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JOHN UPDIKE

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Poems found: 686

A MODEST MOUND OF BONES

A PEAR LIKE A POTATO

A RACK OF PAPERBACKS

A RESCUE

A SONG OF PATERNAL CARE

A VISION

ACCUMULATION

AERIE

AIR SHOW

AN IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE

AN ODE

AN OPEN LETTER TO VOYAGER II

ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH

ANTIGUA

APOLOGIES TO HARVARD; THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, 1973

AUTHORS' RESIDENCES

AZORES

B.W.I.

BACK BAY

BACK FROM VACATION

BATH AFTER SAILING

BENDIX

BINDWEED

BOIL

MONTY

BURNING TRASH

CALDER'S HANDS

CALENDAR

CALIGULA'S DREAM

CAMERA

CELERY

COMMENCEMENT, PINGREE SCHOOL

COMP. RELIGION

CONDO MOON

CONVERSATION

CORPUS CHRISTI

COSMIC GALL

COURTESY CALL

CRAB CRACK

CUNTS

DAUGHTER

DEA EX MACHINA

DECOR

DEITIES AND BEASTS

DREAM AND REALITY

DUE RESPECT

DUET, WITH MUFFLED BRAKE DRUMS

DUTCH CLEANSER

EACH SUMMER'S SWALLOWS

EARTHWORM

EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR

ELM

ENEMIES OF A HOUSE

ENERGY: A VILLANELLE

ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT

EURYDICE

THE PLACE LEFT BEHIND

FARGO

FELLATIO

FEVER

FLIGHT TO LIMBO

POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE

FLY

FOOD

GRANDDAUGHTER, FIRST MEETING

GLASSES

GOLFERS

GOODBYE, GOTEBORG

GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM)

HEADING FOR NANDI

HOEING

HUMANITIES COURSE

I MISSED HIS BOOK, BUT I READ HIS NAME

IN EXTREMIS

IN MEMORIAM

IN PRAISE OF (C10H9O5)X

INSOMNIA THE GEM OF THE OCEAN

IOWA

ISLAND CITIES

L.A.

LAMENT, FOR COCOA

LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA

LATE JANUARY

LEAVING CHURCH EARLY

LES SAINTS NOUVEAUX

LIGHT SWITCHES

LIVING WITH A WIFE

LONG SHADOW

MAPLES IN A SPRUCE FOREST

MARCH: A BIRTHDAY POEM

MARCHING THROUGH A NOVEL

MAY

MINORITY REPORT

MOBILE OF BIRDS

MODIGLIANI'S DEATH MASK; FOGG MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE

MOUNTAIN IMPASSE

MOUSE SEX

MR. HIGH-MIND

MUNICH

NATURAL QUESTION

NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN

NOTE TO THE PREVIOUS TENANTS

NOVEMBER

OHIO: 1

OHIO: 2

OMEGA

ON AN ISLAND

ON INCLUSION OF MINIATURE DINOSAURS. BREAKFAST CEREAL BOXES

ON THE ROAD

ON THE WAY TO DELPHI

ONE TOUGH KERATOSIS

OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER

PAIN

PAINTED WIVES

PALE BLISS

PARTY KNEE

PENUMBRAE

PERFECTION WASTED

PILLOW

PLANTING A MAILBOX

PLANTING TREES

PLAYER PIANO

PLOW CEMETERY

POOEM

POPULAR REVIVALS 1956

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: MOSCOW

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: TBILISI

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: YEREVAN

PUBLIUS VERGILUS MARO, THE MADISON AVENUE HICK

QUERY

ODE III.II: HORACE

RATS

RECITAL; ROGER BOBO GIVES RECITAL ON TUBA

RELATIVES

REPORT OF HEALTH

RETURNING NATIVE

REVELATION

RICHMOND

RIO DE JANEIRO

ROMAN PORTRAIT BUSTS

SAYING GOODBYE TO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN

SCENIC

SEAGULLS

SEATTLE UPLIFT

SELF-SERVICE

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO HEALING

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO ENTROPY

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO GROWTH

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO EVAPORATION

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO FRAGMENTATION

SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER

SHILLINGTON

SHIPBORED

SIN CITY, D.C.

