(Titles are in roman, first lines in italics)
A gracious Spirit sings as it comes 281
A high wooded hill near Florence, an April 77
A man could be a god 251
A people in the throes of national prosperity, who 321
A shower like a little song 332
A sparrow is 20
A spring wind blowing 59
A woman wholly given in love is held 331
A young man’s love is bitter love, 332
Above trees and rooftops 240
Adze, The 231
After the storm and the new 348
After we saw the wild ducks 230
Against the War in Vietnam 75
Air 325
Air and Fire 131
All day our eyes could find no resting place. 3
All goes back to the earth, 78
All that I serve will die, all my delights, 130
All that passes descends, 295
Always, on their generations breaking wave, 159
Amid the gray trunks of ancient trees we found 132
And I Beg Your Pardon 376
Anger Against Beasts 182
Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men 324
Anniversary, An 197
Another Descent 239
April Woods: Morning 68
Architecture, An 19
Aristocracy, The 17
Arrival, The 175
As I sit here 376
As I started home after dark 121
As my first blow against it, I would not stay. 142
As spring begins the river rises, 123
As the soldier takes bodily form 376
At a Country Funeral 183
At my age my father 188
At start of spring I open a trench 233
At the end of October 64
At the first strokes of the fiddle bow 298
Autumn Burning, An 247
Awake at Night 147
Before Dark 71
Being, whose flesh dissolves 161
Believe the automatic righteousness 75
Below 240
Better born than married, misled, 156
Between painting a roof yesterday and the hay 132
Between the living world 232
Beyond this final house 9
Bird Killer, The 18
Birth of color 68
Birth, The 143
Blue Robe, The 315
Boone 9
Breaking 166
Bridged and forgot, the river 292
Broken Ground, The 29
Burley Coulter’s Song For Kate Helen Branch 353
By the fall of years I learn how it has been 217
Canticle 19
Cathedral 346
“Chance” is a poor word among 379
Clear Days, The 193
Clearing, The 209
Clumsy at first, fitting together 171
Cold Pane, The 232
Cold, The 65
Come Forth 342
Come, dear brothers, 324
Companions, The 16
Contrariness of the Mad Farmer, The 139
Country of Marriage, The 167
Creation Myth 249
Current, The 136
Dance, A 234
Dance, The 299
Dante 347
Dark with Power 76
Dark with power, we remain 76
David Jones 376
Dear Ed, 369
Dear Ernie, 373
Dear Hayden, 372
Dear Hayden, when I read your book I was aching 331
Dear John, 371
Dear relatives and friends, when my last breath 190
Deep in the back ways of my mind I see them 61
Design of the House: Ideal and Hard Time, The 33
Desolation 281
Did I believe I had a clear mind? 166
Discipline, A 110
Do Not Be Ashamed 82
Do not think me gentle 248
Don’t think of it. 187
Dream, The 72
Duality 328
Dust 345
Earth and Fire 141
Elegy 3
Enriching the Earth 125
Envoy 111
Epitaph 341
Even in a country you know by heart 252
Even love must pass through loneliness, 286
Except 251
Except in idea, perfection is as wild 33
Fall 247
Falling Asleep 232
Familiar, The 118
Farmer Among the Tombs, The 118
Farmer and the Sea, The 140
Farmer, Speaking of Monuments, The 159
Fear of Darkness, The 25
Fear of Love, The 234
February 2, 1968 122
Finches, The 69
First, The 250
Flying at night, above the clouds, all earthmarks spurned, 240
For an Absence 333
For parents, the only way 244
For the Explainers 307
For the Future 252
For the Hog Killing 230
For the Rebuilding of a House 119
For whatever is let go 24
Forgive me, my delight, 290
Forsaking all others, we 300
Forty Years 238
From many hard workdays in the fields, 312
From my wife and my households and fields 131
From the Crest 220
From the Distance 287
From the porch at dusk I watched 71
From the union of power and money, 326
Gathering, The 188
Gift of Gravity, The 295
Give It Time 374
Goods 231
Grace 79
Grandmother, The 156
Green and White 12
Grief 246
Growing weather; enough rain; 151
Guest, The 27
