Classic and Contemporary Poets

HOWARD NEMEROV

Poems found: 422

A CABINET OF SEEDS DISPLAYED

A PRIMER OF THE DAILY ROUND

ACORN, YOM KIPPUR

ADAM AND EVE IN LATER LIFE

AFTER COMMENCEMENT

AIR FORCE MUSEUM AT DAYTON

ALL THINGS MADE NEW FOR NOW

ANGEL AND STONE

ASSEMBLY LINE, FIGHTER FACTORY

AT SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES

AT THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN CELEBRITY

AUTHOR TO HIS BODY ON THEIR FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY, 29 II 80

BEAUTIFUL LAWN SPRINKLER

BECAUSE YOU ASKED ABOUT THE LINE BETWEEN PROSE AND POETRY

BEGINNER'S GUIDE

BEING OF THREE MINDS

BELLI (GIUSEPPE GIOACCHINO BELLI)

BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

BIOGRAPHER'S MANDATE

BLIND MAN AT THE MUSEUM

BLUEJAY AND THE MOCKINGBIRD

BOY WITH BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE

BRIEF JOURNEY WEST

BRUEGHEL: THE TRIUMPH OF TIME

BURNING THE LEAVES

BY AL LEBOWITZ'S POOL

CABINET OF SEEDS DISPLAYED

CELESTIAL EMPEROR

CHRISTMAS CARD OF HALLEY'S COMET

CHRISTMAS MORNING

CHRISTMAS STORM

CONVERSING WITH PARADISE

CREATION MYTH ON A MOEBIUS BAND

D-DAY + ALL THE YEARS

DAY ON THE BIG BRANCH

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

DEATH OF A VIRGIN

DEBATE WITH THE RABBI

DECONSTRUCING THE TEXT OF TEXTS

DESK OF THE LAUREATE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, SELS

DIFFICULTY OF DOING THINGS EXACTLY RIGHT

DISSEVERINGS, DIVORCES

DITANCES THEY KEEP

DOUBLE NEGATIVE

DRAWING LESSONS

DROWNING THE BOOK

DU REVE, DE LA MATHEMATIQUE, ET DE LA MORT

ECSTASIES OF DIALECTIC

EINSTEIN & FREUD & JACK

ELEGY FOR A NATURE POET

ELEGY OF LAST RESORT

END OF THE OPERA

EPIGRAM: 1. INVOCATION

EPIGRAM: 2. LUCILIUS

EPIGRAM: 3. AN OLD STORY

EPIGRAM: 4. MYTHOLOGICAL BEAST

EPIGRAM: 5. THE HUNT GOES BY

EPIGRAM: 6. POLITICAL REFLEXION

EPIGRAM: 7. A SPIRAL SHELL

EPIGRAM: 8. APRIL

EPIGRAM: 9. ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR

EQUATIONS OF A VILLANELLE

EXASPERATIONS OF A NOVELIST

EXTRACT FROM MEMOIRS

FABLE OF THE WAR

FABLES OF THE MOSCOW SUBWAY

FACING THE FUNERALS

FIGURES OF THOUGHT

FISH SWIMMING AMID FALLING FLOWERS

FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS

FOR - , TO PROTECT HER FROM BURNS

FOR ROBERT FROST, IN THE AUTUMN, IN VERMONT

FREEZING THE RAIN

GINKGOES IN FALL

GLASS DIALECTIC

GNOMIC VARIATIONS FOR KENNETH BURKE

GOD OF THIS WORLD

GRACE TO BE SAID AT THE SUPERMARKET

GUIDE TO THE RUINS

HAVING A MIND TO CHANGE THE WORLD

HERO WITH GIRL AND GORGON

HISTORICAL JUDAS

HISTORY OF A LITERARY MOVEMENT

HISTORY OF HAIR FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT

HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE

HUMAN CONDITION

I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE

ICEHOUSE IN SUMMER (SEE AMOS, 3:15)

