Collected Poems in English

Contents Editor's Note xiii A PART OF SPEECH 1 Six Years Later 3 Anno Domini 5 Autumn in Norenskaia 8 "A second Christmas by the shore" 10 Homage to Yalta 12 A Song to No Music 29 The End of a Beautiful Era 38 Lithuanian Divertissement 41 On Love 44 I Sit by the Window 46 Nature Morte 48 December 24, 1971 53 To a Tyrant 55 The Funeral of Bobo 56 Letters to a Roman Friend 58 Nunc Dimittis 61 Odysseus to Telemachus 64 "An autumn evening in the modest square" 65 1972 67 In the Lake District 71 The Butterfly 72 Torso 78 Lagoon 79 "The classical ballet, let's say, is beauty's keep" 83 On the Death of Zhukov 85 Mexican Divertimento 87 The Thames at Chelsea 98 A Part of Speech 101 Lullaby of Cape Cod 116 December in Florence 130 In England 133 Plato Elaborated 140 Letters from the Ming Dynasty 143 The Rustle of Acacias 145 Elegy: For Robert Lowell 147 Strophes 150 San Pietro 158 GORBUNOV AND GORCHAKOV 163 TO URANIA 209 May 24, 1980 211 To a Friend: In Memoriam 212 October Tune 213 A Polar Explorer 214 Lithuanian Nocturne 215 Twenty Sonnets to Mary Queen of Scots 226 North Baltic 235 The Berlin Wall Tune 236 Dutch Mistress 239 Allenby Road 240 The Fifth Anniversary 241 Polonaise: A Variation 245 vi The New Jules Verne 247 Lines on the Winter Campaign, 1980 254 Café Trieste: San Francisco 257 The Hawk's Cry in Autumn 259 Sextet 263 Minefield Revisited 267 Near Alexandria 268 Tsushima Screen 270 A Martial Law Carol 271 Folk Tune 273 Roman Elegies 274 To Urania 281 The Bust of Tiberius 282 Seven Strophes 286 The Residence 288 Eclogue IV: Winter 289 Eclogue V: Summer 295 Venetian Stanzas I 303 Venetian Stanzas II 306 Seaward 309 Galatea Encore 310 Variation in V 311 Letter to an Archaeologist 312 Kellomäki 313 Ex Voto 318 Elegy: "About a year has passed." 319 The Fly 320 Belfast Tune 330 Afterword 331 vii At Carel Willink's Exhibition 333 "Slave, Come to My Service!" 336 In Italy 340 In Memoriam 341 SO FORTH 343 Infinitive 345 A Song 347 A Footnote to Weather Forecasts 349 Star of the Nativity 351 New Life 352 Angel 355 An Admonition 356 In Memory of My Father: Australia 360 So Forth 361 Constancy 363 Brise Marine 364 Centaurs I 365 Centaurs II 366 Centaurs III 367 Centaurs IV 368 Epitaph for a Centaur 369 Axiom 370 North of Delphi 371 Exeter Revisited 373 Vertumnus 374 Nativity 383 Postcard from Lisbon 384 viii August Rain 385 Venice: Lido 386 Fin de Siècle 387 Porta San Pancrazio 393 Transatlantic 394 View from the Hill 395 Homage to Girolamo Marcello 397 Elegy: "Sweetheart, losing your looks, go to live in a village" 399 Anti-Shenandoah: Two Skits and a Chorus 401 Daedalus in Sicily 404 Clouds 405 Cappadocia 409 Ab Ovo 412 Via Funari 413 Portrait of Tragedy 414 Törnfallet 417 Persian Arrow 419 Song of Welcome 420 Elegy: "Whether you fished me bravely out of the Pacific" 423 Kolo 424 Lullaby 426 Homage to Chekhov 428 Ischia in October 430 Anthem 432 In Front of Casa Marcello 435 After Us 437 A Tale 438 Ode to Concrete 442 At the City Dump in Nantucket 443 A Photograph 444 A Postcard 445 Reveille 446 Blues 448 At a Lecture 449 In Memory of Clifford Brown 450 Love Song 451 To My Daughter 452 Flourish 453 MCMXCIV 454 MCMXCV 455 View with a Flood 456 Taps 457 UNCOLLECTED POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS 459 Rio Samba 461 A Season 462 Shorts 463 History of the Twentieth Century: A Roadshow 467 Swiss Blue 486 Lines for the Winter Recess 488 Fossil Unwound 489 Bosnia Tune 490 To the President-elect 492 Robinsonade 493 Once More by the Potomac 494 Cabbage and Carrot 495 At the Helmet and Sword 496 "I will win you away from every earth, from every sky" 497 "Seeing off the beloved ones, I" 498 x Tristia 499 Achilles. Penthesilea 501 End and Beginning 502 Selected Bibliography 505 Notes 507 Index of titles and first lines 533