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• 001 - To The Little House
• 002 - A Grace Before Writing
• 003 - Dedication for a Fireplace
• 004 - Taking Title
• 005 - The Secret
• 006 - Only a Matter of Time
• 007 - At the Mermaid Cafeteria
• 008 - Our House
• 009 - On Naming a House
• 010 - A Halloween Memory
• 011 - Refusing You Immortality
• 012 - Bayberry Candles
• 013 - Secret Laughter
• 014 - Six Weeks Old
• 015 - A Charm
• 016 - My Pipe
• 017 - The 5:42
• 018 - Peter Pan
• 019 - In Honor of Taffy Topaz
• 020 - The Cedar Chest
• 021 - Reading Aloud
• 022 - Animal Crackers
• 023 - The Milkman
• 024 - Light Verse
• 025 - The Furnace
• 026 - Washing the Dishes
• 027 - The Church of Unbent Knees
• 028 - Elegy Written in a Country Coal-bin
• 029 - The Old Swimmer
• 030 - The Moon-Sheep
• 031 - Smells
• 032 - Smells (Junior)
• 033 - Mar Quong, Chinese Laundryman
• 034 - The Fat Little Purse
• 035 - The Reflection
• 036 - The Balloon Peddler
• 037 - Lines for an Eccentric's Book Plate
• 038 - To a Post-Office Inkwell
• 039 - The Crib
• 040 - The Poet
• 041 - To a Discarded Mirror
• 042 - To a Child
• 043 - To a Very Young Gentleman
• 044 - To an Old-Fashioned Poet
• 045 - Burning Leaves in Spring
• 046 - Burning Leaves, November
• 047 - A Valentine Game
• 048 - For a Birthday
• 049 - Keats
• 050 - To H.F.M., A Sonnet in Sunlight
• 051 - Quickening
• 052 - At a Window Sill
• 053 - The River of Light
• 054 - Of Her Glorious Madness
• 055 - In an Auction Room
• 056 - Epitaph for a Poet Who Wrote No Poetry
• 057 - Sonnet By a Geometer
• 058 - To a Vaudeville Terrier
• 059 - To An Old Friend
• 060 - To a Burlesque Soubrette
• 061 - Thoughts While Packing a Trunk
• 062 - Streets
• 063 - To The Only Begetter
• 064 - Pedometer
• 065 - Hostages
• 066 - Ars Dura
• 067 - O. Henry - Apothecary
• 068 - For the Centenary of Keats's Sonnet
• 069 - Two O'Clock
• 070 - The Commercial Traveller
• 071 - The Wedded Lover
• 072 - To You, Remembering the Past
• 073 - Charles and Mary
• 074 - To A Grandmother
• 075 - Diarists
• 076 - The Last Sonnet
• 077 - The Savage
• 078 - St. Paul's and Woolworth
• 079 - Advice to a City
• 080 - The Telephone Directory
• 081 - Green Escape
• 082 - Vesper Song for Commuters
• 083 - The Ice Wagon
• 084 - At a Movie Theatre
• 085 - Sonnets in a Lodging House
• 086 - The Man with the Hoe (Press)
• 087 - Do You Ever Feel Like God?
• 088 - Rapid Transit
• 089 - Caught in the Undertow
• 090 - To His Brown-Eyed mistress
• 091 - Peace
• 092 - Song, In Deprecation of Pulchritude
• 093 - Mounted Police
• 094 - To His Mistress, Deploring That He Is Not a Elizabethan Galaxy
• 095 - The Intruder
• 096 - Tit for Tat
• 097 - Song for a Little House
• 098 - The Plumpuppets
• 099 - Dandy Dandelion
• 100 - The High Chair
• 101 - Love at First Sight
• 102 - Autumn Colors
• 103 - The Last Cricket
• 104 - To Louise
• 105 - Christmas Eve
• 106 - Epitaph on the Proofreader of the Encyclopedia Britannica
• 107 - The Music Box
• 108 - To Luath
• 109 - Thoughts on Reaching Land
• 110 - A Symposium
• 111 - To a Telephone Operator Who Has a Bad Cold
• 112 - Nursery Rhymes for the Tender-Hearted
• 113 - The Twins
• 114 - A Printer's Madrigal
• 115 - The Poet on the Hearth
• 116 - O Praise Me Not The Country
• 117 - A Stone in St. Paul's Graveyard
• 118 - The Madonna of the Curb
• 119 - The Island
• 120 - Sunday Night
• 121 - England, July, 1913
• 122 - Casualty
• 123 - A Grub Street Recessional
• 124 - Preliminary Instructions for a Funeral Service