Let Evening Come

Kindness to snails: Break of day / Galway Kinnell -- Happiness / Raymond Carver -- This morning / Jane Kenyon -- Monks o

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Let Evening Come

Table of contents :
Kindness to snails: Break of day / Galway Kinnell --
Happiness / Raymond Carver --
This morning / Jane Kenyon --
Monks of St. John's file in the prayer / Kilian McDonnell --
Job / William Baer --
Or death and December / George Garrett --
Sonnet: "Rarely, rarely comest thou, spirit of delight" / Gavin Ewart --
Little horse is new / E.E. Cummings --
Poem for Emily / Miller Williams --
For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock --
For my daughter in reply to a question / David Ignatow --
Goose / Muriel Spark --
Starting the Subaru at five below / Stuart Kestenbaum --
Day bath / Debra Spencer --
Such as it is more or less: Dialogue of watching / Kenneth Rexroth --
Birthday / W.S. Merwin --
Thoughts in a garden / Andrew Marvell --
Spring / Mary Oliver --
Unharvested / Robert Frost --
State of the economy / Louis Jenkins --
Arraignment / Debra Spencer --
From "song of myself" / Walt Whitman --
Ice storm / Jane Kenyon --
Passengers / Billy Collins --
Summer-camp bus pulls away from the curb / Sharon Olds --
You can take it with out / Josephine Jacobsen --
To David, about his education / Howard Nemerov --
Invitation / Carl Dennis --
Calling him back from layoff / Bob Hicok --
Working in the rain / Robert Morgan --
My father's lunch / Erica Funkhouser --
This lust of tenderness: Happiest day / Linda Pastan --
'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains' / John Keats --
Children's hospital, emergency room / Gregory Djanikian --
Lonely-weds know / Leah Furnas --
In answer to your query / Naomi Lazard --
Toast / Leonard Nathan --
Detail waiting for a train / Stanley Plumly --
September twelfth, 2001 / X.J. Kennedy --
Alter / Charles Simic --
Sonnet no. 6 dearest, I never know such loving / Hayden Carruth --
There comes the strangest moment / Kate Light --
Snowflake / William Baer --
Somewhere I'll find you / Phebe Hanson --
Feasting / Elizabeth W. Garber --
Song / W.H. Auden --
Yes / Catherine Doty --
Dalliance of the eagles / Walt whitman --
After love / Maxine Kumin --
Sonnet CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time / William Shakespeare --
Deliberate Obfuscation: Spiral notebook / Ted Kooser --
What's in my journal / William Stafford --
Why I took good care of my Macintosh / Gary Snyder --
Ode to my 1977 Toyota / Barbara Hamby --
Internal exile / Richard Cecil --
Burma-Shave --
Carnation milk / Anonymous --
Brief lecture on door closers / Clements Starck --
Sonnet Xll: Why are we by all creatures waited on? / John Donne --
Angels / Maurva Simon --
Passing through a small town / David Shumate --
In Paris with you / James Fenton --
Wedding poem for Schele and Phi / Bill Holm --
Sound of a car: Seven deadly sins / Virginia Hamilton Adair --
Teaching a child the art of confession / David Shumate --
Physics / Heather McHugh --
Things / Lisel Mueller --
Any prince to any princess / Adrian Henri --
Courage that my mother had / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Please Mrs Butler / Allan Ahlberg --
To a frustrated poet / R.J. Ellmann / Lesson of the moth / Don Marquis --
Disappointment / Tony Hoagland --
Cure / Ginger Andrews --
Upon hearing about the suicide of the daughter of friends / Jo McDougall --
Here it comes: Con job / Charles Bukowski --
Farewell to A' our Scottish fame / Robert Burns --
Easter morning / Jim Harrison --
Million young workmen, 1915 / Carl Sandburg --
College colonel / Herman Melville --
Ordinary life / Barbara Crooker --
Fight aloud, is very brave / Emily Dickinson --
Analysis of baseball / May Swenson --
Ode to American English / Barbara Hamby --
High water mark / David Shumate --
After school on ordinary days / Maria Mazziotti Gillan --
Snow in the suburbs / Thomas Hardy --
Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion --
Happiness / Michael Van Walleghen --
From tender buttons / Gertrude Stein --
Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic --
Theater / William Greenway --
Ode on the whole duty of parents / Frances Cornford: Benefits of ignorance / Hal Sirowitz --
Bunthiorne's song / W.S. Gilbert --
Rules of evidence / Lee Robinson --
Courtesy / Hilaire Belloc --
What the uneducated old woman told me / Christopher Reid --
Proverbs of hell / William Blake --
To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan --
No longer a teenager / Gerald Locklin --
Prayer / Galway Kinnell --
Minnesota Thanksgiving / John Berryman --
Berryman / W.S. Merwin --
Mother, in love at sixty / Susanna Styve --
My agent says / R.S. Gwynn --
Afraid so / Jeanne Marie Beaumont --
Yak / Hilaire Belloc --
High plains farming / William Notter --
Fish / Elizabeth Bishop --
Future / Wesley McNair --
Riveted / Robyn Sarah --
All that time / May Swenson --
My husband discovers poetry / Diane Lockeward --
Poet's occasional alternative / Grace Paley --
Unsaid / Stephen Dunn --
Snapshot of a lump / Kelli Russell Agodon --
Hymn to God, my God, in my sickness / John Donne --
Last days / Donald Hall --
Let it spill: Thelonious Monk / Stephen Dobyns --
Discovery of sex / Debra Spencer --
Lawyer / Carl Sandburg --
Prodigal son's brother / Steve Kowit --
Calling your father / Robert Bly --
Al and Beth / Louis Simpson --
Meeting / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Nothing is lost / Noel Coward --
Planet on the table / Wallace Stevens --
It is raining on the house of Ann Frank / Linda Pastan --
Sunlight on the garden / Louis MacNeice --
Too sweet / CharlesBukowski --
For my sister, emigrating / Wendy Cope --
Three Kings / Muriel Spark --
Not only the Eskimos / Lisel Mueller --
Where go the boats / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Parade / Billy Collins --
My cup / Robert Friend --
Affirmation / Donald Hall --
Singing Voice / Kenneth Rexroth --
Since you asked / Lawrence Raab --
Inviting a friend to supper / Ben Johnson --
Love cook / Ron Padgett --
Soda crackers / Raymond Carver --
That silent evening / Galway Kinnell --
This is how memory works / Patricia Hampl --
"Purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once" / X.J. Kennedy --
I feel our kinship: Death mask / Edward Field --
That's the sum of it / David Ignatow --
Suck it up / Paul Zimmer --
Day the tree fell down / Jack LaZebnik --
White autumn / Robert Morgan --
Naked / Jennifer Michael Hecht --
Slow children at play / Cecilia Woloch --
Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly --
My brother's in Wyoming. / Gary Young --
My brother / Denver Butson --
Still life / Carl Sandburg --
Changing light / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
Fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop --
Man in Main / Philip Booth --
War in the air / Howard Nemerov --
In the middle / Barbara Crooker --
Are you tired of me, my darling?/ On a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth --
Closing in on the harvest / Leo Dangel --
Reconciliation / Walt Whitman --
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord / Emily Dickinson --
Last waltz / Alden Nowlan --
Rye Whiskey / Let old Nellie stay / In praise of my bed / Meredith Holmes --
Poem for the family / Susan Cataldo --
In bed with a book / Mona Van Duyn --
My father gets up in the middle of the night to watch an old movie / Dennis Trudell --
Prayer in the prospect of death / Robert Burns --
Diner / Louis Jenkins --
When death comes /Mary Oliver --
My funeral / Willis Barbstone --
Wish to be generous / Wendell Berry --
Last poem / Ted Berrigan --
Simpler than I could find words for: Just now / W.S. Merwin --
Psalm 51/ Dawn revisited / Rita Dove --
Crossing the bar / Alford, Lord Tennyson --
Morning swim / Maxine Kumin --
Biographies --
Author Index --
Title Index.

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