Lament for the makers / W.S. Merwin -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas -- The river of rivers in Connecticut / Wallace Stevens -- The animals / Edwin Muir -- Words / Sylvia Plath -- Spring and all / William Carlos Williams -- Neither out far nor in deep / Robert Frost -- Meditations of an old woman (first meditation) / Theodore Roethke -- Autumn journal VII / Louis MacNeice -- Four quartets. Little Gidding / T.S. Eliot -- The Orient Express / Randall Jarrell -- There sat down, once / John Berryman -- Secrets / W.H. Auden -- A grave / Marianne Moore -- from Homage to Sextus Propertius / Ezra Pound -- The tutelar of the place / David Jones -- Dolphin / Robert Lowell -- The imaginary iceberg / Elizabeth Bishop -- In response to the rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, has been condemned / James Wright -- The pruned tree / Howard Moss -- To Juan at the winter solstice / Robert Graves -- Dandelions / Howard Nemerov -- At the bomb testing site / William Stafford -- An upward look / James Merrill.
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