Available Poems in Tales Told of the Father - The Head of the Bed (by John Hollander )

[Incomplete]

• no. 1. Heard through lids slammed down over darkened glass  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 2. Where, where, where? Where is here? Where is Herr Haar  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 3. Floor lamps and their shadows warmed the room where  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 4. Slanting lean, gray rain washing the palace  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 5. Coarse breath fanning the closed air by his ear  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 6. He felt his hand feeling another hand  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 7. Down the shaded street, toward an avenue  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 8. The Hyperboreans gathered him up  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 9. Leaving that unfair, seasonless land was  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 10. Beyond the cold, blue mountain and beyond  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 11. Half his days he had passed in the shadow  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 12. When, as if late some night of festival  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 13. He awoke. Low in the sky in August  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 14. Grayish flakes like clay are falling as if  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *
• no. 15. The bright moon offends him: he plucks it out  (Milton Byron Babbitt) *