This poem index has been provided by the Sam Houston State University and is repinted here with their gracious permission. It is not current and her latest books are not indexed here. Their holdings do not completely overlap with that of the University of Iowa, but it was thought worthwhile to reproduce this index in the finding aid.
Key:
AEL An Examined Life
BMB Behind This Mortal Pone
CAS Conversations and Soliloquies
FOS In Fervor of Sun
FOSAP In Fervor of Sun and Perspectives
LW Last Words
LWR Last Words Revised (UI does not have)
SS Skyscapes
Copy refers to a holding at Sam Houston State which is not available at the University of Iowa. Copies may be available from the Special Collections Department of Sam Houston State University.
| Poem Title | Book | Page # |
| 1988 - The September Debate | Copy | |
| A City on the Hill | LWR | 53 |
| A Cry in the Dark | Copy | |
| A Damp December in Texas, 1992 | SS | 26 |
| A Democratic Society | LWR | 48 |
| A Dirge | Copy | |
| A Documented Dying | Copy | |
| A Dying Animal | CAS | 60 |
| A Fear | Copy | |
| A Grave Among the Immortals | Copy | |
| A Grief Without a Pang | Copy | |
| A Kind of Benediction | Copy | |
| A Kind of Triumph | Copy | |
| A Life-Time Supply | Copy | |
| A Modest Manifesto | Copy | |
| A Note from Leyden | Copy | |
| A Piece of Cake | Copy | |
| A Presentable Corpse | Copy | |
| A Proposal | CAS | 35 |
| A Psychic Transformation | LWR | II |
| A Remedy | Copy | |
| A Reminder | SS | 28 |
| A Reply | Copy | |
| A Takeover | LWR | 54 |
| A Thinking Reed | CAS | 61 |
| A Vision | Copy | |
| A Way of Life | Copy | |
| A Withered Daffodil (After Ben Jonson) | Copy | |
| Abdomenal | Copy | |
| Acorn falls, the milkweed sails away | BMB | 146 |
| Advancement of Learning | CAS | 132 |
| Addendum | Copy | |
| Advice to the Newborn | Copy | |
| Advise | Copy | |
| After Lives, "The Pathography Perplex | Copy | |
| After Snowfall | BMB | 63 |
| After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory: A Review | AEL | 51 |
| Against the Voice of the Age | BMB | 80-81 |
| Age of Criticism | CAS | 153 |
| Age of Criticism | AEL | 69 |
| Alien and Expatriate? | LWR | 26 |
| Alien Bird | BMB | 111 |
| Alienation | CAS | 66 |
| Alienation | Copy | |
| Alone | Copy | |
| Although my though lies in my open hand | BMB | 147 |
| Always the mist and rain have had high power | BMB | 144 |
| Amateur | CAS | 8 |
| Amateur and Scholar | Copy | |
| Ambiguity of Beauty | CAS | 116 |
| Ambition | CAS | 148 |
| Ambivalence | Copy | |
| American Strategy | CAS | 107 |
| An Explanation | Copy | |
| And a Postscript | LWR | 73 |
| And After Bear the Rose | FOS | 24 |
| And After? | Copy | |
| And daffodils have drunk sunny dew | BMB | 143 |
| And Gladly Teach | AEL | 93 |
| And No Birds Sing | SS | 23 |
| Anecdote | Copy | |
| Animal Kingdom | LWR | 39,40 |
| Anniversary (1902-198?) | AEL | 18 |
| Anodynes | CAS | 140 |
| Anodynes | AEL | 92 |
| Answer | Copy | |
| Ant and I, The | Copy | |
| Anticipation | BMB | 136 |
| Anti-Dante | AEL | 63 |
| Antinomies | CAS | 145 |
| Antinomies | AEL | 17 |
| Antithesis | Copy | |
| Apocalypse | BMB | 11 |
| Apologia Pro Vita Sua | Copy | |
| Apology (for Eleanor Clark) | Copy | |
| Appeal | FOS | 8 |
| Appraisals | Copy | |
| Appropriations of Ezra Pound | CAS | 108 |
| Approximation | BMB | 107 |
| April Twenty-fifth | Copy | |
| Ars Poetica | CAS | 114 |
| Artist | Copy | |
| Artist and Anchor Persons | CAS | 154 |
| As Angels in Some Brighter Dreams | FOS | 86 |
| As In time swift-gathered floods | BMB | 86 |
| As Wave the Sun | FOS | 85 |
| Aspiration | Copy | |
| Astronauts | CAS | 122 |
| Attempt at Explanation | LWR | 87 |
| Aubade | Copy | |
| Author's Note | Copy | |
| Autre Temps, Autres Moeurs | AEL | 77 |
| Ave atque Vale | CAS | 74 |
| Awakening | FOS | 133-134 |
| Awakening | FOSAP | 135-136 |
| Babel Confounded | AEL | 127 |
| Ballad I, II | FOS | 140 |
| Ballad I, II | FOSAP | 142-143 |
| Ballad I, II, III | LW | 68-71 |
| Balm to the mind | BMB | 94 |
| Bards if Passion and of Mirth 1,2 | CAS | 86-87 |
| Baroque | AEL | 72 |
| Basics | Copy | |
| Battle of the Books | Copy | |
| Be assured! Be comforted! | BMB | 110 |