SKYEY DEVELOPMENTS

SLEEPING WITH YOU

SOLITAIRE

SOME FRENCHMEN

SONG OF MY SELF

SONIC BOOM

SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR

SPANISH SONNETS: 1

SPANISH SONNETS: 5

SPRING SONG

SQUIRRELS MATING

SUBTROPICAL NIGHT

SUBURBAN MADRIGAL

SUMMER: WEST SIDE

SUNDAY IN BOSTON

SUNDAY RAIN

SUNFLOWER

SUPERMAN

TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS

TELEPHONE POLES

THE AMISH

THE ANGELS

THE BEAUTIFUL BOWEL MOVEMENT

THE BLESSING

THE CLAN

THE DESCENT OF MR. ALDEZ

THE GREAT SCARF OF BIRDS

THE HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN

THE MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775

THE MILLIPEDE

THE MOSQUITO

THE NAKED APE

THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER

THE ROCKETTES

THE SOLITARY POND

THE SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING

THE STUNT FLIER

THE VISIONS OF MACKENZIE KING

THE WITNESSES

THOUGHTS WHILE DRIVING HOME

TIME'S FOOL

TO A BOX TURTLE

TO A FORMER MISTRESS, NOW DEAD

TO A WATERBED

TO ED SISSMAN

TOME THOUGHTS, FROM THE 'TIMES'

TOSSING AND TURNING

TOUCH OF SPRING

ORVIETO

JACOPO PONTORMO

TULSA

TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 2

TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 1

SONNET: TRY - NO MORE ACCESS TO HER UNDERPANTS

SONNET: THE DYING PHOBIAC TAKES HIS FEARS WITH HIM

NEW ORLEANS

UPON LEARNING THAT A BIRD EXISTS CALLED THE TURNSTONE

UPON LOOKING INTO SYLVIA PLATH'S LETTERS HOME

UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD

PRAGUE, AGAIN

VERMONT

VERO BEACH BIRTHDAY

BEAUVAIS

WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN

WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH

WASH

WASHINGTON

WHITE DWARF

WHY THE TELEPHONE WIRES DIP & POLES ARE CRACKED & CROOKED

WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM

WIND

WINTER OCEAN

IDYLL

YOUTH'S PROGRESS

ZIP CODE ODE

ZULUS LIVE IN LAND WITHOUT A SQUARE

DOG'S DEATH

EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER

V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK

VENETIAN CANDY

SLUM LORDS

RELIGIOUS CONSOLATION

BASEBALL

MONEY

CHICORY

DECEMBER, OUTDOORS

EVENING CONCERT, SAINTE-CHAPELLE

NOT CANCELLED YET

61 AND 2/3

CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

TOOLS

COLONOSCOPY

COMPLIMENT

DOWN TIME

ELDERLY SEX

PURA VIDA

TO TWO OF MY CHARACTERS

CLOUD SHADOWS

HOW TO BE UNCLE SAM

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

MILADY REFLECTS

MARRIAGE COUNSEL

EROTIC EPIGRAMS

TRANSPARENT STRATAGEMS

AMERICANA

HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET

THE FURNITURE

ODE TO ROT

EXPOSURE

REQUIEM

HOSPITAL

JANUARY

BIRD CAUGHT IN MY DEER NETTING

JUNE

FEBURARY 22

CARS IN CARACAS CREATE A RUCKUKUS

3 A.M.

61 AND 2/3

BICYCLE CHAIN

BITTER LIFE

DIFFERENT ENDING

L'ECOLE BERLITZ

MODEST MOUND OF BONES

PEAR LIKE A POTATO

RACK OF PAPERBACKS

RESCUE

SONG OF PATERNAL CARE

SOUND HEARD EARLY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY

VISION

WOODEN DARNING EGG

ACADEMY

ACCUMULATION

AERIE

AGATHA CHRISTIE AND BEATRIX POTTER

AIR SHOW

AIRPORT

AMEOBA

IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE

ODDLY LOVELY DAY ALONE

ODE

OPEN LETTER TO VOYAGER II

ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH

ANTIGUA

APOLOGIES TO HARVARD; THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, 1973

AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

AUGUST

AUTHORS' RESIDENCES

AZORES

B.W.I.

BACK BAY

BACK FROM VACATION

BATH AFTER SAILING

BEAUVAIS

BEFORE THE MIRROR

BENDIX

BINDWEED

BLKED

BOIL

BRAZIL

BRIDGE

BURNING TRASH

BUSINESS ACQUAINTANCES

CALDER'S HANDS

CALENDAR

CALIGULA'S DREAM

CAMERA

CAPACITY

CELERY

CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

CHARLESTON

CHICORY

CHLOE'S POEM

CLASSICAL OPTICAL

CLOUD SHADOWS

COMMENCEMENT, PINGREE SCHOOL

COMP. RELIGION

COMPLIMENT

CONDO MOON

CONVERSATION

CORINTH, MS

CORPUS CHRISTI

COSMIC GALL

COURTESY CALL

CRAB CRACK

CUNTS

DAUGHTER

DEA EX MACHINA

DEATH IN VENICE

DECOR

DEITIES AND BEASTS

DEJA, INDEED

DILEMMA IN THE DELTA

DOG'S DEATH

DOWN TIME

DREAM AND REALITY

DREAM OBJECTS

DUE RESPECT

DUET ON MARS

DUET, WITH MUFFLED BRAKE DRUMS

DUTCH CLEANSER

EACH SUMMER'S SWALLOWS

EARTHWORM

EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR

ELDERLY SEX

ELM

ENEMIES OF A HOUSE

ENERGY: A VILLANELLE

ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT

EROTIC EPIGRAMS: 1

EROTIC EPIGRAMS: 2

EROTIC EPIGRAMS: 3

EURYDICE

EVEN EGRETS ERR

EVENING CONCERT, SAINTE-CHAPELLE

EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER

EXPOSE

EXPOSURE

FALL

FAREWELL TO THE SHOPPING DISTRICT OF ANTIBES

FARGO

22-Feb

FELLATIO

FEVER

FIREWORKS

FLIGHT TO LIMBO

FLIRT

FLURRY

FLY

FOOD

FROM ABOVE

FROST

GENERIC COLLEGE

GLASSES

GOLFERS

GOODBYE, GOTEBORG

GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM)

GRANITE

HEADING FOR NANDI

HOEING

HOME MOVIES

HOT WATER

HOW TO BE UNCLE SAM

HUMANITIES COURSE

I MISSED HIS BOOK, BUT I READ HIS NAME

IN EXTREMIS

IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM FELIS FELIS

IN PRAISE OF (C10H9O5)X

IN THE CEMETERY HIGH ABOVE SHILLINGTON

INDIANAPOLIS

INSOMNIA THE GEM OF THE OCEAN

INVALID KEYSTROKE

IOWA

ISLAND CITIES

ISLAND SUN

JACOPO PONTORMO

JANUARY

JESUS AND ELVIS

JULY

KENNETHS

KLIMT AND SCHIELE CONFRONT THE CUNT

L.A.

LAMENT, FOR COCOA

LAMPLIGHT

LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA

LATE JANUARY

LEAVING CHURCH EARLY

LES SAINTS NOUVEAUX

LIGHT SWITCHES

LITERARY DUBLIN

LITTLE POEMS

LIVING WITH A WIFE, SELS.

