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| Title Page
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| Editor's Note
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| 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 |
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| 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 |