Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Life And Writing -- This Edition -- Poems -- 1928-1936 -- Transition -- Mourning Dove -- Spirals -- Promise of Brilliant Funeral -- When Ecstasy is Inconvenient -- Progression -- Canvass -- For exhibition -- Tea -- Beyond what -- I heard -- Memorial Day -- Stage Directions -- Synamism -- Will You Write Me a Christmas Poem? -- Next Year or I Fly My Rounds Tempestuous -- Domestic and Unavoidable -- The President of the Holding Company -- Fancy Another Day Gone -- News -- 1936-1945 -- O Let's Glee Glow As We Go -- Troubles to win -- A country's economics sick -- Lady in the Leopard Coat -- Jim Poor's his name -- Scuttle up the workshop, -- There was A Bridge Once That Said I'm Going -- When do we live again Ann, -- Missus Dorra -- No retiring summer stroke -- To war they kept -- Petrou his name was sorrow -- The eleventh of progressional -- Young girl to marry, -- I spent my money -- Trees over the roof -- New Goose -- Don't shoot the rail! -- Bombings -- Hop press -- Ash woods, willow, close to shore, -- The music, lady, -- For sun and moon and radio -- She had tumult of the brain -- My coat threadbare -- Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths? -- Not feeling well, my wood uncut. -- Remember my little granite pail? -- A lawnmower's one of the babies I'd have -- My man says the wind blows from the south, -- Du Bay -- I'm a sharecropper -- Here it gives the laws for fishing thru the ice- -- On Columbus Day he set out for the north -- Black Hawk held: In reason -- We know him-Law and Order League- -- The clothesline post is set -- I said to my head, Write something. -- Grampa's got his old age pension, -- There's a better shine -- The museum man! -- That woman!-eyeing houses. -- Hand Crocheted Rug -- They came at a pace.

I doubt I'll get silk stockings out -- To see the man who took care of our stock -- A monster owl -- Gen. Rodimstev's story/(Stalingrad) -- Birds' mating-fight -- From my bed I see -- Asa Gray wrote Increase Lapham: -- Pioneers -- Well, spring overflows the land, -- Audubon -- Van Gogh -- What a woman!-hooks men like rugs, -- The brown muskrat, noiseless, -- The broad-leaved Arrow-head -- "New Goose" Manuscript -- To a Maryland editor, 1943: -- Summer's away, I traded my chicks for trees -- She was a mourner too. Now she's gone -- Seven years a charming woman wore -- The land of four o'clocks is here -- Just before she died -- Brought the enemy down -- Nothing nourishing, -- The number of Britons killed -- Old Hamilton hailed the man from the grocery store: -- Motor cars -- Allied Convoy/Reaches Russia -- Depression years -- Coopered at Fish Creek, -- A working man appeared in the street -- Woman with Umbrella -- Automobile Accident -- Look, the woods, the sky, our home. -- Coming out of Sleep -- Voyageurs -- I walked/from Chicago to Big Bull Falls (Wausau), -- See the girls in shorts on their bicycles -- When Johnny (Chapman) Appleseed -- Tell me a story about the war. -- Poet Percival said: I struck a lode -- Terrible things coming up, -- 1937 -- Their apples fall down -- The government men said Don't plant wheat, -- 1945-1956 -- New! -- (L.Z.) -- Chimney Sweep -- Swept snow, Li Po, -- Regards to Mr. Glover -- Sunday's motor-cars -- Let's play a game. -- Lugubre for a child -- Could You Be Right -- Look close -- If I were a bird -- High, lovely, light, -- Letter from Paul -- Two old men- -- Paul, hello -- So this was I -- Am I real way out in space -- On a row of cabins/next my home -- In moonlight lies -- The cabin door flew open -- The elegant office girl -- When brown folk lived a distance.

For Paul and Other Poems -- For Paul -- Paul -- What bird would light -- Nearly landless and on the way to water -- Understand me, dead is nothing -- How bright you'll find young people, -- If he is of constant depth -- The young ones go away to school -- Some have chimes -- O Tannenbaum -- In the great snowfall before the bomb -- Not all that's heard is music. We leave -- Tell me a story about the war. -- Laval, Pomeret, Pétain -- Thure Kumlien -- Shut up in woods -- Your father to me in your eighth summer: -- To Paul now old enough to read: -- What horror to awake at night -- Sorrow moves in wide waves, -- Jesse James and his brother Frank -- May you have lumps in your mashed potatoes -- Old Mother turns blue and from us, -- I hear the weather -- Dead -- Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt? -- Ten o'clock -- Adirondack Summer -- The slip of a girl-announcer: -- Now go to the party, -- Dear Paul: -- My father said "I remember -- You know, he said, they used to make -- He built four houses -- In Europe they grow a new bean while here -- Paul/when the leaves -- I've been away from poetry -- I am sick with the Time's buying sickness. -- The death of my poor father -- To Aeneas who closed his piano -- My friend the black and white collie -- "Oh ivy green -- As I shook the dust -- They live a cool distance -- Violin Debut -- Other Poems -- Horse, hello -- Energy glows at the lips- -- Hi, Hot-and-Humid -- Woman in middle life -- We physicians watch the juices rise -- 1937 -- European Travel/(Nazi New Order) -- Depression years -- So you're married, young man, -- She grew where every spring -- I sit in my own house -- On hearing/the wood pewee -- Along the river -- He moved in light -- Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance -- He lived-childhood summers -- I rose from marsh mud, -- Dear Mona, Mary and all.

