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| adam_text | Titel: Bd. 1. Collected poems. 1952 - 1993
Autor: Merwin, William S
Jahr: 2013
W. S. Merwin
COLLECTED POEMS 1952-1993
J. D. McClatchy, editor
Contents
THE FIRST FOUR BOOKS OF POEMS
A Mask for Janus (1952)
Anabasis (I), 5
Anabasis (II), 7
Rimc of the Palmers, 10
Bailad of John Cable and Threc Gcntlemcn, 14
Meng Tzu s Song, 17
Blind William s Song, 18
For a Dissolving Music, 20
Half Roundel, 21
A Dance of Death, 22
Variation on a Line by Emerson, 2+
Ovcr the Bier of the Worldling, 26
Epitaph on Certain Schismatics, 26
Suspicor SpccuJum, 27
Epitaph, 27
Ode: The Medusa Face, 27
Festival, 28
Dictum: For a Masque of Deluge, 29
The Boncs of Palinurus Pray to the North Star, 31
Scstina, 31
Herons, 32
Song with the Eyes Closed, 34
Canciön y Glosa, 34
Carol, 36
Carol of the Three Kings, 37
Carol, 38
A Poem for Dorothy, 39
Hermione on Simulacra, 39
Song, 41
Song, 42
The Dancing Bears (1954)
Tower, 45
Runes for a Round Table, 47
vii
VÜi CONTENTS
The Lady with the Heran, 49
When I Came from Colchis, 51
You, Genoese Mariner, 52
Fable, 53
The Passion, 55
Margery s Song, $7
Song of the Mad Menagerie, 58
Song of Marvels, 59
Song of Three Smiles, 60
Song of the New Fool, 61
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 62
On the Subject of Poetry, 75
Proteus, 76
Colloquy at Peniel, 78
December: Of Aphrodite, 79
Canso, 80
Canso, 84
Canso, 91
Green with Beasts (1956)
To Dido, 97
Part One, Physiologus: Chapters for a Bestiary
Leviathan, 99
Bluc Cockcrcl, 100
Two Horses, 101
Dog, 102
White Goat, White Ram, 104
Part Two
The Bathers, 109
The Wilderness, 109
The Wakening, 110
The Prodigal Son, 110
The Annunciation, 114
The Mountain, 120
Saint Sebastian, 124
The Isaiah of Souillac, 124
The Station, 125
The Master, 127
Tobacco, 129
Burning the Cat, 130
CONTENTS IX
Dog Dreaming, 131
Backwater Pond: The Canoeists, 131
River Sound Remembered, 132
After the Flood, 132
In the Heart of Europe, 133
A Sparrow Sheltering Under a Column of the
British Museum, 134
Learning a Dead Language, 135
Three Faces, 136
HerWisdom, 137
The Sapphire, 138
Thorn Leaves in March, 139
Low Fields and Light, 140
Birds Waking, 141
Part Three
Evening with Lee Shore and ClifFs, 144
The Fishcrmcn, 144
Two Paintings by Alfred Wallis, 144
Senility Cay, 145
Fog, 146
The Shipwrcck, 147
The Eyes of the Drowned Watch Keels Going Over, 148
Mariners Carol, 149
The Drunk in the Furnace (i960)
Odysscus, 153
The Icebcrg, 153
Foghorn, 154
Deception Island, 155
SeaWife, 156
The Frozen Sea, 156
Sailor Ashore, 157
The Portland Going Out, 158
Sea Monster, 159
Cape Dread, 160
Bell Buoy, 162
The Bones, 163
The Highway, 164
Fable, 165
Luther, 165
CONTENTS
Bucolic, 166
Under the Old One, 166
No One, 167
In a Cloud of Hands, 168
In Stony Country, 169
CatullusXI, 169
Summer, 170
Some Winter Sparrows, 171
Plea for a Captive, 173
Choiceof Prides, 173
TheClimb, 174
Blind Girl, 175
One-Eye, 176
Small Woman on Swallow Street, 178
The Gleaners, 179