LONG SHADOW

MAPLES IN A SPRUCE FOREST

MARCH: A BIRTHDAY POEM

MARCHING THROUGH A NOVEL

MARRIAGE COUNSEL

MAY

MEDITATION ON A NEWS ITEM

MELTING

MIAMI

MIDPOINT

MILADY REFLECTS

MIME

MINORITY REPORT

MISS MOORE AT ASSEMBLY

MITES

MOBILE OF BIRDS

MODIGLIANI'S DEATH MASK; FOGG MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE

MOUNTAIN IMPASSE

MOUSE SEX

MOVIE HOUSE

MR. HIGH-MIND

MUNICH

MY CHILDREN AT THE DUMP

NATURAL QUESTION

NATURE

NEOTENY

NEWS FROM THE UNDERWORLD

NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN

NOT CANCELLED YET

NOTE TO THE PREVIOUS TENANTS

NOVEMBER

NUDA NATENS

OCTOBER

OHIO: 1

OHIO: 2

OLD-FASHIONED LIGHTNING ROD

OMEGA

ON AN ISLAND

ON INCLUSION OF MINIATURE DINOSAURS. BREAKFAST CEREAL BOXES

ON THE RECENTLY MINTED HUNDRED-CENT PIECE

ON THE WAY TO DELPHI

ONE TOUGH KERATOSIS

OPTICAL HYPERTENSION

ORTHODONTIA

ORVIETO

OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER

PAIN

PAINTED WIVES

PALE BLISS

PARTY KNEE

PASTORAL

PENUMBRAE

PERFECTION WASTED

PHENOMENA

PHILOLOGICAL

PIET

PILLOW

PLANTING A MAILBOX

PLANTING TREES

PLAYER PIANO

PLOW CEMETERY

POEM FOR A FAR LAND

POISONED IN NASSAU

POMPEII

POOEM

POP SMASH, OUT OF ECHO CHAMBER

POPULAR REVIVALS 1956

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: MOSCOW

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: TBILISI

POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: YEREVAN

PRAGUE, AGAIN

PUBLIUS VERGILUS MARO, THE MADISON AVENUE HICK

PURA VIDA

QUERY

RADIATORS

RAINING IN MAGENS BAY

RAINSPOUT

RATS

READING, PA

REALITY

RECITAL; ROGER BOBO GIVES RECITAL ON TUBA

REEL

RELATIVES

REPORT OF HEALTH

RETURNING NATIVE

REVELATION

RICHMOND

RIO DE JANEIRO

ROMAN PORTRAIT BUSTS

ROOM 28; NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON

SAILS ON ALL-SAINTS DAY

SAND DOLLAR

SAO PAULO

SCENIC

SEA KNELL

SEAGULLS

SEAL IN NATURE

SEATTLE UPLIFT

SELF-SERVICE

SEVEN NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE MOON

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO HEALING

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO ENTROPY

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: ODE TO GROWTH

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO CRYSTALLIZATION

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO EVAPORATION

SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL RESOURCES: TO FRAGMENTATION

SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER

SHAVING MIRROR

SHILLINGTON

SHIPBORED

SIN CITY, D.C.

