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The Giant Book of Poetry

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by William H. Roetzheim, Editor

Waiting for Death

  From The Ship of Death

  405

  I heard a fly buzz when I died

  237

  Misgiving

  344

  Mr. Flood’s Party

  310

  Nature

  151

  On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

  100

  Place (“There’s a Way out”)

  483

  Souvenir

  313

  Still Life

  498

  Pity of the Leaves, The

  317

  Woolworth’s

  635

  Human Condition

  Confession

  From With Silence My Companion

  505

  George Washington and the Loss of His Teeth

  527

  How We Danced

  495

  I Go Back to May 1937

  586

  On the Disinclination to Scream

  650

  Once

  587

  Quake Theory

  587

  Satan Says

  588

  Space Heater, The

  591

  With Mercy for the Greedy

  496

  Friendship

  Bell, The

  638

  Belle Isle, 1949

  492

  Walk Along the Old Tracks, A

  640

  Parents

  Certain People

  636

  Dry Tortugas, The

  651

  Place for Everything, A

  583

  What I Learned from My Mother

  664

  Self

  In the Waiting Room

  440

  Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s

  Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

  486

  Sex and Relationships

  Instrument of Choice

  529

  Party Piece

  604

  Response to Emily Dickinson’s

  “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”

  652

  Sheep Child, The

  468

  Swan at Edgewater Park, The

  665

  Tomatoes

  571

  Society

  Answering Machine, The

  596

  Country Fair

  529

  Defense of the Meek

  602

  Intrigue

  649

  Marginalia (Extracts)

  437

  Punishment

  538

  Suicide

  Suicide’s Note

  435

  Unexpected or Inner Beauty

  Danse Russe

  396

  Nightclub

  564

  Onions

  584

  Inspiration and Faith

  Eastern Religion

  Consulting the Oracle

  472

  I will not crush the world’s corolla of wonders

  431

  Life of a Day, The

  581

  Lost child crying, A

  61

  Three Goals, The

  542

  To See a World in a Grain of Sand

  64

  Inspiration

  Darest Thou Now O Soul

  208

  Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  453

  Epitaph on William Muir

  65

  Hope is the thing with feathers

  235

  I May, I Might, I Must

  417

  If

  295

  I’m nobody! Who are you?

  240

  Invictus

  283

  On a Tree Fallen Across the Road

  345

  Solitude

  286

  Sun and Shadow

  169

  Props Assist the House, The

  242

  Way of the Water-Hyacinth, The

  438

  Will, lost in a sea of trouble

  32

  Pagan

  Everything the Power of the World

  Does is done in a circle

  294

  I taste a liQuor never brewed

  239

  Indian upon God, The

  301

  Old World, The

  532

  Questioning Religion

  Carrion Comfort

  279

  From Fuses I - On God

  221

  On His Blindness

  58

  Oxen, The

  269

  Tiger, The

  63

  White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery, The

  629

  Western Religion

  By their Works

  168

  God Says Yes to Me

  606

  Questions About Angels

  568

  Snowflakes

  462

  Anvil-God’s Word, The

  434

  Rhodora, The

  143

  Three Silences of Molinos, The

  164

  Toys, The

  230

  To a Waterfowl

  118

  Trust

  169

  We are Seven

  72

  Loss and Sorrow

  Coping

  After great pain a formal feeling comes

  233

  Spring and Fall

  280

  Porcelain Couple, The

  491

  We Grow Accustomed to the Dark

  245

  Depression

  Not Waving but Drowning

  435

  Pit, The

  228

  Rainy Day, The

  164

  Rhapsody on a Windy Night

  418

  Sestina

  444

  Shadow Friends

  655

  There’s a certain slant of light

  244

  Unmoving Cloud, The

  36

  Disbelief and Visits

  Beyond Recall

  595

  My Fly

  523

  Dream, The

  487

  Reassurance, The

  498

  Final Instructions

  Remember

  262

  Requiem

  286

  Song

  263

  Tract

  402

  Loss of a Child

  Home Burial

  338

  Leaving Town after the Funeral

  637

  Little Boy Blue

  284

  Room, The

  649

  Loss of a Friend

  An Old Story

  307

  My life closed twice before its close

  241

  O Captain! My Captain

  210

  Loss of a Parent

  Eating Together

  660

  From My Father’s Death

  506

  My mother said

  488

  Last Night, The

  241

  Loss of a Spouse

  One Art

  443

  Opera Season

  654

  Reuben Bright

  312

  Twilight

  166

  Upon the Death of Sir Albert

  Morton’s Wife

  51

  Widow

  476

  Winter rain deepens

  306

  Lust, betrayal and lost love

  Battle of the Sexes

  Community

  51

  Curse, The

  54

  Dichtung and Wahrheit - Part XXXIII

  437

  Evil

  435
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  From Fuses I - On Love