IMPRECATED UPON A POSTAL CLERK

IN THE BEGINNING

INSIDE THE ONION

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES

LANDSCAPE WITH SELF-PORTRAIT

LATE BUTTERFLIES

LEARNING BY DOING

LEARNING THE TREES

LIFE CYCLE OF COMMON MAN

LINES & CIRCULARITIES

LION & HONEYCOMB

LITERALISTS OF THE IMAGINATION A LITTLE AT ODDS

LIVES OF GULLS AND CHILDREN

LOT LATER; VAUDEVILLE FOR GEORGE FINKEL

LOW-LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY

LUCRETIAN SHADOWS

MAPMAKER ON HIS ART

MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

MAY DAY DANCING

MEASURE OF POETRY

MEMORY OF MY FRIEND

MEMORY OF THE WAR

METAMORPHOSES; ACCORDING TO STEINBERG

METAPHYSICAL AUTOMOBILE

MIDSUMMER'S DAY

MORE JOY IN HEAVEN

MORE JOY IN HEAVEN

MOST EXPENSIVE PICTURE IN THE WORLD

MURDER OF WILLIAM REMINGTON

NEAR THE OLD PEOPLE'S HOME

NEGRO CEMETERY NEXT TO A WHITE ONE

NEW WEAPONS IN THE OLD WAR

NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF

NIGHT OPERATIONS, COASTAL COMMAND RAF

NOTES ON A NEW ENGLAND WINTER: 1

NOTES ON A NEW ENGLAND WINTER: 2

OBSERVATION OF OCTOBER

ON AN OCCASION OF NATIONAL MOURNING

ON BEING A MEMBER OF THE JURY FOR A POETRY PRIZE

ON BEING ASKED FOR A PEACE POEM

ON CERTAIN WITS (AMUSED ... OVER BARNETT NEWMAN'S PAINTINGS)

ON GETTING OUT OF VIETNAM

ON HIS OWN TERMS

ON READING KING LEAR AGAIN, 1984

ONE MOMENT IN ETERNITY

PAINTER DREAMING IN THE SCHOLAR'S HOUSE

PAINTING A MOUNTAIN STREAM

PHOENIX COMES OF FLAME AND DUST

PLAYING SKITTLES

PLAYING THE INVENTIONS

PLAYING THE MACHINE

POET AS EAGLE SCOUT

POETRY EXCHANGE, TWO CONVERSATIONS: 1

POVERTY FIRST CLASS, POVERTY TOURIST CLASS

POVERTY PROGRAMS

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

PRAYER OF THE MIDDLE CLASS AT EASE IN ZION

PRIMER OF THE DAILY ROUND

QUAERENDO INVENIETIS

READER OF MYSTERIES

READING PORNOGRAPHY IN OLD AGE

REFLEXION OF A NOVELIST

REFLEXIONS ON THE SEIZURE OF SUEZ

REMEMBERING THE WAY

REMORSE FOR TIME

RENT IN THE SCREEN

REVERIE OF THE TERMITE QUEEN

REVISED VERSION

RIDDLE THE SPHINX FORGOT

SARABANDE; HONORING THE MUSICIANS

SCALE OF THE EYES

SECOND-BEST BED

SEPTEMBER, THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

SESTINA ON HER PORTRAIT

SHOPPING MALL, THE MORAL LAW

SLEEPING BEAUTY

SOLIPSISM & SOLECISM

SONG OF DEGREES

SPELL BEFORE WINTER

STARE OF THE MAN FROM THE PRVINCES

STATUES IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS

STRANGE METAMORPHOSIS OF POETS

SUBURBAN PROPHECY

SUNDAY AT THE END OF SUMMER

SWEEPER OF THINGS

THE BLUE SWALLOWS

THE MURDER OF WILLIAM REMINGTON

THE STATUES IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS

THE WAR IN THE AIR

THEATER OF THE ABSURD

THESE WORDS ALSO

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY REPORT OF THE CLASS OF '41

THIS MY MODEST ART IS WHAT I SAID

THIS PRESENT PAST

THOUGHT OF TREES

TO ALICE OUT OF REACH

TO CLIO, MUSE OF HISTORY

TO D -, DEAD BY HER OWN HAND

TO DAVID, ABOUT HIS EDUCATION

TO H. M.; ON READING HIS POEMS

TO JOY OUR STUDENT, BIDDING ADIEU

TO LU CHI (AUTHOR OF THE WEN FU)

TO MY LEAST FAVORITE REVIEWER

TO PETER RAVEN ON HIS FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY

TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ENTERING ITS THIRD CENTURY

TOTAL IMMERSION

TRUTH OF THE MATTER

TRYING CONCLUSIONS

TWO PERSON; ZERO-SUM

ULTIMA RATIO REAGAN

VIEW FROM AN ATTIC WINDOW

VILLANELLE AT NIGHT

WALKING DOWN WESTGATE IN THE FALL

WALKING THE DOG

WATCHING FOOTBALL ON TV

WEATHER OF THE WORLD

WESTERN APPROACHES

WHAT KIND OF GUY WAS HE?

WINTER LIGHTNING

WOLVES IN THE ZOO

WORLD AS BRUEGHEL IMAGINED IT

WORLD LINES; A WAR STORY

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