| Reflections | p. 13 |
| from Intellectual Things (1930) | |
| Change | p. 17 |
| Single Vision | p. 18 |
| Particular Lullaby | p. 20 |
| Promise Me | p. 21 |
| Strange Calendar | p. 22 |
| Poem | p. 23 |
| Deciduous Branch | p. 25 |
| The Words of the Preacher | p. 26 |
| Ambergris | p. 27 |
| Approach of Autumn | p. 28 |
| The Pivot | p. 29 |
| He | p. 30 |
| Very Tree | p. 31 |
| Prophecy on Lethe | p. 33 |
| Lovers Relentlessly | p. 34 |
| Nocturne | p. 35 |
| For Proserpine | p. 36 |
| Parting | p. 37 |
| I Dreamed That I Was Old | p. 38 |
| Night-Piece | p. 39 |
| Between Me and the Rock | p. 40 |
| Transformations | p. 41 |
| First Love | p. 42 |
| Last Words | p. 43 |
| Eagle | p. 44 |
| So Intricately Is This World Resolved | p. 45 |
| Benediction | p. 46 |
| In a Strange House | p. 48 |
| Master and Mistress | p. 49 |
| Organic Bloom | p. 50 |
| Beyond Reason | p. 51 |
| The Lesson | p. 52 |
| Vita Nuova | p. 53 |
| from Passport to the War (1944) | |
| Reflection by a Mailbox | p. 57 |
| The Last Picnic | p. 58 |
| Welcome the Wrath | p. 59 |
| Night Letter | p. 60 |
| Father and Son | p. 62 |
| The Hemorrhage | p. 64 |
| The Harsh Judgment | p. 66 |
| Confidential Instructions | p. 67 |
| The Signal from the House | p. 68 |
| The Tutored Child | p. 69 |
| The Economist's Song | p. 70 |
| The Old Clothes Man | p. 71 |
| The Fitting of the Mask | p. 73 |
| The Supper Before Last | p. 75 |
| The Daughters of the Horseleech | p. 76 |
| Careless Love | p. 77 |
| The Guilty Man | p. 78 |
| Between the Acts | p. 79 |
| This Day This World | p. 80 |
| The Last Question | p. 81 |
| How Long Is the Night? | p. 82 |
| The Reckoning | p. 83 |
| Open the Gates | p. 84 |
| from This Garland, Danger, in Selected Poems: 1928-1958 | |
| The Science of the Night | p. 87 |
| Green Ways | p. 89 |
| When the Light Falls | p. 90 |
| Among the Gods | p. 91 |
| As Flowers Are | p. 92 |
| The Waltzer in the House | p. 93 |
| Sotto Voce | p. 94 |
| Grammar Lesson | p. 95 |
| She Wept, She Railed | p. 96 |
| Foreign Affairs | p. 97 |
| The Unwithered Garland | p. 99 |
| The Man Upstairs | p. 100 |
| The Approach to Thebes | p. 101 |
| The Dark and the Fair | p. 103 |
| The Thief | p. 105 |
| End of Summer | p. 108 |
| Goose Pond | p. 109 |
| The Dragonfly | p. 110 |
| The War Against the Trees | p. 113 |
| The Thing That Eats the Heart | p. 115 |
| By Lamplight | p. 116 |
| The Scourge | p. 117 |
| Hermetic Poem | p. 118 |
| To the Reader (Baudelaire) | p. 119 |
| The Way Down | p. 121 |
| The Class Will Come to Order | p. 124 |
| The Summing-Up | p. 126 |
| Revolving Meditation | p. 127 |
| A Spark of Laurel | p. 130 |
| from the Testing-Tree (1971) | |
| Journal for My Daughter | p. 135 |
| An Old Cracked Tune | p. 141 |
| The Portrait | p. 142 |
| The Magic Curtain | p. 143 |
| After the Last Dynasty | p. 146 |
| The Illumination | p. 148 |
| Robin Redbreast | p. 149 |
| River Road | p. 151 |
| Summer Solstice (Mandelstam) | p. 153 |
| Tristia (Mandelstam) | p. 154 |
| The Mound Builders | p. 156 |
| The Customs Collector's Report | p. 159 |
| The Gladiators | p. 161 |
| The System | p. 163 |
| Around Pastor Bonhoeffer | p. 164 |
| Bolsheviks (Stolzenberg) | p. 167 |
| Three Floors | p. 168 |
| The Flight of Apollo | p. 169 |
| King of the River | p. 170 |
| The Mulch | p. 173 |
| Indian Summer at Land's End | p. 174 |
| Cleopatra (Akhmatova) | p. 175 |
| Dante (Akhmatova) | p. 176 |
| Boris Pasternak (Akhmatova) | p. 177 |
| The Artist | p. 179 |
| The Testing-Tree | p. 180 |
| The Game | p. 184 |
| from the Layers, in the Poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978 | |
| The Knot | p. 187 |
| What of the Night? | p. 188 |
| Quinnapoxet | p. 190 |
| Words for the Unknown Makers | p. 192 |
| To a Slave Named Job | p. 192 |
| Sacred to the Memory | p. 192 |
| Girl with Sampler | p. 193 |
| Trompe l'Oeil | p. 194 |
| A Blessing of Women | p. 194 |
| The Catch | p. 197 |
| The Crystal Cage | p. 198 |
| Signs and Portents | p. 200 |
| Firesticks | p. 203 |
| The Lincoln Relics | p. 204 |
| Meditations on Death (Ungaretti) | p. 208 |
| The Quarrel | p. 212 |
| The Unquiet Ones | p. 213 |
| My Sisters | p. 214 |
| Route Six | p. 215 |
| The Layers | p. 217 |
| from Next-to-Last Things (1985) | |
| The Snakes of September | p. 221 |
| The Abduction | p. 222 |
| Raccoon Journal | p. 224 |
| The Old Darned Man | p. 227 |
| The Scene (Blok) | p. 229 |
| The Image-Maker | p. 230 |
| Lamplighter: 1914 | p. 231 |
| Day of Foreboding | p. 233 |
| Three Small Parables for My Poet Friends | p. 234 |
| The Round | p. 236 |
| Passing Through | p. 238 |
| The Long Boat | p. 240 |
| The Wellfleet Whale | p. 241 |
| from Passing Through: The Later Poems (1995) | |
| My Mother's Pears | p. 249 |
| Chariot | p. 251 |
| In the Dark House | p. 253 |
| Halley's Comet | p. 256 |
| Hornworm: Summer Reverie | p. 258 |
| Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation | p. 259 |
| The Sea, That Has No Ending ... | p. 261 |
| Proteus | p. 264 |
| Touch Me | p. 266 |
| Notes | p. 267 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 279 |
| Index | p. 281 |
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