| Beauty, Truth, and Goodness | CAS | 115 |
| Before I Wake | Copy | |
| Behind This Mortal Bone | CAS | 94 |
| Behold the Lie | FOS | 118 |
| Behold the Lie | FOSAP | 119 |
| Benediction | LWR | 77 |
| Benediction (1928- 1970) | BMB | 163 |
| Bent Twig | AEL | 19 |
| Betrayal | CAS | 67 |
| Betrayal | FOS | 9 |
| Better Late Than Never | Copy | |
| Beyond Freedom and Dignity I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX | LW | 23-34 |
| Bias | Copy | |
| Bible Story | Copy | |
| Bicentennial I, II | FOS | 164-165 |
| Bicentennial I, II | FOSAP | 169-170 |
| Bicentennial I, II, III, IV | LW | 47-55 |
| Biografiends | CAS | 90 |
| Birthday Poem | Copy | |
| Blinded | SS | 31 |
| Bliss of Solitude, The (For Charles and Mary De Shazo) | Copy | |
| Body | CAS | 55 |
| Body and Soul, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Bond-Servant 2 | Copy | |
| Bonfire | BMB | 95 |
| Bonus | CAS | 49 |
| Bottom Line | CAS | 37 |
| Bottom Line | AEL | 59 |
| Bottom Line, The | LWR | 55 |
| Bow, The | Copy | |
| Brotherhood of the Wasp | CAS | 99 |
| Builder: A Tribute | Copy | |
| Burden of Mortality Vladimir Horowitz in Moscow | AEL | 28 |
| Burning Fountain, The | Copy | |
| Bush, Quayle, and the Anti-Abortionists | Copy | |
| By Any Other Name | AEL | 73 |
| By Love Alone | FOS | 19 |
| Calumny! | Copy | |
| Canticle I, II | FOS | 31-32 |
| Chacun a son Gout 1,2,3 | CAS | 20 |
| Chanson | BMB | 89 |
| City on a Hill | LW | 56 |
| Class and Underclass | CAS | 96 |
| Classical Politics | AEL | 58 |
| Clean Wound that Cuts the World | FOS | 93 |
| Clinical Notes 1 Emphysema | Copy | |
| Close Reading, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Coffee Hour ( for H.M.) | BMB | 82 |
| Cogito | CAS | 127 |
| Collected Edition | Copy | |
| Colloque Intime | BMB | 43 |
| Commitment I, II | FOS | 121-122 |
| Commitment I, II | FOSAP | 122-123 |
| Communication | Copy | |
| Communion | CAS | 1 |
| Company Manners | CAS | 64 |
| Compensation of Age | AEL | 39 |
| Confession, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Conquest | CAS | 69 |
| Conquistador | FOS | 108-109 |
| Conquistador | FOSAP | 109-110 |
| Consciousness and its Contents | CAS | 117 |
| Consensus 1,2,3,4 | CAS | 62-63 |
| Conservation of Energy | Copy | |
| Contents of Consciousness, The | Copy | |
| Contradictory Chorus | CAS | 118 |
| Contrition of Age | AEL | 45 |
| Conversation and Soliloquies | CAS | 12 |
| Coping, I, 2 | Copy | |
| Corollary | CAS | 110 |
| Cosmic Egg, Origin of the Universe, and End of the World | LWR | 63 |
| Cosmic Perspectives | LWR | 44 |
| Couch Potato | Copy | |
| Counsel in April | BMB | 70 |
| Cowardice | Copy | |
| Creativity | CAS | 28 |
| Creativity | LWR | 16-19 |
| Creature Comfort I, II, III, IV | FOS | 142-147 |
| Creature Comfort I, II, III, IV | FOSAP | 145-150 |
| Creatures and Creations | CAS | 134 |
| Cremation | CAS | 82 |
| Crime | Copy | |
| Crime in the Snow | FOS | 114-115 |
| Crime in the Snow | FOSAP | 115-116 |
| Critics and Scholars | Copy | |
| Cultural Change 1,2 | AEL | 85-87 |
| Curiosa Felicitas | Copy | |
| Damnation | Copy | |
| Dark | BMB | 100 |
| Dark Ages | AEL | 49 |
| Dawn | Copy | |
| Dawn Walk | BMB | 64 |
| Dawn: Through A Glass Darkly | SS | 25 |
| Day Labor | Copy | |
| Daybreak | CAS | 44 |
| Daybreak | AEL | 23 |
| Daybreak: 1,2 | SS | 32,33 |
| De Mortuis Nil Nist | Copy | |
| De Senectute | AEL | 38 |
| Dead Thoughts | CAS | 120 |
| Dear Rabbit | Copy | |
| Death of God, The | SS | 22 |
| Death's Large Democratic Fingers | BMB | 98 |
| Debt | FOS | 124 |
| Debt | FOSAP | 126 |
| Debt, The | LWR | 81 |
| Debts | Copy | |
| Decent Drapery of Life | AEL | 82 |
| Declaration of Independence | AEL | 75-76 |
| Decree | Copy | |
| Dedication | BMB | 137 |
| Dedication to the Intellectual Life | BMB | 115 |
| Defeat | Copy | |
| Defiance | Copy | |
| Democratic Capitalism | LWR | 49 |
| Departure | Copy | |
| Depravity | AEL | 78 |
| Depth and not the Tumult of the Soul | FOS | 120 |
| Depth and not the Tumult of the Soul | FOSAP | 121 |
| Description and Classification 1,2,3,4 | CAS | 4-7 |
| Despair | Copy | |
| Destination | AEL | 56 |
| Deus Absconditus | LWR | 65 |
