| Editors' Note | xiii |
| Freely Espousing (1969) | |
| Freely Espousing | 3 |
| February | 4 |
| With Frank and George at Lexington | 5 |
| A Reumon | 6 |
| Quick, Henry, the Flit! | 6 |
| A New Yorker | 7 |
| Walter Scott | 8 |
| Greetings from the Chateau | 9 |
| Royals | 10 |
| "The Elizabethans Called It Dying" | 11 |
| March Here | 12 |
| Faberge | 12 |
| A White City | 13 |
| December | 13 |
| Ilford Rose Book | 14 |
| Rachmaninoff's Third | 14 |
| Money Musk | 15 |
| A Man in Blue | 16 |
| Sestina | 18 |
| An Almanac | 19 |
| Thinness | 20 |
| Hudson Ferry | 21 |
| Flashes | 22 |
| April and Its Forsythia | 23 |
| Roof Garden | 24 |
| May 24th or So | 24 |
| Penobscot | 25 |
| Today | 26 |
| Sorting, wrapping, packing, stuffing | 27 |
| Seeking | 29 |
| Crocus Night | 31 |
| Milk | 31 |
| Going | 32 |
| The Master of the Golden Glow | 33 |
| Stun | 34 |
| "Earth's Holocaust" | 35 |
| Poem | 36 |
| 3/23/66 | 36 |
| Industrial Archaeology | 37 |
| Now and then | 38 |
| Buried at Springs | 42 |
| Salute | 44 |
| from The Home Book 1951-1970 (1977) | |
| A Grave | 47 |
| Poem | 47 |
| At the Beach | 48 |
| Self-Pity Is a Kind of Lying, Too | 48 |
| A Picnic Cantata | 49 |
| Grand Duo | 57 |
| Things to Do | 59 |
| Dreams | 60 |
| Joint | 62 |
| Jelly Jelly | 63 |
| Sonnet | 64 |
| Voyage autour de mes cartes postales | 64 |
| Four Poems | 67 |
| "It's 4:30 in Cambridge" | 67 |
| Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Mass. | 69 |
| "We must observe the amenities" | 69 |
| Frank! Frank! | 70 |
| A Head | 71 |
| Looking Forward to See Jane Real Soon | 73 |
| Dorabella's Naples Watercolor | 73 |
| A Poem | 74 |
| The Crystal Lithium (1972) | |
| Southampton and New York | |
| Empathy and New Year | 77 |
| Poem | 80 |
| In January | 80 |
| Blue | 81 |
| Spring | 82 |
| In earliest morning | 82 |
| An East Window on Elizabeth Street | 84 |
| Alice Faye at Ruby Foo's | 85 |
| Buildings | 86 |
| Wonderful World | 87 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 88 |
| A Sun Cab | 90 |
| The Island | |
| Light Blue Above | 92 |
| The Cenotaph | 93 |
| After Joe was at the island | 98 |
| "Used Handkerchiefs 5[cent]" | 98 |
| The Trash Book | 99 |
| 8/12/70 | 100 |
| Light from Canada | 100 |
| Gulls | 101 |
| Closed Gentian Distances | 102 |
| Fall and Winter | |
| September | 103 |
| Evening Wind | 103 |
| A Vermont Diary | 104 |
| A Stone Knife | 111 |
| The Dog Wants His Dinner | 113 |
| Running Footsteps | 114 |
| The Crystal Lithium | 116 |
| Loving You | |
| Janis Joplin's Dead: Long Live Pearl | 120 |
| Eyes | 121 |
| The Night | 123 |
| Like Lorraine Ellison | 124 |
| Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum? | 125 |
| Letter Poem #2 | 130 |
| We Are Leaves | 130 |
| Await | 132 |
| Steaming Ties | 134 |
| Watching You | 135 |
| Letter Poem #3 | 136 |
| Hymn to Life (1974) | |
| Waterbury | |
| Beautiful Funerals | 139 |
| Roxy | 143 |
| Our Father | 147 |
| Mike | 149 |
| In the round | 152 |
| Elsewhere | |
| Poem | 154 |
| To Frank O'Hara | 154 |
| Unlike Joubert | 156 |
| Sometimes | 157 |
| Eyes at the Window | 157 |
| Two | 159 |
| May, 1972 | 159 |
| June | 160 |
| I think | 161 |
| For Bob Dash | 162 |
| Song | 162 |
| Shimmer | 163 |
| A Held Breath | 164 |
| Sunday | 164 |
| Bleeding Gums | 165 |
| The sky eats up the trees | 166 |
| Gray, intermittently blue, eyed hero | 167 |
| Greenwich Avenue | 169 |
| Labor Day | 170 |
| Just before fall | 171 |
