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| Introduction | |
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| Prelude, December 25, 1895 | |
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| Dear St. Nicklus | |
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| Early Poems, 1907-1913 | |
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| Under a Patched Sail | |
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| To Come After a Sonnet | |
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| To My Cup-Bearer | |
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| The Sentimentalist | |
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| He Made This Screen | |
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| Ennui | |
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| A Red Flower | |
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| A Jelly-Fish | |
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| Progress | |
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| A Fish | |
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| My Lantern | |
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| Tunica Pallio Proprior | |
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| My Senses Do Not Deceive Me | |
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| Qui S'Excuse, S'Accuse | |
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| Elfride, Making Epigrams | |
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| A Talisman | |
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| Leaves of a Magazine | |
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| The Beast of Burden | |
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| Things Are What They Seem | |
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| This Is the Way Toads Talk | |
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| To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid | |
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| To Pharaoh's Baker Plucking Up Courage to Ask the Interpretation of His Dream, When a Favorable Interpretation Had Been Accorded the Dream of Pharaoh's Butler | |
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| Piningly | |
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| Artificers and the Alchemist | |
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| To You-of the World, Not in the World | |
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| Wisdom at Last | |
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| To a Stiff-winged Grasshopper | |
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| Emeralds | |
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| Sun, Moon, and Stars | |
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| Polyphonic Craftsman, Coated Like a Zebra, Fleeing Like the Wild Ass, Mourning Like a Dove | |
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| All of It, as Recorded | |
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| "Am I a Brother to Dragons and a Companion to Owls?" | |
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| "And Shall Life Pass an Old Maid By?" | |
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| The Assassins | |
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| Axiomatic | |
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| Reprobate Silver | |
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| The Candle-Stick Maker | |
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| "Coral-and-Brown" Admiring Herself in the Mirror | |
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| "Crepe Hanger?" He | |
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| To a Cantankerous Poet Ignoring His Compeers-Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Henry James | |
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| The Fashion, Poor Lady, Behaving Like a Dungeon, Looking Like a Church | |
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| Flints, Not Flowers | |
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| The Grass That Perisheth | |
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| Guillemots | |
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| He Did Mend It. His Body Filled a Substantial Interstice | |
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| "I Like a Horse but I Have a Fellow Feeling for a Mule" | |
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| I Tell You No Lie | |
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| Ichabod | |
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| Inheritance | |
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| "It Makes No Difference to Balbus Whether He Drinks Wine or Water" | |
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| Kay Nielson in Cinderella | |
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| Kay Nielson's Little Green Patch in the Midst of the Forest | |
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| A Lady with Pearls, to a Blood Red Rook from Turkey, Who Has Depicted Her with Pathos in Surly Monotone | |
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| Light Through a Keyhole | |
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| Like Bertram Dobell, You Achieve Distinction by Disclaiming It | |
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| Majestic Haystack | |
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| Man's Feet Are a Sensational Device | |
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| Patriotic Sentiment and the Maker | |
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| As Has Been Said | |
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| Rencontre | |
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| Rodin's Penseur | |
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| Suaviter in Modo | |
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| To See It Is to Know That Mendelssohn Would Never Do | |
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| To Worldly Wisemen Recommending the Town of Carnal Policy as a Substitute for the Celestial City | |
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| God Bless You, Sir | |
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| We All Know It | |
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| Why That Question | |
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| You Are Very Pensive-Hammering Out in Darkness What Will Not Bear the Light of Day | |
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| Little Magazines, 1915-1919 | |
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| Ezra Pound | |
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| To a Man Working His Way Through the Crowd | |
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| To Military Progress | |
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| Pouters and Fantails | |
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| That Harp You Play So Well | |
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| To an Intra-Mural Rat | |
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| Counseil to a Bachelor | |
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| Appellate Jurisdiction | |
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| The Wizard in Words | |
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| To William Butler Yeats on Tagore | |
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| The North Wind to a Dutiful Beast Midway Between the Dial and the Foot of a Garden Clock | |
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| Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel | |
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| To a Strategist | |
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| Injudicious Gardening | |
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| To a Prize Bird | |
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| Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight | |
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| To a Steam Roller | |
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| To Statecraft Embalmed | |
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| To a Friend in the Making | |
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| Blake | |
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| George Moore | |
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| The Past Is the Present | |
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| Masks | |
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| Diogenes | |
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| Sun | |
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| "He Wrote the History Book" | |
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| To a Chameleon | |
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| Is Your Town Nineveh? | |
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| You Are Fire Eaters | |
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| Pedantic Literalist | |
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| Critics and Connoisseurs | |
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| In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and | |
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| To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity | |
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| Feed Me, Also, River God | |
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| Apropos of Mice | |
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| "She Trimmed the Candles Like One Who Loves the Beautiful" | |
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| In "Designing a Cloak to Cloak His Designs," You Wrested from Oblivion a Coat of Immortality for Your Own Use | |
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| Holes Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors | |
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| The Just Man and | |
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| Those Various Scalpels | |
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| Like a Bulrush | |
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| To the Peacock of France | |
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| Sojourn in the Whale | |
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| Roses Only | |
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| The Monkeys | |
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| Melanchthon | |
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| An Ardent Platonist | |
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| Reinforcements | |
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| The Fish | |
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| Callot-Drecol-Cheruit-Jenny-Doucet-Aviotte-Lady | |
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| You Say You Said | |
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| Old Tiger | |
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| Radical | |
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| Poetry | |
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| In the Days of Prismatic Color | |
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| Dock Rats | |