| Devil in New England | FOS | 160-163 |
| Devil in New England | FOSAP | 165-168 |
| Diagnosis | BMB | 74 |
| Dialectic I, II, III | BMB | 72-73 |
| Dialogue | Copy | |
| Dilemma | CAS | 100 |
| Diminution | Copy | |
| Dirge | Copy | |
| Discount | CAS | 51 |
| Disorientation | CAS | 11 |
| Disposal: Toxic Waste | AEL | 31 |
| Dissipation of Energy | Copy | |
| Dissolution | CAS | 78+ |
| Distance | Copy | |
| Distinction | LWR | 20 |
| Divinity and Art | Copy | |
| Dover Beach Again | BMB | 161 |
| Downward Flight | BMB | 106 |
| Drama of Consciousness | ||
| Dream I lately walked within | BMB | 33 |
| Dregs | Copy | |
| Druids amd Dryads | SS | 3 |
| E pur si mueve! | Copy | |
| Early Snow | BMB | 18 |
| Early Spring- Full Moon | BMB | 42 |
| Earth Song | LWR | 31 |
| Earth Song I, II, III | LW | 79-81 |
| Earth-Rise | LWR | 61 |
| Economies and the Ego | BMB | 116 |
| Ecstasy | CAS | 29 |
| Elementary Logic | BMB | 71 |
| Emblems | Copy | |
| En Garde | CAS | 57 |
| En Voyage | CAS | 73 |
| English Language | Copy | |
| Envy | CAS | 50 |
| Ephemerae | Copy | |
| Epigraphs | Copy | |
| Epilogue | AEL | 124-126 |
| Epitah for "modernism" in Literature and Literary Criticism | AEL | 48 |
| Epitaph (Archibald MacLeish 1892-1982) | Copy | |
| Eros and Psyche I, II | FOS | 105-107 |
| Eros and Psyche I, II | FOSAP | 106-108 |
| Essence and Substance: An Examined Life (In Memory of Hartley Burr alexander) | Copy | |
| Essential Explanations | LWR | 85,86 |
| Et Tout Le Reste Est Litterature | AEL | 34 |
| Eternal Recurrence | CAS | 123 |
| Eternal Recurrence | AEL | 114 |
| Eternal Verities | CAS | 131 |
| Ethic and Aesthetic | LWR | 21-25 |
| Ethic and Aesthetic I, II | FOS | 123 |
| Ethic and Aesthetic I, II | FOSAP | 124-125 |
| Even Jove | FOS | 52-53 |
| Even the Swan | Copy | |
| Even These | Copy | |
| Evidence, The | Copy | |
| Evolution | CAS | 149 |
| Excursions Among Ambiguities | CAS | 104 |
| Excursions in Ambiguity | Copy | |
| Exhortation | LWR | 83 |
| Exile | CAS | 77 |
| Exiles and Gath | CAS | 98 |
| Exorcism | LW | 1 |
| Exorcism | LWR | 27,28 |
| Explanation | Copy | |
| Exploration and Discovery | Copy | |
| Explosion of "The Challenger": Postscript | AEL | 99 |
| Explosion of the Spacecraft "Challenger": In Memoriam | AEL | 97-98 |
| Exposition | Copy | |
| Extension of Tiem, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Fable of the Critics I, II | LW | 61-64 |
| Faites Vos Jeux | CAS | 68 |
| Fall: Status Quo Ante | Copy | |
| Fame | Copy | |
| Fame and Fortune | CAS | 80 |
| Fame and Fortune | CAS | 95 |
| Farewell Address to the Body | Copy | |
| Favored Nation | Copy | |
| Fear No More the Heat of the Sun | LWR | 75 |
| Fear No More the Heat of the Sun I, II | LW | 82-83 |
| February : East Texas | LW | 84 |
| Fell of Dark, The | CAS | 78 |
| Fellowship of the Very Old | Copy | |
| Fiction | Copy | |
| Fin de Siecle | Copy | |
| Final Hour | AEL | 122 |
| Final Metaphor | FOS | 198 |
| Final Metaphor | FOSAP | 205 |
| Finalities | CAS | 70 |
| Finalities | AEL | 11 |
| Fireweed | Copy | |
| First Fall, The | Copy | |
| Five Poems | LWR | 68-72 |
| Flight From Philosophy | CAS | 128 |
| Flowers | BMB | 84 |
| Food | Copy | |
| For Edwin Ford Piper | BMB | 126 |
| For Edwin Piper (From Paintrock Road) | BMB | 53 |
| For Elizabeth Atkins (1891-1962) | BMB | 131 |
| For Hartley Burr Alexander I, II, III, IV | BMB | 127-130 |
| Forces of Good and the Forces of Evil | AEL | 80 |
| Forecast | Copy | |
| Foreign Language | Copy | |
| Fortunate Failure, The | Copy | |
| Foster Daughters In Memory of Hartley Burr Alexander | Copy | |
| Freedom of Speech | AEL | 52 |
| Free-Fall | LWR | 62 |
| Fresh Spring in all Her Green Completed | FOS | 94 |
| Frigates and Books | CAS | 72 |
| From "Self Dependence" (Matthew Arnold) | Copy | |
| From Loves Awakened Root | FOS | 99 |
| From Tomorrow on to Yesterday | BMB | 119 |
| From Yeats to Yeats | CAS | 90 |
| Funeral Urn | AEL | 2 |
| Furies, The | Copy | |
| Futility | Copy | |
| Gardener | Copy | |
| Gender of Poetry, 1,2 | Copy | |
| Genesis of a Poem | Copy | |
| Genius | Copy | |
| Gentleman in the Dust Coat | AEL | 70 |
| George F. Kennan | CAS | 157 |