Pool Room in the Iions Club, 180
John Otto, 180
Uncle Hess, 181
Grandfather in the Old Men s Home, 182
Grandmother Watching at Her Window, 183
Grandmothcr Dying, 183
The Nativc, 185
Burning Mountain, 187
Grandmother and Grandson, 188
The Hotel-Keepers, 189
The Drunk in the Furnace, 191
THE SECOND FOUR BOOKS OF POEMS
Preface, 194
The Moving Target (1963)
Home for Thanksgiving, 201
A Letter from Gussie, 202
Lemuel s Blessing, 204
By Day and By Night, 206
In the Gorgc, 207
Separation, 207
The Defeated, 207
Noah s Ravcn, 207
CONTENTS XI
As By Water, 208
Things, 208
Savonarola, 209
Inscription for a Burned Bridge, 209
Economy, 209
Lost Month, 209
Dead Hand, 210
Acclimatization, 210
The Saint of the Uplands, 211
The Nails, 212
Sire, 213
Finally, 214
The Ships Are Made Ready in Silence, 215
Route with No Number, 216
To My Brother Hanson, 218
In the Night Fields, 220
Now and Again, 221
Anothcr Year Come, 222
Octobcr, 222
Dcparture s Girl-Friend, 223
One Way, 224
Rccognition, 225
Invocation, 226
The Poem, 226
SccondSight, 226
Witnesscs, 228
The Indigestion of the Vampirc, 228
The Singer, 229
The Continuo, 230
Vocations, 231
Air, 231
The Present, 232
Standards, 233
From a Series, 234
Brcad and Butter, 235
We Continuc, 235
Marica Lart, 236
Reunion, 236
Walk-Up, 237
To Where We Are, 238
XÜ CONTENTS
The Crossroads of the World Etc., 239
Resolution, 242
BeforeThat, 244
For the Grave of Posterity, 245
This Day of This Month of This Year of This, 245
The Way to the River, 248
She Who Was Gone, 250
My Friends, 251
The Man Who Writes Ants, 252
The Next, 253
The Students of Justice, 255
An Island in the Harbor, 256
Mountain Town, 256
For Now, 257
Spring, 263
Daybreak, 264
TheLice (1967)
The Animals, 267
Is That What You Are, 267
The Hydra, 268
Some Last Questions, 269
An End in Spring, 270
I Live Up Here, 270
The Last One, 271
Unfinished Book of Kings, 273
It Is March, 277
Bread at Midnight, 277
Caesar, 278
Pieces for Other Lives, 279
The Moths, 280
Whenever I Go There, 281
Wish, 282
The Wave, 282
News of the Assassin, 283
April, 284
The Gods, 284
The River of Bees, 285
The Widow, 286
CONTENTS xüi
Looking Fast at Night, 287
The Child, 288
A Debt, 289
The Piaster, 290
In Autumn, 291
Crows on the North Slope, 291
New Moon in November, 292
December Night, 292
After the Solstice, 292
December Among the Vanished, 293
Glimpse of the ke, 293
The Cold Betöre the Moonrise, 294
Early January, 294
The Room, 294
Dusk in Winter, 294
A Scale in May, 295
Evening, 296
The Dream Again, 296
How We Are Spared, 296
The Dragonfly, 296
Provision, 297
The Herds, 297
The Mourner, 297
For the Anniversary of My Death, 298
Divinities, 299
The Dry Stone Mason, 299
In the Winter of My Thirty-Eighth Year, 300
When You Go Away, 301
The Asians Dying, 301
When the War Is Over, 302
Peasant, 302
For a Coming Extinction, 304
In a Clearing, 305
Avoiding News by the River, 306
Death of a Favorite Bird, 307
Fly, 307
The Finding of Reasons, 308
Come Back, 309
Watchers, 309
xiv CONTENTS
My Brothers the Silent, 310