Don't tell me property is sacred! -- Wartime -- February almost March bites the cold. -- People, people- -- July, waxwings -- Old man who seined -- Mother is dead -- The graves -- Kepler -- Bonpland -- Happy New Year -- 1957-1959 -- Linnaeus in Lapland -- Fog-thick morning- -- Hear -- Cricket-song- -- Musical Toys -- I fear this war -- Van Gogh could see -- No matter where you are -- How white the gulls -- Springtime's wide -- White -- Dusk- -- Beautiful girl- -- New-sawed -- My friend tree -- 1960-1964 -- In Leonardo's light -- You are my friend- -- Come In -- The men leave the car -- The wild and wavy event -- Florida -- My life is hung up -- Easter -- Get a load -- Poet's work -- Property is poverty- -- Now in one year -- River-marsh-drowse -- Club -- To foreclose -- To my small/electric pump -- T. E. Lawrence -- As I paint the street -- Art Center -- Homemade/Handmade Poems -- Consider at the outset: -- Ah your face -- Alcoholic dream -- To my pres-/sure pump -- Laundromat -- March -- Something in the water -- Santayana's -- If only my friend -- Frog noise/suddenly stops -- In the transcendence -- To whom -- Margaret Fuller -- Watching dan-/cers on skates -- Hospital Kitchen -- Chicory flower/on campus -- Fall ("Early morning corn") -- LZ's -- Letter from Ian -- Some float off on chocolate bars -- I knew a clean man -- Scythe -- So he said/on radio -- I visit/the graves -- For best work -- The obliteration -- Spring -- The park/"a darling walk/for the mind" -- Who was Mary Shelley? -- Wild strawberries -- 1965-1967 -- Autumn -- Last night the trash barrel -- The boy tossed the news -- Popcorn-can cover -- Truth -- Lights, lifts -- O late fall -- Churchill's death -- The Badlands -- A student -- Bird singing -- Easter Greeting -- City Talk -- As praiseworthy -- They've lost their leaves.

My mother saw the green tree toad -- Tradition -- Autumn Night -- Sky -- Nothing to speak of -- Swedenborg -- I lost you to water, summer -- I married -- You see here -- Your erudition -- Alone -- Why can't I be happy -- And what you liked -- Cleaned all surfaces -- Young in Fall I said: the birds -- North Central -- Lake Superior -- In every part of every living thing -- Iron the common element of earth -- Radisson: -- (The long/canoes) -- Through all this granite land -- And at the blue ice superior spot -- Joliet -- Ruby of corundum -- Wild Pigeon -- Schoolcraft left the Soo-canoes -- Inland then -- The smooth black stone -- I'm sorry to have missed -- My Life by Water -- Traces of Living Things -- Museum -- Far reach -- TV -- We are what the seas -- What cause have you -- Stone -- The eye -- For best work -- Smile -- Fall ("We must pull") -- Years -- Unsurpassed in beauty -- Human bean -- High class human -- Ah your face -- Sewing a dress -- I walked/on New Year's Day -- J.F. Kennedy after/the Bay of Pigs -- Mergansers -- "Shelter" -- Wintergreen Ridge -- 1968-1970 -- Paean to Place -- Alliance -- Basho ̄-- The man of law -- Not all harsh sounds displease- -- Jefferson and Adams -- Katharine Anne -- War -- Harpsichord & Salt Fish -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Ballad of Basil -- Wilderness -- Consider -- Otherwise -- Nursery Rhyme -- Three Americans -- Poems At The Porthole -- Blue and white -- The soil is poor -- Michelangelo -- Wallace Stevens -- Subliminal -- Sleep's dream -- Waded, watched, warbled -- Illustrated night clock's -- Honest -- Night -- LZ -- Peace -- Thomas Jefferson Inside -- Foreclosure -- His Carpets Flowered -- Darwin -- Prose and Radio Plays -- 1937 -- Uncle -- 1951-1952 -- Switchboard Girl -- The evening's automobiles -- As I Lay Dying -- From Taste And Tenderness -- Notes and Contents Lists -- Notes.

Contents Lists That Differ from Order in This Volume.