Contents -- 1 -- Vision at Dawn -- Refrain -- The Pure Gift -- The Final Exam -- Fleur-de-Lys -- The View -- The Comb-Bearers -- Dead Reckoning -- Hope -- 2 -- The Frame -- The Neighbor's Garden -- Alice -- The Lady Slipper -- Cleome -- Ronsard's Dream -- Out of the Astral Air -- Obsession -- In Late November -- The Everlastings -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Jealous Man -- Curses -- The Widower's Journey -- Old Wives' Tale -- 3 -- The Glass House -- The Sleeping Messenger -- The Good Doctors -- Psalm of Pernett du Gillet -- An Icon Drawn in Wax on Cloth -- The Clockmaker -- The Clock at Wells Cathedral -- Omega -- He Makes His Mark -- Lullaby -- 4 -- Ponte Vedra -- The Messenger -- The Suit -- Grandfather's Spectacles -- A Sense of Style -- A Friendly Visit -- Tornado, 1911 -- The Vanishing Oriole -- After Whitman's "Lincoln Speech" -- Advertisement circa 1865 -- Photographer Unknown, Neuvilly, 1918 -- Iraq -- Democracy -- The Battered Horn -- The Flood -- Corrections -- 5 -- Philosophers in a Meadow -- Eurylochus Recalls the Sirens -- The White Quill -- Old Man in Sun and Shadow -- On a Theme of Ronsard -- Heading Home -- Codicil.