In One of the Retreats of Morning, 311
Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise, 311
The Carrier of Ladders (1970)
Plane, 315
Teachers, 315
TheOwl, 316
The Different Stars, 317
The Dcad Hive, 318
The Mountains, 319
The Bridgcs, 320
The Hands, 321
Do Not Die, 321
Words from a Totem Animal, 322
Animula, 325
Quince, 326
The Judgment of Paris, 326
Edouard, 329
Not These Hills, 330
The Piper, 330
The Lake, 331
The Church, 332
A Calm in April, 333
The Birds on the Morning of Going, 333
Envoy from D Aubigne, 334
Encounter, 336
The Well, 336
Lark, 337
The Black Plateau, 338
The Approaches, 340
The Wheels of the Trains, 341
Lackawanna, 341
Othcr Travelers to the River, 343
The Trail into Kansas, 343
Western Country, 344
The Gardensof Zuni, 345
Homeland, 346
February, 346
Huckleberry Woman, 347
CONTENTS
Little Horse, 348
The Port, 348
President«, 349
The Free, 350
The Prints, 351
The Removal, 351
The Old Room, 353
The Night of the Shirts, 355
Shoe Repairs, 356
Agc, 356
Laughtcr, 357
Snowfall, 357
Banishment in Winter, 358
Footprints on the Glacier, 359
Tale, 360
Füll Moonlight in Spring, 360
Night Wind, 360
Midnight in Early Spring, 361
As Though I Was Waiting for That, 361
The Plumbing, 362
Bcginning of the Plains, 363
Ascent, 364
The Hulk, 365
Fear, 366
Pilate, 369
Shorc, 371
Psalm: Our Fathers, 372
CuckooMyth, 376
Second Psalm: The Signals, 378
The Pens, 379
The Forbears, 380
Voice, 380
Last People, 381
Third Psalm: The September Vision, 382
After the Harvests, 384
Now It Is Clear, 384
Man with One Leaf in October Night, 385
Woman from the River, 385
Latc Night in Autumn, 385
Still Afternoon Light, 386
xvi CONTENTS
Kin, 386
Memory of Spring, 386
Signs, 387
The Paw, 389
TheThread, 391
The Blessing, 392
Beginning, 393
The First Darkness, 393
The Chaff, 394
Fourth Psalm: The Cerements, 394
The Web, 396
Letter, 397
Inscription Facing Western Sea, 399
The Sadness, 399
The Calling Undcr the Breath, 399
Sunset After Rain, 400
Elegy, 400
In the Time of the Blossoms, 400
Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment (1973)
Early One Summer, 403
Eyes of Summer, 403
End of Summer, 403
The Distances, 404
Looking Back, 404
Song of Man Chipping an Arrowhead, 404
The Silence Before Harvest, 405
CatGhosts, 405
Letter to the Heart, 405
Memory of the Loss of Wings, 406
The Old Boast, 406
The Day, 406
The Clear Skies, 406
To Be Sung While Still Looking, 407
Under the Migrants, 408
On the Silent Anniversary of a Reunion, 409
On Each Journey, 409
Beyond You, 410
TheirWeek, 410
Old Flag, 411
CONTENTS XVll
The Current, 411
Something I ve Not Done, 412
Tool, 413
Bread, 413
Habits, 414
A Door, 415
A Door, 416
A Door, 418
A Door, 418
Surf-Casting, 419
At the Same Time, 420
TheWharf, 420
Beggars and Kings, 421
The Unwritten, 422
Spring, 423
The Place of Backs, 423
Division, 423
A Purgatory, 424
The Chase, 425
A Wood, 426
Nomad Songs, 426
The Diggers, 427
Ash, 428
Animals from Mountains, 428
Sibyl, 429
Who It Is, 430
Mist, 431
Under Black Leaves, 431
A Sickness at the Equinox, 432
