Chapters (131)
- THE SECRET WAY
- CONTENTS
- PART I
- EARLY VERSE THE SECRET WAY
- TERZA RIMA
- I: Old Talk
- II: Magic
- III: Night Is Here
- BALLADES OF THREE SENSES
- I BALLADE OF EYES THAT SEE
- II BALLADE OF LISTENING
- III BALLADE OF OLD PERFUMES
- HOKKU
- SONNETS AND VARIATIONS WHEN DID SPRING DIE?
- ONE DAWN SHE WOKE ME——
- THERE ARE WITHIN US LIVES WE NEVER LIVE
- LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I SAW MY MOTHER YOUNG
- WHY AM I SILENT?
- I WANDERED WHERE THE WONDER OF THE SKY——
- HERE A STILL FIELD
- RETURN
- IN J. P. P.’s METRE
- I
- II
- III TO A POET
- EXERCISE IN SPENSERIANS
- PART II
- I KNOW WHERE A DOVE——
- PROLOCUTOR
- WONDER
- A MEETING
- HALF THOUGHT
- EPITAPH
- EPITAPH
- ALIAS
- IN ARVIA’S ROOM
- NON NOBIS
- HALF THOUGHT
- UMBRA
- WRAITHS
- HALF THOUGHT
- WIND SONG
- HALF THOUGHT
- TROTH
- BELOVED, IT IS DAYBREAK ON THE HILLS
- CREDO
- WHO IS THIS THAT IS SO NEAR?
- INMOST ONE
- STONE CELL
- LIGHT
- HALF THOUGHT
- CONTOURS
- PART III
- NEWS NOTES OF PORTAGE, WISCONSIN
- I THE KILBOURN ROAD
- II VIOLIN
- III NORTH STAR
- PROSE NOTES
- I THE BUREAU
- II MINUET
- III THE DINING ROOM
- IV PARADISE AND PURGATORY
- V AT LEAST ...
- VI ROSES
- VII SPRING EVENING
- VIII SECOND SIGHT
- IX DOES SOMETHING WAIT?
- X DOORS
- XI LEVITATION
- XII ENCHANTMENT
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