Poetry
Title | First Line | Theme(s) | Original Citation |
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Frost | "Though nothing came that could be heard" | fall, death | Poetry 36 (Summer 1930) 320. |
Clover Swaths | "My eyes are cloudy with death." | youth, death | Poetry 40 (Aug. 1932) 249. |
Fall Plowing | "The claim the stubble had no longer defends" | fall, death | Poetry 43 (Jan. 1934) 189. |
Barns In November | "Along an empty road I watched the barns" | winter, harvest | Poetry 47 (Nov. 1935) 67. |
Inquiry | "Now catch your breath and hear the softly rounded" | promise, resurrection | Poetry 47 (November 1935) 69. |
The Grail | "The snow falls like flakes of light-" | faith, religion | Poetry 47 (Nov. 1935) 68. |
After the Son Died | "The trees follow two sides of a square" | death, impermanence | Poetry 56 (Aug 1940) 262. |
False Warning | "The meadow has lost its features and the grove" | wilderness, winter | Poetry (56 Aug. 1940) 261. |
Morning Song | "I often think of night as a wave lifting me into the morning" | morning, love | Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260. |
The Same in This As Other Lands | "He bows his head against the wind" | farming, work | Poetry 56 (Aug 1940) 263. |
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. |
No Nightingales, No Nymphs | "The imperatives of spring" | spring, work | Poetry 134 (April 1979) 18. |