Wartung a Soul in the South, 433
Horses, 434
Ship, 434
Words, 435
One Time, 435
TheWayAhead, 435
Summits, 437
To the Hand, 437
FolkArt, 438
The Second Time, 438
Exercise, 439
XVÜi CONTENTS
Instructions to Four Walls, 440
In the Life of Dust, 441
A Flea s Carrying Words, 442
When the Horizon Is Gone, 443
The Lantern, 444
Apparition, 445
ANumber, 446
Dogs, 446
The War, 447
The Water of the Suns, 447
A Prayer of the Eyes, 448
The Cry, 449
By the Cloud Path, 450
AHollow, 451
For Saying That It Won t Matter, 451
Foreword, 452
Finding a Teacher, 453
The Palacc, 454
Ballade of Sayings, 454
To the Rain, 456
The Dreamers, 4S6
September, 457
Flies, 458
The Writing on a Fallen Leaf, 459
South, 459
Span, 459
Meeting, 460
History of Alchemy, 460
The Initiate, 461
The Search, 462
Glass, 462
Travcling, 463
The Track, 464
Peru, 464
The Sleeping Mountain, 465
Gift, 466
CONTENTS
FLOWER HAND
The Compass Flower (1977)
I
The Heart, 471
The Wine, 472
The Drive Home, 472
The Next Moon, 473
The Snow, 474
The Arrival, 474
Apples, 475
An Encampment at Morning, 476
Migration, 476
November, 476
The Horse, 477
A Contemporary, 477
Fishing, 478
Guardians, 478
Fate, 479
On the Mountain, 480
Vision, 480
The Delugc, 480
Robin, 481
II
City, 483
Line, 483
The Estuary, 484
The Rock, 484
The Counting Houses, 485
The Helmsmcn, 486
Numbered Apartment, 487
St. Vincent s, 489
The Shuttles, 491
III
The Vineyard, 493
Crossing Place, 493
Summer Night on the Stone Barrens, 494
September Plowing, 494
Working into Autumn, 495
Memory of Summer Facing West, 495
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The Love for October, 496
Autumn Evening, 496
Köre, 497
Passage, 502
In the Pass, 503
Spring Equinox Füll Moon, 503
The Morning, 505
Summer Doorway, 505
The Hosts, 506
Islands, 506
Mountain Day, 507
Snowline, 507
Twilight, 508
Late Snow, 508
June Rain, 509
White Summer Flower, 509
Trees, 510
Grass Beginning July, 510
IV
The Coin, 513
Ferry Port, 514
The Banquet, 515
Service, 516
Somc of the Masts, 516
North Wind, 517
Island, 517
Junction, 518
Remcmbering a Boatman, 519
Assembly, 519
Old Garden, 520
The Fig Tree, 521
The Windows, 521
The Falcons, 522
TheTresde, 522
Talk of Fortune, 523
The Fountain, 524
Sun, 524
The Flight, 525
CONTENTS xxi
FEATHERS FROM THE HlLL (1978)
Time of Tree Cutting, 529
Summer Canyon, 530
Sound of Rapids of Laramie River in Late August, 536
Fireweed, 536
In the Red Mountains, 539
Road, 541
Island City, 541
By the Mango Trees, 545
Warm Pastures, 546
Sheep Clouds, 549
Opening the Hand (1983)
I
The Waters, 555
The Oars, 555
Sunset Water, 556
The Waving of a Hand, 556
Strawberries, 557
A Pause by the Water, 558
Son, 559
Sun and Rain, 559
The Houses, 560
Apparitions, 564
Birdie, 566
The Burnt Child, 567
Yesterday, 568
Talking, 570
After a Storm, 570
The Cart, 572
Photograph, 573
Unknown Forebear, 573
A Family, 575
II
Shaving Without a Mirror, 577
Visitation, 578
The Red House, 578
Tidal Lagoon, 579
Green Water Tower, 579
CONTENTS
High Water, 580
Line of Trees, 580