| Ghosts | AEL | 121 |
| Gift, The | LWR | 13-15 |
| Glass House | BMB | 65 |
| Gleanings | Copy | |
| Goals | Copy | |
| God and Money | Copy | |
| Golden lads and Girls I, II | LW | 72-73 |
| Golden Mean, The | Copy | |
| Good Death, The | Copy | |
| Good Society, The | LWR | 47 |
| Goodby and God Bless You! | Copy | |
| Grand Strategy | Copy | |
| Gratitude | FOS | 11 |
| Gray Curtain | SS | 17 |
| Great Beast, The | Copy | |
| Great mountains, desert, ocean, like a dream | BMB | 159 |
| Greatness Thrust Upon Them | AEL | 79 |
| Greeks Bearing Gifts | FOS | 147x |
| Greeks Bearing Gifts | FOSAP | 152 |
| Green Thought in a Green Shade | FOS | 102-103 |
| Green Thought in a Green Shade | FOSAP | 103-104 |
| Grief | AEL | 119 |
| Grief | BMB | 25 |
| Grouse and the Goshawk | CAS | 146 |
| Guided Imagery | CAS | 54 |
| Hallucination | Copy | |
| Hands | BMB | 30 |
| Harbinger | BMB | 45 |
| Hard Knots | CAS | 135 |
| Haunted Lover | FOS | 113 |
| Haunted Lover | FOSAP | 114 |
| Hazards | Copy | |
| Hear, O Love | BMB | 22 |
| Heaven's Atmosphere | Copy | |
| Helen Vendler (Scholars, Writers, Critics, and Professors) | Copy | |
| Hellas | Copy | |
| Helpful Hints, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Here is a weight of loveliness to bear | BMB | 141 |
| Heredity | LWR | 32 |
| Heredity and Environment I, II | BMB | 117 |
| Heredity and Environment I, II, III, IV, | FOS | 125-128 |
| Heredity and Environment I, II, III, IV, | FOSAP | 127-130 |
| Heritors | Copy | |
| Hermit Thrush, The | Copy | |
| Heroes and Hero-Worship | LWR | 35-38 |
| Heroes and Hero-Worship I, II, III, IV, V | LW | 42-46 |
| Hide and Seek | Copy | |
| Holism: or Who's in Charge | Copy | |
| Holy Days? | Copy | |
| Homage to Texas | CAS | 113 |
| Homeless, The | Copy | |
| Honest Confession | Copy | |
| Hooly Blisful Martir | Copy | |
| Hope | CAS | 65 |
| How Many Miles to the Millennium | AEL | 113 |
| Hubris | Copy | |
| Human Condition vs. Classical Tradition | AEL | 57 |
| Humanities | LWR | 45 |
| Hurricanes | Copy | |
| Hymn | CAS | 40 |
| Hymn to Morpheus | Copy | |
| Hypothesis | CAS | 150 |
| I am Afraid | BMB | 16 |
| I am like a Worshipper | BMB | 14 |
| I am not a tree | BMB | 52 |
| I Await that Hour | FOS | 78-79 |
| I don’t know this Stranger | BMB | 13 |
| I Have Lived, I Have Preened | CAS | 160 |
| I knew the sound of its dark coming | BMB | 13 |
| I know that for a breathless Space | BMB | 12 |
| I Shall Bend my Head | BMB | 41 |
| I think there will be music on earth | BMB | 154 |
| I will look once more on the haw tree | BMB | 108 |
| Identity | BMB | 38 |
| Idle Curiosity | SS | 14 |
| I'll Tell You How The Sun Arose | SS | 34 |
| Illusion | BMB | 112 |
| Imminence | CAS | 76 |
| Immorality | Copy | |
| Immortal Construct | AEL | 129 |
| Immortals | AEL | 30 |
| Imperative | Copy | |
| In Challenge: Not Defense | Copy | |
| In Heaven and Earth I, II, III, IV | FOS | 67-72 |
| In Lieu of Courage | AEL | 41 |
| In Memorium: Jessie Newell Montgomery (1891-1991) | Copy | |
| In Moderation | Copy | |
| In Praise | LWR | 76 |
| In Praise of Dictionaries and Their Makers | Copy | |
| In the Interest of Truth | CAS | 32 |
| In the Last, the Innermost Abyss | FOS | 13 |
| Inconsistency | Copy | |
| Indecent Drapery | AEL | 83 |
| Indecision | Copy | |
| Indentured | Copy | |
| Independence Day | Copy | |
| Ingrate | BMB | 67 |
| Inquire of the Closing Rose | FOS | 64 |
| Inquisition | BMB | 114 |
| Insouciance | Copy | |
| Inspriation | Copy | |
| Introvert | BMB | 68 |
| Inventing chinese Poetry | Copy | |
| Invictus | Copy | |
| Inward Eye, The | Copy | |
| Iowa Poet | Copy | |
| Isolation | Copy | |
| It is as Though our Spirits Comprehended | FOS | 2 |
| J'Accuse, 1, 2, 3 | Copy | |
| Job Redivivus I, II | FOS | 152-153 |
| Job Redivivus I, II | FOSAP | 157-158 |
| John Adams | LWR | 33,34 |
| John Donne | Copy | |
| John Sununu | CAS | 158 |
| Joie De Vivre | CAS | 46 |
| Joie De Vivre | AEL | 68 |
| Juggernaut | Copy | |
| King Fraud | LW | 57-59 |
| King Fraud | LWR | 51, 52 |
| Knowledge and the Image of Man | Copy | |
| Knowledge is like a vast and ancient grove | BMB | 155 |
