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1969
A Blade of Grass
A Brief for the Defense
A Contribution to Statistics
A Meeting
A Song on the End of the World
Adam’s Complaint
Adrift
After Love
After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad
All That Wanting, Right?
Always Something More Beautiful
American Smooth
And They Obey
Annabel Lee
Ars Poetica?
At the Fishhouses
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
Barter
Because I Liked You Better
Bird-Understander
Caged Bird
Cindy Comes To Hear Me Read
Colors passing through us
Conscientious Objector
Consider A Move
Counting to Six Million
Dark Sonnet
Dirge Without Music
Discrimination
Do Not Make Things Too Easy
Don’t Hesitate
Dream Variations
El Olvido
Endless Summer
Everyday Life
Everything
Failing and Flying
Fairy-tale Logic
February & my love is in another state
Forgive Me
Ghosting
Ginsberg
Gitanjali 35
Glow
Great Things Have Happened
He Tells Her
Here War Is Simple
Hey Cowboy
High Flight
HOW COULD I HAVE KNOWN I WOULD NEED TO REMEMBER YOUR LAUGHTER,
Hunger for Something
Hymn to Breaking Strain
I Am Learning to Abandon the World
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
I Do Not Speak
I So Liked Spring
I Think It's Okay
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
If You Forget Me
In Memory of Sigmund Freud
In November
In the Garden of Grief
Inessential Things
Invictus
Life, Life
Living Instead
Love After Love
Love is Not All
Love Poem
Lying in Bed on a Summer Morning
Maggid
Make Out Sonnet
March
Mechanism
Mithridates, He Died Old
Monet Refuses the Operation
More of This, Please
Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)
Naming of Parts
Nostalgia
Not Here
Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments
Not Waving but Drowning
Nothing Gold Can Stay
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love
O Where Are You Going?
Ode to the Hotel Near the Children's Hospital
On Death, Without Exageration
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
On Turning Ten
One Art
One of Their Gods
Or Just Miss
Parc Monceau, September
Poem Beginning With A Retweet
Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
Pretty
Provision for a Season Called Spring
Public Service Announcement
Rain
Reality Demands
Refusal to Mourn
Romantics
Rowan Tree
say it with your whole black mouth
Scientific Method
September 1, 1939
September Garden Party
Short Talk on Reading
Sometimes
Song of Myself
Song of the Artesian Water
Sonnet Against Entropy
Sonnet CXVI
Special Problems in Vocabulary
Swept
Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Terence, this is stupid stuff
Testimonial
The Artist's Model
The Bad Days
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Birthday of the World
The Blind Leading The Blind
The Bluebird
The Bookshelf of the God of Infinite Space
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
The Doomed
The End of Poetry
The End of the World
The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
The Heart Is a Foreign Country
The History Teacher
the lesson of the moth by archy
The Long Voyage
The More Loving One
The Naming of Cats
The Next War
The Old Astronomer
The Orange
The Peace of Wild Things
The Poem
The Quiet World
The Rules
The Runaway
The Second Coming
The Sweetness of Dogs
The Tyger
The Voice of God
The way people cast a play
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Zeal of Thy House
There Must Be a Catch
Time Sharing
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
To be of use
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Under One Small Star
Warming Her Pearls
Ways of Talking
We should talk
What Kind of Times Are These
What the Living Do
Where Does Such Tenderness Come From?
Why I Am Not Coming Into Work Today
Wild Geese
Witch-Wife
Xian of Eight Rivers
You are tired (I think)
You Who Wronged
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Refusal to Mourn
Refusal to Mourn
Dec 29, 2023, 1 min read
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