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) *