Yvor Winters: Selected Poems Book

	Introduction
	Two Songs of Advent	1
	One Ran Before	1
	Song for a Small Boy Who Herds Goats	2
	Alone	3
	Myself	4
	Still Morning	4
	Awakening	4
	Winter Echo	4
	The Hunter	4
	No Being	4
	Spring	5
	May	5
	Spring Rain	5
	Song	5
	Sunrise	5
	Fields	5
	At Evening	5
	Cool Nights	6
	Sleep	6
	The Aspen's Song	6
	The Walker	6
	Blue Mountain	6
	God of Roads	6
	September	6
	A Lady	6
	Alone	7
	A Deer	7
	Man in Desert	7
	Desert	7
	The End	7
	High Valleys	7
	Awaiting Snow	7
	Hill Burial	8
	The Precincts of February	8
	The Resurrection	9
	Tewa Spring	10
	Dark Spring	10
	The Crystal Sun	11
	Jose's Country	13
	The Upper Meadows	14
	The Moonlight	14
	October	15
	The Impalpable Void	16
	"The Fragile Season"	16
	Genesis	17
	Exodus	17
	The Vigil	18
	Moonrise	18
	Alba for Hecate	18
	The Cold	19
	Digue dondaine, digue dondon	20
	Nocturne	21
	"Quod Tegit Omnia"	22
	March Dusk	23
	The Lamplight	24
	Flesh of Flowers	25
	Under Rain	26
	Midnight Wind	26
	Complaint	27
	The Muezzin	28
	Song	29
	April	29
	Song	30
	Full Moon	31
	Love Song	31
	Sleep	31
	The Cold Room	31
	The Bare Hills	32
	The Dead: Mazda Wake	33
	The Barnyard	33
	The Grosbeaks	34
	The Streets	35
	The Rows of Cold Trees	36
	Prayer beside a Lamp	38
	Man Regards Eternity in Aging	39
	Eternity	40
	The Passing Night	41
	The Solitude of Glass	42
	Coal: Beginning and End	43
	Liberation	43
	Return of Spring	44
	Bill	45
	The Vanquished	46
	The Victor	47
	A Miner	48
	Vacant Lot	49
	Tragic Love	49
	To the Crucified	50
	O Sun!	51
	November	52
	Genesis	53
	The Bitter Moon	54
	The Deep: A Service for All the Dead	55
	Orange Tree	57
	Song of the Trees	57
	The Goatherds	58
	Bison	59
	Wild Sunflower	60
	Snow-Ghost	61
	The Vigil	62
	Simplex Munditiis	63
	The Moralists	64
	The Realization	64
	To William Dinsmore Briggs Conducting His Seminar	65
	The Invaders	66
	The Castle of Thorns	66
	Apollo and Daphne	67
	The Fable	67
	The Empty Hills	68
	Moonrise	69
	The Fall of Leaves	70
	Inscription for a Graveyard	70
	The Last Visit	71
	For Howard Baker	72
	The Slow Pacific Swell	72
	The Marriage	74
	On a View of Pasadena from the Hills	75
	The Journey	78
	A Vision	80
	To a Young Writer	82
	By the Road to the Air-Base	83
	Elegy on a Young Airedale Bitch Lost Some Years Since in the Salt-Marsh	84
	Midas	84
	Sonnet to the Moon	85
	The Anniversary	86
	Before Disaster	86
	The Prince	87
	Phasellus Ille	88
	Orpheus	88
	On the Death of Senator Thomas J. Walsh	89
	Dedication for a Book of Criticism	90
	A Leave-Taking	91
	On Teaching the Young	91
	Chiron	91
	Heracles	92
	Alcmena	94
	Theseus: A Trilogy	95
	Socrates	99
	To Edwin V. McKenzie	101
	To a Woman on Her Defense of Her Brother Unjustly Convicted of Murder	102
	To David Lamson	103
	John Day, Frontiersman	104
	John Sutter	105
	The California Oaks	106
	On Rereading a Passage from John Muir	108
	The Manzanita	109
	Sir Gawainc and the Green Knight	109
	An October Nocturne	111
	A Spring Serpent	112
	Much in Little	112
	The Cremation	112
	An Elegy	114
	Time and the Garden	115
	To a Portrait of Melville in My Library	116
	A Prayer for My Son	117
	In Praise of California Wines	118
	A Summer Commentary	119
	On the Portrait of a Scholar of the Italian Renaissance	120
	A Dedication in Postscript	120
	A Winter Evening	121
	Summer Noon: 1941	122
	To a Military Rifle 1942	122
	For the Opening of the William Dinsmore Briggs Room	124
	Moonlight Alert	124
	Defense of Empire	125
	Night of Battle	126
	An Ode on the Despoilers of Learning in an American University, 1947	126
	To Herman Melville in 1951	128
	To the Holy Spirit	128
	A Fragment	130
	A Song in Passing	130
	To the Moon	131
	At the San Francisco Airport	131
	Two Old-Fashioned Songs	133
	To Herbert Dean Meritt	135
	"Aere Caliginoso"	136
	A White Spiritual	137
	The Brink of Darkness	138
	Biographical Note	153
	Note on the Texts	157
	Notes	159
	Index of Titles and First Lines	162