  220

  Geese

  656

  Manet’s Olympia

  533

  Maybe

  435

  You Fit Into Me

  537

  Betrayal

  Confessional, The

  193

  False though she be to me and love

  61

  Heautontimoroumenos

  221

  My Last Duchess

  188

  Sonnet 147 (CXLVII)

  49

  Failed Relationships

  Beautiful Toilet, The

  33

  Dream Pang, A

  321

  Epitaph on a Henpecked SQuire

  65

  Population

  616

  Rain

  632

  Talking In Bed

  465

  Shooting of Dan McGrew, The

  380

  Sick Rose, The

  63

  Story, The

  476

  Vampire, The

  229

  Lust

  Garden of Love, The

  62

  Hysteria

  426

  In Bertram’s Garden

  478

  John Evereldown

  308

  O Blush Not So

  137

  Salmon

  625

  Tame Cat

  411

  Wan Chu’s Wife in Bed

  639

  Wild nights! Wild nights!

  246

  Moving On

  Bitch

  479

  Free

  669

  Ingrateful Beauty Threatened

  56

  Love after Love

  502

  Song: Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

  58

  They say my Verse is Sad: No Wonder

  290

  Philandering

  An Argument

  101

  Confined Love

  52

  Dream of Jealousy, A

  537

  Epitaph for James Smith

  64

  Garden, The

  413

  Inconstancy in love

  65

  To the Virgins

  55

  Vivien’s Song

  184

  Make a Statement

  Abortion

  It’s Good To Be Here

  510

  Change

  Boy Died in my Alley, The

  456

  Silas Dement

  305

  To a Steam Roller

  418

  Corporate Greed

  Holes Commence Falling

  582

  Human Rights

  Ashes, The

  480

  Dacca Gauzes, The

  613

  Documentary

  621

  Electric Elegy

  600

  House that Fear Built:

  Warsaw, 1943, The

  670

  Natzweiler

  517

  Prodigy

  531

  ReQuiem - Instead of a Preface

  426

  Motorcycle Helmets

  Wheels

  658

  Oppression and Discrimination

  An Obstacle

  292

  Blackberries

  607

  Dream Deferred: Harlem

  434

  Money

  460

  Pickwork

  644

  Warden Said to Me the Other Day, The

  504

  We and They

  297

  Wise I

  516

  Physical Abuse

  Style

  657

  Poverty

  Brass Knuckles

  577

  Landscapes

  508

  Maroon

  579

  Religion

  Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act, The

  543

  Pope’s Penis, The

  590

  Nature

  Animals

  Bats

  449

  Badger

  106

  Blessing, A

  485

  Fawn’s Foster-Mother

  416

  Listen

  502

  Little Citizen, Little Survivor

  462

  Names of Horses

  489

  Narrow fellow in the grass, A

  232

  St. Francis and the Sow

  484

  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

  393

  Weakness

  510

  Windhover, The

  281

  Earth

  Brook in the City, A

  321

  Horrid Voice of Science, The

  392

  Onset, The

  348

  Snow Man, The

  393

  This Compost

  215

  Insects

  Couple, A

  448

  Ode to the Maggot

  610

  Only One of My Deaths

  655

  Landscape

  Beginning

  486

  Daydreaming on the Trail

  431

  Dead Water

  433

  From a Plane

  472

  I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

  70

  Sheaves, The

  318

  Solitary Reaper, The

  71

  To make a prairie it takes a clover

  245

  Vantage Point, The

  350

  Sky

  Conversation

  499

  Tree, The

  414

  Trees

  Binsey Poplars

  278

  Good-by and Keep Cold

  337

  Into My Own

  342

  Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

  287

  One fallen flower

  40

  Trees

  416

  When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

  217

  Wind and Storms

  Aim was Song, The

  347

  Hurricane, The

  111

  Jobsite Wind

  643

  Snow-Storm, The

  144

  Storm Fear

  346

  There came a wind like a bugle

 

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