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Collected Poems of John Holmes
Holmes, John A., Jr.
2002
Collected Poems of John Holmes
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This text is a compilation of poems by John Holmes.
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John A. Holmes papers
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Poems
Holmes, John A.
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2002
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Title Page
Editor's Note
On hearing someone say that every possible subject has been covered in poetry
Reminder
Sonnet [To someone I know]
Low fog
[Lines about a great space]
Sanctuary
To Joanne
The soul's loneliness
You, who understood
Morning
What things I can
The father
The gleam
My tree
My little world
The vale impassable
The forgotten hero
The garden
Verbosity
[Man]
A monument
A death at evening
Recipe for a journey
Evening
From a window
Sight and death
In the days when the eternal hills go down
Something from the soft wind
Noon
The moon
In a time of misunderstanding
Demand
The constant battle
Sleepless
A prayer [A prayer on failing eyesight]
On being thankful
Pleasant solitude
[Untitled]
Somehow, sometime, somewhere
[Untitled]
The pines
A shield and a strong defence
The high heart
Bewilderment in church
Advice on success in writing poetry
Pierrot
Encouragement
Three wishes
Swinging
Tobacco and a pipe
Grandmother's parlor
Sailing
O little sails, make haste!
Night
Walking on the beach
From the Window
On the contemplation of vastness
The king passes by
Youth
Beneath a tree
Beyond the hill
Books
To a statuette of a little girl
Wanderer's song
Joshua Peabody
Against poms and carelessness
The way of least resistance
Voice of the sea
A letter unopened on my desk
Fragments: Far horizon
Fragments: The inquiring mind
Fragments: The cigarette
Fragments: History repeats
Fragments: Yesterday, to-day, to-morrow
Fragments: After the forest fire
Fragments: Down to earth
Fragments: Butter side down
Fragments: A conversation
Fragments: Fear
Fragments: Inconsistency
Fragments: A secret laughter
To a small boy learning to read
Reading sonnets late at night
Autumn
Lonely
Walking home at night
A ship's figure-head
This house will never need
Conversation
Dusk falls down the roofs
Moment
Words for a minuet
Make yourself a way
Languor
A childish chant
Twice born
Suddenly I knew
Coming home from the library
The visitor
Four Songs
The willow tree
Rhymes of a very small boy
Big enough
Baggage into the land of Nod
Song - Come again with me to Plymouth
Portrait
Portrait [The Great Man]
A hopeful lover
Portrait of a girl
Writing in the woods
Memory of A. L.
Portrait
The prisoner
The warehouseman
A timid lover
Message to be found a hundred years hence
What poetry is
Wind on a hill
Two o'clock
Song
Another sleeps
Portrait [His enemy]
Portrait
Departure
A fancy
At the end
The eyesore
The candle
An intruder
Counterpoint
The street car
Equality
Petulant
On a hillside
Gifts
An old man tells a story
Peccavi
Old groping
Make believe
Josita's banjo song
Let it be said
A yonge manne; an olde tale
The cantadours pass by
I sing
Thoughts of a man asleep
To poets: advice
Amaze
The reverent lover
A quotation
The unseen lady
My bookshelf
Thoughts at night
Suspicion
Fall in Massachusetts
Music
America
I remember
Lines to an old dish
Window glass
Sonnet
At a funeral
Disillusionment
The seekers
Il Penseroso (R.S.)
Effect of praise
When hearts are young
The clean winds
The lover serenades
The little street
Laughter
To one gone
The dancers
A poet burns some poems
Writing
Walking in the rain
A sacrifice to the sun
To my cousin, H.R.B.
The boat
Poem
Overture
Snow
Hope
A song for you
Window dreaming
Rain the morning after
A man's club
From the tower
Fairies by night
The young poet
Rain
Say good night
The thought of you
A youth
Nocturne
Courage
Cinquain
Circles
The cabin boy climbs the crow's nest
On going to bed
Three roads
1492
October
Pan
Soldiers
To a girl who has black eyes
The hilly place
The call
Lines
The poet's prayer
Futility
The priest
Meditation
Two songs
Cappricco
Stars
Westward ho!