A House to the West, 581
The Cow, 581
Questions to Tourists Stopped by a Pineapple Field, 583
The Briefcase, 586
LateWonders, 587
Going, 588
Standing Nowhere, 588
Coming Back in the Spring, 588
Happens Every Day, 590
Sheridan, 591
The Fields, 594
III
Palm, 596
The Shore, 596
The Night Surf, 597
The Quoit, 597
The Middle of Summer, 598
James, 599
Berryman, 599
ABirthday, 601
The Sea Cliffs at Kailua in December, 601
Ali, 602
The School on the Roof, 604
Going from the Green Window, 604
TheTruthof Departure, 605
One Night, 606
Emigrc, 606
What Is Modern, 608
Direction, 609
The New Season, 610
Hearing, 611
The Black Jewel, 613
THE RAIN IN THE TREES (1988)
Late Spring, 617
West Wall, 617
The First Year, 618
CONTENTS
Native Trees, 618
Touching the Tree, 619
Night Above the Avenue, 620
Now Renting, 621
Glasscs, 622
Shadow Passing, 624
History, 624
Notes from a Journey, 626
Pastures, 630
After School, 632
Empty Water, 634
Rain at Night, 635
Waking to the Rain, 635
The Salt Pond, 636
Summer 82, 637
Bcfore Us, 638
The Sound of the Light, 639
Sky in September, 640
Annivcrsary on the Island, 641
Sight, 641
The Solstice, 642
Coming to the Morning, 643
Bcing Early, 643
Travclling Togcthcr, 644
The Inevitable Lightncss, 644
The Crust, 645
Memcntos, 646
Print Fallen Out of Somcwhcre, 646
Utterance, 647
Paper, 648
Thanks, 648
At the Same Time, 649
Coming to Hear, 650
To the Insccts, 651
After the Alphabets, 652
The Superstition, 652
The Overpass, 653
Snow, 653
For the Departure of a Stcpson, 654
XXIV CONTENTS
Airport, 655
Liberty, 656
Journey, 657
Memory, 658
The Duck, 659
Hearing the Names of the Valleys, 659
The Strangers from the Horizon, 660
Conqueror, 661
Native, 662
Place, 663
Witness, 663
Chord, 664
Losing a Language, 664
The Lost Originals, 666
Term, 667
Kanaloa, 668
The Horizons of Rooms, 669
Knock, 671
The Biology of Art, 671
The Archaic Maker, 672
Tracing the Letters, 672
The Rose Beetle, 673
TRAVELS (1993)
Cover Note, 677
The Blind Seer of Ambon, 678
Manini, 680
Writing Lives, 683
The Hill of Evening, 684
Barn, 687
Rimbaud s Piano, 688
Among Beils, 692
Search Party, 695
Missing, 696
Paul, 698
Kites, 699
A Distance, 701
The Morning Train, 702
Fulfilment, 703
CONTENTS XXV
The Lost Camellia of the Bartrams, 706
After Douglas, 708
Cinchona, 710
Inheritance, 716
The Day Itself, 719
Lives of the Artists, 723
Panes, 730
The Wars in New Jersey, 733
A Short Nap on the Way, 734
The Moment of Green, 736
The River, 742
SoFar, 743
The Palms, 744
Immortelles, 746
Field Mushrooms, 747
Lunar Landscape, 748
Looking Up, 749
For the Year, 749
The Real World of Manuel Cördova, 751
Another Place, 767
One Story, 776
Rain Travel, 778
On the Back of the Boarding Pass, 778
Last Morning at Punta Arena, 779
Mirage, 779
On the Old Way, 780
Left Open, 781
Stone Village, 781
Turning, 782
A Summer Night, 782
After the Spring, 783
UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1955-1987)
Camel(i955), 787
Several Distiches about an Occasion (1955), 789
Northeast October( 1956), 790
