This collection of poetry showcases the unique talent of James Schuyler and highlights the writing that won him a Pulitzer Prize.

James Schuyler (1923-91) received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Morning of the Poem in 1981.

Editors' Note	p. xiii
Freely Espousing (1969)
Freely Espousing	p. 3
February	p. 4
With Frank and George at Lexington	p. 5
A Reumon	p. 6
Quick, Henry, the Flit!	p. 6
A New Yorker	p. 7
Walter Scott	p. 8
Greetings from the Chateau	p. 9
Royals	p. 10
"The Elizabethans Called It Dying"	p. 11
March Here	p. 12
Faberge	p. 12
A White City	p. 13
December	p. 13
Ilford Rose Book	p. 14
Rachmaninoff's Third	p. 14
Money Musk	p. 15
A Man in Blue	p. 16
Sestina	p. 18
An Almanac	p. 19
Thinness	p. 20
Hudson Ferry	p. 21
Flashes	p. 22
April and Its Forsythia	p. 23
Roof Garden	p. 24
May 24th or So	p. 24
Penobscot	p. 25
Today	p. 26
Sorting, wrapping, packing, stuffing	p. 27
Seeking	p. 29
Crocus Night	p. 31
Milk	p. 31
Going	p. 32
The Master of the Golden Glow	p. 33
Stun	p. 34
"Earth's Holocaust"	p. 35
Poem	p. 36
3/23/66	p. 36
Industrial Archaeology	p. 37
Now and then	p. 38
Buried at Springs	p. 42
Salute	p. 44
from The Home Book 1951-1970 (1977)
A Grave	p. 47
Poem	p. 47
At the Beach	p. 48
Self-Pity Is a Kind of Lying, Too	p. 48
A Picnic Cantata	p. 49
Grand Duo	p. 57
Things to Do	p. 59
Dreams	p. 60
Joint	p. 62
Jelly Jelly	p. 63
Sonnet	p. 64
Voyage autour de mes cartes postales	p. 64
Four Poems	p. 67
"It's 4:30 in Cambridge"	p. 67
Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Mass.	p. 69
"We must observe the amenities"	p. 69
Frank! Frank!	p. 70
A Head	p. 71
Looking Forward to See Jane Real Soon	p. 73
Dorabella's Naples Watercolor	p. 73
A Poem	p. 74
The Crystal Lithium (1972)
Southampton and New York
Empathy and New Year	p. 77
Poem	p. 80
In January	p. 80
Blue	p. 81
Spring	p. 82
In earliest morning	p. 82
An East Window on Elizabeth Street	p. 84
Alice Faye at Ruby Foo's	p. 85
Buildings	p. 86
Wonderful World	p. 87
Scarlet Tanager	p. 88
A Sun Cab	p. 90
The Island
Light Blue Above	p. 92
The Cenotaph	p. 93
After Joe was at the island	p. 98
"Used Handkerchiefs 5[cent]"	p. 98
The Trash Book	p. 99
8/12/70	p. 100
Light from Canada	p. 100
Gulls	p. 101
Closed Gentian Distances	p. 102
Fall and Winter
September	p. 103
Evening Wind	p. 103
A Vermont Diary	p. 104
A Stone Knife	p. 111
The Dog Wants His Dinner	p. 113
Running Footsteps	p. 114
The Crystal Lithium	p. 116
Loving You
Janis Joplin's Dead: Long Live Pearl	p. 120
Eyes	p. 121
The Night	p. 123
Like Lorraine Ellison	p. 124
Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum?	p. 125
Letter Poem #2	p. 130
We Are Leaves	p. 130
Await	p. 132
Steaming Ties	p. 134
Watching You	p. 135
Letter Poem #3	p. 136
Hymn to Life (1974)
Waterbury
Beautiful Funerals	p. 139
Roxy	p. 143
Our Father	p. 147
Mike	p. 149
In the round	p. 152
Elsewhere
Poem	p. 154
To Frank O'Hara	p. 154
Unlike Joubert	p. 156
Sometimes	p. 157
Eyes at the Window	p. 157
Two	p. 159
May, 1972	p. 159
June	p. 160
I think	p. 161
For Bob Dash	p. 162
Song	p. 162
Shimmer	p. 163
A Held Breath	p. 164
Sunday	p. 164
Bleeding Gums	p. 165
The sky eats up the trees	p. 166
Gray, intermittently blue, eyed hero	p. 167