| Knowledge of Good and Evil | FOS | 129-130 |
| Knowledge of Good and Evil | FOSAP | 131-132 |
| Lady | LWR | 41-43 |
| Lament | AEL | 120 |
| Lament for those Lost on Land | FOS | 119 |
| Lament for those Lost on Land | FOSAP | 120 |
| Language of Theory and the Language of Poetry | CAS | 15 |
| Last Journey | Copy | |
| Last Questions | Copy | |
| Last Things | SS | 24 |
| Late or Soon | FOS | 30 |
| Later Leda | FOS | 110-111 |
| Later Leda | FOSAP | 111-112 |
| Leaders, The | LWR | 46 |
| Legacy | CAS | 93 |
| Legacy of Greece | AEL | 117-118 |
| Legendary Lovers I, II, III | FOS | 40-42 |
| Length of Days | CAS | 45 |
| Length of Days | AEL | 10 |
| L'Esprit s'addresse a L'Ame | BMB | 90 |
| Lessons of Age, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Let Them Try Art | Copy | |
| Letter to V | Copy | |
| Libido Sciendi | Copy | |
| Life | Copy | |
| Light Verse on Dark Subjects | Copy | |
| Lilies of the Field | CAS | 79 |
| Little Elegy | AEL | 128 |
| Little Parables I, II, III, IV, V | FOS | 174-180 |
| Little Parables I, II, III, IV, V | FOSAP | 181-187 |
| Lo, He Comes! | Copy | |
| Lonely Death | CAS | 94 |
| Long Pursuit | AEL | 95 |
| Long Trek, The | Copy | |
| Loss | Copy | |
| Lovely and Illusionary | BMB | 24 |
| Lovers who Must Say Farewell | FOS | 80-81 |
| Loves Image | FOS | 95 |
| Love's Missal Through Today | FOS | 66 |
| Love's Mystery I,II, III, IV | FOS | 33-37 |
| Low Key | SS | 27 |
| Lullaby | FOS | 5-6 |
| Lusts of the Flesh | Copy | |
| Lyric Impulse, The | Copy | |
| Magnolia Bloom | FOS | 166 |
| Magnolia Bloom I, II | FOSAP | 171-173 |
| Mainstream | CAS | 92 |
| Mainstream America | LWR | 56 |
| Marchen | Copy | |
| Mark of Cain | AEL | 101 |
| Mark Van Doren and the dialogues | LW | 37-39 |
| Market Place, The | Copy | |
| Marriage Poems I, II, III | FOS | 54-56 |
| Mass and the Elite | CAS | 97 |
| Matin | BMB | 37 |
| Mea Culpa (For Elisabeth Wittman) | BMB | 133 |
| Meaning and Being | Copy | |
| Meaning and the Moon I, II | LW | 9-11 |
| Meaning of Evolution | LW | 12 |
| Meaning of Evolution, The | LWR | 57 |
| Meditation | CAS | 38 |
| Meditation | BMB | 91 |
| Meditation on Ideas of Good and Evil | AEL | 65 |
| Meet Mr. Eliot | CAS | 162 |
| Meeting (for Margaret) | Copy | |
| Melodrama | BMB | 79 |
| Memorial Day - May 26, 1986 | AEL | 100 |
| Memory | CAS | 139 |
| Mens Sana In Corpore Sano | CAS | 34 |
| Message | FOS | 10 |
| Message and Messenger | Copy | |
| Message is the Message | CAS | 163+ |
| Metamorphisis | LWR | III |
| Metamorphoses | CAS | 14 |
| Methaphor | Copy | |
| Microcosmography | FOS | 89 |
| Mind and the Machine | CAS | 137 |
| Miracle | FOS | 90-91 |
| Mirage with Music | FOS | 104 |
| Mirage with Music | FOSAP | 105 |
| Mirror Image | CAS | 3 |
| Misanthropist | AEL | 66 |
| Misappropriation of Ezra Pound 1,2 | CAS | 109 |
| Miserere Domine | CAS | 16+ |
| Miserere Domine | AEL | 27 |
| Mobilization of the Sages | Copy | |
| Mock-Heroic | BMB | 85 |
| Modernism | Copy | |
| Mood | Copy | |
| Moonshine on the Rocks I, II, III, IV | FOS | 148-151 |
| Moonshine on the Rocks I, II, III, IV | FOSAP | 153-156 |
| More Appropriations | CAS | 111-112 |
| Morning | SS | 29 |
| Mortal Essence | Copy | |
| Mother of God, The | Copy | |
| Motives and Motifs | CAS | 102 |
| Mountains over Persia I, II | LW | 35-36 |
| Mulier Sapiens I, II, III, IV | FOS | 167-170 |
| Mulier Sapiens I, II, III, IV | FOSAP | 174-177 |
| Music at the Close | CAS | 83 |
| My Acquaintance With Poets | Copy | |
| My Contribution | LWR | 67 |
| My Native Tongue | Copy | |
| My Soul's Face | BMB | 44 |
| Mystique of the Unicorn Reborn at Marcus | Copy | |
| Nature and Art | SS | 15 |
| Necessity | Copy | |
| Negative Capability | CAS | 85 |
| Neurosis | Copy | |
| New Patriotism": or Peer Pressure | AEL | 74 |
| Newer Euphuism | AEL | 54 |
| News that stays News | CAS | 159 |
| Night Piece | BMB | 113 |
| No Man's Land | CAS | 75 |
| No priest absolves as surely as the past | BMB | 160 |
| No Winter Landscape | FOS | 22-23 |
| No world could be more lovely than ours now | BMB | 142 |
| Nostalgia | Copy | |
| Not Before The Servants | Copy | |
| Not in a Dream of Paradise | FOS | 82 |
