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VASSAR MILLER


Poems found: 406

BOUT WITH BURNING

I COME TO YOU.

SUN HAS NO HISTORY

WHY SEEMS IT SO PARTICULAR WITH THEE?

THOUGH HE SLAY ME'

BIRD IN THE HAND

CLASH WITH CLICHES

CONSOLATION

DREAM FROM THE DARK NIGHT

DULLER MOSES

GIFT FOR GOD

LESSON IN DETACHMENT

MOURNING

MOURNING FOR MISS ROSE

PRAYER FOR PRAYER

RAGE FOR ORDER FOR ROSE

SADNESS

WISTFULNESS

WORD TO THE WISE

ABSTINENCE

ACCEPTING

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ADAM'S FOOTPRINT

ADDICT

ADMISSION

ADORATION

AFFINITY

AFTER A BLACKNESS

AFTER A BRIEF VISIT

AFTER A RECITAL OF EMILY DICKENSON SET TO MUSIC

AFTER GUYANA

AFTER READING OF HELEN KELLER

AGAINST DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

AGE OF AQUARIUS, AGE OF ASSASSINS

ALTERNATIVES

ATHENIAN REMINISCES

ESSAY IN CRITICISM BY WAY OF REBUTTAL

AND

ANOTHER DAY

ANOTHER SLEEP POEM

APOLOGY

APPROACHING NADA: 1

APPROACHING NADA: 2

APPROACHING NADA: 3

APPROACHING NADA: 4

APPROACHING NADA: 5

AS USUAL

ASSERTION

AT A CHILD'S BAPTISM

AUBADE

AUBADE

AUTUMNAL SPRING SONGS

AWKWARD GOODBYES

BACH

BAGATELLE

BALLAD OF THE UNMIRACULOUS MIRACLE

BALLADE OF BLIND ALLEYS

BEAT POEM BY AN ACADEMIC POET

BEDTIME PRAYER

BELATED LULLABY

BESIDE A DEATHBED

BETHLEHEM OUTCAST

BIKE RIDE

BIRTHDAY CARD TO MYSELF

BITTER SONG

BITTERNESS

BOUT WITH BURNING

BREAD-AND-BUTTER LETTER NOT SENT

BREAKTHROUGH

BRIEF VICTORY

BRUTE FACT

BY WAY OF EXPLANATION

CACOPHONY

CARMEL: IMPRESSION

CAROL OF BROTHER ASS

CASUAL

CAUGHT IN THE ACT

CEREMONY

CHANGE

CHRISTMAS IN DARK TIMES

CHRISTMAS MOURNING

CHRISTOPHER

CHURCH IN HEIDELBERG

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL

COLUMBUS DYING

COMING HOME

COMMITAL

COMPARISONS

COMPLAINT

CONFESSION AT A FRIENDS' MEETING

CONQUERED

CONSOLATIONS OF RELATIVITY

CONTEMPLATIVE

CONTINGENCIES

CRONE'S CRADLE-SONG

CULTURE SHOCK

CYCLE

DARK CYCLE

DARK MOTHER

DE PROFUNDIS

DEATH SONG

DECEMBER AFTERNOON

DECISION

DEFENSE RESTS

DELAYED GRATITUDE

DEMON CHILD

DIALOGUE ON DIRE POSSIBILITIES

DIARY

DINING ROOM EUCHARIST

DIRGE IN JAZZ TIME

DISGUSTED

DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE IN THE SPEAKER'S OWN VOICE