Mercy(i957), 790
The Miner (1957), 791
CoalBarges(i957), 792
XXVI CONTENTS
Rimer, Penna. (1957), 792
On aSacrifice of Darkness (1959), 793
Views from the High Camp (1962), 794
Esther (1968), 795
The Borrowers (1970), 796
In Winter Silence (1973), 797
A Root (1974), 798
Demonstration (1974), 798
A Last Look (1987), 799
Chronology, 803
Note on the Texts, 819
Notes, 823
Index qfPoem Titles and First Lines, 835
W. S. Merwin
COLLECTED POEMS 1996-2011
J. D. McClatchy, editor
Contents
The Vixen (1996)
Fox Sleep, 3
OakTime, 5
Gate, 6
Threshold, 6
The West Window, 7
Authority, 7
Walkers, 8
III Wind, 9
Net, 9
Garden, 10
Letters, 10
Commemoratives, 11
White Morning, 12
Color Merchants, 12
Entry, 13
Forgotten Streams, 14
Present, 14
Passing, 15
The Bird, 15
Returning Season, 16
Endof a Day, 16
Other Time, 17
Francois de Maynard 1582-1646, 17
Hölderlin at the River, 19
In the Doorway, 19
One of the Lives, 20
Night Singing, 20
Untouched, 21
Romanesque, 21
Dry Ground, 22
Battues, 23
Snake, 23
Vehicles, 24
Late, 24
Season, 25
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VÜi CONTENTS
Emergence, 25
The Speed of Light, 26
OldQuestion, 27
One Time, 27
Peire Vidal, 28
The View, 28
Old Walls, 29
The Furrow, 30
The Time Before, 30
Portrait, 30
Possessions, 31
Legacies, 32
The Red, 33
Completion, 33
Passing, 34
Substance, 34
The Shortest Night, 35
A Taste, 36
Upland House, 36
Bodies of Water, 37
After Fires, 38
Thread, 39
The Cisterns, 40
Ancestral Voices, 40
Old Sound, 41
Green Fields, 41
Distant Morning, 42
Vixen, 43
A Given Day, 43
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (1998), 45
Climbing, 50
The Mountain, 76
Born, 105
There, 136
The Cliffs, 206
The Shore, 245
The River Sound (1999)
Ceremony After an Amputation, 287
The Stranger, 288
CONTENTS IX
The Gardens of Versailles, 290
Chorus, 291
What Is a Garden, 292
A Night Fragrance, 293
Night Turn, 293
Before a Departure in Spring, 294
Remembering, 294
Another River, 294
Echoing Light, 295
Returns After Dark, 296
227 Waverly Place, 297
SixthFloorWalk-Up, 298
Legend, 298
Clear Water, 300
Harm s Way, 301
Whoever You Are, 302
The Causeway, 302
The Chinese Mountain Fox, 304
The Old Year, 307
Lament for the Makers, 309
Suite in the Key of Forgetting, 316
Testimony, 325
Inauguration, 377
A Claim, 378
That Music, 379
The Wren, 379
Syllables, 380
Wanting to See, 380
Orioles, 380
Jeanne Duval, 381
Sheep Passing, 383
Moissac, 383
SeedTime, 384
Frame, 384
Shore Birds, 385
Waves in August, 386
Travelling West at Night, 387
This Time, 387
The Notes, 388
Left Hand, 389
Late GlimDse. *89
CONTENTS
Accompanimcnt, 390
FieldNotc, 390
The String, 390
The Pupil (2001)
Prophecy, 395
The Comet Museum, 395
Sonnet, 396
The Time ofShadow, 396
TheHoursofDarkness, 397
Flights in the Dark, 399
The Marfa Iights, 400
Migrants by Night, 402
In the Opcn, 403
Overtone, 405
Fircs in Childhood, 405
GlassySea, 406
The Moment, 407
AnyTime, 407
Far Company, 408
Aliens, 408
Mid-Air Mirror, 409
ATerm, 410
Unspoken Greeting, 410
The Open Land, 411
