The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Roethke, Theodore -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Open House 1941

Open House Feud Death Piece Prognosis To My Sister The Premonition Interlude Orders for the Day Prayer The Signals The Adamant

The Light Comes Brighter Slow Season Mid-Country Blow In Praise of Prairie The Coming of the Cold

1. “The late peach yields a subtle musk” 2. “The ribs of leaves lie in the dust” 3. “The small brook dies within its bed”

The Heron The Bat

III

No Bird The Unextinguished “Long Live the Weeds” Genesis Epidermal Macabre Against Disaster Reply to Censure The Auction Silence On the Road to Woodlawn

Academic For an Amorous Lady Poetaster Vernal Sentiment Prayer before Study My Dim-Wit Cousin Verse with Allusions

Ballad of the Clairvoyant Widow The Favorite The Reminder The Gentle The Reckoning Lull Sale Highway: Michigan Idyll Night Journey

The Lost Son and Other Poems 1948

Cuttings Cuttings (later) Root Cellar Forcing House Weed Puller Orchids Moss-Gathering Big Wind Old Florist Transplanting Child on Top of a Greenhouse Flower Dump Carnations Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze

My Papa’s Waltz Pickle Belt Dolor Double Feature The Return Last Words Judge Not

III

Night Crow River Incident The Minimal The Cycle The Waking

The Lost Son

1. The Flight 2. The Pit 3. The Gibber 4. The Return 5. “It was beginning winter”

The Long Alley A Field of Light The Shape of the Fire

From Praise to the End! 1951

Where Knock Is Open Wide I Need, I Need Bring the Day! Give Way, Ye Gates Sensibility! O La! O Lull Me, Lull Me

Praise to the End! Unfold! Unfold! I Cry, Love! Love!

From the Waking 1953

O, Thou Opening, O The Visitant A Light Breather Elegy for Jane Old Lady’s Winter Words Four for Sir John Davies

1. The Dance 2. The Partner 3. The Wraith 4. The Vigil

The Waking

From Words for the Wind 1958

I Lighter Pieces and Poems for Children

Song for the Squeeze-Box Reply to a Lady Editor Dinky The Cow The Serpent The Sloth The Lady and the Bear

II Love Poems

The Dream All the Earth, All the Air Words for the Wind I Knew a Woman The Voice She The Other The Sententious Man The Pure Fury The Renewal The Sensualists Love’s Progress The Surly One Plaint The Swan Memory

III Voices and Creatures

“The Shimmer of Evil” Elegy The Beast The Song The Exorcism The Small A Walk in Late Summer Snake Slug The Siskins

IV The Dying Man

The Dying Man

1. His Words 2. What Now? 3. The Wall 4. The Exulting 5. They Sing, They Sing

V Meditations of an Old Woman

First Meditation I’m Here Her Becoming Fourth Meditation What Can I Tell My Bones?

From I Am! Says the Lamb 1961

Nonsense Poems

The Kitty-Cat Bird The Whale The Yak The Donkey The Ceiling The Chair Myrtle Myrtle’s Cousin Goo-Girl The Gnu The Monotony Song Philander The Hippo The Boy and the Bush The Lamb The Lizard The Wagtail

The Far Field 1964

I North American Sequence

The Longing Meditation at Oyster River Journey to the Interior The Long Waters The Far Field The Rose

II Love Poems

The Young Girl Her Words The Apparition Her Reticence Her Longing Her Time Song Light Listened The Happy Three His Foreboding The Shy Man Her Wrath Wish for a Young Wife

III Mixed Sequence

The Abyss Elegy Otto The Chums The Lizard The Meadow Mouse Heard in a Violent Ward The Geranium On the Quay The Storm (Forio d’Ischia) The Thing The Pike All Morning The Manifestation Song The Tranced The Moment

IV Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical

In a Dark Time In Evening Air The Sequel The Motion Infirmity The Decision The Marrow I Waited The Tree, the Bird The Restored The Right Thing Once More, the Round

Previously Uncollected Poems

Light Poem Meditation in Hydrotherapy Lines upon Leaving a Sanitarium Song The Changeling The Follies of Adam Three Epigrams

1. Pipling 2. The Mistake 3. The Centaur

The Harsh Country A Rouse for Stevens The Saginaw Song Gob Music The Reply Duet Supper with Lindsay

Index of First Lines Other Books by This Author

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