Poetry
Title | First Line | Theme(s) | Original Citation |
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The Sun at Noon | "No country leads so softly to nowhere" | mortality, appreciation | Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260. |
The Fence Row | "A ripple of ground still show the line where" | division, memory | Poetry 60 (July 1942) 201. |
Burn the Cocoons | "The sun waits in the sky for me" | farming, planting | Poetry 64 (May 1944) 78. |
The Oracle | "The oracle whose customer I am" | uncertainty, foretelling | Poetry 78 (August 1951) 274. |
Landmark | "The road wound back among the hills of mind" | memory, impermanence | Poetry 100 (Sept. 1962) 367. |
Limited View | "The clutter and ruck of the stubble publish the time" | farming, work | Poetry 100 (Sept. 1962) 368. |
Behind the Stove | "It takes more than wind and sleet to" | affair, desire | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 407. |
Forsythia | "You said, take a few dry" | flowers, surprise | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 406. |
Hen Pheasant | "Dusk fills the grove and seeps" | farming, birds | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 405. |
Hard Way to Learn | "A trickle of water from" | farming, knowledge | Poetry 134.1 (April 1979) 17. |