The Broken Ground (1964) | |
Elegy | p. 3 |
Observance | p. 5 |
Boone | p. 7 |
Green and White | p. 11 |
A Man Walking and Singing | p. 11 |
The Companions | p. 14 |
The Aristocracy | p. 15 |
The Bird Killer | p. 16 |
An Architecture | p. 16 |
Canticle | p. 17 |
Sparrow | p. 17 |
A Music | p. 18 |
To Go By Singing | p. 19 |
The Wild | p. 19 |
May Song | p. 20 |
The Fear of Darkness | p. 21 |
The Plan | p. 22 |
The Guest | p. 23 |
The Thief | p. 24 |
The Broken Ground | p. 25 |
Findings (1969) | |
The Design of a House | p. 29 |
The Handing Down | p. 35 |
Three Elegiac Poems | p. 49 |
Openings (1968) | |
The Thought of Something Else | p. 55 |
My Great-Grandfather's Slaves | p. 56 |
October 10 | p. 57 |
The Snake | p. 58 |
The Cold | p. 59 |
To My Children, Fearing for Them | p. 59 |
The Winter Rain | p. 60 |
March Snow | p. 61 |
April Woods: Morning | p. 61 |
The Finches | p. 61 |
The Porch over the River | p. 62 |
Before Dark | p. 63 |
The Dream | p. 64 |
The Sycamore | p. 65 |
The Meadow | p. 66 |
Against the War in Vietnam | p. 66 |
Dark with Power | p. 67 |
In Memory: Stuart Egnal | p. 67 |
The Want of Peace | p. 68 |
The Peace of Wild Things | p. 69 |
Grace | p. 69 |
To Think of the Life of a Man | p. 70 |
Marriage | p. 70 |
Do Not Be Ashamed | p. 71 |
Window Poems | p. 72 |
To a Siberian Woodsman | p. 95 |
A Discipline | p. 98 |
A Poem of Thanks | p. 99 |
Envoy | p. 99 |
Farming: A Hand Book (1970) | |
The Man Born to Farming | p. 103 |
The Stones | p. 103 |
The Supplanting | p. 104 |
Sowing | p. 104 |
The Familiar | p. 105 |
The Farmer among the Tombs | p. 105 |
For the Rebuilding of a House | p. 105 |
The Springs | p. 106 |
Rain | p. 106 |
Sleep | p. 107 |
To Know the Dark | p. 107 |
Winter Night Poem for Mary | p. 107 |
Winter Nightfall | p. 108 |
February 2, 1968 | p. 108 |
March 22, 1968 | p. 108 |
The Morning's News | p. 109 |
Enriching the Earth | p. 110 |
A Wet Time | p. 111 |
The Silence | p. 111 |
In This World | p. 112 |
The New Roof | p. 112 |
A Praise | p. 113 |
On the Hill Late at Night | p. 113 |
The Seeds | p. 114 |
The Wish to Be Generous | p. 114 |
Air and Fire | p. 114 |
The Lilies | p. 115 |
Independence Day | p. 116 |
A Standing Ground | p. 116 |
Song in a Year of Catastrophe | p. 117 |
The Current | p. 119 |
The Mad Farmer Revolution | p. 119 |
The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer | p. 121 |
The Farmer and the Sea | p. 122 |
Earth and Fire | p. 122 |
The Mad Farmer in the City | p. 123 |
The Birth | p. 124 |
Awake at Night | p. 128 |
Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer | p. 129 |
The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer | p. 132 |
Meditation in the Spring Rain | p. 135 |
The Grandmother | p. 137 |
The Heron | p. 137 |
September 2, 1969 | p. 138 |
The Farmer, Speaking of Monuments | p. 139 |
The Sorrel Filly | p. 139 |
To the Unseeable Animal | p. 140 |
The Country of Marriage (1973) | |
The Old Elm Tree by the River | p. 145 |
Poem | p. 145 |
Breaking | p. 146 |
The Country of Marriage | p. 146 |
Prayer after Eating | p. 148 |
Her First Calf | p. 149 |
Kentucky River Junction | p. 149 |
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front | p. 151 |
A Marriage, an Elegy | p. 152 |
The Arrival | p. 153 |
A Song Sparrow Singing in the Fall | p. 153 |
The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment | p. 153 |
Planting Trees | p. 155 |
The Wild Geese | p. 155 |
The Silence | p. 156 |
Anger against Beasts | p. 157 |
At a Country Funeral | p. 158 |
The Recognition | p. 159 |
Planting Crocuses | p. 160 |
Praise | p. 160 |
The Gathering | p. 161 |
A Homecoming | p. 162 |
The Mad Farmer's Love Song | p. 162 |
Testament | p. 163 |
The Clear Days | p. 165 |
Song | p. 166 |
Poem for J. | p. 166 |
The Long Hunter | p. 167 |
An Anniversary | p. 168 |
Clearing (1977) | |
History | p. 173 |
Where | p. 175 |
The Clearing | p. 180 |
Work Song | p. 187 |
From the Crest | p. 189 |
A Part (1980) | |
Stay Home | p. 199 |
To Gary Snyder | p. 199 |
For the Hog Killing | p. 200 |
Goods | p. 200 |
The Adze | p. 200 |
The Cold Pane | p. 201 |
Falling Asleep | p. 201 |
A Purification | p. 201 |
A Dance | p. 202 |
The Fear of Love | p. 203 |
Seventeen Years | p. 203 |
To What Listens | p. 204 |
Woods | p. 205 |
The Lilies | p. 205 |
Forty Years | p. 206 |
A Meeting | p. 206 |
Another Descent | p. 206 |
Below | p. 207 |
The Star | p. 207 |
The Hidden Singer | p. 207 |
The Necessity of Faith | p. 208 |
To the Holy Spirit | p. 209 |
Ripening | p. 209 |
The Way of Pain | p. 210 |
We Who Prayed and Wept | p. 211 |
Grief | p. 211 |
Fall | p. 212 |
An Autumn Burning | p. 212 |
A Warning to My Readers | p. 213 |
Creation Myth | p. 213 |
The First | p. 215 |
Walking on the River Ice | p. 215 |
Throwing Away the Mail | p. 215 |
Except | p. 216 |
For the Future | p. 216 |
Traveling at Home | p. 216 |
July, 1773 | p. 217 |
The Slip | p. 224 |
Horses | p. 225 |
The Wheel (1982) | |
Requiem | p. 233 |
Elegy | p. 234 |
Rising | p. 241 |
Desolation | p. 245 |
The Strait | p. 245 |
The Law That Marries All Things | p. 247 |
Setting Out | p. 248 |
Song (1) | p. 248 |
From the Distance | p. 249 |
Letter | p. 251 |
Returning | p. 252 |
To Tanya at Christmas | p. 252 |
Song (2) | p. 253 |
The River Bridged and Forgot | p. 255 |
The Gift of Gravity | p. 257 |
Song (3) | p. 261 |
The Wheel | p. 261 |
The Dance | p. 262 |
Passing the Strait | p. 263 |
Our Children, Coming of Age | p. 264 |
Song (4) | p. 264 |
In Rain | p. 267 |
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