Old and New Poems

This volume contains the finest short poetry Donald Hall has written, poems of landscape and love, of dedication and prophecy, poems that have won thousands of readers, as well as various prizes and honors.

DONALD HALL, poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007, has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, the Lenore Marshall Award, the 1990 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1934
Abroad Thoughts From Home
Acorns
Adultery At Forty
An Airstrip In Essex, 1960
The Alligator Bride
Apples
At Delphi
The Baseball Players
Beau Of The Dead
'between The Clock And The Bed'
The Black Faced Sheep
The Blue Wing
The Body Politic (1)
Brief Lives
By The Exeter River
Carlotta's Confession
A Carol
The Child
A Child's Garden
Christ Church Meadows, Oxford
Christmas Eve In Whitneyville
Cider 5 Cents A Glass
The Clown
The Coal Fire
The Coffee Cup
Cold Water
The Columns Of The Parthenon
Conduct And Work
Cops And Robbers
The Corner
Dancers
The Day I Was Older
The Days
Digging
The Dump
Eating The Pig
Edward's Anecdote
Eleanor's Letters
Elegy For Wesley Wells
Exile
The Family
The Farm
Fathers And Sons
Fete
Flies
For An Exchange Of Rings
The Foundations Of American Industry
A Friend Revisited
Gold
A Grace
Granite And Grass
The Grave, The Well
Great Day In The Cow's House
The Green Shelf
The Grown-ups
The Henyard Round
The High Pasture
The Hole
The Hut Of The Man Alone
The Idea Of Flying
Illustration
The Impossible Marriage
In The Old House
'internal And External Forms' (from Henry Moore's Sculpture)
Je Suis Une Table
The Jealous Lovers
Kicking The Leaves
The Kill
'king And Queen' (from Henry Moore's Sculpture)
'the Kiss'
Letter To An English Poet
The Lone Ranger
The Long River
Love Is Like Sounds
The Man In The Dead Machine
Maple Syrup
'marat's Death'
Match
Material
Maundy Thursday's Candles
Merle Bascom's .22
Milkers Broken Up
The Moon
Moon Clock
Mount Kearsarge
Mr. And Mrs. Billings
Mr. Wakeville On Interstate 90
My Friend Felix
My Son The Executioner
Mycenae
Names Of Horses
New Animals
New Hampshire
No Color Man
No Deposit
Nose
Notes For Nobody
O Cheese
'o Flodden Field' (in Memory Of Edwin Muir)
Old Home Week
Old Houses
The Old Pilot
Old Roses
Old Timers' Day
On A Horse Carved In Wood
On Reaching The Age Of Two Hundred
Our Walk In Yorkshire
Ox Cart Man
Oysters And Hermits
Passage To Worship
Persistence Of 1937
Photographs Of China
Pictures Of Philippa
The Poem
Poem With One Fact
Praise For Death
President And Poet
The Presidentiad
The Raisin
'reclining Figure' (from Henry Moore's Sculpture)
The Red Branch
Religious Articles
The Repeated Shapes
The Revolution
The Rocker
Scenic View
The Scream
The Sea
A Second Stanza
Self-portrait, As A Bear
September Ode
Sestina
A Set Of Seasons
Sew
Shudder
A Sister By The Pond
A Sister On The Tracks
Six Naps In One Day
Sleeping
The Sleeping Giant; A Hill In Connecticut
A Small Fig Tree
The Snow
Some Oddities
Southwest Of Buffalo
Speeches
Stone Walls
The Stones
Stories
The Stump
Sums (from The Daye-boke Of Adam Raison, 1515-1560)
The Sun
Swan
The Table
This Poem
The Three Movements
To A Waterfowl
To The Loud Wind
Tomorrow
The Town Of Hill
The Toy Bone
Traffic
Transcontinent
The Tree And The Cloud
Tubes
Twelve Seasons
The Umbrella
The Valley Of Morning
A Village In East Anglia
Waiting On The Corners
Waters
Wedding Party
Wells
Whip-poor-will
White Apples
The Widows
Wolf Knife (from The Journals Of C.f. Hoyt, Usn, 1826-89)
Woolworth's
The Wreckage
The Young Watch Us