Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets

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Introduction
The Tempering (1918)
	Heart-Song
	If It Be
	Le Mort
Forgotten Shrines (1918)
	Yet More Than This
	“These were the meadow lands of his delight”
	“I watched you as you turned and waited there”
Four Gardens (1919)
	A Portrait
	The Black Swan
	The Goblin’s Bride
Spires and Poplars (1919)
	“O beautiful and reckless whom I loved”
	“Sleep in this sacred earth, the strife is done”
	C. L. W., with a Mirror
The White God, and Other Poems (1919)
	Song
	Reminiscence
	After Combat
Where Lilith Dances (1919)
	Ere the Years Numbered Nine
	All Souls’ Eve
	The Night Wind
Jr. Wild Geese (1920)
	The Tokens
	“A Sea-Change”
	Winter
Horizons (1920)
	Nocturne
	The North Wind
	Elan Vital
Wampum and Old Gold (1920)
	Bacchus Is Gone
	The Wingless Victory
	We
Golden Darkness (1920)
	Two Pale Hands in the Night
	The Reckoning
	All the Things I Yearned to Say
White April (1921)
	Forgotten
	Earth Lover
	Rumors
Dreams and a Sword (1921)
	Wasted Hours
	Walls
	The Deserted Farm
Hidden Waters (1921)
	Shepherd’s Pipe
	Wind Flower
	Wanderer
Attitudes (1921)
	Pour Elle
	Mirage
	Les Cygnes
Jr. The Last Lutanist (1922)
	Fragment
	Restless
	The Dark City
Battle-Retrospect (1922)
	Battle-Retrospect
	Unsung
	Romanesque
Silver Wands (1922)
	Blackberry Winter
	Gold of Beeches
	Blue Cups
Mosaics (1922)
	The Woman to the Man
	October
	Rondeau
Up and Down (1923)
	Ode to Loneliness
	Bedouin Lullaby
	Memories
Coach into Pumpkin (1924)
	Volumes
	Study in Clouds
	Sonnet
Quest (1925)
	Balm
	Because Your Heart Was Shy
	Disillusionment
High Passage (1925)
	Mountain Rivers
	The Empire Sofa
	Missing Men
Dark Pavilion (1926)
	Forgive Me
	I Remember a Hill
	The Sealed Mouth to the Baffled Heart
Twist o’ Smoke (1927)
	I Have Sat by Many Fires
	Punctuation
	“We must not even think of faces known”
A Stranger and Afraid (1927)
	Two Unlamented
	Nocturne in Sepia
	Stay-at-Home Sonnets
The Unchanging Mask (1927)
	Prophecy at Love’s End
	Crossing
	Song of the Image Makers
Hemlock Wall (1928)
	Lullaby
	Deserted Orchard
	Hands
Half-Light and Overtones (1928)
	As Autumn Fields
	The Valley of the Muted Songbirds
	The Amethyst Gardens
Virtuosa (1929)
	Two Cinquains
	Farm by the Sea
	“Loveliest of Trees”
Dark Certainty (1930)
	Document
	Capriccio
	She Who Lies Motionless with an Arrow in Her Heart
Worn Earth (1931)
	Road Gang
	The Torn Leaf
	One Slim Feather
The Dark Hills Under (1932)
	Portrait
	A Plea Unheard
	Sonnet XX
Permit Me Voyage (1933)
	Sonnet IV
	Sonnet XXII
	Permit Me Voyage