Before the Flood, 411
ACalling, 412
Remcmbering the Signs, 412
Lit in Passing, 413
At Night Before Spring, 414
One Night in April, 415
Unknown Bird, 415
Daylight, 417
Worn, 417
Downstream, 418
Before the May Fair, 418
Once in Spring, 419
The Veil of May, 420
The Youth of Animals, 421
The Hollow in the Stone, 422
CONTENTS
Late Song, 422
The Sourcc, 423
First Sight, 424
First of June, 424
Unsccn Touch, 425
The Summer, 425
The Black Virgin, 426
To the Spiders of This Room, 426
Above the Long Field, 427
Under the Day, 428
Simon s Vision, 428
Wings, 429
A Morning in Autumn, 430
The Night Plums, 431
In the Old Vincyard, 431
Just Now, 432
To a Friend Who Kccps Tclling Mc That He Has
Lost His Memory, 433
Planh for the Death of Ted Hughes, 434
ACollcction, 434
A Death in the Dcsert, 435
Calling Late, 435
One of the Laws, 436
Star, 437
Fcast Day, 438
Good Peoplc, 439
The Fcnce, 439
The Sleepcr, 440
In Time, 441
Through a Glass, 442
Before Morning, 442
Earlicr, 443
Memorandum, 444
To Echo, 445
The Wild, 445
Transit, 446
Usagc, 447
Home Tundra, 448
Monologue, 449
The Name of the Air, 449
XÜ CONTENTS
To Maoli as the Year Ends, 450
TheFlightofLanguage, 450
Heights, 450
This January, 451
Present Company (2005)
To This May, 455
To the Soul, 455
To a Reflection, 456
To the Face in the Mirror, 456
ToWairing, 457
To Impatience, 458
ToAge, 459
To Lingering Regrets, 460
To My Teeth, 461
To the Ancient Order of Legs, 462
To My Legs, 463
To the Tongue, 464
To the Gift of Sight, 464
To the Corner of the Eye, 466
To the Shadow, 467
To Another William, 467
To History, 468
To the Unlikely Event, 469
To a Departing Companion, 470
To Lili s Walk, 471
To a Friend Travelling, 471
To the Sorrow String, 472
To____________, 472
To the Consolations of Philosophy, 473
To Grief, 474
ToAbsence, 475
To the Knife, 476
To Prose, 477
To Duty, 478
To Billy s Car, 479
To the Present Visitors, 480
To the Present Tertse, 481
To the Air, 481
To Muku Dreaming, 482
CONTENTS xüi
To the Dust of the Road, 483
To That Stretch ofCanal, 484
To the Blue Stork, 484
To the Sound of the Gate, 485
To the Stone Paddock by the Far Barn, 486
To a Few Cherries, 488
To My Mother, 488
To My Grandfathers, 489
To My Aunt Margie, 490
To My Father s Houses, 490
To My Brother, 491
To Micky, 492
To Doris, 493
To the Old, 493
To the Dog Stars, 495
To the Tray Dancers, 495
To the Mistakes, 497
To Luck, 498
To the Blank Spaces, 499
To the Morning (1), 499
To Monday, 500
To the Long Table, 501
To the Margin, 502
To the Middle, 502
To the Next Time, 503
To the Light of September, 504
To the Words, 505
To the Grass of Autumn, 506
To Ashes, 507
To Zbigniew Herbert s Bicycle, 508
To the Coming Winter, 509
To the Smell of Water, 509
To the Beginning of Rain, 510
To a Mosquito, 511
To Glass, 512
To Purity, 513
ToSalt, 514
To the Lightning, 515
To the Escape of Light, 516
To a Leaf Falling in Winter, 517
xiv CONTENTS
TotheFire, 517
To Smoke, 518
To Forgetting, 519
To the Wires Overhead, 520
To a Tortoiscshell Lyre, 521
To the Gods, 522
