The bells of a Chinese temple --
The return of Odysseus --
'Where are those high and haunting skies' --
The rape of the cataract --
'In a hard intellectual light' --
'In prisons of established craze' --
'The critic with his pained eye' --
'When golden flied upon my carcass come' --
'Now is the air made of chiming balls' --
'Let the tight lizard on the wall' --
'I went to see Irving Babbitt' --
Recollection of childhood --
The soul longs to return whence it came --
'Man's greed and envy are so great' --
'The goal of intellectual man' --
'If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness' --
'I walked out to the graveyard to see the dead' --
'The full of joy do not know; they need not' --
'Imagining how it would be to be dead' --
'I walked over the grave of Henry James' --
'Mysticism had not the patience to wait for God's revelation' --
Retrospective forelook --
'I will not dare to ask one question' --
New Hampshire, February --
Ode to the Chinese paper snake --
The fury of aerial bombardment --
An airman considers his power --
'Go to the shine that's on a tree' --
'Sometimes the longing for death' --
The horse chestnut tree --
The tobacconist of Eighth Street --
Fragment of New York, 1929 --
On shooting particles beyond the world --
A legend of viable women --
The verbalist of summer --
On the fragility of mind --
The skier and the mountain --
The human being is a lonely creature --
'My golden and my fierce assays' --
Analogue of unity in multeity --
Sainte Anne de Beaupré --
The hand and the shadow --
On a squirrel crossing the road in autumn --
Centennial for Whitman --
The wisdom of insecurity --
An old fashioned American business man --
A young Greek, killed in the wars --
A soldier rejects his times addressing his contemporaries --
'Blessed are the angels in heaven' --- Villanelle --
Life as visionary spirit --
The supreme authority of the imagination --
Perception as a guided missile --
The clam diggers and diggers of sea worms --
A ship burning and a comet all in one day --
The hard structure of the world --
The gods of Washington, D.C. --
Equivalence of gnats and mice --
The incomparable light --
Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'âme --
On seeing an Egyptian mummy in Berlin, 1932 --
La Crosse at ninety miles an hour --
To Auden on his fiftieth --
To William Carlos Williams --
Examination of psyche : thoughts of home --
An evaluation under a pine tree, lying on pine needles --
A New England bachelor --
Sea burial from the cruiser Reve --
The lament of a New England mother --
Moment of equilibrium among the islands --
Am I my neighbor's keeper? --
Dream journey of the head and heart --
The illusion of eternity --
The birth of the spirit --
'My brains are slipping in the fields of Eros' --
'Whenever I see beauty I see death' --
The vastness and indifference of the world --
Hill dream of youth, thirty years later --
A wedding on Cape Rosier --
On returning to a lake in spring --
The explorer on Main Street --
Van Black, an old farmer in his dell --
To Kenya tribesmen, the Turkana --
The anxiety I felt in Guanajuato --
Reading room, the New York Public Library --
As if you had never been --
Stealth and subtleties of growth --
You think they are permanent but they pass --
Hatred of the old river --
Old tree by the Penobscot --
A man who was blown down by the wind --
Adam cast forth (Borges) --
The groundhog revisiting --
Wild life and tamed life --
Inchiquin Lake, Penobscot Bay --
Trying to hold it all together --
The poem as trajectory --
Vision through Timothy --
Stopping a kaleidoscope --
Nostalgia for Edith Sitwell --
The bones of Coleridge --
There is an evil in the air --
The ideal and the real --
A line of verse of Yeats --
Old dichotomy : choosing sides --
Great principles are thrown down by time --
Fantasy of a small idea --
Sailing to Buck's Harbor --
The lament of a New England mother --
Mystery of the abstract --
White pines, felled 1984 --
A clerihew for Alan Gaylord --
Throwing yourself away --
The wild swans of Inverane --
Going backward going forward --
The mystical beast in the shadows --
Waiting to lean to the master's command --
The difficulty of ideas --
New entrepreneurial plan --