DRY SEASON

DUBIOUS ADVANTAGE

EACH AFTER ITS OWN KIND

EASTE EVE: A FANTASY

ECCLESIASTES THE SECOND

EDEN REVISITED

ELEGY

ELEGY FOR A GOOD OLE BOY

ELEGY FOR JUDITH RESNICK

ELEGY FOR NINA

ELEGY LONG TIME IN THE MAKING

ELUSIVE

EMBARRASSED

EMILY DICKENSON COMES TO THE DINNER PARTY

ENCOUNTER

ENLIGHTENED SELFISHNESS

ENTREATY

ENTRY FOR A SUMMER DAY

EPITAPH FOR A CRIPPLE

EPITHALAMIUM

EVENSONG

EVERY DAMN TIME

EXERCISE IN REMEMBERING

EXILE

EXORCISM

EXPOSITION

FAINTLY AND FROM FAR AWAY

FAIT ACCOMPLI

FALL

FANTASIA

FANTASY ON THE RESURECTION

FAUX PAS

FIAT

FIRST SNOW IN TEN YEARS

FOILED

FOR A BEREAVED FATHER

FOR A CHRISTENING

FOR A DOG

FOR A SENILE WOMAN

FOR A SPIRITUAL MENTOR

FOR HELEN ON HER BIRTHDAY

FOR HONESTY

FOR INSTRUCTION

FOR ONE LONG DEAD

FOR STRINGLESS LOVE

FROM AN OLD MAID

FULFILLMENT

GOOD COUNSEL, RARELY HEEDED

HATS

HAUNT

HERITAGE

HIGH NOON

HOLY WEEK

HOMECOMING BLUES

HONEST CONFESSION

HOPE

HOT AIR

HOW FAR?

HUNGER

HURRICANE WATCH

IF BEAUTY BE IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER'S EYE: AN ELEGY

IF I HAD WHEELS OR LOVE

IMPASSE

IMPROVISATION

IN A LAND OF INDISTINCT SEASONS

IN CONSOLATION

IN FAITH

IN LOVE

IN OUR QUIET NEIGHBORHOODS: 1

IN OUR QUIET NEIGHBORHOODS: 2

IN OUR QUIET NEIGHBORHOODS: 3

IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME

INCANTATION WITH A CAMERA

INCOGNITO

INDIGO ENDING

INSOMNIAC'S PRAYER

INTERIM

INTRODUCTION TO A POETRY READING

INVIOLATE

INVITATION

INVOCATION

INVOCATION

INVOCATION TO BACCHUS GROWN OLD

ISN'T THIS A DAINTY DISH?

JOYFUL PROPHECY

JUDAS

LADY OF LEISURE

LAMENT

LEAVE-TAKING

LETTER TO FRIENDS DEAD LIVING: 1

LETTER TO FRIENDS DEAD LIVING: 2

LETTER TO FRIENDS DEAD LIVING: 3

LETTER TO FRIENDS DEAD LIVING: 4

LETTER TO FRIENDS DEAD LIVING: 5

LETTERS TO A YOUNG GIRL CONSIDERING A RELIGIOUS VOCATION: 1

LETTERS TO A YOUNG GIRL CONSIDERING A RELIGIOUS VOCATION: 2

LIEBESTOD

LIGHT POEM

LIGHT READING

LISTENING TO RAIN AT NIGHT

LONELINESS

LONG SONG MINUS WORDS AND MUSIC

LOVE SONG

LOVE SONG FOR EASTER EVEN

LOVE SONG FOR THE FUTURE

LOVE SONG OUT OF NOTHING

LOVE'S BITTEN TONGUE

LOVE'S ESCHATOLOGY

LOVE'S RISK

LULLABY AFTER CHRISTMAS

LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN

LULLABY FOR MY MOTHER

LYING IN BED LATE

MADE FLESH

MARDI GRAS MORNING

MAY MOURNING JANUARY

ME AND SCHWEITZER

MEDITATION

MEDITATION AFTER A DEATH

MEDITATION AFTER AN INTERVIEW

MEDITATION AT A FUNERAL

MEDITATION FOR MORTALITY

MEMENTO MORI

MESSAGE FROM A BURNING BUSH

METAMORPHOSES

MINOR MINER

MINOR REVELATION

MIRROR FOR A LADY

MISTAKEN

MODESTY

MORNING PERSON

MRS. LOT

MY BONES BEING WISER

NAMING WHAT WE LOVE

NERVOUS NIGHT

NO GOING AWAY GIFT

NO HIDING PLACE

NO RETURN

NOTE OF APOLOGY TO MEDEA

NOTE TO THE READER

NOW YOU SEE ME, NOW...

