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Preface | |
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Poems 1939-1944 | |
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1939 The Swaggering Gait | |
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The Deceptrices | |
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Illegitimate Things | |
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The Poet and His Poems | |
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Defiance to Cupid | |
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Tailpiece | |
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The Rocking Woman | |
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The Genius | |
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The Approaching Hour | |
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1940 A Portrait of the Times | |
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Cherry Blossoms at Evening | |
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The Ritualists | |
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The Graceful Bastion | |
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The Sleeping Brute | |
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From a Window | |
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River Rhyme | |
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Sketch for a Portrait of Henry Ford | |
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An Informative Object | |
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To a Woman Seen Once | |
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The New Clouds | |
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1941 For the Poem Paterson | |
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Detail (Her milk) | |
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Sparrows Among Dry Leaves [first version] | |
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St. Valentine | |
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Sometimes It Turns Dry and the Leaves Fall Before They are Beautiful | |
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In Sisterly Fashion | |
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Detail (I had a misfortune) | |
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Raleigh Was Right [first version] | |
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The Unknown | |
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Fertile | |
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Detail (Hey!) | |
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The Thoughtful Lover | |
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The End of the Parade | |
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Detail (Doc, I bin) | |
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A Fond Farewell | |
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The A B and C of It [first version] | |
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A Love Poem | |
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Comfort | |
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Flattery | |
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Pigheaded Poet | |
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Details for Paterson | |
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River Rhyme II | |
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Brief Lief | |
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Election Day | |
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Conventional Ballad | |
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10/14 | |
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The Predicter of Famine | |
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The Last Turn [first version] | |
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Three Poems for Horace Gregory | |
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The United Front | |
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To a Chinese Woman | |
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The Fight | |
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Jean Sans Terre | |
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John Landless at the Final Port [first version] | |
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Jean Sans Terre Circles the Earth Seven Times | |
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Jean Sans Terre Leads the Caravan | |
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Jean Sans Terre at the Final Port [second version] | |
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Jean Sans Terre Reviews the Fathers | |
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Jean Sans Terre Discovers the West Pole | |
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Jean Sans Terre at the Final Port | |
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Nicolas Calas: Four Poems | |
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Wrested From Mirrors | |
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The Agony Among the Crowd | |
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Narcissus in the Desert | |
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To regain the day again | |
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Defense | |
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The Petunia | |
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An Exultation | |
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The Yellow Season | |
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1942 War, the Destroyer! | |
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Passaic, N.J. | |
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From a Play | |
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Prelude in Boricua | |
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1943 Gothic Candor | |
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The Gentle Negress (No other such luxuriance) | |
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1944 To the Dean | |
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The Virtuous Agent | |
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Thinking Back Toward Christmas: A Statement for the Virgin | |
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The Wedge 1944 | |
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Author's Introduction | |
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A Sort of a Song | |
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Catastrophic Birth | |
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Paterson: the Falls | |
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The Dance (In Brueghel's great picture) | |
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Writer's Prologue to a Play in Verse | |
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Burning the Christmas Greens | |
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In Chains | |
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[In Sisterly Fashion] | |
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The World Narrowed to a Point | |
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The Observer | |
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A Flowing River | |
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The Hounded Lovers | |
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The Cure | |
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To All Gentleness | |
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Three Sonnets | |
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The Poem | |
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The Rose (The stillness of the rose) | |
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Rumba! Rumba! | |
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A Plea for Mercy | |
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Figueras Castle | |
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Eternity | |
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The Hard Listener | |
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The Controversy | |
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Perfection | |
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These Purists | |
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A Vision of Labor: 1931 | |
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The Last Turn | |
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[The End of the Parade] | |
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The A, B and C of It | |
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[The Thoughtful Lover] | |
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The Aftermath | |
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The Semblables | |
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The Storm | |
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The Forgotten City | |
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The Yellow Chimney | |
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The Bare Tree | |
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Raleigh Was Right | |
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The Monstrous Marriage | |
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[Sometimes It Turns Dry and the Leaves Fall Before They are Beautiful] | |
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Sparrows Among Dry Leaves | |
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Prelude to Winter | |
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Silence | |
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Another Year | |
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The Clouds [first version] | |
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A Cold Front | |
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Against the Sky | |
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An Address | |
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The Gentle Negress (Wandering among the chimneys) | |
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To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven | |
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Poems 1945-1948 | |
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1945 Sunflowers | |
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Threnody | |
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The Rare Gist | |
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To a Sparrow | |
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The Phoenix and the Tortoise | |
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1946 The Yellow Tree Peony | |
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Translations of Paul Eluard--Poet of France | |
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A Wolf (The good snow) | |
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A Wolf (The day astonishes) | |
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Uncertain of the Crime | |
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Curfew | |
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From the Outside | |
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From the Inside | |
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Hey Red! | |
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Death by Radio | |
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East Coocoo | |
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At Kenneth Burke's Place | |
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"The Rock-Old Dogma" | |
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Approach to a City | |
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The Usurers of Heaven | |
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1947 Rogation Sunday | |
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Lustspiel | |
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The United States | |
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The Resemblance | |
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1948 The Birth of Venus | |
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Seafarer | |
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The Sound of Waves | |