Theory of Flight (1934)
	Effort at Speech Between Two People
	City of Monuments
	Metaphor to Action
The Deer Come Down (1935)
	Thicket
	I Would Be Wiser
	Skull
The Gardener Mind (1936)
	To a Columbine
	Souvenir of Maine
	Lost
The Connecticut River and Other Poems (1938)
	Norwich Hill
	The Albino Deer
	The Hammer-Throw
Return Again, Traveler (1939)
	“We came during those years”
	Taxi mister taxi
	“And everywhere”
For My People (1941)
	We Have Been Believers
	Southern Song
	Memory
Love Letter from an Impossible Land (1943)
	War Sonnet
	The Islands of My Desire
	In Strange Events
Cut Is the Branch (1944)
	There Is Something to Be Said
	George
	The Spell
Family Circle (1945)
	My Mother Sorrow
	Home for the Week End
	Delilah
Poems (1946)
	Lullaby
	The Long Trail
	It Is Not I Who Am Sleeping in the Rock
A Beginning (1947)
	Twenty-One Years
	Clean, Cool, Early
	Soft Swimmer, Winter Swan
The Grasshopper’s Man and Other Poems (1948)
	Dirge for the Living
	Prologue
	Ripeness Is Rapid
A Change of World (1950)
	Storm Warnings
	What Ghosts Can Say
	Unsounded
A Mask for Janus (1951)
	The Bones of Palinurus Pray to the North Star
	Song with the Eyes Closed
	Carol of the Three Kings
Various Jangling Keys (1952)
	Sailing to Europe
	Near a Cemetery Pond
	In Memory of Robert Menner
An Armada of Thirty Whales (1953)
	Off Chichicastenengo
	Auricle’s Oracle
	An Age of Fable
Some Trees (1955)
	A Boy
	Errors
	Answering a Question in the Mountains
The Green Wall (1956)
	Father
	Eleutheria
	Autumnal
A Crackling of Thorns (1957)
	Carmen Ancillae
	A Word Remembered
	Jefferson Valley
Of the Festivity (1958)
	Part Song, with Concert of Recorders
	Les très riches heures
	A Vision, Caged
Bone Thoughts (1959)
	Technologies
	A Tapestry for Bayeux
	Cora Punctuated with Strawberries
Poems (1960)
	This Morning Here
	The Mirror Perilous
	How We Heard the Name
Views of Jeopardy (1961)
	Perspective He Would Mutter Going to Bed
	The Abnormal Is Not Courage
	It Is Clear Why the Angels Come No More
Manhattan Pastures (1962)
	Inferno
	Hansoms
	Divers
The Breaking of the Day (1963)
	Fogged In
	Summer School
	The Suicide
Dream Barker (1964)
	Asleep over Lines from Willa Cather
	Sasha and the Poet
	Sex
The Lost Pilot (1966)
	The Face of the Waters
	The Lost Pilot
	Grace
Coming Close (1967)
	Among the Supermarket
	Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe
	Encounters And
Uranium Poems (1968)
	Happy Jack’s Rock
	Watersong
	Buzzards’ Bay
Collecting Evidence (1969)
	Fragmenta
	Poem
	Pattern
Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket (1970)
	Poem for L. C.
