Tables of Contents for Selected Poems

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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Preface: On Growth and Form

xi

Five Young American Poets (1944)

Dollar Bill

3

2

Penny Arcade

5

2

Magazine Stand

7

2

The Genuine Ellis

9

2

New Year's Eve

11

2

Madrigal in Time of War

13

1

Parting: 1940

14

3

The Iron Pastoral (1947)

Christmas Tree

17

2

Trainwrecked Soldiers

19

2

Airport: In Fog

21

1

Midwest

22

1

Foto-Sonnets

Provincetown

23

1

Cape Cod

23

1

Waterfront Cafe

24

1

Stunted Fir

24

1

Return

25

1

Aftersong

26

3

A Fountain In Kentucky (1950)

The Masque of Blackness

29

10

City Dawn

39

1

The Indolent Day

40

1

A Quiet Night

41

2

Watcher Go Deftly

43

1

First Date

44

1

Japanese Prints

45

1

The Weeds

46

1

Incident

47

1

Winter in the Park

48

1

Vicarage Blues

49

1

Two Cretan Views

50

2

Fairy Tale for Marion

52

3

Portrait

55

1

The Child

56

1

``Human Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality''

57

1

Christmas

58

1

Adam's Ballad

59

4

Knowledge of the Evening (1960)

The Lover

63

2

Old River Road

65

6

The Young Ionia

71

2

Decline and Fall

73

3

Polonaise

76

2

The Evergreen

78

11

Parallax at Djebel-Muta

89

3

Etruscan Tomb

92

4

Roman Letter

96

4

Florence

100

4

Reflections in Venice

104

4

A Frieze of Cupids

108

1

Originated in a Chorus of Satyrs

109

1

Ancient of Days

110

1

And a Fortune in Olive Oil

111

1

Affair at the Fork

112

1

Calliope to Clio

113

1

Agamemnon before Troy

114

1

Ishtar

115

1

A Pretty Device of the Fathers

116

1

Natione Non Moribus

117

1

The Mirror

118

2

The Necromancers

120

2

The Academy Disporting

122

2

The Caveman on the Train

124

2

Spanish Ballad

126

1

Isaiah's Coal

127

2

De Fide

129

1

Last Judgment

130

1

The Ivy and the Rune

131

3

Conclusion

134

3

Of Flesh and Bone (1967)

Few Things to Say

137

1

Bikini

137

1

Cape Ann

137

1

The Girl

138

1

At Dawn

138

1

Days of Our Years

138

1

Years Later

139

1

Anacreon's Answer

139

1

Love and Death

139

1

With Fingering Hand

140

1

Conceit

140

1

Rhetoric

141

1

Mathematics

141

1

Folk Song

142

1

Protestation

142

1

Parting

142

1

Gospel

143

1

Contemplation

143

1

On Lighting Her Cigarette

143

1

Love

144

1

Nature Lover

144

1

Blind Joy

144

1

Vision

145

1

Memento

145

1

Embroidery at Bayeux

145

1

Transplant

146

1

View from Moon

146

1

Minotaur

147

1

Philosopher

147

1

Pastoral

147

1

Avant-Garde

147

1

Visiting Poet

148

1

Prizes, Etc.

148

1

Epitaph for a Poet

148

1

Epitaph for a Light Lady

149

1

Another

149

1

In Dark of Night

149

1

People on Bus

150

1

Sophomore

150

1

On the One Theme Still

150

1

Ghost

151

1

The Visit

151

1

Lovers

151

1

Perfect Rhyme

151

1

Acknowledgments

152