| Not In Galilee | FOS | 3 |
| Not Marble | CAS | 81 |
| Not Marble | AEL | 8 |
| Notes | Copy | |
| Not-Quite Posthumous Life, Theq | Copy | |
| Now as blue evening pales | BMB | 156 |
| Now in an April morning after rain | BMB | 140 |
| Now while the wine is untasted | BMB | 62 |
| O Sole in Whom my Thoughts Find all Repose | FOS | 83-84 |
| O Sun Invisible | FOS | 88 |
| O Unknown Powers | FOS | 132 |
| O Unknown Powers | FOSAP | 134 |
| O Weave White Garlands | BMB | 12 |
| Obession | Copy | |
| Obituary | Copy | |
| Obsequies | AEL | 7 |
| Odd Antiphony | LW | 13 |
| Odd Antiphony | LWR | 30 |
| Old Gospal Hymn | Copy | |
| Old Locals | LW | 14 |
| Old Locals, The | LWR | 29 |
| Old People I, II | LW | 3-4 |
| Old People I, II | LWR | 1 |
| Old-Fashioned Song | FOS | 25 |
| Olive Tree | BMB | 32 |
| On Growing Old"-- Matthew Arnold | AEL | 36-37 |
| On Not Meeting Edna Millay (for W. Martin) | Copy | |
| On Sex Education | Copy | |
| Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny (On a Newborn Baby Sleeping) | Copy | |
| Open Conspiracy | AEL | 53 |
| Optimal Condition | Copy | |
| Optimism | Copy | |
| Or Even Babies? | Copy | |
| Ora Pro Nobis | BMB | 17 |
| Origins | Copy | |
| Osteoporosis 2 | Copy | |
| Our Lady | Copy | |
| Our Native Language | Copy | |
| Our Native Tongue | Copy | |
| Out of Harm's Way | SS | 18 |
| Painted Veil | AEL | 81 |
| Palliative | Copy | |
| Parable- The Shattered Web | AEL | 13 |
| Participant | Copy | |
| Parturition | Copy | |
| Past and Present | AEL | 62 |
| Pastime | Copy | |
| Pastoral | BMB | 105 |
| Pathology Perplex | CAS | 90 |
| Patterned Web | AEL | 3 |
| Peace Without Price | FOS | 87 |
| People vs. Public | Copy | |
| People whose pure tongue I do not speak | BMB | 153 |
| Personal Relations | Copy | |
| Perspective: Cosmic or Comic | LWR | 59 |
| Philosopher? | Copy | |
| Philosophers and Cave Dwellers | Copy | |
| Pilgrimage | AEL | 4 |
| Planetary Ecology: Genesis-- Yes? Apocalypse? No. | AEL | 109-112 |
| Planetary Music | AEL | 104-108 |
| Plastic Art | CAS | 16 |
| Plays Many Parts | Copy | |
| Pleasures of the Imagination | CAS | 21 |
| Plutocrat | CAS | 2 |
| Poem As a Safe Place | CAS | 25 |
| Poem For My Ninety-second Birthday | Copy | |
| Poem For Your Birthday | FOS | 50-51 |
| Poem Not for Music | FOS | 20-21 |
| Poems - Not quite Posthmous | Copy | |
| Poems for Ruby | Copy | |
| Poems for the New Year | AEL | 20-22 |
| Poetic Technique | Copy | |
| Poetry of Appearances: How Things Look, 1, 2, 3 | Copy | |
| Political Process | LWR | 50 |
| Politics Farewell | Copy | |
| Polluters | AEL | 55 |
| Pope and the Virgin | Copy | |
| Population Explosion | LW | 60 |
| Population Explosion | LWR | 66 |
| Portrait | BMB | 39 |
| Portrait of Bessie | Copy | |
| Portrait of the Mind | Copy | |
| Post Script | Copy | |
| Postscripts | CAS | 136 |
| Prairie Poet | Copy | |
| Prayer | CAS | 101 |
| Prayer | AEL | 130 |
| Prayer | BMB | 120 |
| Precursor Cursed | Copy | |
| Predecessors, Et Cetera, Amy Clampitt | Copy | |
| Preface | Copy | |
| Premature Burial | AEL | 33 |
| Presiding Deity | SS | 4 |
| Price of Longevity, The | Copy | |
| Principles and Politics | CAS | 36 |
| Prisoner | Copy | |
| Prognosis | BMB | 75 |
| Proof of Love I, II, III | FOS | 96-98 |
| Prophet With Honor, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Prophets and Prophecy | Copy | |
| Protective Integument | Copy | |
| Protest | FOS | 14 |
| Prothalamion I, II, III | FOS | 76-77 |
| Provisional Reply | Copy | |
| Psychomachis or the Blight of the Precursor | Copy | |
| Public Address | Copy | |
| Pulverized Mythology | Copy | |
| Pursuit of Happiness | CAS | 48 |
| Pursuit of Happiness | AEL | 94 |
| Pursuit of the Muse | BMB | 78 |
| Pygmies vs. Dwarfs: The Great Debate | Copy | |
| Quandary | BMB | 76 |
| Quatrains | LW | 5-8 |
| Query | Copy | |
| Query Eight | Copy | |
| Query Seven | Copy | |
| Question, The | Copy | |
| Questions, The | Copy | |
| Quod Erat Demonstrandum | Copy | |
| R.I.P. | Copy | |
| Raison D'Etre | AEL | 67 |
| Rallying the Troops | CAS | 106 |
| Reality vs Fantasy (For Dorothy) | Copy | |
| Realms of Being | CAS | 121 |
| Realms of Being | LWR | 58 |