Rain
A man remembers suddenly
At the museum
Morning in the forest
A charm to keep away evil
The lover grows older
An apology
An old legend retold on the occasion of a certain death
Aftermath
Old words
Raw material
Masks
The grace of god
Fragment
Dusk
The skylark's flight
The old chief
Sudden pity
To a young man cleaning a motor-car
Labor
An old friend
Fragment from an old dance
A parting of the way
Song of my elf
Moon to a vagabond child
The violinist
A toast
Dream places
The second-hand bookshop
The fireplace
The breeze
The seeker
The market
The world, the world...
Trees
You asked
Excuse
Ideals
Recapture
Ask me not now
Youth goes forth
Peace
Outburst
Prayer against blindness
A memory
Who has not known
The pure of heart
A life
At camp-fire
Book-reading
The end of day
In the arbor
A fireplace in December
Poems on pictures
Laus perennis
Steps
The angel of love
Matinata
To a player at the Globe
A portrait [My sister]
An old poet
Pageant
Ruin
From a hollow in the woods
Twenty
October dusk
Life
Direction
The shining road
Old music
Song to be said to my pillow
Sounds
If ever
Fragment
A door
After
Relief
Passing
Trees in the wind
Candles
Weary
The fog
The puddle
[Mood] Workman
Conrad has an evening
The child on the other shore
Song
A pale lady looks in a deep well
A life
Poetry and music [Poem] [A poem can tell]
For the grave of unknown citizens
To himself
The coward
[Moment macabre: symphony]
Midnight
Girl with a Spanish shawl (a picture)
Conrad sleeping
Tell me why
Questioning
An inscription
An old, old man
Rather than this
If this were the last
Portrait [His World]
A letter in March
Rocks
Your head
Money
The old man and the moon
The flaming lights
Home
The long watch
On quiet hill
Consideration of a friend
Song
Price of wisdom
Consecrate
Jingle verse: The Boston Wanderlust
A sailor's R.I.P.
Turn from the fire
Ballad of an ordinary man
What might have been
Ease after pain
An April afternoon
Stone and roots
To Peter, who is not a real person
Two sonnets on death and immortal man [The cold shadow]
To a girl I know
My enemy
On the new moon
Mowing
The shore
Wind in the night
Quickening
On awakening suddenly
To the easily forgotten
On seeing the title 'Heart of darkness'
The marchers in the shadow
Poem
The hour
Peter has an evening
Sonnet
Tower of glass
My attic room
Tir na n'og
Keys
The philosopher at home
Counsel from a poet, middle-aged
The answer afterwards
Waking [One way of waking]
The servants of the heart
The password
An armchair journey
In praise of my god
A tide of dreams
Good bye to a garden
The old men
Prayer to be shouted
The clock strikes ten [The bell]
To a careful young man
Now!
This was the way
For he hath fed
Memory
Program
Cazevieille [Part one: The fire; Part two: Walking and rowing; Part three: Others; Part four: Things there are only one of; Part five: Plum island
Knowing what I know
To losers
Rainy April noon
Passage to India [What dragons]
The word [Bird of the morning sea]
To music first
The right word
Burn!
Who that has heard him
Einsteinian [Wind like music]
Ten years old before the mast
Three woodcuts: Motor at midnight; Ship in the night; Downtown ritual
The way the eagles die
Even a prayer
Adventures in the dark
March 17, 1939 [Matriarch]
Native timber
The launching
Circumstance unforeseen
Special performance
A matter of time
Whatever I have said before [Sun Worshipper]
New England names
Class poem 1929, Tufts College
Sell it to them, ad man!
