Collected poems, 1943-2004

New poems (2004) --

Mayflies : new poems and translations (2000) --

New and collected poems (1987) --

The mind-reader : new poems (1976) --

Walking to sleep : new poems and translations (1969) --

Advice to a prophet and other poems (1961) --

Things of this world (1956) --

Ceremony and other poems (1950) --

The beautiful chamber and other poems (1947).

New poems (2004) --

Mayflies : new poems and translations (2000) --

New and collected poems (1987) --

The mind-reader : new poems (1976) --

Walking to sleep : new poems and translations (1969) --

Advice to a prophet and other poems (1961) --

Things of this world (1956) --

Ceremony and other poems (1950) --

The beautiful changes and other poems (1947).

New Poems (2004)

1: Reader

Sir David Brewster's toy

Security lights, Key West

Man running

Asides

Tanka

In trackless woods

Sleepwalker

Green

Blackberries for Amelia

2: Twelve riddles from Symphosius

To a comedian

Eightieth-birthday ballade for Anthony Hecht

Notes

Mayflies: New Poems And Translations (2000)

Changes

Barred owl

For C

Zea

At Moorditch

Bonds

Gambler

Three tankas: On lyman flat

All Hallows' Eve

Wild Asters

Mayflies

Short history

Fabrications

Signatures

Icons

Crow's nests

Sephane Mallarme: sea breeze

Nina Cassian: ballad of the Jack of diamonds

Once

Bone key

Personae

Valeri Petrov: a cry from childhood

Valeri Petrov: photos from the archives

Digression

Wall in the woods: Cummington

1: What is it for

2: He will hear

Elsewhere

Charles Baudelaire: Albatross

Charles Baudelaire: Correspondences

This pleasing anxious being

1: In no time you are back

2: Shadow of whoever

3: Wild, lashing snow

Transformations

Prologue to Moliere's Amphitryon

Dante Alighieri: Canto xxv of the Inferno

Notes

New And Collected Poems (1987)

1: Ride

Gnomons

Alatus

Lying

On having mis-identified a wild flower

Joseph Brodsky: Six years later

Leaving

Catch

Vinicius De Moraes: Song

Icarium mare

Some riddles from Symphosius

Under a tree

Wyeth's milk cans

For W H Auden

Orchard trees, January

Guillaume Apollinaire: Mirabeau bridge

Trolling for blues

Advice from the muse

Rule

Fable

Transit

Shad-time

Worlds

All that is

Finished man

Hamlen brook

2: For music

On freedom's ground

1: Back then

2: Our risen states

3: Like a great statue

4: Come dance

5: Immigrants still

Mind-Reader: New Poems (1976)

1: Eye

Storm in April

Writer

To the Etruscan poets

Eye

Sleepless at Crown Point

Piccola commedia

Wedding toast

March

In limbo

Sketch

Peter

Cottage street, 1953

Fourth of July

Shallot

Black birch in winter

For the student strikers

C minor

To his skeleton

John Chapman

April 5, 1974

Teresa

Children of darkness

2: Francois Villon: ballade of forgiveness

Jean de la Fontaine: Grasshopper and the ant

Joachim Du Bellay: Happy man

Voltaire: To Madame du Chatelet

3: Flippancies

Two riddles from Aldhelm

Rillons, rillettes

Prisoner of Zenda

4: Joseph Brodsky: Funeral of Bobo

Andrei Voznesensky: Phone booth

Andrei Voznesensky: Arrow in the wall

Nikolai Morshen: Two poems

5: Mind-reader

Mind-reader

Notes

Walking To Sleep: New Poems And Translations (1969)