Handing Down, The 40
Having begun in public anonymity 356
Having danced until nearly 277
Having lived long in time, 341
Having once put his hand into the ground, 136
He comes along the street, singing 22
Head like a big 358
Her fate seizes her and brings her 170
Her First Calf 170
Heron, The 157
Hidden Singer, The 241
His enemy, the universe, surrounds him nightly with stars 18
His memories lived in the place 129
History 201
Homecoming, A 189
Horseback on Sunday morning, 180
Horses 262
How exactly good it is 65
How fine to have a radio 350
How hard it is for me, who live 81
How joyful to be together, alone 315
How much poison are you willing 375
How to Be a Poet 354
However just and anxious I have been, 133
Hunting them a man must sweat, bear 237
I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my 139
I am oppressed by all the room taken up by the dead, 118
I began to be followed by a voice saying: 134
I came out to the barn lot 231
I come to it again 236
I come to the fear of love 234
I dream an inescapable dream 72
I dream of you walking at night along the streams 167
I dreamed of my father when he was old. 342
I employ the blind mandolin player 21
I go in under foliage 303
I have been spared another day 111
I have taken in the light 169
I knew her when I saw her 316
I leave behind even 368
I love to lie down weary 120
I made an opening 186
I never have denied 320
I owned a slope full of stones. 116
I part the out thrusting branches 237
I see you down there, white-haired 346
I stood and heard the steps of the city 297
I tell my love in rhyme 194
I think of us lying asleep, 28
I think therefore 357
I was home alone. He came 334
I was walking in a dark valley 289
I was your rebellious son, 319
I will wait here in the fields 229
I would have each couple turn, 299
If you imagine 347
Imagination 332
In a Country Once Forested 345
In a country without saints or shrines 119
In a dream I go 349
In a dream I meet 238
In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams 317
In a time that breaks 80
In Art Rowanberry’s barn, where Art’s death 351
In Art Rowanberry’s Barn 351
In Extremis: Poems about My Father 334
In ignorance of the source, our want 286
In January cold, the year’s short light, 308
In Memory: Stuart Egnal 77
In my line of paperwork 247
In Rain 303
In the April rain I climbed up to drink 154
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, 122
In the dusk of the river, the wind 70
In the empty lot —a place 23
In the evening there were flocks of nighthawks 158
In the great circle, dancing in 301
In the mating of trees, 179
In the place that is my own place, whose earth 73
In the stilled place that once was a road going down 117
In the town’s graveyard the oldest plot now frees itself 74
In this woman the earth speaks. 141
In This World 128
Independence Day 132
Inlet, The 349
It is a day of the earth’s renewing without any man’s doings or 120
It is called moneywort 363
It is no longer necessary to sleep 13
“. . . it is not too soon to provide by every 177
It is presumptuous and irresponsible to pray for other people. A 148
It’s the immemorial feeling 231
Jason Needly found his father, old Ab, at work 380
July, 1773 253
June Wind 347
Kentucky River Junction 171
Late in the night I pay 147
Law That Marries All Things, The 284
Leader, The 358
Let him escape hospital and doctor, 55
Let me be plain with you, dear reader. 359
Let them stand still for the bullet, and stare the shooter in the 230
Let Us Pledge 322
Let us pledge allegiance to the flag, 322
Letter 288
Letter (to Ed McClanahan), A 369
Letter (to Ernest J. Gaines), A 373
Letter (to Hayden Carruth), A 372
Letter (to my brother), A 371
Life is your privilege, not your belonging. 238
Light and wind are running 347
Like a room, the clear stanza 19
Like a tide it comes in, 175
Like Snow 367
Lilies, The 132
Listen! 350
Long Hunter, The 196
