| Anastasia & Sandman The brow of a horse in that moment when |
| Daffy Duck In Hollywood Something strange is creeping across me. |
| Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets It's summer, 1956, in Maine, a camp resort |
| A Path Between Houses The enigma of August. |
| The Philosopher in Florida Midsummer lies on this town |
| A Lesson for This Sunday The growing idleness of summer grass |
| The Idea of Order at Key West She sang beyond the genius of the sea. |
| Summer Holiday When the sun shouts and people abound |
| The Fishermen at Guasti Park In the first days of summer |
| My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer When the moon appears |
| Ground Swell Is nothing real but when I was fifteen, |
| A Green Crab's Shell Not, exactly, green: |
| Vespers In your extended absence, you permit me |
| Rhode Island Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over |
| Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
| Jet Sometimes I wish I were still out |
| Vertumnal [excerpt] Close call, close call, close |
| Wildflower Some--the ones with fish names--grow so north |
| After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard East of me, west of me, full summer. |
| The White Room The obvious is difficult |
| June Light Your voice, with clear location of June days |
| And You Thought You Were the Only One Someone waits at my door. Because he is |
| Fishing on the Susquehanna in July I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna |
| On 52nd Street Down sat Bud, raised his hands, |
| Long Island Sound I see it as it looked one afternoon |
| If You Get There Before I Do Air out the linens, unlatch the shutters on the eastern side, |
| I, Up they soar I / Up they soar, the planet's butterflies, |
| The Family Photograph In the window of the drawing-room |
| On the Grasshopper and the Cricket The poetry of earth is never dead: |
| They'll spend the summer They'll spend the summer |
| Arms I’m late for the birth- |
| Jack How pleasant the yellow butter |
| Vacation I love the hour before takeoff |
| Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child One summer afternoon, I learned by body |
| Sally's Hair It's like living in a light bulb, with the leaves |
| The Abduction Some things I do not profess |
| Poem at Thirty The rich little kids across the street |
| Aftermath Slumped in a prickly armchair |
| The Summer House The Danube glitters and toils |
| Shaking the Grass Evening, and all my ghosts come back to me |
| Insect Life of Florida In those days I thought their endless thrum |
| Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night |
| Psychoanalysis: An Elegy What are you thinking about? |
| Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits Fat Southern men in their summer suits |
| The Bargain In the transatlantic fury |
| Miracles Why, who makes much of a miracle |
| The Fly Little fly |
| Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina There was no water at my grandfather's |
| Let Birds Eight deer on the slope |
| A Boy and His Dad A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip |
| Summer Past There was the summer. There |
| Summer Night, Riverside In the wild soft summer darkness |
| Warm Summer Sun Warm summer sun |
| In Summer Oh, summer has clothed the earth |
| Back Yard Shine on, O moon of summer |
| Idyll In the grey summer garden I shall find you |
| Summer Song Wanderer moon |
| Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair |
| For Once, Then, Something Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs |
| The Last Slow Days of Summer BE YOUR OWN MASTER! says the Vedanta Society sign |
| Making the Bed Summer country. In the morning the leaves |
| Mint Already, we'd be driving past |
| I see the boys of summer I see the boys of summer in their ruin |