Poems That Make Grown Men Cry (37 page)

A Blessing,
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A Call,
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Adlestrop,
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After Great Pain,
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All the Pretty Horses,
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A Meeting,
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Amor constante más allá de la muerte,
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and our faces, my heart, brief as photos
(extract),
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An End or a Beginning,
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An Exequy,
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A Poetry Reading
at West Point,
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Armada,
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A Summer Night,
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At Castle Boterel,
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Aubade,
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Bavarian Gentians,
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Bedecked,
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Brindis con el Viejo,
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Canoe,
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Canto LXXXI (extract from
The Pisan Cantos
),
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Canto LXXIV (extract from
The Pisan Cantos
),
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Character of the Happy Warrior,
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Crusoe in England,
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Dear Bryan Wynter,
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,
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Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13,
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Dulce et Decorum Est,
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During Wind and Rain,
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Eastern War Time (extract),
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Elegy,
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Elegy for Alto,
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End of Summer,
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Essay,
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eulogy to a hell of
a dame – ,
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Everyone Sang,
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Finnegans Wake
(extract),
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For Andrew Wood,
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For Julia, in the Deep Water,
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For Ruthie Rogers in Venice,
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Friday’s Child,
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Frost at Midnight,
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God’s World,
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God Wills It,
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Gone Ladies,
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Hokku,
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I Am,
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If I Could
Tell You,
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In Blackwater Woods,
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Injustice,
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In Memory of W. B. Yeats,
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I see a girl dragged by the wrists,
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Ithaka,
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It Is Here (for A),
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Keys to the Doors,
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Last Poems: XL,
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Last Sonnet (Bright Star),
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Let My Country Awake,
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Liberty,
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Long Distance I,
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Long Distance II,
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Love After Love,
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Love Constant Beyond Death,
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Lullaby,
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Midsummer:
‘Sonnet XLIII,’
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My Papa’s Waltz,
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Not Cancelled Yet,
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Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances,
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On My First Son,
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Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes,
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Out of Work,
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Over 2,000 Illustrations
and a Complete Concordance,
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Peer Gynt
(extract),
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Raising a Glass with My Old Man,
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Regarding the Home of One’s Childhood, One Could:,
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Remember,
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Requiem,
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Requiem for the Croppies,
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Sandra’s Mobile,
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Sonnet XXX,
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Surprised by Joy,
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The Broken Tower,
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The Book Burnings,
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The Cool Web,
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,
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The Horses,
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The Lanyard,
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The Masque of Anarchy
(extract),
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The Meaning of Africa,
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The Message,
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The Mother,
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The Remorseful Day,
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The Soldier,
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The Voice,
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The Widower in the Country,
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The Wind, One Brilliant Day,
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Those Who Are Near Me Do Not Know,
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Unfinished Poem,
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Wandrers Nachtlied II,
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War Has Been Given a Bad Name,
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Wayfarer’s Night Song II,
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Abortions will not let you forget,
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A constant artist, dedicated to,
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Africa, you were once just a name to me,
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After great pain a formal feeling comes – ,
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Alone at the shut of the day was I,
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An agitation of the air,
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And now, when the soul has gone its way to judgment,
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AND THE HORN may now paw the air howling goodbye . . . ,
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‘And these words shall then become,’
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. . . and there was a smell of mint under the tent flaps,
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. . . and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold,
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A new volcano has erupted,
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As I drive to the junction of lane and highway,
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As you set out for Ithaka,
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Barely a twelvemonth after,
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art – ,
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Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera,
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Chicago’s avenues, as white as Poland,
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Children are dumb to say how hot the day is,
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
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Dragonfly catcher,
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Earth will turn against you,
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Ensanguining the skies,
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Everyone suddenly burst out singing,
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Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy,
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forget the plum tree,
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From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
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He disappeared in the dead of winter,
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Here I stand,
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He told us we were free to
choose,
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‘Hold on,’ she said, ‘I’ll just run out and get him,’
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Hush-by, Don’t you cry,
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I am told that the best people have begun saying,
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I am – yet what I am, none cares or knows,
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If I should die, think only this of me,
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I know that on Sundays, at around midday,
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I’ll get up soon, and leave my bed unmade,
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In a dream I meet,
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In the night-reaches dreamed he of better graces,
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In wet May, in the months of change,
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I loved your age of wonder: your third and fourth,
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I read to the entire plebe class,
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I see a girl dragged by the wrists,
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I squeezed up the last stair to the room in the roof,
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I work all day, and
get half-drunk at night,
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Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
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Lay your sleeping head, my love,
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Long, long ago,
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Look, the trees,
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Memory says: Want to do right? Don’t count on me,
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My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
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Not every man has gentians in his house,
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Of the terrible doubt
of appearances,
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On my notebooks from school,
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Out on the lawn I lie in bed,
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Over all the hilltops,
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!,
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Remember me when I am gone away,
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Shoulders to cry on,
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So many poems about the deaths of animals,
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some dogs who sleep at night,
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Some honorary
day,
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Surprised by joy – impatient as the Wind,
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying,
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Tell me it’s wrong the scarlet nails my son sports or the toy,
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That was the deep uncanny mine of souls,
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The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn,
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The door that someone opened,
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The Frost performs its secret ministry,
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The instructor we hire,
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The other day I was ricocheting slowly,
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The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley . . . ,
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The time will come,
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The whiskey on your breath,
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The wind, one brilliant day, called,
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They sing their dearest songs – ,
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This is only a note,
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Those who are near me do not
know that you are nearer to me than they are,
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Though my eyes be closed by the final,
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Though my mother was already two years dead,
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Thus should have been our travels,
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Time will say nothing but I told you so,
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Über allen Gipfeln,
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Under the wide and starry sky,
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Well, I am thinking this may be my last,
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What reconciles me to my own death more than anything,
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What sound was that?,
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What thou lovest well remains,
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What would the dead want from us,
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When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge,
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,
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Where in the world is Helen gone,
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Where the mind is
without fear and the head is held high,
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Whoever discovers who I am will discover who you are,
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Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he,
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Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
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Yes. I remember Adlestrop – ,
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Yo sé que los domingos, casi al mediodía,
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Your bed’s got two wrong sides. You life’s all grouse,
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