NUPTIAL BENEDICTION

OBLATION

OFFERING: FOR ALL MY LOVES

OLD DOG

OLD MAN

ON A WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER

ON APPROACHING MY BIRTHDAY

ON FINDING AN OLD SNAPSHOT

ON HANUKKAH

ON NOT MAKING A RETREAT

ON OPENING ONE EYE

ON RECEIVING A PHILOSOPHER'S AUTOGRAPH

ON THE EXAMINATION TABLE

ONE MORNING

OPEN QUESTION

OR AS GERTRUDE STEIN SAYS

ORIGIN

PARADOX

PERIL

PHILOSOPHY OF TIME

PIGRIM SONG

PIGSELF

PILGIM PERPLEXED

PONTIUS PILATE DISCUSSES THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LAST JUDGEME

POOR RELATIONS

PORTRAIT OF A LADY PLAYING TIT FOR TAT

POST-CHRISTMAS PRAYER

POSTHUMOUS LETTER TO THOMAS MERTON

PRAYER AGAIST TWO PERILS

PRAYER TO MY MUSE

PRAYER UPON WAKING

PRECISION

PROMISE

PROTEST

PRUDENT

PUBLIC ADDRESS

PURITAN DELIGHT

RAISON D'ETRE

REASSURANCE

RECEIVING COMMUNION

RECIPROCITY

REFUGEES

REGRESSION

REGRET

RELUCTANT CONFESSION

REMBERING AUNT HELEN

RENEWAL

RENEWAL

RESCUE

RESOLVE

RESTRAINT

RETURN

REVERENT IMPIETY

REVIVAL

RIVERS

RUBENSTEIN'S MELODY IN F

RUNES: 1

SEASONAL CHANGE

SECOND RATE

SELF-ORDAINED

SENILITY

SHAMEFACED PRAYER

SHIFTY EYES

SHORT-SHORT

SICK

SICK DOG

SINCE NO ONE WILL SING ME A LULLABY...

SLOTH

SLUMP

SONG FOR A MARRIAGE

SONG FOR A SUMMER AFTERNOON

SOPHISTICATION

SOUTHERN COLONIAL

SOW'S EAR

SPASTIC CHILD

SPASTICS

SPECULATION

SPINSTER'S LULLABY

SPRING SINGSONG

STRANGERS

STUDY IN WHITE

SUBTERFUGE

SUMMATION

TAUNT-SONG

TAUROBOLIUM TWENTIETH CENTURY

TEMPORARY RELIEF

THANK-YOU NOTE

THANKSGIVING AFTER HOLY COMMUNION

THANKSGIVING: THEME AND VARIATIONS

CALLING OF THE NAMES

CAT

COMMON CORE

DARKNESS AT NOONDAY

DESCENT

END AND THE BEGINNING

FARM

FINAL HUNGER

GHOSTLY BEAST

GRACE OF REMEMBRANCE

HEALING LIGHT

INESCAPABLE DAY

IRRESISTABLE

JOLLY GREEN GIANT

LOGIC IF SILENCE

MAGNITUDE OF ZERO

NEW ICARUS

ODDBALLS

ONE ADVANTAGE

ONE THING NEEDFUL

PERPETUAL PENITENT

PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN FLORENCE

QUARRY

RESOLUTION

TREE OF SILENCE

WHOOPING CRANE

WORSHIPPER

THIS IS THE WAY IT GOES

THORN IN THE FLESH

THUS SAITH THE LORD TO THE NEW THEOLOGIANS

TIME AND MARY JEAN

TIRED

TO JESUS ON EASTER

TOWARD THE END

TRANSMOGRIFCATION

TRAVEL LIGHT

TREMULOUS

TRIMMING THE SAILS

TV NIGHT

UNALTERABLE

UNNECESSARY

UNRHETORICAL QUESTIIONS

UNSPOKEN DIALOGUE

UNTEACHABLE

UNTIL

VALSE TRISTE

VIEW FROM A SMALL GARDEN

VILLANELLE FOR BUFFY

WAITING

WARNING

WASTE OF BREATH

WHAT REALLY HAPPENS

WHAT THE CICADA SAYS

WHEN THE LIVING IS EASY

WHITEWASH OF HOUSTON: 1

WHITEWASH OF HOUSTON: 2

WILD CHILD

WINTER SONG WITHOUT MUSIC

WITH NO STRINGD ATTACHED

WITHOUT CEREMONY

WITHOUT RECOURSE

WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE

WORRYING THE WORLD

ZEN MEDITATION



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