Look It Over 368
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, 173
Love, all day there has been at the edge of my mind 111
Lover’s Song, A 323
Lysimachia Nummularia 363
Mad Farmer in the City, The 142
Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment, The 177
Mad Farmer Revolution, The 137
Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union, The 326
Mad Farmer’s Love Song, The 189
Make a place to sit down. 354
Man Born to Farming, The 115
Man Walking and Singing, A 13
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front 173
March 22, 1968 123
March Snow 68
Marriage 81
Marriage Song, A 308
Marriage, an Elegy, A 175
May Song 24
Meadow, The 74
Meditation in the Spring Rain 154
Meeting, A 238
Men Untrained to Comfort 380
Millennium, The 347
Morning’s News, The 124
Music, A 21
Must another poor body, brought 313
My gentle hill, I rest 291
My Great-Grandfather’s Slaves 61
My old friend tells us how the country changed: 310
My old friend, the owner 26
Necessity of Faith, The 242
New Roof, The 128
Noguchi Fountain 332
Nothing is simple, 251
Now constantly there is sound, 63
Now that you have gone 251
Now the old ways that have brought us 183
Observance 6
October 10 63
Old Elm Tree by the River, The 165
On a Theme of Chaucer 320
On the Hill Late at Night 129
On the housetop, the floor of the boundless 128
On the Theory of the Big Bang as the Origin of the Universe 367
Once there was a man who filmed his vacation. 323
One faith is bondage. Two 189
One of Us 313
Ongoing Holy War Against Evil, The 358
O Thou, far off and here, whole and broken, 242
Our Children, Coming of Age 301
Over the Edge 381
O when the world’s at peace 189
Paradise might have appeared here, 17
Parting, A 312
Passed through the dark wall, 196
Passing the Strait 300
Passing Thought, A 357
Peace of Wild Things, The 79
Plan, The 26
Planting Crocuses 186
Planting Trees 179
Planting trees early in the spring, 252
Poem 166
Poem for J. 195
Poem of Thanks, A 111
Porch over the River, The 70
Praise 129
Praise, A 129
Prayer after Eating 169
Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer 148
Purification, A 233
Questionnaire 375
Rain 120
Raindrops on the tin roof. 232
Reassurer, The 321
Recognition, The 185
Record, The 310
Rejected Husband, The 348
Requiem 267
Returning 289
Ripening 243
Rising 277
River Bridged and Forgot, The 292
Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer, The 151
Seeds, The 130
September 2, 1969 158
Setting Out 286
Seventeen seventy one 253
Seventeen Years 235
Seventy Years 357
Shrugging in the flight of its leaves, 165
Silence, The 127
Sits level, 332
Sleep 120
Slip, The 261
Snake, The 64
Some Further Words 359
Somehow it has all 176
Sometimes hidden from me 314
Song 194
Song (1) 286
Song (2) 291
Song (3) 297
Song (4) 302
Song in a Year of Catastrophe 134
Song Sparrow Singing in the Fall, A 176
Sorrel Filly, The 160
Sowing 117
Sparrow 20
Speech to the Garden Club of America, A 377
Spell the spiel of cause and effect, 307
Spring 332
Springs, The 119
Standing Ground, A 133
Star, The 240
Stay Home 229
Stone 346
Stones, The 116
Stop the killing, or 358
Storm, The 333
Strait, The 282
Supplanting, The 117
Suppose we did our work 367
Sycamore, The 73
Terrors are to come. The earth 66
Testament 190
Thank you. I’m glad to know we’re friends, of course; 377
The cloud is free only 284
The crops were made, the leaves 201
The dogs of indecision 193
The dust motes float 345
The ears stung with cold 69
The field mouse flickers 204
The first man who whistled 250
The first mosquito: 376
The fowls speak and sing, settling for the night. 122
The god of the river leans 6
The gods are less 241
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, 115
The hand is risen from the earth, 118
The hill pasture, an open place among the trees, 128
The hook of adrenaline shoves 182
The land is an ark, full of things waiting. 126
