40
Eyes, The
412
from The Longbeards’ Saga
35
Music
103
To Sleep
42
Way I read a letter’s this, The
242
Unrequited
Come Not, When I am Dead
181
Love’s Farewell
43
Loving in Truth
41
Not Touching
565
Sonnet 143 (CXLIII)
48
War and Peace
Bystanders
Ishtar
31
Luck in Sarajevo
499
Patterns
353
War Poetry
666
Casualties
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, The
452
Dulce et Decorum Est
430
Facing It
609
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
181
Killed at the Ford
148
Nameless Grave, A
147
On the Wire
362
Vergissmeinnicht
458
Futility
After Blenheim
96
By that fallen house
302
Channel firing
267
How We Heard the Name
470
Politics
298
There will come soft rains
404
Glory
Charge of the Light Brigade,The
182
Landlord’s Tale, The
155
Soldier, The
415
Soldier of Fortune, The
385
To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars
60
Soldiers
Camouflaging the Chimera
608
ReQuiem for the Croppies
540
Old Liberators, The
618
What Saves Us
620
Working
Construction
Before Groundbreak
641
Don Fargo & Sons
641
“Out, Out -”
320
Poem
647
Waiting for Lumber
647
Entrepreneur
Wee Shop, The
388
Factory
Assembly Line
634
Shirt
560
Sweet Will
493
Farm
After Apple-Picking
327
American Sketches
478
Birth Stone
605
Pulling a Pig’s Tail
593
Red Wheelbarrow, The
400
Waving of the Corn, The
277
Household
Death of the Hired Man
331
Mending Wall
343
Snow
667
Summer Morning, A
463
Wood-Pile, The
350
Retirement
Soaking Up Sun
581
Teaching
American History
668
Did I Miss Anything?
599
Transportation
Filling Station
439
In a Station of the Metro
410
Passengers
566
White Collar
At the Office Early
540
Writing
Allen Ginsberg
570
Budapest
562
In Houston
525
Writing, art, and poetry
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica
427
Detail
572
from Selected Shorts
437
Nuns Fret Not At Their Convent’s Narrow Room
71
Of Time and the Line
624
Purity
567
Poet, The
114
What you should know to be a poet
501
Art
Alley Violinist
454
From Fuses I - On Art
221
Imaginary Paintings
473
My Madonna
362
To Know Silence Perfectly
392
Language
Ceist na Teangan (The Language Issue)
632
Word is dead, A
233
Poetry
Introduction to Poetry
563
Last Answers
391
Naif, The
506
Poem You Asked For, The
603
Poetry Reading at West Point, A
583
Poetry
417
Rudimentary Explanation of an Ideal Poem, A
504
Selecting a Reader
540
Terence, This is Stupid Stuff
288
Transformatrix
666
Reading
Eating Poetry
519
Reader
474
Reading in Place
520
Travels by the Fireside
165
Writing
An Exchange of Gifts
508
Armadillo, The
446
Dilemma
542
Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books, A
322
from: Three Types of Loss, part 3
602
Jugurtha
148
Late Registration
573
Pact, A
410
Poet’s Fate, The
141
What He thought
610
Zimmer’s Head Thudding Against the Blackboard
521
Index to Translations
Arabic
Fitzgerald, Edward
39
Babylonian Cuneiform
Spence, Lewis
31
Burmese
Aye, Lyn
438
Chinese
Finkel, Donald
660
Kizer, Carolyn
427, 634
Pound, Ezra
33, 36, 38
Wentong, Ma
433
Dutch
Brockway, James
517
French
Cameron, Norman
220, 221
Dillon, George
222, 229
Huneker, James
224
Piaget Shanks, Lewis
221, 223
Squire, Sir John
218, 226
Thorley, Wilfrid
228
Hebrew
Mitchell, Stephen
499
Irish
Muldoon, Paul
279
Japanese
Beilenson, Peter
40, 61, 302, 306
Elliott, William I.
504
Latin
Jonson, Ben
35
Michie, James
33
Rexroth, Kenneth
32
Norse
Kingsley, Charles
35
Polish
Gorczynski, Renata
600, 60
1
Russian
Mayherw, Lenore
426
Serbo-Croat
Simic, Charles
499
Spanish
Crow, Mary
477
Reid, Alastair,
508
Index of First Lines
First Line
Page
A bat is born
449
A bee rolls in the yellow rose
448
A boy is bouncing a ball off a brick wall after school
579
A brown rat has taken up residence with me
462
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up
380
A deed knocks first at thought
231
A husband. A wife. Three children. Last year they did not
474
A lonely stretch, in the bind of poor fishing and drought
431
A lost child crying
61
A middle-aged woman, quite plain, to be polite about it
524
A narrow fellow in the grass
232
A poem should be palpable and mute
427
A pond despaired of any hope
433
A simple child
72
A snake came to my water-trough
407
A soldier of the Union mustered out
147
A vanished house that for an hour I knew
313
A widow bird sate mourning for her love
105
A woman travels to Brazil for plastic
571
A word is dead
233
About ten days or so
498
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
233
After the people and the flowers
637
Ah! I intended
61
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend
39
Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight
135
Alas, it is impossible that my answer to the question Who
437
All crying, “We will go with you, O Wind!”
344
All leaves gone, yellow
484
All out of doors looked darkly in at him
329
All the world’s a stage
44
All winter your brute shoulders strained
489
all you can about animals as persons
501
Always the same, when on a fated night
348
Among twenty snowy mountains
393
An honest man here lies at rest
65
And the days are not full enough
411
And there, beyond the barbed wire, the view
517
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky
144
Any movement kills something
477
Apparently with no surprise
233
As a fond mother, when the day is o’er
151
As father Adam first was fooled
65
As I look from the isle, o’er its billows of green
169
As I sd to my
482
As long as you read this poem
508
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her
426
At a theater or ball
221
At ten pm it starts. We can hear from the bar
632
At the blackboard I had missed
521
At the gate, I sit in a row of blue seats
566
Be your words made, good Sir, of Indian ware
41
Because he was a butcher and thereby
312
Because I could not stop for Death
234
Because it seems the only way to save the roses
655
Before man came to blow it right
347
Behold her, single in the field
71
Behold the next-door neighbor’s
669
Belovëd, my Belovëd, when I think
146
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
430
Beside him in the old Ford pickup
627
Black is the sky, but the land is white
357
Blue, blue is the grass about the river
33
Bobbing on the breeze blown waves
438
Body is something you need in order to stay
619
Brother of the blowfly
610
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint
141
By that fallen house
302
Call him not heretic whose works attest
168
Called by people a poet
504
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
269
Christmas was in the air and all was well
309
Clear moments are so short
601
Come not, when I am dead
181
Come, be my camera
621
Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace
42
Concerning your letter in which you ask
496
Darest thou now O soul
208
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days
141
Day and night my thoughts incline
231
Death be not proud, though some have callëd thee
53
Death, coming in his sleep
506
“Deny your God!” They ringed me with their spears
385
Do not go gentle into that good night
453
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short
35
Each morning she is wheeled into the picture
575
Entreat me not to leave thee
32
Even if God did not exist
221
Everything stands wondrously multicolored
635
Everything the power of the world does
294
Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!
120
False though she be to me and love
61
Farewell, German radio with your green eye
600
Farm boys wild to couple
468
Father and Mother, and Me
297
First semester of my senior year
668
First, I would have her be beautiful
540
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