The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Book

	Introduction	1
	To His Father	15
	Suicide's Stone	16
	Divinely Superfluous Beauty	17
	The Excesses of God	17
	To the Stone-Cutters	18
	To the House	18
	Salmon Fishing	19
	Natural Music	19
	Wise Men in Their Bad Hours	20
	To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House	21
	The Cycle	22
	Shine, Perishing Republic	23
	Continent's End	24
	Tamar	26
	Point Joe	98
	Gale in April	99
	The Treasure	100
	Birds	103
	Fog	104
	Boats in a Fog	105
	People and a Heron	106
	Night	107
	Autumn Evening	110
	Joy	110
	Phenomena	111
	from The Tower Beyond Tragedy (final scene)	112
	Roan Stallion	115
	Post Mortem	137
	Clouds at Evening	139
	Pelicans	140
	Apology for Bad Dreams	141
	Love-Children	145
	Credo	147
	Prelude	148
	Birth-Dues	159
	The Broken Balance	160
	Hurt Hawks	165
	Bixby's Landing	167
	An Artist	168
	The Machine	171
	Meditation on Saviors	172
	A Redeemer	178
	Tor House	181
	Cawdor	182
	Hooded Night	297
	Evening Ebb	298
	Hands	298
	The Loving Shepherdess	299
	from Descent to the Dead: Shane O'Neill's Cairn	361
	from Descent to the Dead: Ossian's Grave	362
	from Descent to the Dead: The Broadstone	365
	from Descent to the Dead: In the Hill at Newgrange	366
	from Descent to the Dead: Ghosts in England	370
	from Descent to the Dead: Inscription for a Gravestone	372
	from Descent to the Dead: Subjected Earth	373
	Notes to "Descent to the Dead"	375
	The Bed by the Window	376
	Winged Rock	376
	The Place for No Story	379
	New Mexican Mountain	380
	November Surf	381
	Margrave	382
	Fire on the Hills	394
	A Little Scraping	397
	Triad	398
	Still the Mind Smiles	399
	Give Your Heart to the Hawks	400
	Return	499
	Love the Wild Swan	500
	The Cruel Falcon	501
	Distant Rainfall	501
	Rock and Hawk	502
	Shine, Republic	503
	Sign-Post	504
	Flight of Swans	505
	from At the Birth of an Age (vision of the self-hanged God)	506
	Gray Weather	508
	Red Mountain	509
	Rearmament	513
	The Purse-Seine	514
	The Wind-Struck Music	516
	Memoir	518
	Nova	520
	The Answer	522
	The Beaks of Eagles	523
	All the Little Hoof-Prints	524
	Contemplation of the Sword	527
	Oh Lovely Rock	529
	October Week-End	531
	Steelhead, Wild Pig, The Fungus	532
	Night without Sleep	541
	Self-Criticism in February	543
	Shiva	544
	Now Returned Home	545
	Theory of Truth	547
	Faith	553
	Come Little Birds	554
	The House-Dog's Grave	559
	Prescription of Painful Ends	561
	The Day Is a Poem	562
	The Bloody Sire	563
	The Stars Go over the Lonely Ocean	564
	For Una	565
	Drunken Charlie	568
	Pearl Harbor	577
	Advice to Pilgrims	579
	Cassandra	579
	Historical Choice	580
	Calm and Full the Ocean	581
	The Blood-Guilt	582
	Invasion	583
	Original Sin	585
	Orca	587
	The Inquisitors	589
	Quia Absurdum	591
	The Inhumanist (Part II of The Double Axe)	592
	Animals	651
	The Beauty of Things	652
	Hungerfield	653
	Carmel Point	676
	De Rerum Virtute	677
	The Deer Lay Down Their Bones	680
	The Shears	685
	Patronymic	686
	Birds and Fishes	687
	Let Them Alone	688
	"The unformed volcanic earth"	689
	The Ocean's Tribute	694
	On an Anthology of Chinese Poems	695
	"The mathematicians and physics men"	696
	Vulture	697
	Granddaughter	698
	The Epic Stars	699
	"Goethe, they say, was a great poet"	700
	Hand	701
	Oysters	702
	"It nearly cancels my fear of death"	704
	Preface, Tamar (1923)	707
	Introduction, Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (1935)	710
	Foreword, The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1938)	713
	Preface, The Double Axe and Other Poems (original version, 1947)	719
	Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years (1948)	723
	Aesthetics (1910)	731
	The Palace (1914)	733
	May 5, 1915 (1915)	735
	Oblation/Testament (1918)	737
	The Shore of Dreams (1919?)	738
	The Hills Beyond the River (1919)	739
	Doors to Peace (mid-1920s)	740
	Forecast (1925)	742
	Not a Laurel on the Place (1926)	743
	Ninth Anniversary (1928)	744
	Oct. 27 Lunar Eclipse - 98% (On the Calendar) (1939)	745
	Tragedy Has Obligations (1943)	746
	Rhythm and Rhyme (1949)	747
	Index of Titles	749
	Index of First Lines	752