Greenwich Avenue	p. 169
Labor Day	p. 170
Just before fall	p. 171
Buttered Greens	p. 172
Sparks	p. 176
Deep Winter	p. 176
In Wiry Winter	p. 177
So Good	p. 179
October	p. 180
Was It	p. 182
Poem	p. 183
Daylight	p. 183
You're	p. 184
A photograph	p. 186
Up	p. 187
Saturday Night	p. 188
Sunday	p. 189
August Night	p. 189
A blue towel	p. 192
Evenings in Vermont
The Bluet	p. 195
"From the next ..."	p. 196
Standing and Watching	p. 196
The Green Door	p. 197
Sunset	p. 198
The Day	p. 198
Evening	p. 200
The Walk	p. 200
Evenings in Vermont	p. 203
Awoke	p. 203
Afterward	p. 204
The Faure Ballade
The Faure Ballade	p. 206
Hymn to Life
Hymn to Life	p. 214
The Morning of the Poem (1980)
New Poems
This Dark Apartment	p. 227
June 30, 1974	p. 228
Korean mums	p. 231
Growing Dark	p. 232
Dec. 28, 1974	p. 233
Good morning	p. 234
Song	p. 235
A Name Day	p. 236
Footnote	p. 238
Afterward	p. 238
I sit down to type	p. 240
The snow	p. 242
Wystan Auden	p. 242
Dining Out with Doug and Frank	p. 244
The Payne Whitney Poems
Trip	p. 252
We walk	p. 252
Arches	p. 253
Linen	p. 253
Heather and Calendulas	p. 254
Back	p. 255
Blizzard	p. 255
February 13, 1975	p. 256
Sleep	p. 256
Pastime	p. 257
What	p. 257
The Morning of the Poem
The Morning of the Poem	p. 259
A Few Days (1985)
The Snowdrop	p. 307
The Rose of Marion	p. 307
Gray Day	p. 308
This notebook	p. 309
Lilacs	p. 310
Thursday	p. 311
Cornflowers	p. 312
Velvet Roses	p. 312
August first, 1974	p. 313
Sleep-Gummed Eyes	p. 314
Overcast, Hot	p. 315
At Darragh's I	p. 316
White	p. 317
Dear Joe	p. 318
Amy Lowell Thoughts	p. 319
The morning	p. 320
October 5, 1981	p. 320
Moon	p. 321
Virginia Woolf	p. 321
Oriane	p. 322
Beaded Balustrade	p. 323
People who see bubbles rise	p. 323
Autumn Leaves	p. 324
En Route to Southampton	p. 325
Tomorrow	p. 326
November	p. 326
Faure's Second Piano Quartet	p. 327
A Belated Birthday Poem	p. 328
Poem	p. 330
Red Brick and Brown Stone	p. 330
Tom	p. 332
Tom's Attempt to Seduce Big Brother Steve	p. 335
Sleep	p. 336
The Day	p. 337
A Table of Green Fields	p. 337
Tom's Dream	p. 338
Perhaps	p. 339
O Sleepless Night	p. 339
Suddenly	p. 345
The Fireproof Floors of Witley Court
Witley Court	p. 346
Below the Stairs	p. 346
In a Churchyard	p. 347
Hats	p. 348
Frock	p. 348
What Ails My Fern?	p. 348
Wild Eggs	p. 350
Boer War Bread Strike	p. 350
Procession	p. 351
Adverts	p. 351
A Few Days
A few days	p. 354
Mark	p. 383
Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses	p. 383
Mood Indigo	p. 385
Rain	p. 387
Birds	p. 388
Shadowy Room	p. 389
White Boat, Blue Boat	p. 390
Over the hills	p. 391
A cardinal	p. 393
Ajaccio Violets	p. 393
Shaker	p. 394
Three Gardens	p. 396
4404 Stanford	p. 396
Erta Canina	p. 396
Chelsea	p. 397
Let's All Heat It for Mildred Bailey!	p. 397
Noon Office	p. 399
Simone Signoret	p. 400
The light within	p. 402
Advent	p. 403
Six something	p. 403
Andrew Lord Poems	p. 404
Under the Hanger	p. 411
Yellow Flowers	p. 414
Blossoming Oakwood	p. 415
A Chapel	p. 416
A View	p. 417
"This soft October"	p. 418
On the dresser	p. 420
Princess Di	p. 421
Haze	p. 423
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 425
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