In a college coffee house [College coffee house]
Prologue for poems
Dutch dream
Marginal notes
Change
Citizen saint
Civic ceremony
Clean tall green still
Collectives
Coming of age
Cool
Country morning
Day among many
Death be not proud
Death this year
Portrait
Sometimes to be alone
Monument
Lying awake
Election
The eleventh commandment
Errata
Every day in books
Faculty committee on teaching
Familiar tale
The family face
Family letter [In our times]
Father
Hard times
Hinbad
A meditation
Barberry
Like spring
The symbols
Bless
The soul in the possession
Being so
The fear of dying
Fieldbook revised [Fieldbook for summer]
The flying earth
Ritual - For a cow to be killed [For a cow before killing] [Cow be killed]
Four and a half [Boy]
Grass
Go, cries the heart
Great law
The green door
Having New England fathers
Hearing music
Heart's almanac
Herself
I can hardly wait
I live in a world
Incredible greeting
Journey's end
The known world [Map of my country]
The landmark
Rock in the ground
Do you know?
The laws [Order clearly asking]
Let them stand: for Robert Nichols, geologist
The letter
Letter to my mother
Lines beginning 'I'
Address to the living
Alarm
Along the row
Anecdote of Robert Frost
The architects
As the heart beats
Auction
Birthday: at Richard Eberhart's fiftieth
Boy in August
Boy to anyone
Bucyrus [Booth, Bucyrus & Brazil]
Business-like letter
Carry me back
The flowers (first version) [Home from Woodlawn]
The certainty
Edward Hicks's old picture
Faithful reader
The new porch
Two of a kind
In the Gardner museum
The war between the states
Margaret's choice
Everyone knows about Boston
Mailman blues
The mask the living wear
Memorandum of agreement
Memory [Memory's color]
Mercator
Metaphor for my son
The mirror
Montaigne's pate
Misery [Essay on misery]
People in the street [At thirty-five]
Do not pity the young
West mountain spring [West mountain water]
The second wonder
The place he seeks
The enduring
New Proverbs
The new view [Youth and age]
Noah his ark
Northward letter [In this moment]
Nothing told me
Old men and young men
One day's rain
Ordeal by love
The overgrown back yard
Panther in my mind [The panther in the mind]
The people's peace
Peter at his mirror
But choose
The pity is
The place of light
Portrait
Open letter [Christmas letter] [From tonight]
Pour down
Puritan ancestor
Questions for the candidate
Reading aloud
The rebellion
The saving grace
Seasonal wisdom
The secret
Self portrait
Send, send
Silence
Since you asked
The skin of your face
Sleep and poetry
Sonnet for solace [O heart be quick]
To the queen's men [Sonnet to the queen's men]
Spring is the peace
Summer morning porch (Chautauqua Lake)
Summer opera
September valentine
Better than all [Better than all these]
Take home this heart
Then the sun came out
The new art
Then he will sleep
Till music cries again
To keep and not to keep [These conditions] [What to keep, what to lose]
To live in
The tower stands
To my sisters and my brother [To my teacher]
Truth about pictures
Two and a little house
The unforgiven
Unlikely tale
Unpublished preface to a Ph.D. thesis
Ten-thirty class
The valiant
Very young, very old
The voice
Poem for my 27th year [For the poet's birthday]
All except Mary Ann
The way the stars went up
Weather making
What the books do
Who are they?
A willing suspension
Without honor
The wreath
Hello
Underwater
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Sally [Warning with love]
One place
These ghosts
Mellow and merry
Living in cities
Various loyalties
Arrows and angry snakes
Old Adam in us
After two years
King time
The secret epilogue [Epilogue untold]
That is the way you look [Face to face]
Legend and truth
From everlasting unto everlasting
If I were old [The bitter thought]
The mind by day
Poets take heart
You living look [A hundred years from now]
Two kinds: bold and shy
The voice
Hold it up to the light
Words of my own
Dialogue alone [Even now]
A cure of guilt
The core [One sound]
Country senses
Chair in the field
The broken one
Between thousand and thousands
Few in a million
The fiery element
The flower
The folding key
For sports section of Jumbo Book
The fortune teller
From Brooklyn
Guard of honor
Hamlet with a license
Hearing Margaret, aged four
Her walking
Holiday, with gods
I am singing. We are singing.