| Reasons for Writing | LWR | 12 |
| Recalling Whitman | Copy | |
| Recurring Dream of Evil Portent | BMB | 99 |
| Recycled | Copy | |
| Red and the Black | Copy | |
| Redskin of Paleface? | CAS | 24 |
| Reflections on Immortality | FOS | 171-173 |
| Reflections on Immortality | FOSAP | 178-180 |
| Reflections on Immortality | LW | 74-75 |
| Relativity | CAS | 125 |
| Release | Copy | |
| Religious Residue | Copy | |
| Remedy | LWR | 88 |
| Remembered Spring ( For Lee Andrew Weber) | BMB | 132 |
| Reprieve | AEL | 89 |
| Requiescat | CAS | 84 |
| Reservoirs of Mount Helicon, The | Copy | |
| Residium | BMB | 46 |
| Residual | CAS | 119 |
| Resolution | Copy | |
| Responsibilities of the Artist | CAS | 156 |
| Responsibility for Poetry | CAS | 13 |
| Retrospect I, II, III, IV, V | FOS | 57-61 |
| Return | FOS | 135-137 |
| Return | FOSAP | 137-139 |
| Revelation | Copy | |
| Rewards | Copy | |
| Rite de Passage | Copy | |
| Robert Frost and the Better Half of Poetryq | Copy | |
| Rock 'n Roll 1,2,3, | CAS | 17-19 |
| Rock, the Sea, and the Gull | FOS | 138-139 |
| Rock, the Sea, and the Gull | FOSAP | 140-141 |
| Rock, the Sea, and the Gull | LW | 65-67 |
| Romantic Nostalgia | AEL | 64 |
| Roots of American Order | AEL | 71 |
| S.D.I. | CAS | 152 |
| Sagacity | BMB | 15 |
| Salvage | Copy | |
| Salvation | CAS | 43 |
| Sanctity of Bigotry | CAS | 163 |
| Sand Waste | BMB | 123 |
| Say not the struggle Naught Availeth | Copy | |
| Schopenhauer and the Porcupine | Copy | |
| Sea Change, 1, 2 | Copy | |
| Second Childhood | Copy | |
| Second Death | CAS | 89 |
| Second Death | AEL | 90 |
| Second Sight I, II, III, IV V | FOS | 43-47 |
| Second Thought | BMB | 77 |
| Self Dependence 1,2 | CAS | 58-59 |
| Self-Sufficiency | CAS | 56 |
| Shadow | BMB | 83 |
| Shaping Force of Love | FOS | 15 |
| Shifting Mist | CAS | 155 |
| Silence | CAS | 71 |
| Silenced | Copy | |
| Silver Skies | SS | 16 |
| Since Even Leaves | BMB | 26 |
| Sing-Along | AEL | 46 |
| Singer to Singer I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII | FOS | 189-197 |
| Singer to Singer I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII | FOSAP | 196-204 |
| Sisters | BMB | 40 |
| Skoal! | Copy | |
| Sky Babies | SS | 9 |
| Skywatch: 1,2 | SS | 12,13 |
| Sleep-Walker | AEL | 5 |
| Slightly Grudging Praise | Copy | |
| Smog | Copy | |
| So is the meagre banquet spread | BMB | 47 |
| So Let It Be | Copy | |
| So Much you are Offered | BMB | 54 |
| Social Order | AEL | 50 |
| Soliloquy | CAS | 143 |
| Sometimes I come upon you Unaware | BMB | 138 |
| Song ( When I am Old) | BMB | 19 |
| Song (Lady for a Little Day) | BMB | 27 |
| Song for a Masque | BMB | 31 |
| Song-- Love is not a Gift | FOS | 26 |
| Songs Before Winter I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII | BMB | 101-104 |
| Songs for a Spinet I, II, III, | BMB | 28 |
| Space-Time - Time-Space | Copy | |
| Spinning Sight | FOS | 48-49 |
| Sports as a Unifying Element | CAS | 33 |
| Spring Song | Copy | |
| Spunk | Copy | |
| Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Houston | Copy | |
| Star Wars | CAS | 151 |
| Star Wars | AEL | 103 |
| State of the Nation | CAS | 30 |
| Status Quo | CAS | 47 |
| Status Quo-Ante | CAS | 88 |
| Stigmata of Poetry | Copy | |
| Still Life--Chrysanthemums | FOS | 141 |
| Still Life--Chrysanthemums | FOSAP | 144 |
| Strange Gods in Greece | FOS | 154-159 |
| Strange Gods in Greece | FOSAP | 159-164 |
| Stranger | FOS | 101 |
| Strategic Retreat | Copy | |
| Stricken Deer | CAS | 147 |
| Strife Divine, The | Copy | |
| Stump Speech | CAS | 9 |
| Style and Authenticity in Postmodern Poetry | CAS | 103 |
| Subjectivity | Copy | |
| Submission | SS | 30 |
| Success | CAS | 52 |
| Suds | SS | 10 |
| Suicide Machine, The | Copy | |
| Suitable Attire | Copy | |
| Summa | AEL | 123 |
| Summa | FOS | 199 |
| Summa | FOSAP | 206 |
| Summer Showers | SS | 11 |
| Summit | AEL | 102 |
| Summons | FOS | 4 |
| Sun Draws the Rose, the | FOS | 63 |
| Super Collider | CAS | 133 |
| Survival or Success | CAS | 53 |
| Suspense | SS | 21 |
| Sycophants | Copy | |
| T. S. Eliot in 1988 | Copy | |
| Task | Copy | |
| Test | Copy | |
| Testament | AEL | 14 |
