Selected poems about the problems of modern life, inspired by historical sights or impressions of existence throughout the world.

Poems.

Water -- The old flame -- Middle age -- The scream -- The mouth of the Hudson -- Fall 1961 -- Florence -- The lesson -- Those before us -- Eye and tooth -- Alfred Corning Clark -- Child's song -- Epigram -- Law -- The public garden -- Lady Ralegh's lament -- Going to and fro -- Myopia: a night -- Returning -- The drinker -- Hawthorne -- Jonathan Edwards in western Massachusetts -- Tenth muse -- The neo-classical urn -- Caligula -- The severed head -- Beyond the Alps -- July in Washington -- Buenos Aires -- Dropping south: Brazil -- Soft wood -- New York 1962: fragment -- The flaw -- Night sweat -- For the union dead.