Poems 1962-2012 (38 page)

Copper Beech

Corridor, A

Cottonmouth Country

Cousins

Crater Lake

Cripple in the Subway, The

Crossroads

Daisies

Dawn

Day Without Night

Decade

Dedication to Hunger

Departure:

My father is standing on a railroad platform.

The night isn't dark; the world is dark.

Descending Figure

Descent to the Valley

Destination, The

Doorway, The

Dream, The

Dream of Lust

Dream of Mourning, The

Drowned Children, The

Early Darkness

Early December in Croton-on-Hudson

Earthly Love

Earthly Terror

Earthworm:

It is not sad not to be human

Mortal standing on top of the earth, refusing

Easter Season

Echoes

Edge, The

Egg, The

Ellsworth Avenue

Elms

Embrace, The

Empty Glass, The

End of Summer

End of the World, The

End of Winter

Epithalamium

Eros

Eurydice

Evening Prayers

Evening Star, The

Exalted Image

Exile

Fable:

Then I looked down and saw

The weather grew mild, the snow melted.

We had, each of us, a set of wishes.

Fable, A

Fantasy, A

Fatigue

Field Flowers

Figs

Fire, The

Firstborn

First Memory

First Snow

Flowering Plum

For Jane Myers

Formaggio

For My Mother

Fortress, The

From a Journal

From the Japanese

Fugue

Game, The

Garden, The:

I couldn't do it again

One sound. Then the hiss and whir

Garment, The

Gemini

Gift, The

Golden Bough, The

Gold Lily, The

Grace

Grandmother in the Garden

Gratitude

Gretel in Darkness

Happiness

Harvest:

It grieves me to think of you in the past—

It's autumn in the market—

Hawk's Shadow

Hawthorn Tree, The

Heart's Desire

Heaven and Earth

Here Are My Black Clothes

Hesitate to Call

Horse

Hunters

Hyacinth

Illuminations

Immortal Love

Inferno

Inlet, The

In the Café

In the Plaza

Ipomoea

Island

Islander, The

Ithaca

Jacob's Ladder, The

Japonica

Jeanne d'Arc

Labor Day:

It's a year exactly since my father died.

Requiring something lovely on his arm

Lady in the Single, The

La Force

Lament:

A terrible thing is happening—my love

Suddenly, after you die, those friends

Lamentations

Lamium

Landscape

Late Snow

Legend

Letter from Our Man in Blossomtime

Letter from Provence

Letters, The

Liberation

Lost Love

Love in Moonlight

Love Poem

Lover of Flowers

Lullaby:

My mother's an expert in one thing:

Time to rest now; you have had

Lute Song

Magi, The

Marathon

March

Marina

Marriage

Matins:

Forgive me if I say I love you: the powerful

I see it is with you as with the birches:

Not the sun merely but the earth

The sun shines; by the mailbox, leaves

Unreachable father, when we were first

What is my heart to you

You want to know how I spend my time?

Meadowlands 1

Meadowlands 2

Meadowlands 3

Memo from the Cave

Memoir

Meridian

Messengers

Metamorphosis

Midnight

Midsummer:

How can I help you when you all want

On nights like this we used to swim in the quarry

Mirror, The

Mirror Image

Mitosis

Mock Orange

Moonbeam

Moonless Night

Morning

Mother and Child

Mountain, The

Mount Ararat

Murderess, The

Muse of Happiness, The

Mutable Earth

My Cousin in April

My Life Before Dawn

My Neighbor in the Mirror

Mystery, The

Mythic Fragment

Myth of Devotion, A

Myth of Innocence, A

Nativity Poem

Nest

New Life, The

New World

Night in Spring, A

Night Migrations, The

Night Piece

Noon

Northwood Path

Nostos

Novel, A

Nurse's Song

October

Odysseus' Decision

Olive Trees

Omens

Open Grave, The

Orfeo

Otis

Palais des Arts

Parable, A

Parable of Faith

Parable of Flight

Parable of the Beast

Parable of the Dove

Parable of the Gift

Parable of the Hostages

Parable of the King

Parable of the Swans

Parable of the Trellis

Paradise

Parodos

Pastoral

Penelope's Song

Penelope's Stubbornness

Persephone the Wanderer:

In the first version, Persephone

In the second version, Persephone

Phenomenal Survivals of Death in Nantucket

Pictures of the People in the War

Pietà

Poem

Pomegranate

Pond, The

Porcelain Bowl

Portland, 1968

Portrait

Portrait of the Queen in Tears

Precedent, A

Presque Isle

Primavera

Prism

Purple Bathing Suit

Queen of Carthage, The

Quiet Evening

Quince Tree

Racer's Widow, The

Radium

Rain in Summer

Rainy Morning

Red Poppy, The

Relic

Reproach, The

Retreating Light

Retreating Wind

Return, The

Returning a Lost Child

Reunion:

It is discovered, after twenty years, they like each other

When Odysseus has returned at last

Ripe Peach

Rock, The

Roman Study

Rosy

Ruse, The

Saint Joan

Saints

Saturnalia

School Children, The

Scilla

Scraps

Screened Porch

Seated Figure

Seconds

Seizure

Sensual World, The

September Twilight

Seven Ages, The

Shad-blow Tree, The

Silver Lily, The

Silverpoint

Siren

Slave Ship, The

Slip of Paper, A

Snow

Snowdrops

Solitude

Solstice:

Each year, on this same date, the summer solstice comes.

June's edge. The sun

Song

Spring Snow

Stars

Still Life

Study of My Sister

Summer

Summer at the Beach

Summer Night

Sunrise

Sunset:

At the same time as the sun's setting

My great happiness

Swans

Swimmer, The

Tango

Telemachus' Burden

Telemachus' Confession

Telemachus' Detachment

Telemachus' Dilemma

Telemachus' Fantasy

Telemachus' Guilt

Telemachus' Kindness

Telescope

Terminal Resemblance

Thanksgiving:

In every room, encircled by a name-

They have come again to graze the orchard

Threshing

Thrush

Time

Timor Mortis

To Autumn

To Florida

Traveler, The

Tree House, The

Tributaries

Trillium

Triumph of Achilles, The

12. 6. 71

Twilight

Undertaking, The

Under Taurus

Unpainted Door

Untrustworthy Speaker, The

Unwritten Law

Vespers:

End of August. Heat

Even as you appeared to Moses, because

I don't wonder where you are anymore.

I know what you planned, what you meant to do, teaching me

In your extended absence, you permit me

More than you love me, very possibly

Once I believed in you; I planted a fig tree.

Your voice is gone now; I hardly hear you.

You thought we didn't know. But we knew once

Vespers: Parousia

Via Delle Ombre

Village Life, A

Violets

Vita Nova:

In the splitting-up dream

You saved me, you should remember me.

Void

Walking at Night

Warm Day, A

White Lilies, The

White Rose, The

Widows

Wild Iris, The

Winged Horse, The

Winter Morning

Wish, The

Witchgrass

World Breaking Apart

Wound, The

Yellow Dahlia

Youth

ALSO BY LOUISE GLÜCK

POETRY

Firstborn

The House on Marshland

Descending Figure

The Triumph of Achilles

Ararat

The Wild Iris

Meadowlands

Vita Nova

The Seven Ages

Averno

A Village Life

ESSAYS

Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2012 by Louise Glück

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First edition, 2012

Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure, The Triumph of Achilles, Ararat, The Wild Iris, Meadowlands, Vita Nova,
and
The Seven Ages
were originally published by Ecco.
Averno
and
A Village Life
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