I never get any work done
If not silence, then restraint
Living music
Maybe for love [The carver and the wood]
A lot going on
The modern poet
Moment of truth
Mr. Holmes's brother
My father's silence
On a magazine picture of a mass burial
Out of the room
The oyster [The oyster as art]
The pains of poetry
Photograph of Robert Frost
Plain girl: Sunday noon
Portrait [Biography]
A prayer on the night before Easter [Prayer on the night before Easter]
Re-arrangements
Remembering you, long after
The room
The secret
The Somerset Dam for supper
To my mother
Dog in the house
The sickle
It says in the book
Poem number three ninety three
Instead of albums
The library: capitol of the world
The Murdock saga
Incoming mail [I can manage multiplicity]
The good guys and the bad guys
The ballad of Albert Woolson
[Untitled]
Poor Johnny roll
The pipe which I was gave by Santa Claus
Man as bear
My old schools
The thrifty elephant
Do I not rage?
For Sam Moses, printer
Alight on the hill
Time and my father's cousin
The poet
Billingham street [Our street]
Biography
Books
Love poems
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Bird pavilion
On the twenty second anniversary
The crisis at Valley Forge, 1931
Contradictions in an ultimate spring
Any next year
Cultivator
Talk
Weathermen
Overheard
To be forty
Something out there
Letter to S.V.B. [Stephen Vincent Benet] [Dear Steve]
Thoughts on beginning another shaving stick
Group photograph
Program note [Three P's presents...]
Goodbye to the campus
Let the joyful speak [Your kind of joy]
The fence
Spring on the Hill
Letter about weather
The source
The praise of poetry
For Charles Gott [Lament for the dead] [The inconsolable]
Boy reading
The old professor
The rewards of teaching
Faculty counselor [In the dean's office]
Teaching program
In a classroom
The name
Somebody's bad luck
The spiral
The sword &
A taste for revenge
Teacher retired to Maine
The thought
Time no time
To the girls formerly of Sigma Kappa at Tufts University and Cornell University
To the gurnet
True murder's course
King Richard seventh
The valley
The wind in the elm trees
A wish
The word heart
World the way it is
Dream
Figure of speech
For D.H.
I can never be alone
In cities
Interior
Young man's poem
Tireless testament [Testament]
The chest of time
Brother to brother, 1859
The phoenix promise
At a country fair
Fable
In danger safely
Aware of legends
Diver
Death in the back yard
The expectation [Expectations]
O Lord of stars and sunlight
Lady is a lady
The long walk alone [Renewal]
Odd moment
The good, the great, the wise
The secret tide
The mountain farm
An old song with a new refrain
Penny for your thoughts
Portrait two
Street scene
The summer after
Remembered nights
Moonrise
Nine o'clock
Once in August
The time is good
The winter
The apple
Voices in a new world
The woman who would not close her eyes
Green things growing
Death of a leaf
Come and play
Moment
Fears
He knows it is safe
Is calm the thing?
Maybe tomorrow
Not you like music
O Time!
On finding certain lines marked in Santayana's sonnets
Plainly said
Prayer for to-morrow
Sonnet to a friend twice my age
Things I love
Wars that rage: sonnet
The watcher in the street
Weave a circle round him
Young promise
Page in a diary: For Doris to remember the day by
Pain I gave you
A penny poem
Perfectly deathless poem to Betty Rosenthal from John Holmes on receiving a necktie
Photographer's Sunday
Plato's table
Poem for my 32nd birthday
Poetry [Living for poetry]
Whatever winds
Reflection of a shadow
The responsibilities
Rhyme of going to the store [Going to the store]
Shake well, throw away
Should I?