The leveling of the water, its increase 67
The longer we are together 243
The mad farmer, the thirsty one, 137
The mind is the continuity 40
The morning comes. The old woman, a spot 246
The morning lights 68
The opening out and out, 29
The poem is important, but 317
The ripe grassheads bend in the starlight 129
The river is of the earth 374
The river takes the land, and leaves nothing. 261
The rugs were rolled back to the wall 353
The sea is always arriving, 140
The seeds begin as abstract as their species, 130
The songs of small birds fade away 160
The stepping-stones, once 234
The tall marigolds darken. 25
The valley holds its shadow. 282
The wild cherries ripen, black and fat, 247
The wind scruffing it, the bay 12
The woods is shining this morning 79
The young woodland remembers 345
They 346
They are here again, 235
They lived long, and were faithful 175
They were into the lambing, up late. 143
Thief, The 28
Thirty More Years 314
This is a story handed down. 249
This man, proud and young, 325
Though the air is full of singing 181
Thought of Something Else, The 59
Three Elegiac Poems 55
Three, The 331
Through elm, buckeye, thorn, 209
Through the weeks of deep snow 239
Throwing Away the Mail 251
To a Siberian Woodsman 107
To a Writer of Reputation 356
To be at home on its native ground 269
To enrich the earth I have sowed clover and grass 125
To Gary Snyder 230
To Go by Singing 22
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. 121
To Hayden Garruth 331
To Know the Dark 121
To know the inhabiting reasons 119
To love is to suffer –did I 328
To moralize a state, they drag out a man 124
To My Children, Fearing for Them 66
To My Mother 319
To search for what belongs where it is, 288
To Tanya at Christmas 290
To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday 346
To tell a girl you loved her—my God!— 381
To the Holy Spirit 242
To the Unseeable Animal 161
To Think of the Life of a Man 80
To What Listens 236
Traveling at Home 252
True harvests no mere intent may reap 242
Tu Fu 376
Turn toward the holocaust, it approaches 110
Until I have appeased the itch 309
Vacation, The 323
Venus of Botticelli, The 316
Voices Late at Night 309
Walking on the River Ice 251
Want of Peace, The 78
Warning to My Readers, A 248
Washed into the doorway 27
Way of Pain, The 244
We are others and the earth, 287
We lay in our bed as in a tomb 333
We Who Prayed and Wept 245
We who prayed and wept 245
We will see no more 267
Well, anyhow, I am 357
Wet Time, A 126
What banged? 367
What death means is not this—19
What is one to make of a life given 355
What must a man do to be at home in the world? 127
What she made in her body is broken. 195
What we have been becomes 197
What we leave behind to sleep 220
What wonder have you done to me? 346
What year 347
Wheel, The 298
When despair for the world grows in me 79
When he goes out in the morning 16
When I cannot be with you 333
When I was a boy here, 262
When I was a young man, 314
When I was young and lately wed 323
Where 204
Where the road came, no longer bearing men, 117
While Attending the Annual Convocation of Cause Theorists and BigBangists at the Local Provincial Research University, the Mad Farmer Intercedes from the Back Row 379
While the summer’s growth kept me 157
Why 348
Why all the embarassment 348
Wild Geese, The 180
Wild Rose, The 314
Wild, The 23
Willing to die, 166
Window Poems 83
Window. Window. 83
Winter Night Poem for Mary 121
Winter Nightfall 122
Winter Rain, The 67
Wish to Be Generous, The 130
Within the circles of our lives 302
Woods 237
Words 355
Work Song 217
You lean at ease in your warm house at night after supper, 107
You put on my clothes 185
You will be walking some night 82
On the pages whose numbers are given below
the page end coincides with a stanza break:
4 |
151 |
10 |
152 |
24 |
190 |
37 |
253 |
41–44 |
259 |
46–54 |
340 |
134 |
359 |
145 |
362 |
149 |
380 |