SKYEY DEVELOPMENTS

SLEEPING WITH YOU

SLEEPLESS IN SCARSDALE

SMALL-CITY PEOPLE

SNAPSHOTS

SNOWDROPS 1987

SOLITAIRE

SOME FRENCHMEN

SOMEWHERE

SONG OF MY SELF

SONG OF THE OPEN FIREPLACE

SONIC BOOM

SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR

SOUTH OF THE ALPS

SPANISH SONNETS: 1

SPANISH SONNETS: 2

SPANISH SONNETS: 3

SPANISH SONNETS: 4

SPANISH SONNETS: 5

SPANISH SONNETS: 6

SPANISH SONNETS: 7

SPANISH SONNETS: 8

SPRING SONG

SQUIRRELS MATING

STOLEN

STYLES OF BLOOM

SUBTROPICAL NIGHT

SUBURBAN MADRIGAL

SUMMER: WEST SIDE

SUNDAY

SUNDAY IN BOSTON

SUNDAY RAIN

SUNFLOWER

SUNGLASSES

SUNSHINE ON SANDSTONE

SUPERMAN

SWITZERLAND

TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS

TASTE

TAX-FREE ENCOUNTER

TELEPHONE POLES

AMISH

ANGELS

AVERAGE EGYPTIAN FACES DEATH

BEAUTIFUL BOWEL MOVEMENT

BLESSING

CLAN

CODE

DESCENT OF MR. ALDEZ

FLECKLINGS

FRITILLARY

FURNITURE

GREAT SCARF OF BIRDS

GRIEF OF CAFETERIAS

HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN

HEDGE

HIGH-HEARTS

HOUSE GROWING

JOLLY GREENE GIANT

MELANCHOLY OF STORM WINDOWS

MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775

MILLIPEDE

MODERATE

MOONS OF JUPITER

MOSQUITO

NAKED APE

NEWLYWEDS

ONE-YEAR-OLD

ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER

OVERHEAD RACK

ROCKETTES

SENSUALIST

SHORT DAYS

SHUTTLE

SOLITARY POND

SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING

STORY OF MY LIFE

STUNT FLIER

VISIONS OF MACKENZIE KING

WITNESSES

THIN AIR

THOUGHTS WHILE DRIVING HOME

TICK

TIME'S FOOL

TO A BOX TURTLE

TO A DEAD FLAME

TO A WATERBED

TO A WELL-CONNECTED MOUSE

TO AN USHERETTE

TO ED SISSMAN

TO TWO OF MY CHARACTERS

TOME THOUGHTS, FROM THE 'TIMES'

TOOCHACHE MAN

TOOLS

TOPSFIELD FAIR

TOSSING AND TURNING

TOUCH OF SPRING

TRAVEL TIPS

TREES EAT SUNSHINE

TROPICAL BEETLES

TSOKADZE O ALTITUDO

TULSA

TUNE IN, AMERICAN TYPE

TWO CUNTS IN PARIS

TWO HOPPERS; DISPLAYED IN THE THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA COLLECTION

TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 1

TWO LIMERICKS FOR THE ELDERLY: 2

TWO SONNETS ...: NO MORE ACCESS TO HER UNDERPANTS

TWO SONNETS ...: THE DYING PHOBIAC TAKES HIS FEARS WITH HIM

TYPICAL OPTICAL

UPON BECOMING A SENIOR CITIZEN

UPON LEARNING .. A TOWN EXISTS IN VIRGINIA CALLED UPPERVILLE

UPON LEARNING THAT A BIRD EXISTS CALLED THE TURNSTONE

UPON LOOKING INTO SYLVIA PLATH'S LETTERS HOME

UPON SHAVING OFF ONE'S BEARD

UPON THE LAST DAY OF HIS FORTY-NINTH YEAR

UPON WINNING ONE'S FLIGHT IN THE SENIOR FOUR-BALL

V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK

VENETIAN CANDY

VERMONT

VERO BEACH BIRTHDAY

VIBRATION

VIDEO

VOW

WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN

WAITING ROOMS: MASS. MENTAL HEALTH

WASH

WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON: TOURIST VIEW

WHITE DWARF

WHY THE TELEPHONE WIRES DIP & POLES ARE CRACKED & CROOKED

WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM

WIND

WINTER OCEAN

WITHIN A QUAD

WORKING OUTDOORS IN WINTER

WORLDLY MONK'S SONG

YOU WHO SWIM

YOUNG MATRONS DANCING

YOUTH'S PROGRESS

ZIP CODE ODE

ZOO BATS

ZULUS LIVE IN LAND WITHOUT A SQUARE



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