Author: Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Text Compilations
- Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems
- Opposites
- The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems
- Things of this World
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- A Christmas Hymn (A stable-lamp is lighted) (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) *
- A Christmas Hymn (A stable-lamp is lighted) (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) - Huub de Lange, Alec Wynton *
- All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Saw)
- A stable-lamp is lighted (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) * (A Christmas Hymn)
- A stable-lamp is lighted (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) * - Huub de Lange, Alec Wynton (A Christmas Hymn)
- A stable lamp is lighted (A stable-lamp is lighted) (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) - Paulette Tollefson *
- A stable-lamp is lighted (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) * - Paulette Tollefson (A stable lamp is lighted)
- Beasts () (from Things of this World) [x] *
- Beasts () (from Things of this World) - Robert Edward Cucinotta [x] *
- Boy at the window (Seeing the snowman standing all alone) - Huub de Lange *
- Chain (To me, and through me fortune is unkind) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Chick in the Egg (Mine was the strangest birth under the sun) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young * - Huub de Lange (To the Etruscan poets)
- Exeunt (Piecemeal the summer dies) (from Things of this World) *
- Exeunt (Piecemeal the summer dies) (from Things of this World) - Yehudi Wyner *
- Hobnail (Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Hobnail)
- I bite when bitten; but because I lack * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Onion)
- I have borne more than a body ought to bear * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Mother of Twins)
- In her room at the prow of the house * (The writer)
- In her room at the prow of the house * - Alva Henderson (The writer)
- It must be me (My master told me that men are loving-kind) - Leonard Bernstein *
- Mine was the strangest birth under the sun * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Chick in the Egg)
- Mother of Twins (I have borne more than a body ought to bear) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- My master told me that men are loving-kind * - Leonard Bernstein (It must be me)
- Of cheese () (from Opposites) - Henry Leland Clarke [x] *
- Of Earth () (from Opposites) - Henry Leland Clarke [x] *
- Of nuts () (from Opposites) - Henry Leland Clarke [x] *
- Of standing still () (from Opposites) - Henry Leland Clarke [x] *
- One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) * (The beautiful changes)
- One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) * - Gordon Ware Binkerd, Huub de Lange (The beautiful changes)
- Onion (I bite when bitten; but because I lack) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Piecemeal the summer dies (from Things of this World) * (Exeunt)
- Piecemeal the summer dies (from Things of this World) * - Yehudi Wyner (Exeunt)
- River and Fish (Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Saw (All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Seeing the snowman standing all alone * - Huub de Lange (Boy at the window)
- Stairs (Unequal in degree, alike in size) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (River and Fish)
- The beautiful changes (One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides) (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) *
- The beautiful changes (One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides) (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) - Gordon Ware Binkerd, Huub de Lange *
- The horse beneath me seemed * - Huub de Lange (The ride)
- The ride (The horse beneath me seemed) - Huub de Lange *
- The writer (In her room at the prow of the house) *
- The writer (In her room at the prow of the house) - Alva Henderson *
- To me, and through me fortune is unkind * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Chain)
- To the Etruscan poets (Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young) - Huub de Lange *
- Unequal in degree, alike in size * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Stairs)
Last update: 2018-11-21 20:58:01