| Buttered Greens | 172 |
| Sparks | 176 |
| Deep Winter | 176 |
| In Wiry Winter | 177 |
| So Good | 179 |
| October | 180 |
| Was It | 182 |
| Poem | 183 |
| Daylight | 183 |
| You're | 184 |
| A photograph | 186 |
| Up | 187 |
| Saturday Night | 188 |
| Sunday | 189 |
| August Night | 189 |
| A blue towel | 192 |
| Evenings in Vermont | |
| The Bluet | 195 |
| "From the next ..." | 196 |
| Standing and Watching | 196 |
| The Green Door | 197 |
| Sunset | 198 |
| The Day | 198 |
| Evening | 200 |
| The Walk | 200 |
| Evenings in Vermont | 203 |
| Awoke | 203 |
| Afterward | 204 |
| The Faure Ballade | |
| The Faure Ballade | 206 |
| Hymn to Life | |
| Hymn to Life | 214 |
| The Morning of the Poem (1980) | |
| New Poems | |
| This Dark Apartment | 227 |
| June 30, 1974 | 228 |
| Korean mums | 231 |
| Growing Dark | 232 |
| Dec. 28, 1974 | 233 |
| Good morning | 234 |
| Song | 235 |
| A Name Day | 236 |
| Footnote | 238 |
| Afterward | 238 |
| I sit down to type | 240 |
| The snow | 242 |
| Wystan Auden | 242 |
| Dining Out with Doug and Frank | 244 |
| The Payne Whitney Poems | |
| Trip | 252 |
| We walk | 252 |
| Arches | 253 |
| Linen | 253 |
| Heather and Calendulas | 254 |
| Back | 255 |
| Blizzard | 255 |
| February 13, 1975 | 256 |
| Sleep | 256 |
| Pastime | 257 |
| What | 257 |
| The Morning of the Poem | |
| The Morning of the Poem | 259 |
| A Few Days (1985) | |
| The Snowdrop | 307 |
| The Rose of Marion | 307 |
| Gray Day | 308 |
| This notebook | 309 |
| Lilacs | 310 |
| Thursday | 311 |
| Cornflowers | 312 |
| Velvet Roses | 312 |
| August first, 1974 | 313 |
| Sleep-Gummed Eyes | 314 |
| Overcast, Hot | 315 |
| At Darragh's I | 316 |
| White | 317 |
| Dear Joe | 318 |
| Amy Lowell Thoughts | 319 |
| The morning | 320 |
| October 5, 1981 | 320 |
| Moon | 321 |
| Virginia Woolf | 321 |
| Oriane | 322 |
| Beaded Balustrade | 323 |
| People who see bubbles rise | 323 |
| Autumn Leaves | 324 |
| En Route to Southampton | 325 |
| Tomorrow | 326 |
| November | 326 |
| Faure's Second Piano Quartet | 327 |
| A Belated Birthday Poem | 328 |
| Poem | 330 |
| Red Brick and Brown Stone | 330 |
| Tom | 332 |
| Tom's Attempt to Seduce Big Brother Steve | 335 |
| Sleep | 336 |
| The Day | 337 |
| A Table of Green Fields | 337 |
| Tom's Dream | 338 |
| Perhaps | 339 |
| O Sleepless Night | 339 |
| Suddenly | 345 |
| The Fireproof Floors of Witley Court | |
| Witley Court | 346 |
| Below the Stairs | 346 |
| In a Churchyard | 347 |
| Hats | 348 |
| Frock | 348 |
| What Ails My Fern? | 348 |
| Wild Eggs | 350 |
| Boer War Bread Strike | 350 |
| Procession | 351 |
| Adverts | 351 |
| A Few Days | |
| A few days | 354 |
| Mark | 383 |
| Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses | 383 |
| Mood Indigo | 385 |
| Rain | 387 |
| Birds | 388 |
| Shadowy Room | 389 |
| White Boat, Blue Boat | 390 |
| Over the hills | 391 |
| A cardinal | 393 |
| Ajaccio Violets | 393 |
| Shaker | 394 |
| Three Gardens | 396 |
| 4404 Stanford | 396 |
| Erta Canina | 396 |
| Chelsea | 397 |
| Let's All Heat It for Mildred Bailey! | 397 |
| Noon Office | 399 |
| Simone Signoret | 400 |
| The light within | 402 |
| Advent | 403 |
| Six something | 403 |
| Andrew Lord Poems | 404 |
| Under the Hanger | 411 |
| Yellow Flowers | 414 |
| Blossoming Oakwood | 415 |
| A Chapel | 416 |
| A View | 417 |
| "This soft October" | 418 |
| On the dresser | 420 |
| Princess Di | 421 |
| Haze | 423 |
| Index of Titles and First Lines | 425 |