Complete Poems Book

Complete Poems Author's Note A Note on the Text
I. COLLECTED POEMS (1951)

Selected Poems (1935)
The Steeple-Jack The Hero The Jerboa Camellia Sabina No Swan So Fine The Plumet Basilisk The Frigate Pelican The Buffalo Nine Nectarines To a Prize Bird The Fish In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and To Statecraft Embalmed Poetry Pedantic Literalist Critics and Connoisseurs The Monkeys In the Days of Prismatic Color Peter Picking and Choosing England When I Buy Pictures A Grave Those Various Scalpels The Labors of Hercules New York People's Surroundings Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like Bowls Novices Marriage An Octopus Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns The Monkey Puzzle Injudicious Gardening To Military Progress An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish To a Steam Roller To a Snail
"Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape"
To the Peacock of France The Past Is the Present
"He Wrote the History Book"
Sojourn in the Whale Silence

What Are Years (1941)
What Are Years?
Rigorists Light Is Speech He "Digesteth Harde Yron"
The Student Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle Bird-Witted Virginia Brittania Spenser's Ireland Four Quartz Crystal Clocks The Pangolin The Paper Nautilus

Nevertheless (1944)
Nevertheless The Wood-Weasel Elephants A Carriage from Sweden The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing In Distrust of Merits

Collected Later (1951)
A Face By Disposition of Angels The Icosasphere His Shield
"Keeping Their World Large"
Efforts of Affection Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting Propriety Armor's Undermining Modesty

II. LATER POEMS

Like a Bulwark (1956)
Like a Bulwark Apparition of Splendor Then the Ermine Tom Fool at Jamaica The Web One Weaves of Italy The Staff of Aesculapius The Sycamore Rosemary Style Logic and "The Magic Flute"
Blessed Is the Man

O To Be a Dragon
O to Be a Dragon I May, I Might, I Must To a Chameleon A Jelly-Fish Values in Use Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957
Melchior Vulpius No Better Than a "Withered Daffodil"
In the Public Garden The Arctic Ox (or Goat)
Saint Nicholas For February 14th Combat Cultural Leonardo da Vinci's

Tell Me, Tell Me (1966)
Granite and Steel In Lieu of the Lyre The Mind, Intractable Thing Dream Old Amusement Park An Expedient - Leonardo da Vinci's - and a Query W. S. Landor To a Giraffe Charity Overcoming Envy Blue Bug Arthur Mitchell Baseball and Writing To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto Rescue with Yul Brynner Carnegie Hall: Rescued Tell Me, Tell Me Saint Valentine Sun

Hitherto Uncollected
"Avec Ardeur"
Love in America -
Tippoo's Tiger The Camperdown Elm Mercifully
"Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl"
Enough: 1969
The Magician's Retreat Prevalent at One Time

Selections from The Fables of La Fontaine (1954)
The Fox and the Grapes The Lion in Love The Animals Sick of the Plague The Bear and the Garden-Lover The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid

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