	No Turtles
	Photographs of Ogunquit
Field Guide (1972)
	Maps
	At Stinson Beach
	Two Views of Buson
Threats Instead of Trees (1973)
	The Beginning of Sympathy
	Talking About Things
	The Blind Swimmer
Snow on Snow (1974)
	Dreaming of Shells
	A Few Picnics in Illinois
	Going Back
Gathering the Tribes (1975)
	From Memory
	Las Truchas
	Year at Mudstraw
Beginning with O (1976)
	Leda and Her Swan
	Triple Muse
	Snow White
The Difference Between Night and Day (1977)
	The Channel Swimmer
	Martyrdom: A Love Poem
	The Green Horse
Natural Histories (1978)
	Nostalgia
	His Early and Late Paintings
	Memo
One Way to Reconstruct the Scene (1979)
	Winter Light
	One Way to Reconstruct the Scene
	In the Pit
Green Soldiers (1980)
	The Midnight Sun
	Rejects from the Greenhouse
	The Fox
Icehouse Lights (1981)
	Distance
	Cold Glow: Icehouses
	Another Coast
Picture Bride (1982)
	The Youngest Daughter
	Blue Lantern
	The Seamstress
The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (1983)
	La Brea
	The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
	Colloquy at Sawmill
Navigable Waterways (1984)
	Tea Story
	Primer
	The Vanishing Point
Terms to Be Met (1985)
	The Sound of the Sun
	In the Flemish Gallery
	Terms to Be Met
Above the Land (1986)
	Franklin
	Arrival
	February
To the Place of Trumpets (1987)
	Music School
	The White Deer
	To the Lost Child
Out of the Woods (1988)
	After a Terrible Thing Happened
	Standing in a Clearing
	Temporary Structure
Hermit with Landscape (1989)
	Andrew’s Jewelweed
	The People’s Hotel
	A Sneeze on High
Bears Dancing in the Northern Air (1990)
	Oracle
	Calling
	The Music Box
Hands of the Saddlemaker (1991)
	Amnesiac
	What Continues
	Amphilohios
Stone Crop (1992)
	Sometimes I Went to a Dark Place
	Fish Song
	Of the Many Words for Snow,
Thinking the World Visible (1993)
	Season’s End
	That Which Is Fugitive, That Which Is Medicinally Sweet or Alterable to Gold, That Which Is Substantiated by Unscientific Means
	Lyric Task
Living in the Resurrection (1994)
	August
	Objects of Belief
	Constellations
Cities of Memory (1995)
	The Body in Youth
	Planisféria, Map of the World, Lisbon, 1554
	The Sermon to Fishes
My Shining Archipelago (1996)
	Flemish Beauty
	Conversation with the Sun Bittern
	From Stone
Shells (1998)
	Hermit crab
	Great dark man
	Shore
Ultima Thule (1999)
	Cave Wind
	Floyd’s Lost Passage
	The River and Under the River
Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (2000)
	A Prayer Against Forgetting Boys
	Pegasus
	Like a Tree
Discography (2001)
	The Old Record
	False Love
	The Sweet Obsession Bleeds from Singer
Famous Americans (2002)
	The Prize
	Interviews
	Exploded
Cuckoo (2003)
	Memories Are Nothing, Today Is Important
	After Words
	Pilgrim’s Progress
Crush (2004)
	Dirty Valentine
	Wishbone
	Road Music
Green Squall (2005)
	Nothing to Do Now but Sit and Wait
	And the Sunflower Weeps for the Sun, Its Flower
	Aubade
Frail-Craft (2006)
	Nonsight
	Tide
	The Hunger for Form
The Earth in the Attic (2007)
	Proposal
	Morning Ritual
	Additional Notes on Tea
It Is Daylight (2008)
	From Speaking in the Fall
	Poem #9
	Elegy
Juvenilia (2009)
	My Father and My Mother Decide My Future and How Could We Forget Wang Wei?
	At Taipei Station, I Saw This City Undress!
	Yes, No, Yes, the Future, Gone, Happy, Yes, No, Yes, Cut, You
Radial Symmetry (2010)
	Statuary
	Risk
	Metamorphosis
Slow Lightning (2011)
	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
	Caballero
	Monologue of a Vulture’s Shadow
Westerly (2012)
	Fragment from a Coptic Tunic
	Westerly
	After A Silvia
Eruv (2013)
	The Disaster Takes Care of Everything
	Entropical (the Bulk)
	Found Well
Blue Yodel (2014)
	The Girl with Antlers
	Reverse: A Lynching
	Sailmaker’s Palm
The Destroyer in the Glass (2015)
	Like the Pelican
	Thou in Time
	Empathy
Simulacra (2016)
	The Mine Owner’s Wife
	If My Late Grandmother Were Gertrude Stein
	Sexton Texts Tituba from a Bird Conservatory
We Play a Game (2017)
	Arrangements
	Lake Hoàn Kiêm
	The Roundworm Travels Up from the Foot
The Year of Blue Water (2018)
	Dream Diary
	“Form gives space”
	“The male dancers”
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