Sky once more
Some in dreams
Song
Sonnet to a dancing-partner
Sort of spring song, with ah!
So you will know
Spring: a sermon [The double root]
Spring morning
Subject for a poem
Suddenly birds
Sword on the wall
Take a lot of people
The tall men
The Passing king
To one I dislike
A thing to say
Time's noise
...To a desert island
Advice
Against growing old
Average reader
Belladonna
Big girl now
Book-review
Bumps in the night
Children try
Clouds on a summer night
Country quiet remembered
Curse
Deep shore
Dorothy
The druids
At night
Epitaph for Peter if he should die
Essay of saints
Examination
An exercise in humility
Ezra Pound
The face
Wings
Four friends
Gathering poem [Your move]
Golden egg
Hullaballou
Holy Ballou
Hello Ballou
Hail Ballou
The hamlet
Hearing them speak
His dazzled look [The look]
How do I love thee?
To a friend too kind
To be tacked on the bulletin board at any writers' conference
To Isabel with some poems
Twenty eight Billingham Street
Two men talking
Understandable poem
The visiting poets
Cal Lowell [The visiting poets]
We are waiting
Wherever you lie
[Untitled]
Window
Word from the west
Words are so exciting
The young men speaking
[Untitled]
Hush
I do it myself [I always did]
In a dark wood
A kind of silence
Ladies and gentlemen ...
Last night
Letter to a young poet
Letters: a metaphor
A long poem entitled 'I love the Hillside Hardware & Paint Co.'
First love recalled
A man who came home late at night
Margaret
Music to me
My pasenger [My passenger]
My wife's grandfather's ring
New name
New woman in the house
Next year's music
No more music
One act play
One beautiful moment
Love-child
The cottage of broken dreams
Woodrow-Wilson was-a-hero
Open letter [Maybe you]
Preface
Winter solstice
Look east, look west
The weight
Past understanding
A station in the journey
Interruption
1918: Armistice
The change
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Historical event
All the dead and some poets
The world in my time [The world in my own time]
Whose name was writ in water
Warning
Primitive
Totem
Slow child
This time surely
Portrait: My wife
The island
You have an interesting mind
The world is one
A man's world
Child: Spring
Cook's tour
A room with books [Room with books]
Far enough
Hat weather
The late Mr. Thorpe
Looking at books
A natural law
First day
Being young
Fable with no moral
Mornings at eleven
The bookworm turns
A sweet hope once
Sweetly solemn thought
Those were the days
Table for one
Work in progress
The critic on the pan
Dinner for eight
The miserable gardener
Good-night! Good-night!
Letter to three men
Political strategy
To my teachers
Notes for a history of sleep
Thinker in bed
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Design for a skyscraper
Problem father
Wallpaper poem
The double life
Fair warning
This one is father
[Untitled]
Incredulous
A year after
[Untitled]
Ode for the hundredth birthday of William Upham
[Untitled]
Peter sleeping
Epitaph for any New Yorker
Peter reads far into the night
Letter from an exile
Usually
The blessing
Nineteen fifty one
Old cheese and cold beer
What the book salesman said
Words enough
Do you remember
The hunted
Tomorrow you
Ballad of some of the boys
The talking mirror
Color
The day's news
What we hate most
The snow-child
For Karl Magnus Armens
Boy at four
Hummingbird and seagull
The extent of his acres
To remember one another
All's well that ends
John Holmes, his book
The chance
Lesson in the monkey-house
The title-page
Faculty and administration section
The senior class section
The activities section
The organizations section
The fraternities section
Ode for scene 1, 'Hullaballou'
Poetry defined
On a cage of mice brought home for the week of school vacation
Nothing odd
Free will and fire-truck
Verses in a very old tradition
The stone
The spring sun
The fifty-first
Overheard
A prayer
Evening meal in the twentieth century
A little night-wording