The collected poems

from Intellectual things (1930). Change

Single vision

Particular lullaby

Promise me

Strange calendar

Poem

Deciduous branch

The words of the preacher

Ambergris Approach of autumn

The pivot

He

Very tree

Prophecy on lethe

Lovers relentlessly

Nocturne

For proserpine

Parting

I dreamed that I was old

Night-piece

Between me and the rock

Transformations

First love

Last words

Eagle

So intricately is this world resolved

Benediction

In a strange house

Master and mistress

Organic bloom

Beyond reason

The lesson

Vita nuova

From Passport to the war (1944). Reflection by a mailbox

The last picnic

Welcome the wrath

Night letter

Father and son

The hemorrhage

The harsh judgment

Confidential instructions

The signal from the house

The tutored child

The economist's song

The old clothes man

The fitting of the mask

The supper before last

The daughters of the horseleech

Careless love

The guilty man

Between the acts

This day this world

The last question

How long is the night?

The reckoning

Open the gates

From This garland, danger, in selected poems : 1928-1958. The science of the night

Green ways

When the light falls

Among the gods

As flowers are

The waltzer in the house

Sotto voce

Grammar lesson

She wept, she railed

Foreign affairs

The unwithered garland

The man upstairs

The approach to Thebes

The dark and the fair

The thief

End of summer

Goose pond

The dragonfly

The war against the trees

The thing that eats the heart

By lamplight

The scourge

Hermetic poem

To the reader (Baudelaire)

The way down

The class will come to order

The summing-up

Revolving meditation

A spark of laurel.

From The testing-tree (1971). Journal for my daughter

An old cracked tune

The portrait

The magic curtain

After the last dynasty

The illumination

Robin redbreast

River road

Summer solstice (Mandelstam)

Tristia (Mandelstam)

The mound builders

The customs collector's report

The gladiators

The system

Around pastor Bonhoeffer

Bolsheviks (Stolzenberg)

Three floors

The flight of Apollo

King of the river

The mulch

Indian summer at land's end

Cleopatra (Akhmatova)

Dante (Akhmatova)

Boris Pasternak (Akhmatova)

The artist

The testing-tree

The game

From The layers, in The poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978. The knot

What of the night?

Quinnapoxet

Words for the unknown makers

To a slave named Job

Sacred to the memory

Girl with sampler

Trompe l'oeil

A blessing of women

The catch

The crystal cage

Signs and portents

Firesticks

The Lincoln relics

Meditations on death (Ungaretti)

The quarrel

The unquiet ones

My sisters

Route six

The layers from Next-to-last things (1985). The snakes of September

The abduction

Raccoon journal

The old darned man

The scene (Blok)

The image-maker

Lamplighter : 1914

Day of foreboding

Three small parables for my poet friends

The round

Passing through

The long boat

The wellfleet whale

From Passing through : the later poems (1995). My mother's pears

Chariot

In the dark house

Halley's comet

Hornworm : summer reverie

Hornworm : autumn lamentation

The sea, that has no ending ...

Proteus

Touch me.