| Thanksgiving, I, II | Copy | |
| Theocracies | Copy | |
| Theodicy | CAS | 42 |
| Theodicy | AEL | 60 |
| Theology | AEL | 61 |
| They also Serve | LW | 40-41 |
| This afternoon an infant comes to call | BMB | 148 |
| This afternoon I have had too much to say | BMB | 151 |
| This Corruptible | AEL | 12 |
| This Edge of Shadow I,II | FOS | 100 |
| This is the little picture of the world | BMB | 152 |
| This World's Defeat | FOS | 75 |
| Thorny Hedge shuts close my heart | BMB | 36 |
| Thought Caught on the Wing | CAS | 138 |
| Thoughts | Copy | |
| Threatening Weather | SS | 20 |
| Three Cheers for Prettiness | Copy | |
| Three Lives: A Non-fiction Novel in Verse | Copy | |
| Through flushed and flowering spring | BMB | 149 |
| Throughout the cycling year | BMB | 121-122 |
| Time and Tempo | Copy | |
| Time-lag or Plus Ca Change | CAS | 31 |
| Tired Rabbit, The | Copy | |
| To a Pot-Professor and Certain Professor-Critics I, II | BMB | 96-97 |
| To an Acquaintance | BMB | 134 |
| To charm your ear is now my privilege | BMB | 157 |
| To My Colleagues- Past, Present, and Future-- In English Departments Everywhere | AEL | 32 |
| To the Poor Loveless Ever-Anxious Crowd | FOS | 27-28 |
| Toll | Copy | |
| Tortuous, tormented, tortured, the descent | BMB | 158 |
| Touchstones | CAS | 27 |
| Touchstones | 29 | |
| Tragic Dialogue | Copy | |
| Transubstantiation | BMB | 66 |
| Travel Guide | SS | 5 |
| Treachery | CAS | 144 |
| Treason Defined | FOS | 116 |
| Treason Defined | FOSAP | 117 |
| Trial, The | Copy | |
| Tribute to John Updike | CAS | 161 |
| Twelve Quantrains | LWR | 2-4 |
| Two Poems | CAS | 10 |
| Two Poems For Jeane Kirkpatrick | Copy | |
| Two Women (For Elizabeth Atkins and Louise Pound) | Copy | |
| Tyranny of Greece | CAS | 130 |
| Ulmus Americana | LWR | 74 |
| Ulmus Americana I, II | LW | 76-78 |
| Unacknowledged Legislators | Copy | |
| Unequal Contest | LWR | 89 |
| Universal Mind | LWR | 60 |
| Until | Copy | |
| Upbeat | CAS | 91 |
| Urania | AEL | 26 |
| Uses of Poetry | CAS | 22 |
| Valentine | FOS | 38-39 |
| Valiant | AEL | 9 |
| Values | CAS | 126 |
| Vanity | AEL | 40 |
| Varieties of Religious Experience, 1, 2, 3 | Copy | |
| Verbal Behavior | LWR | 5-11 |
| Verbal Behaviour I, II, III, IV, V,VI, VII, VIII IX, | LW | 15-22 |
| Verbal Defiance | Copy | |
| Verification | CAS | 23 |
| Very Old, The | Copy | |
| Vesper | BMB | 21 |
| Virtue | Copy | |
| Virtues Forced Upon Us | CAS | 41 |
| Virtues Forced Upon Us | AEL | 84 |
| Visitant Visited | BMB | 69 |
| Vista | SS | 7,8 |
| Vocabulary | Copy | |
| Vocation | AEL | 116 |
| Vortex | Copy | |
| Vorticism, 1 | Copy | |
| Wager, The | Copy | |
| Waking Dream | BMB | 49 |
| Wall of Fire | AEL | 25 |
| War and Cease-Fire | Copy | |
| Watching the horses from a neighboring field | BMB | 145 |
| Weather Report | SS | 19 |
| Week in Rock, The | Copy | |
| Weeping Philosopher, The | Copy | |
| Welcome Song | FOS | 65 |
| What does it "Mean" to be | SS | 1-2 |
| What If | CAS | 124 |
| What is Beauty | BMB | 10 |
| What is I, II, III | FOS | 16-18 |
| What Price Old Ladies? | Copy | |
| What Then? | CAS | 39 |
| What We Learn | Copy | |
| What We Read | CAS | 142 |
| What We Write | CAS | 141 |
| When I Have Fears | AEL | 42 |
| White Flowers | AEL | 91 |
| Why Pretend? | LWR | 64 |
| William Gass and Humphrey Carpenter's A Serious Character | CAS | 105 |
| Wind! Linsten! (The Linden Flower) | FOSAP | 113 |
| Wind: Listen: (The Linden Flower) | FOS | 112 |
| Winter Bound | BMB | 118 |
| Wisdom of Age | AEL | 44 |
| Wisdom: The Beginning Of | Copy | |
| Withered Rose | AEL | 6 |
| Without Honor | Copy | |
| Woman of Thebes | FOS | 7 |
| Women I, II, III, IV, V | FOS | 181-188 |
| Women I, II, III, IV, V | FOSAP | 188-195 |
| Word | AEL | 16 |
| Word, The | LWR | IV |
| Words About Death | BMB | 20 |
| World Enough and Time | FOS | 73-74 |
| World Without End | Copy | |
| Worldly Goods | Copy | |
| Wound and the Bow | AEL | 43 |
| Writers' Workshop Inspiration | CAS | 26 |
| Wynken, Blynken, and Nod | CAS | 129 |
| You are my flower of youth | BMB | 139 |
| Your sudden piercing cry sounds in my ears | BMB | 150 |
| Zero Gravity | Copy | |