is Lovely in Men | |
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| Separation by Death | |
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| Feeling Fucked Up | |
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| The Impulse | |
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| Grief | |
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| The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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| "We Must Die Because We Have Known Them" | |
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| A Marriage | |
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| And If He Had Been Wrong for Me | |
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| Listening to the Koln Concert | |
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| Once I Passed Through a Populous City | |
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| History | |
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| A Coal Fire in Winter | |
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| The Cultivated Heart | |
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| The Song of Wandering Aengus | |
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| New Love and the Gentle Heart | |
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| As I Was Walking | |
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| from Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs | |
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| I Am Not I | |
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| The One Who Is at Home | |
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| To Be a Slave of Intensity | |
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| Archaic Torso of Apollo | |
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| Someone Digging in the Ground | |
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| Last Night | |
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| Portrait | |
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| Names | |
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| That Journeys Are Good | |
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| Advice from Heraclitus | |
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| Advice from Pythagoras | |
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| The Waking | |
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| The Holy Longing | |
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| Mother and Great Mother | |
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| Cherries | |
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| From Childhood | |
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| Mother and Son | |
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| from My Mother Would Be a Falconress | |
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| The Right Meaning | |
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| Kaddish | |
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| Sonnet to My Mother | |
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| In Memory of My Mother | |
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| The Last Words of My English Grandmother | |
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| I Am Asking You to Come Back Home | |
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| Kore | |
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| To Juan at the Winter Solstice | |
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| The Thief | |
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| What I Heard at the Discount Department Store | |
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| The Witch | |
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| The Goddess | |
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| Ego Tripping | |
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| Birds Nest | |
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| Old Woman Nature | |
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| The Spindrift Gaze Toward Paradise | |
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| Conversation in the Mountains | |
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| I Think Continually of Those | |
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| I Live My Life | |
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| A Walk | |
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| Milkweed | |
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| The Invisible Men | |
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| Three Angels | |
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| Guardian Angel | |
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| A Man Lost by a River | |
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| The Scattered Congregation | |
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| The Secret | |
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| The Dream | |
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| The Light You Give Off | |
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| Leda | |
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| A Blessing | |
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| Two Years Later | |
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| The Guest Is Inside | |
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| Say Yes Quickly | |
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| The New Rule | |
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| Wild Nights - Wild Nights! | |
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| Safe in their Alabaster Chambers | |
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| Sailing to Byzantium | |
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| from Voyages II | |
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| Zaniness | |
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| Necessity | |
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| Walking Through a Wall | |
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| Football | |
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| The Leaves of Heaven | |
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| Confessional Poem | |
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| Appointed Rounds | |
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| Quinn the Eskimo | |
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| Red Lip | |
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| from A Thousand Chinese Dinners | |
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| Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life | |
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| Freud Talks of the Primal Meal | |
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| The Automobile | |
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| Ape | |
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| The Ox | |
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| High Talk | |
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| Loving the World Anyway | |
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| The World Is Too Much with Us | |
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| God's Grandeur | |
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| Pied Beauty | |
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| The Perfume / Of Flowers! . . . | |
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| Grappa in September | |
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| Ode to My Socks | |
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| The Delights of the Door | |
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| The Bread of This World; Praises III | |
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| Breasts | |
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| Wilderness | |
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| O Sweet Spontaneous | |
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| West Wall | |
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| Ripening | |
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| The Rain | |
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| Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself (Chippewa Music) | |
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| Unity | |
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| Old Song (Traditional) | |
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| Musee Des Beaux Arts | |
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| The Earthworm | |
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| To Earthward | |
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| The Groundhog | |
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| from A Dialogue of Self and Soul | |
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| from Vacillation | |
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| Index of Poets | |
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| Index of First Lines | |
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| Copyright Acknowledgments | |