A banker sobbing on his typist 50
A child at the seaside 30
A ditty sung by a choir of aging poets (among them Sophocles, Shakespeare and Goethe) 70
Adriana in surgery 94
A fellow poet is received at the White House 120
A fly a fly and I 84
A visit to the zoo 91
After Herrick 52
After Li Po 85
Always almost 112
An espresso at the ‘Number Six’ (London 1956) 18
Bad choices 81
Breakfast and jukebox on Piazza Trasimeno (Rome 1960) 21
Brute English 60
Cameras 22
Camp Gordon (Georgia 1953) 40
Ce qui est arrivé 130
Col du Grand Saint Bernard 25
Colonel Pluchot chats with madame Duchesne 28
Crow 87
Dawn at the manor of Cerisy-la-Salle 34
Dead rats 90
Dejection 102
Do not place your trust in babies 75
Easter Sunday 109
Empedocles 65
Empty house 43
Falling 46
Fever 46
Flight 065 39
Forgive me 99
Foul mood 60
Four hands whisper and do 50
From Chihuahua to the border 39
Garden idyll 86
Genius (Lucerne) 25
Godless on Christmas day 99
Holy books 68
Homeric simile 89
Houlgate 128
How did Sam Beckett die? 80
I am a little snail 85
Iago 70
Immortality 65
Impatience 90
In a democracy 42
Insect 84
It 103
La misère 131
“Late Frost” by Suzuhiko Kawasaki 80
L’autobus à Paris 128
Le fou rêve de l’amoureux 126
Les morts ont peur 130
Let us dream (1) 44
Let us dream (2) 44
Lover’s maxim 55
Low tide and high tide in Normandy (Houlgate) 31
Man is what animal? 106
Marching song 98
Me for soft floors 97
Meditation on Wallace Stevens’ “The imperfect is our paradise” 74
Memorial Day 100
Morning at Chiavari (Liguria) 24
Morning in Chamonix 26
Motion 84
My father: 1978 101
My love answers my love 51
No more poems 54
Notre cathédrale 129
Old man in love 96
On my 29th birthday 110
On re-reading the New Testament 68
On the assassination of President Kennedy 78
On the beach 31
One day, after lunch 101
One minute before noon 35
Open letter to God 95
Others are more important 59
Oui, vous aimez la nature 129
Pigeon fly 88
Plenitude 46
Poor Augustulus 111
Professor Oscar Mandel 106
Rainy season in barracks (Camp Fuji 1954) 42
Repine, repine 58
Robbers 23
Robert Frost: “I’d as soon make love in Lover’s Lane as write for Little Magazines” 73
Robinson Jeffers: “Come peace or war, the progress of Europe and America becomes a long process of deterioration” 76
Sans titre 132
Si je pouvais 129
Sir Toby Belch against Shakespeare 116
Slanted bird 88
Song of boredom 112
Song 47
Sullen Myrmidons (1) 61
Sullen Myrmidons (2) 61
The astronaut ate a piece of consecrated bread on the moon (1969) 44
The atheist 69
The clock in the Amsterdam flea market 37
The conceptions of the intellect 71
The ecstasy of Brother Giles 111
The egg the Mother threw 58
The Fountain of Trevi 18
The garden 52
The great lack of our time is that we have no commanding myth to which we can give allegiance” 64
The infantryman and Baudelaire 71
The jail 54
The journey 55
The kidneys laugh at Plato 94
The life and death of Hannibal 67
The lodger in the floating room 108
The poet becomes an assistant professor 120
The poet feeling small 122
The poet gives up 123
The poet grows old, in four movements 117
The poet in a foul mood 118
The poet in a heavenly mood 119
The poet neither Guibelline nor Guelf 123
The poet wanting fame 123
The prisoner’s ballad 99
The proofreader’s lament 108
The radical visits La Baule 36
The romantic materialist 54
The schoolyard 95
The swimmer with the long cigar 107
The tree 97
The twenty-sixth of April 49
The vision of Jesus of Nazareth concerning Johann Sebastian Bach 68
The young man who is blind 91
Thwarted lover 57
To Blaise Pascal 96
To Ovid, from army barracks 67
Triplets 113
Two views 24
Unsafe I reply 55
Various poets 121
War ditty (1) 66
War ditty (2) 72
When does why end? 89
Where is the light? 116
Words for John Strachey’s “On the Prevention of War” 77
Wounded philosopher 58
Young Pan hauls Methodists away 47