From Opera house (1941): Open house ; The premonition ; Mid-country blow ; The heron ; The bat ; "Long live the weeds" ; On the road to Woodlawn ; Highway: Michigan ; Night journey
From The lost son and other poems (1948): Cuttings ; Cuttings: later ; Root cellar ; Forcing house ; Weed puller ; Orchids ; Moss-gathering ; Big wind ; Old florist ; Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze ; Transplanting ; Child on top of a greenhouse ; Flower dump ; Carnations ; My papa's waltz ; Pickle belt ; Dolor ; Double feature ; The return ; Night crow ; River incident ; The minimal ; The waking ; The lost son ; The long alley ; A field of light ; The shape of the fire
From praise to the end! (1951): Where knock is open wide ; I need, I need ; Praise to the end! ; Unfold! Unfold! ; I cry, love! Love!
From The waking (1953): O, thou opening, O ; A light breather ; Elegy for Jane ; From Four for Sir John Davies: The dance ; The waking
From Words for the wind (1958): Words for the wind ; I knew a woman ; The sententious man ; The pure fury ; The surly one ; The beast ; A walk in late summer ; Snake ; Slug ; From Meditations of an old woman: First meditation
From The far field (1964): North American sequence: The longing ; Meditation at Oyster River ; Journey to the interior ; The long waters ; The far field ; The rose ; Elegy ; Otto ; The meadow mouse ; Heard in a violent ward ; The geranium ; The storm ; The thing
From Sequence, sometimes metaphysical: In a dark time ; The sequel ; The right thing
Poems for children ; Dinky ; The cow ; The serpent ; The sloth ; The lady and the bear ; The kitty-cat bird ; The whale ; The yak ; The donkey ; The hippo ; The lamb ; The lizard
