Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

The Image and the Law (1947)
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Europe The Frozen City From a Record of Disappointment The Truth of the Matter Two Poems The Stare of the Man from the Provinces Portrait of Three Conspirators The Triumph of Education In the Glass of Fashion Who Did Not Die in Vain The Place of Value Under the Bell Jar The Master at a Mediterranean Port Paraphrase from Notebooks The Situation Does Not Change
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Observation of October Metropolitan Sunday Warning: Children at Play Two Sides to an Outside: Meditation from Empson A Morality Epitaph on a Philosopher the Reports of Whose Death Have Been Grossly Minimized The Baron Baedeker Blew His Nose and, Sighing, Departed Crocodile at the Ancient Tombs Glass Dialectic Refusal of a Kindness Offered A Chromium-plated Hat: Inlaid with Scenes from Siegfried History of a Literary Movement
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Autumnal For the Squadron For W___, Who Commanded Well September Shooting The Soldier Who Lived through the War According to His Seasons To the Memory of John Wheelwright Anniversary Lot's Wife An Old Photograph The Photograph of a Girl On Reading "The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke"
Sestina I Sestina II The Fortune Teller Advice from the Holy Tomb Unscientific Postscript

Guide to the Ruins (1950)
Guide to the Ruins The Second-Best Bed A Poem of Margery Kempe A Song of Degrees On a Text: Jonah IV, xi Nicodemus To the Babylonians Virgin and Martyr Mars Peace in Our Time Song The Bacterial War Redeployment To a Friend Grand Central, with Soldiers, in Early Morning A Fable of the War The Hero Comes Home in His Hamper, and Is Exhibited at the World's Fair The Brief Journey West Succession Fragment from Correspondence Fables of the Moscow Subway The Old Country Trial and Death, a Double Feature Sonnet Carol Sonnet at Easter Elegy of Last Resort Still Life I Still Life II Still Life III The Lives of Gulls and Children The Earthquake in the West Praising the Poets of That Country Madrigal Four Sonnets The Ecstasies of Dialectic Antigone Sonnet A Lean and Hungry Look The Phoenix

The Salt Garden (1955)
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Fall Song The Winter Lightning Zalmoxis Dandelions Midsummer's Day The First Leaf Sunday at the End of Summer A Harvest Home The Cuckoo King The Pond
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The Scales of the Eyes
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The Salt Garden The Sanctuary The Gulls I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee The Goose Fish
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Dialectical Songs Returning to Europe Armistice The Vacuum Young Woman Instructions for Use of This Toy An Issue of Life Dialogue The Deposition
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The Snow Globe An Old Picture Central Park The Quarry Truth The Market-Place The Book of Kells The Priest's Curse on Dancing Sleeping Beauty Deep Woods

Mirrors and Windows (1958)
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The Mirror Trees The Town Dump The Sunglasses Storm Windows Shells The Statues in the Public Gardens A Day on the Big Branch An Old Warplane Sandpipers A Clock with No Hands
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Lightning Storm on Fuji Home for the Holidays The Loon's Cry Sunderland Moses Ahasuerus Orphic Scenario
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The Wheel King Distraction False Solomon's Seal The Murder of William Remington The Old Soldiers' Home Suburban Prophecy A Primer of the Daily Round Epigrams The Fourth of July Reflexions on the Seizure of the Suez Seven Macabre Songs A Singular Metamorphosis Lore Drama Tale Endegeeste Moonshine Canossa Student Dies in 100 Yard Dash
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Maia Cloud Seeding The Map-Maker on His Art Brainstorm Limits To Lu Chi Art Song Writing Painting a Mountain Stream Sarabande Steps for a Dancer The Dancer's Reply Holding the Mirror Up to Nature
 
New Poems (1960)
Moment Runes On Certain Wits To H. M.
Maestria Going Away Life Cycle of Common Man Boom!
Mrs. Mandrill The View from an Attic Window Death and the Maiden Angel and Stone The Remorse for Time Mousemeal The Icehouse in Summer
 
The Next Room of the Dream (1962)
1. Effigies To Clio, Muse of History Santa Claus To the Mannequins Fontenelle The Iron Characters Don Juan to the Statue Journey of the Snowmen The Daily Globe A Picture Nothing Will Yield One Forever Falien A Predecessor of Perseus
2. Emblems A Spell before Winter Human Things Winter Exercise Idea Somewhere De Anima The Dial Tone Goldfish Polonius Passing through a Stage The View from Pisgah Maiden with Orb and Planets The First Point of Aries The Dragonfly The Junction, on a Warm Afternoon Blue Suburban These Words Also Vermeer At a Country Hotel The End of Summer School Burning the Leaves Elegy for a Nature Poet The Fall Again Lot Later The Private Eye To David, about His Education An Interview Gnomes Realities Debate with the Rabbi To the Bleeding Hearts Association of American Novelists The Poet at Forty From the Desk of the Laureate: For Immediate Release Make Big Money at Home! Write Poems in Spare Time!
On the Threshold of His Greatness, the Poet Comes Down with a Sore Throat Metamorphoses Lion & Honeycomb
4 Endor
5 Cain

The Blue Swallows (1967)
1. Legends The First Day Creation of Anguish Landscape with Figures The Distances They Keep Learning by Doing In the Commercial Gardens The Cherry Tree A Life Growing a Ghost Epitaph The View The Human Condition The Companions Sarajevo This, That & the Other To a Scholar in the Stacks Lobsters An Old Colonial Imperialist Beyond the Pleasure Principle Departure of the Ships
2. The Great Society The Night before Christmas Sunday Enthusiasm for Hats A Way of Life Money Make Love Not War A Negro Cemetery Next to a White One At the Airport Presidential Address to a Party of Exiles To the Governor & the Legislature of Massachusetts A Full Professor Grace To Be Said before Committee Meetings A Relation of Art and Life A Modern Poet On the Platform Cybernetics Keeping Informed in D.C.
The Great Society, Mark X The Dream of Flying Comes of Age Grace To Be Said at the Supermarket August, 1945
Christmas Morning
3. Figures The Flame of a Candle Between the Window and the Screen Decorated Skull in a University Museum Dead River The Rope's End Projection In the Black Museum The Race Sightseers Thought Style Celestial Globe One Way
4. The Blue Swallows The Blue Swallows The May Day Dancing The Breaking of Rainbows The Beekeeper Speaks . . . And Is Silent The Mud Turtle Summer's Elegy Two Girls For Robert Frost, in the Autumn, in Vermont The Sweeper of Ways Small Moment Firelight in Sunlight Interiors

Gnomes & Occasions (1973)