1: In the field

Lilacs

On the marginal way

Complaint

Fern-beds in Hampshire County

In a churchyard

Seed leaves

In a field

Wood

For Dudley

Running

1: 1933

2: Patriots' day

3: Dodwells Road

Under Cygnus

2: Thyme

Thyme flowering among rocks

Miltonic sonnet for Mr Johnson on his refusal of Peter Hurd's official portrait

Riddle

Playboy

Mechanist

Agent

Proof

Late aubade

Matthew viii, 28 ff

For K R on her sixtieth birthday

3: Walking to sleep

Walking to sleep

4: Translations

Jorge Luis Borges: Compass

Jorge Luis Borges: Everness

Jorge Luis Borges: Ewigkeit

Anna Akhmatova: Lot's wife

Andrei Voznesensky: Foggy street

Andrei Voznesensky: Antiworlds

Andrei Voznesensky: Dead still

Charles D'Oleans: Rondeau

Francios Villon: Ballade of the ladies of time past

Francois Villon: Ballade in old French

Francois Villon: Ballade to end with

Notes.

Advice to a prophet and other poems (1961)

Two voices in a meadow

Advice to a prophet

Stop

Junk

Loves of the puppets

Summer morning

Hole in the floor

Jorge Guillen: Horses

Jorge Guillen: Death, from a distance

She

Gemini

Undead

October Maples, Portland

Eight Riddles from symphosius

Shame

Grasshopper

Salvatore quasimodo: Arigentum road

Aspen and the stream

Fire-truck

Someone talking to himself

In the smoking-car

Ballade for the Duke of Orleans

Gerard De Nerval: Anteros

To Ishtar

Pangloss's song: Comic-opera lyric

Two quatrains for first frost

Another voice

Moliere: Tartuffe, act I scene 4

Fall in corrales

Next door

Christmas Hymn

Notes

Things Of This World (1956)

Altitudes

Love calls us to the things of this world

Sonnet

Piazza di Spagna, early morning

John Chrysostom

Black November turkey

Mind

After the last bulletins

Lamarck elaborated

Plain song for comadre

Merlin Enthralled

Voice from under the table

Beacon

Statues

Looking into history

Charles Baudelaire: L'invitation

Voyage

Digging for China

Francis Jammes: Prayer to go to paradise with the donkeys

Philippe de Thaun: Pelican

Apology

Paul Valery: Helen

Beasts

Exeunt

Marginalia

Boy at the window

Speech for the repeal of the McCarran act

All these birds

Baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra

Event

Chronic condition

Mill

For the new railway station in Rome

Then

Conjuration

World without objects is sensible emptiness

Pardon

Part of a letter

Rose des Vents

Epistemology

Castles and distances

Museum piece

Ode to pleasure

In the elegy season

Marche aux Oiseaux

Juggler

Parable

Good servant

Pity

Sirens

Year's end

Puritans

Grasse: Olive trees

Avowal

Gifts

Five women bathing in moonlight

Terrace

Problem from Milton

Glance from the bridge

Clearness

Games one

Games two

Beowulf

Still, citizen sparrow

Wellfleet: House

Death of a toad

Driftwood

Courtyard thaw

Lament

Flumen tenebrarum

From the lookout rock

To an American poet just dead

Giacometti

He was

Simile for her smile

Ceremony

Beautiful Changes And Other POems (1947)

Cicadas

Water walker

Tywater

Mined country

Potato

First snow in Alsace

On the eyes of an SS officer

Place Pigalle

Violet and Jasper

Peace of cities

Giaour and the Pacha

Up, Jack

In a bird sanctuary

June light

Song

Walgh-Vogel

Melongene

Objects

Dutch courtyard

My father paints the summer

Folk tune

Sun and air

Two songs in a Stanza of Beddoes'

Waters

Superiorities

Simplification

Dubious night

L'Etoile

Sunlight is imagination

&

O

Regatta

Bell speech

Poplar, Sycamore

Winter spring

Attention makes infinity

Grace

Lightness

For Ellen

Caserta garden

Praise in summer

Beautiful changes

Notes

Appendix A: Show lyrics

Oh, happy we!

Glitter and be gay

Ragpicker's song

Appendix B: Poems for children and others

Opposites

More opposites

Few differences

Disappearing alphabet

Pig in the Spigot.