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The Counter | |
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Period Piece: 1834 | |
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The Pause | |
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April is the Saddest Month | |
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For G.B.S., Old | |
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The Modest Achievement | |
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No Good Too | |
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The Clouds 1948 | |
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Aigeltinger | |
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Franklin Square | |
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Labrador | |
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The Apparition | |
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The Light Shall Not Enter | |
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A Woman in Front of a Bank | |
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The Night Rider | |
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Chanson | |
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The Birdsong | |
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The Visit | |
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The Quality of Heaven | |
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To a Lovely Old Bitch | |
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The Bitter World of Spring | |
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Lament | |
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A History of Love | |
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Mists Over the River | |
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When Structure Fails Rhyme Attempts to Come to the Rescue | |
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Education a Failure | |
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The Banner Bearer | |
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The Goat | |
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Two Deliberate Exercises | |
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Lesson From a Pupil Recital | |
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Voyages | |
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The Mirrors | |
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His Daughter | |
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Design for November | |
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The Maneuver | |
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The Horse | |
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Hard Times | |
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The Dish of Fruit | |
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The Motor-Barge | |
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Russia | |
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The Act | |
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The Savage Beast | |
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The Well Disciplined Bargeman | |
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Raindrops on a Briar | |
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Ol' Bunk's Band | |
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Suzanne | |
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Navajo | |
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Graph | |
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The Testament of Perpetual Change | |
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The Flower (This too I love) | |
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For a Low Voice | |
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The Words Lying Idle | |
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Lear | |
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Picture of a Nude in a Machine Shop | |
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The Brilliance | |
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A Unison | |
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[The Semblables] | |
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The Hurricane | |
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The Province | |
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The Mind's Games | |
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The Stylist | |
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Note to Music: Brahms 1st Piano Concerto | |
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The Injury | |
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The Red-Wing Blackbird | |
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A Place (Any Place) to Transcend All Places | |
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The Old House | |
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The Thing | |
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The Mind Hesitant | |
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Tragic Detail | |
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Philomena Andronico | |
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The Clouds | |
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The Pink Church 1949 | |
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Choral: the Pink Church | |
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The Lion | |
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Mama | |
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New Mexico | |
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A Rosebush in an Unlikely Garden | |
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Song (If I) | |
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The Words, the Words, the Words | |
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Venus Over the Desert | |
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"I Would Not Change for Thine" | |
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[Mists Over the River] | |
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The Love Charm | |
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Poems 1949-1953 | |
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1949 May 1st Tomorrow | |
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Apres le Bain | |
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Spring Is Here Again, Sir. | |
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The Hard Core of Beauty | |
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Tolstoy | |
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Cuchulain | |
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Twelve Line Poem | |
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Nun's Song | |
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Another Old Woman | |
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Wide Awake, Full of Love | |
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Song (Pluck the florets) | |
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Song (Russia! Russia!) | |
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Translation | |
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Convivio | |
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The Rat | |
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The Horse Show | |
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Two Pendants: for the Ears | |
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The Sale | |
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All That Is Perfect in Woman | |
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An Eternity | |
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The Three Graces | |
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3 A.M. The Girl with the Honey Colored Hair | |
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1950 The Self | |
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Moon and Stars | |
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The Girl (The wall, as I watched) | |
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Poem (Looking up, of a sudden) | |
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And Who Do You Think "They" Are? | |
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The End of the Rope | |
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The Gentle Rejoinder | |
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The Woodpecker | |
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Ballad of Faith | |
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The Non-Entity | |
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Childe Harold to the Round Tower Came | |
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Io Baccho! | |
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Jingle | |
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Every Day | |
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The Complexity | |
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A Note | |
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Drugstore Library | |
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The R R Bums | |
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Incognito | |
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Turkey in the Straw | |
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The Lesson | |
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To Close | |
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Death (So this is death) | |
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The Marriage of Souls | |
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How Bad It Is to Say | |
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Christmas 1950 | |
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1951 June 9 | |
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Still Life | |
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December | |
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Fragment (My God, Bill) | |
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Mistrust of the Beloved | |
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Passer Domesticus | |
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Descent | |
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1952 The Wrong Door | |
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Paterson, Book V: The River of Heaven | |
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1953 The Problem | |
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The Clock of the Years | |
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The Desert Music 1954 | |
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The Descent | |
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To Daphne and Virginia | |
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The Orchestra | |
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For Eleanor and Bill Monahan | |
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To a Dog Injured in the Street | |
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The Yellow Flower | |
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The Host | |
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Deep Religious Faith | |
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The Mental Hospital Garden | |
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The Artist | |
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[Work in Progress (Asphodel, That Greeny Flower: Book 1)] | |
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Theocritus: Idyl I | |
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The Desert Music | |
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Journey to Love 1955 | |
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A Negro Woman | |
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The Ivy Crown | |
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View by Color Photography on a Commercial Calendar | |
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The Sparrow | |
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The King! | |
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Tribute to the Painters | |
