Poems by Allen Tate
Ditty
... Look at the blackbird, the pretty eager swallow, ...
Elegy
... Who's busy in a hell a hundred times ...
To The Romantic Traditionists
... What mark Can signify their charm ...
Art
... Have your own vanishing slit of light let through, ...
Aeneas At Washington
... Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city ...
Sonnet To Beauty
... For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass ...
Sonnets Of The Blood VII
... I've heard the echoes in a dark tangled wood ...
Adaptation Of A Theme By Catullus
... Carmen CI Past towns, states, deserts, hills and rivers borne ...
The Eye
... Seared from the raveled hole of the sky ...
The Meaning Of Life
... The second, the second be speechless (without the first) ...
The Wolves
... Now while I have looked for the evening star at a cold window ...
More Sonnets At Christmas IV
... the nave Gives back the cheated and light dividend ...
Inside And Outside
... In the hushed room, and leave them soundless here: ...
Horatian Epode To The Duchess Of Malfi
... And the katharsis fades in the warm water of a yawn ...
The Robber Bridegroom
... The house is whirling night, the guests ...