To the Veil, 523
To the Way Back, 524
To the Thief at the Airport, 525
To the Afterlife, 526
To Finding Again, 527
To the Surgeon Kevin Lin, 528
To Days of Winter, 529
To a Friend Turning Fifty, 529
To Being Late, 530
To the Morning (2), 531
To the Moss, 532
To an Old Acacia, 532
To the Story, 533
To a Dormouse, 534
To the Parting Year, 535
To the New Year, 536
To the Unfinished, 536
To Paula, 537
ToMyself, 538
To the Happy Few, 538
To the Book, 539
The Shadow of Sirius (2008)
The Nomad Flute, 543
Blueberries After Dark, 543
Still Morning, 544
By the Avenue, 545
Note, 545
Accompaniment, 546
Without Knowing, 546
The Song of the Trolleys, 547
From the Start, 548
Far Along in the Story, 548
ThePinnacle. 549
CONTENTS XV
Child Light, 550
Empty Lot, 551
No, 552
The Piano, 552
Secrets, 553
A Likeness, 554
Raiment, 555
Europe, 556
Photographer, 557
Traces, 558
Inheritance, 559
A Broken Glass, 560
Lament for a Stone, 561
A Note from the Cimmerians, 561
A Codex, 562
Beyond Question, 563
Youth, 564
II
By Dark, 566
Calling a Distant Animal, 566
Night with No Moon, 567
Good Night, 567
At the Bend, 568
Into the Cloud, 568
Another Dream of Burial, 569
A Ring, 569
Little Soul, 570
Trail Marker, 570
Dream of Koa Returning, 571
III
Cargo, 573
Going, 573
The Curlew, 574
Nocturne, 574
Day Without a Name, 575
Recognitions, 575
Escape Artist, 576
The Mole, 577
Eye of Shadow, 578
A Letter to Ruth Stone, 579
XVi CONTENTS
WornWords, 580
A Letter to Su Tung-p o, 580
Bashö s Child, 581
The Odds, 581
The Long and the Short of It, 582
Unknown Age, 582
My Hand, 583
What the Bridges Hear, 583
The First Days, 584
Heartland, 585
Long Afternoon Light, 586
Cave, 586
The Morning Hills, 587
Cold Spring Morning, 587
Near Field, 588
To Paula in Late Spring, 588
Youth of Grass, 589
The Silence of the Mine Canaries, 589
Walled Place Above the River, 590
A Horse Heaven, 592
One of the Butterflies, 592
Parts of a Tune, 593
Nocturne II, 593
White Note, 594
Gray Herons in the Field Above the River, 594
No Shadow, 595
The Making of Amber, 596
September s Child, 596
Remembering the Wings, 597
Shadow Hand, 597
Barrade, 598
Into October, 599
Lights Out, 599
Falling, 600
Grace Note, 600
One Valley, 601
The Old Trees on the Hill, 601
A Single Autumn, 602
Lake Shore in Half Light, 603
CONTENTS XVÜ
A Momentary Creed, 604
Rain Light, 604
Just This, 605
The Laughing Thrush, 605
New and Uncoixected Poems 1993-2011
The Stone (1993), 609
Tide Line Garden (1999), 609
Ogres (2003), 613
The Swallows (2006), 614
Known Sound (2006), 614
Why Some People Do Not Read Poetry (2009), 615
Young Man Picking Flowers (2009), 615
A Message to Po Chu-i (2010), 616
By the Front Door (2010), 617
Beginners (2010), 617
The Name of the Morning (2010), 618
The Green Fence (2010), 619
Variation on a Theme (2010), 621
Turning(20ll), 622
Urticophilia (2011), 622
The New Song (2011), 623
Chronolqgy, 627
Note on the Texts, 643
Notes, 645
Index ofPoem Titles and First Lines, 669
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