The Maine Poets

In The Maine Poets, editor Wesley McNair has selected work by poets of the state from Longfellow to the present. Chosen for their appeal to the general reader, these poems honor the full vision and diversity of Maine's poets as they address life in Maine and in all human places.

Introduction

13

(4)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Snow-Flakes

17

(1)

The Fire of Drift-Wood

18

(2)

The Ropewalk

20

(3)

Nature

23

(1)

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport

24

(3)

The Arsenal at Springfield

27

(2)

The Cross of Snow

29

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

30

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

31

(2)

The Clerks

33

(1)

Reuben Bright

34

(1)

The Mill

35

(1)

The House on the Hill

36

(1)

Mr. Flood's Party

37

(2)

New England

39

(1)

Exit

40

(1)

Firelight

41

(1)

Eros Turannos

42

(2)

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

Brothers

44

(1)

Winter Friends

45

(1)

The Cry

46

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

First Fig

47

(1)

Recuerdo

48

(1)

Inland

49

(1)

Passer Mortuus Est

50

(1)

Wild Swans

51

(1)

The True Encounter

52

(1)

If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way

53

(1)

Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink

54

(1)

Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word!

55

(1)

Hearing Your Words, and Not a Word Among Them

56

(1)

To Jesus on His Birthday

57

(1)

I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear

58

(1)

Even in the Moment of Our Earliest Kiss

59

(1)

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why

60

(1)

Elizabeth Coatsworth

Night Wind in Spring

61

(1)

Lost Graveyards

62

(1)

From Cadillac Mountain

63

(1)

Whale at Twilight

64

(1)

Louise Bogan

Question in a Field

65

(1)

The Crossed Apple

66

(2)

Musician

68

(1)

Fiend's Weather

69

(1)

The Cupola

70

(1)

Knowledge

71

(1)

The Crows

72

(1)

Kept

73

(1)

Roman Fountain

74

(1)

To an Artist, to Take Heart

75

(1)

To Be Sung on the Water

76

(1)

Night

77

(1)

May Sarton

A Light Left On

78

(1)

A Guest

79

(1)

A Parrot

80

(1)

Lovers at the Zoo

81

(2)

Another Island

83

(1)

The Fig

84

(1)

Death and the Turtle

85

(1)

The Geese

86

(1)

Dutch Interior

87

(2)

Philip Booth

How to See Deer

89

(2)

Eaton's Boatyard

91

(1)

Saying It

92

(2)

Sixty

94

(1)

Fog-Talk

95

(1)

Presence

96

(2)

Passage Without Rites

98

(2)

Theodore Enslin

The Glass Harmonica

100

(1)

The Town That Ends the Road

101

(5)

from The Bell Weather

106

(1)

Constance Hunting

New England

107

(1)

Habitant

108

(1)

The Pet

109

(1)

Robert Chute

Megaliths

110

(2)

A Revolutionary Soldier's Reward

112

(2)

John Tagliabue

from Sequence: Poems in Praise of My Father

114

(2)

Warm Peaceful Maine Day, Slight Breeze

116

(1)

What Positions Do They and We Assume In the Encapsulated Stillness?

117

(1)

Fairfield Beach

118

(1)

Leo Connellan

Scott Huff

119

(1)

Wawenock

120

(1)

from Crossing America

121

(3)

Richard Gillman

Together Among Monarchs

124

(3)

Lost Is the Farthest Place

127

(2)

Richard Aldridge

A Sharing of Silences

129

(2)

The Cornfield

131

(2)

Henry Braun

The Shed

133

(2)

Kate Barnes

The Hay Rake

135

(1)

Another Full Moon

136

(1)

Where the Deer Were

137

(1)

Ghosts, Balloons, Some Martians

138

(2)

Paul Nelson

Bluefish Run, Machias, Maine

140

(2)

Night Out

142

(1)

Thomas Carper

Burning Her Past

143

(1)

The Solemn Son

144

(1)

Nobody at Treblinka

145

(1)

The Tranquil Life

146

(1)

Martin Steingesser

For the Moment

147

(1)

Today, the Traffic Signals All Changed for Me

148

(2)

William Carpenter

The Ecuadorian Sailors

150

(2)

At the Foxtrot Motel

152

(2)

Rain

154

(2)

Kenneth Rosen

The Last Lamp-Lighters

156

(1)

Stormy Night

157

(2)

Right and Wrong

159

(1)

The Alligator's Hum

160

(1)

Wesley McNair

The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows

161

(1)

The Puppy

162

(1)

The Abandonment

163

(1)

The Rules of the New Car

164

(1)

Smoking

165

(3)

David Walker

The Crossing

168

(1)

from Three for a New Daughter

169

(1)

Emerald

170

(1)

Ira Sadoff

My Mother's Funeral

171

(1)

I Like Ike

172

(1)

Bud Powell at the Club Montmarte, 1961

173

(2)

Izzy

175

(1)

The Depression

176

(1)

Seurat

177

(2)

Betsy Sholl

from Blues Is My Companion

179

(2)

Bird Lady

181

(2)

Gulls in Wind

183

(1)

Here

184

(2)

Peter Harris

Body and Soul

186

(2)

The Net

188

(1)

Baron Wormser

My Wife Asks Me Why I Keep Photographs in a Drawer

189

(2)

Beethoven's Maid

191

(1)

The Haircut

192

(1)

Furniture

193

(2)

Spirits of the Mall

195

(2)

Richard Foerster

Hairdo

197

(1)

from Double Going

198

(3)

Garden Spider

201

(1)

Mekeel McBride

A Little Bit of Timely Advice

202

(2)

The Pain Sweepstakes

204

(1)

Strauss and the Cows of Ireland

205

(1)

If That Boaty Pink Cadillac from 1959 with the Huge Fins

206

(2)

Stuart Kestenbaum

Breaking Free

208

(2)

I Am Fishing for God

210

(2)

Gary Lawless

Some Clear Night

212

(1)

Fog Moves In

213

(1)

Elizabeth Tibbetts

Coming Home

214

(1)

Institution

215

(2)

Snow

217

(1)

Robert Farnsworth

At a Sunday Concert

218

(2)

Grenouillere

220

(2)

Carl Little

Glacial Erotic

222

(1)

Moose Head

223

(1)

Edward Nobles

Nuclear Winter

224

(1)

On the Head of a Pin

225

(2)

Through One Tear

227

(2)

April Ossmann

Satisfaction

229

(3)

Connie Voisine

Hungry

232

(1)

Booming the Lake

233

(2)

About the Contributors

235

(6)

Credits/Acknowledgments

241

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