Collected Poems Book

	Reflections	13
	from Intellectual Things (1930)
	Change	17
	Single Vision	18
	Particular Lullaby	20
	Promise Me	21
	Strange Calendar	22
	Poem	23
	Deciduous Branch	25
	The Words of the Preacher	26
	Ambergris	27
	Approach of Autumn	28
	The Pivot	29
	He	30
	Very Tree	31
	Prophecy on Lethe	33
	Lovers Relentlessly	34
	Nocturne	35
	For Proserpine	36
	Parting	37
	I Dreamed That I Was Old	38
	Night-Piece	39
	Between Me and the Rock	40
	Transformations	41
	First Love	42
	Last Words	43
	Eagle	44
	So Intricately Is This World Resolved	45
	Benediction	46
	In a Strange House	48
	Master and Mistress	49
	Organic Bloom	50
	Beyond Reason	51
	The Lesson	52
	Vita Nuova	53
	from Passport to the War (1944)
	Reflection by a Mailbox	57
	The Last Picnic	58
	Welcome the Wrath	59
	Night Letter	60
	Father and Son	62
	The Hemorrhage	64
	The Harsh Judgment	66
	Confidential Instructions	67
	The Signal from the House	68
	The Tutored Child	69
	The Economist's Song	70
	The Old Clothes Man	71
	The Fitting of the Mask	73
	The Supper Before Last	75
	The Daughters of the Horseleech	76
	Careless Love	77
	The Guilty Man	78
	Between the Acts	79
	This Day This World	80
	The Last Question	81
	How Long Is the Night?	82
	The Reckoning	83
	Open the Gates	84
	from This Garland, Danger, in Selected Poems: 1928-1958
	The Science of the Night	87
	Green Ways	89
	When the Light Falls	90
	Among the Gods	91
	As Flowers Are	92
	The Waltzer in the House	93
	Sotto Voce	94
	Grammar Lesson	95
	She Wept, She Railed	96
	Foreign Affairs	97
	The Unwithered Garland	99
	The Man Upstairs	100
	The Approach to Thebes	101
	The Dark and the Fair	103
	The Thief	105
	End of Summer	108
	Goose Pond	109
	The Dragonfly	110
	The War Against the Trees	113
	The Thing That Eats the Heart	115
	By Lamplight	116
	The Scourge	117
	Hermetic Poem	118
	To the Reader (Baudelaire)	119
	The Way Down	121
	The Class Will Come to Order	124
	The Summing-Up	126
	Revolving Meditation	127
	A Spark of Laurel	130
	from the Testing-Tree (1971)
	Journal for My Daughter	135
	An Old Cracked Tune	141
	The Portrait	142
	The Magic Curtain	143
	After the Last Dynasty	146
	The Illumination	148
	Robin Redbreast	149
	River Road	151
	Summer Solstice (Mandelstam)	153
	Tristia (Mandelstam)	154
	The Mound Builders	156
	The Customs Collector's Report	159
	The Gladiators	161
	The System	163
	Around Pastor Bonhoeffer	164
	Bolsheviks (Stolzenberg)	167
	Three Floors	168
	The Flight of Apollo	169
	King of the River	170
	The Mulch	173
	Indian Summer at Land's End	174
	Cleopatra (Akhmatova)	175
	Dante (Akhmatova)	176
	Boris Pasternak (Akhmatova)	177
	The Artist	179
	The Testing-Tree	180
	The Game	184
	from the Layers, in the Poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978
	The Knot	187
	What of the Night?	188
	Quinnapoxet	190
	Words for the Unknown Makers	192
	To a Slave Named Job	192
	Sacred to the Memory	192
	Girl with Sampler	193
	Trompe l'Oeil	194
	A Blessing of Women	194
	The Catch	197
	The Crystal Cage	198
	Signs and Portents	200
	Firesticks	203
	The Lincoln Relics	204
	Meditations on Death (Ungaretti)	208
	The Quarrel	212
	The Unquiet Ones	213
	My Sisters	214
	Route Six	215
	The Layers	217
	from Next-to-Last Things (1985)
	The Snakes of September	221
	The Abduction	222
	Raccoon Journal	224
	The Old Darned Man	227
	The Scene (Blok)	229
	The Image-Maker	230
	Lamplighter: 1914	231
	Day of Foreboding	233
	Three Small Parables for My Poet Friends	234
	The Round	236
	Passing Through	238
	The Long Boat	240
	The Wellfleet Whale	241
	from Passing Through: The Later Poems (1995)
	My Mother's Pears	249
	Chariot	251
	In the Dark House	253
	Halley's Comet	256
	Hornworm: Summer Reverie	258
	Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation	259
	The Sea, That Has No Ending ...	261
	Proteus	264
	Touch Me	266
	Notes	267
	Acknowledgments	279
	Index	281