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To a Man Dying on His Feet | |
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The Pink Locust | |
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Classic Picture | |
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The Lady Speaks | |
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Address | |
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The Drunk and the Sailor | |
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A Smiling Dane | |
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Come on! | |
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Shadows | |
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Asphodel, That Greeny Flower | |
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Poems 1955-1962 | |
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1955 On St. Valentine's Day | |
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Hymn Among the Ruins | |
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1956 To Friend-Tree of Counted Days | |
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Reverie and Invocation | |
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Ballad | |
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1957 The Birth | |
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This is Pioneer Weather | |
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Sappho | |
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The Loving Dexterity [first version] | |
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At the brink of winter | |
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1958 Five Translated Poems | |
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Green Eyes | |
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Naked (The azure yielder) | |
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Piano Solo | |
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The Infinite Horses | |
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Ode to Laziness | |
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1959 An Old-Fashioned German Christmas Card | |
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Ali Chumacero: Two Poems | |
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Widower's Monologue | |
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The Wanderings of the Tribe | |
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1960 Tribute to Neruda the Poet Collector of Seashells | |
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Midwinter | |
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The Cassia Tree | |
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Popular T'ang and Sung Poems | |
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The Maid | |
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Lament of a Graying Woman | |
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Society of Poets | |
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To Li Po | |
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To Meng Hao-jan | |
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To Wang Wei | |
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After the Party | |
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Late Spring | |
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Ce-Lia the Immortal Beauty | |
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The Peerless Lady | |
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A Letter | |
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Spring Song (A young lass) | |
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Summer Song (The Mirror Lake) | |
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In the Wineshop of Chinling | |
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Solo | |
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The Youth on Horseback | |
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The Knight | |
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Drinking Together | |
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The March | |
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Long Banister Lane | |
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The Visitor | |
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Profile of a Lady | |
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Visit | |
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Chant of the Frontiersman | |
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The Newlywed's Cuisine | |
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Bella Donna Iu | |
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In Dream's Wake | |
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From Phoenix Undying | |
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Spring in the Snow-Drenched Garden | |
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The Old Man and the Child | |
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Three Generations | |
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1961 Construction | |
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Cezanne | |
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Bird Song | |
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The Art | |
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Greeting for Old Age | |
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Still Lifes | |
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Trala Trala Trala La-Le-La | |
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The Moral | |
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1962 The Orchard | |
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Stormy | |
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Pictures from Brueghel 1962 | |
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Pictures from Brueghel | |
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Self-Portrait | |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
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The Hunters in the Snow | |
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The Adoration of the Kings | |
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Peasant Wedding | |
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Haymaking | |
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The Corn Harvest | |
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The Wedding Dance in the Open Air | |
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The Parable of the Blind | |
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Children's Games | |
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Exercise | |
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Song (beauty is a shell) | |
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The Woodthrush | |
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The Polar Bear | |
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The Loving Dexterity | |
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The Chrysanthemum | |
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3 Stances | |
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Elaine | |
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Erica | |
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Emily | |
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Suzy | |
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Paul | |
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Fragment (as for him who) | |
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To a Woodpecker | |
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Song (I'd rather read) | |
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The Children | |
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The Painting | |
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The Stone Crock | |
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He Has Beaten about the Bush Long Enough | |
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Iris | |
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Song (you are forever April) | |
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The Dance (When the snow falls) | |
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Jersey Lyric | |
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To the Ghost of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | |
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To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday | |
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Metric Figure (gotta hold your nose) | |
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The Intelligent Sheepman and the New Cars | |
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The Italian Garden | |
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Poem (The rose fades) | |
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A Formal Design | |
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Bird | |
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The Gossips | |
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Exercise No. 2 | |
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The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image | |
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The Fruit | |
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Short Poem | |
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Poem (on getting a card) | |
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To Flossie | |
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Portrait of a Woman at Her Bath | |
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Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot | |
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Exercise in Timing | |
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Histology | |
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Perpetuum Mobile | |
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The Blue Jay | |
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The Existentialist's Wife | |
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A Salad for the Soul | |
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Chloe | |
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The Cocktail Party | |
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The Stolen Peonies | |
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The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo | |
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15 Years Later | |
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The Title | |
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Mounted as an Amazon | |
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The Snow Begins | |
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Calypsos | |
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An Exercise | |
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Three Nahuatl Poems | |
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Sonnet in Search of an Author | |
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The Gift | |
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The Turtle | |
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Sappho, Be Comforted | |
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To My Friend Ezra Pound | |
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Tapiola | |
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Poem (The plastic surgeon) | |
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Heel and Toe to the End | |
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The Rewaking | |
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A Note on the Text | |
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Annotations | |
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Tables of Contents for The Broken Span, Selected Poems and Collected Later Poems | |
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Two additional translated poems from ... and Spain sings (1937) | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index of Titles in Volumes I and II | |
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Index of First Lines in Volumes I and II | |