from The Image and the Law (1947). The truth of the matter ; Observation of October ; The fortune teller. -- From Guide to the Ruins (1950). Guide to the ruins ; Elegy of last resort. -- From The Salt Garden (1955). The winter lightning ; Zalmoxis ; The pond ; The goose fish ; The snow globe ; Central Park ; The market-place. -- From Mirrors and Windows (1958). The mirror ; Trees ; The town dump ; Storm windows ; Shells ; The statues in the Public Garden ; A day on the big branch ; The loon's cry ; A primer of the daily round ; Brainstorm ; Painting a mountain stream. -- From New Poems (1960). Moment ; Runes ; Going away ; The view from an attic window ; The icehouse in summer. -- From The Next Room of the Dream (1962). To Clio, muse of history ; A spell before winter ; Goldfish ; Blue suburban ; Burning the leaves ; Elegy for a nature poet ; From the desk of the laureate: for immediate release . -- From The Blue Swallows (1967). Landscape with figures ; The human condition ; Beyond the pleasure principle ; Christmas morning ; The blue swallows ; The mud turtle ; Summer's elegy ; For Robert Frost, in the autumn, in Vermont ; Firelight in sunlight. -- From Gnomes and Occasions (1973). On being a member of the jury for a poetry prize ; September, the first day of school ; After commencement ; On being asked for a peace poem ; To D ..., dead by her own hand ; The beautiful lawn sprinkler . -- From The Western Approaches (1975). Einstein & Freud & Jack ; Wolves in the zoo ; The common wisdom ; The dependencies ; A cabinet of seeds displayed ; Again ; Near the old people's home ; Conversing with paradise ; An ending. -- From Sentences (1980). The serial ; Manners ; Monet ; Acorn, Yom Kippur ; Morning glory ; The dying garden ; A Christmas storm ; Easter ; By Al Leibowitz's pool ; Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry. -- From Inside the Onion (1984). A sprig of dill ; Wintering ; Fish swimming amid falling flowers ; The Air Force Museum at Dayton. -- From War Stories (1987). On an occasion of national mourning ; Models ; Night operations, Coastal Command RAF ; The war in the air ; The afterlife ; On reading King Lear again, 1984. -- From Trying Conclusions (1991). To the Congress of the United States, entering its third century ; Answering back ; Larkin ; The forbidden city ; The end of the opera ; Trying conclusions.
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