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| Picking and Choosing | |
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| The Dial Years, 1920-1925 | |
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| England | |
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| Lines on a Visit of Anne Carroll Moore to Hudson Park Branch | |
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| When I Buy Pictures | |
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| A Grave | |
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| New York | |
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| The Labors of Hercules | |
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| Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like | |
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| People's Surroundings | |
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| Novices | |
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| Bowls | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Silence | |
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| Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns | |
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| An Octopus | |
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| An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish | |
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| To a Snail | |
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| "The Bricks Are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores Are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars" | |
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| "Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape" | |
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| Peter | |
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| The Monkey Puzzle | |
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| A Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic | |
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| Lyrics and Sequences, 1926-1940 | |
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| The Steeple-Jack | |
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| The Student | |
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| The Hero | |
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| No Swan So Fine | |
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| The Jerboa | |
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| To Peace | |
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| The Plumet Basilisk | |
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| Camellia Sabina | |
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| The Frigate Pelican | |
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| The Buffalo | |
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| Nine Nectarines | |
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| Pigeons | |
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| Virginia Britannia | |
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| Bird-Witted | |
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| Half Deity | |
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| Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle | |
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| The Pangolin | |
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| Walking-Sticks and Paper-Weights and Water Marks | |
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| See in the Midst of Fair Leaves | |
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| World War II and After, 1940-1956 | |
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| Four Quartz Crystal Clocks | |
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| What Are Years | |
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| The Paper Nautilus | |
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| Rigorists | |
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| Light Is Speech | |
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| He "Digesteth Harde Yron" | |
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| Spenser's Ireland | |
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| The Wood-Weasel | |
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| Pale Morning Moon, Dark Blue Black Sea | |
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| You, Your Horse | |
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| In Distrust of Merits | |
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| Nevertheless | |
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| Elephants | |
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| The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing | |
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| A Carriage from Sweden | |
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| "Keeping Their World Large" | |
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| His Shield | |
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| Propriety | |
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| Advent | |
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| A Face | |
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| Efforts of Affection | |
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| At Rest in the Blast | |
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| Like a Bulwark | |
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| Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting | |
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| By Disposition of Angels | |
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| Armor's Undermining Modesty | |
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| The Stuttering Quagmires Speak | |
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| The Icosasphere | |
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| Pretiolae | |
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| Quoting an Also Private Thought | |
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| We Call Them the Brave | |
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| Then the Ermine | |
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| Apparition of Splendor | |
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| Tom Fool at Jamaica | |
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| The Web One Weaves of Italy | |
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| Rosemary | |
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| The Staff of Aesculapius | |
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| The Sycamore | |
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| The Magic Flute, 1956-1965 | |
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| Style | |
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| Logic and "The Magic Flute" | |
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| Blessed Is the Man | |
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| Values in Use | |
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| Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese | |
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| O to Be a Dragon | |
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| Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957 | |
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| Melchior Vulpius | |
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| In the Public Garden | |
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| The Arctic Ox (or Goat) | |
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| Saint Nicholas | |
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| For February 14th | |
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| No Better Than "a Withered Daffodil" | |
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| Combat Cultural | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci's | |
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| Saint Valentine | |
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| Lines for Narrator | |
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| Tell Me, Tell Me | |
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| Carnegie Hall: Rescued | |
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| Rescue with Yul Brynner | |
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| To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto | |
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| Yvor Winters- | |
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| Baseball and Writing | |
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| Arthur Mitchell | |
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| Blue Bug | |
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| Charity Overcoming Envy | |
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| To a Giraffe | |
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| "Avec Ardeur" | |
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| W. S. Landor | |
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| The Master Tailor | |
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| An Expedient-Leonardo da Vinci's-and a Query | |
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| Old Amusement Park | |
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| Late Poems, 1965-1972 | |
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| Dream | |
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| In Lieu of the Lyre | |
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| The Mind, Intractable Thing | |
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| Granite and Steel | |
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| Love in America- | |
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| For Katharine Elizabeth McBride, President of Bryn Mawr College | |
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| Tippoo's Tiger | |
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| The Camperdown Elm | |
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| Assistance | |
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| Mercifully | |
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| "Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl" | |
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| A Christmas Poem | |
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| Enough | |
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| The Magician's Retreat | |
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| Prevalent at One Time | |
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| Selections from The Fables of La Fontaine | |
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| The Fox and the Grapes | |
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| The Lion in Love | |
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| The Animals Sick of the Plague | |
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| The Bear and the Garden-Lover | |
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| The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid | |
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| Marianne Moore's Notes | |
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| Editor's Notes, with the Poetry's Attributions and Variants | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |