New and collected poems, 1931-2001

Introduction / Czeslaw Milosz

A Poem on Frozen Time (Poemat o czasie zastyglym, 1933)

Artificer

Three Winters (Trzy zimy, 1936)

The Song

The Gates of the Arsenal

Hymn

Dawns

Slow River

Statue of a Couple

Rescue (Ocalenie, 1945)

Ballad of Levallois

Encounter

A Book in the Ruins

Day of Generation

Campo dei Fiori

The World

The Road

The Gate

The Porch

The Dining Room

The Stairs

Pictures

Father in the Library

Father's Incantations

From the Window

Father Explains

A Parable of the Poppy

By the Peonies

Faith

Hope

Love

The Excursion to the Forest

The Bird Kingdom

Fear

Recovery

The Sun

Voices of Poor People

A Song on the End of the World

Song of a Citizen

The Poor Poet

Cafe

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto

Outskirts

Songs of Adrian Zielinski

Farewell

Flight

In Warsaw

Daylight (Swiatlo dzienne, 1953)

Song on Porcelain

Child of Europe

Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait

A Nation

Birth

A Family

Ocean

The Journey

The Spirit of the Laws

A Legend

Earth

You Who Wronged

Mittelbergheim

A Treatise on Poetry (Traktat poetycki, 1957)

I.. Beautiful Times

II.. The Capital

III.. The Spirit of History

IV.. Natura

Ode

King Popiel and Other Poems (Krol Popiel i inne wiersze, 1962)

King Popiel

Magpiety

Lessons

No More

Ode to a Bird

Happiness

What Once Was Great

Should, Should Not

What Does It Mean

Heraclitus

Greek Portrait

The Master

A Frivolous Conversation

In Milan

From the Chronicles of the Town of Pornic

Bluebeard's Castle

The Owners

Vandeans

Our Lady of Recovery

Album of Dreams

Far West

Throughout Our Lands

Bobo's Metamorphosis (Gucio zaczarowany, 1965)

It Was Winter

Bobo's Metamorphosis

Rivers Grow Small

They Will Place There Telescreens

On the Other Side

And the City Stood in Its Brightness

Those Corridors

Three Talks on Civilization

Sentences

I Sleep a Lot

Dithyramb

City Without a Name (Miasto bez imienia, 1969)

The Year

City Without a Name

When the Moon

Veni Creator

Window

With Trumpets and Zithers

How It Was

On the Road

Whiteness

Thesis and Counter-Thesis

Counsels

Incantation

Ars Poetica?

Higher Arguments in Favor of Discipline Derived from the Speech Before the Council of the Universal State in 2068

Island

My Faithful Mother Tongue

Uncollected Poems 1954-1969

Esse

A Mistake

How Ugly

To Robinson Jeffers

To Raja Rao

From the Rising of the Sun (Gdzie wschodzi slonce i kedy zapada, 1974)

A Task

An Hour

A Story

Occonomia Divina

Tidings

L'Acceleration de l'Histoire

Elegy for N. N.

An Appeal

Calling to Order

Not This Way

So Little

On Angels

Seasons

Gift

From the Rising of the Sun

I.. The Unveiling

II.. Diary of a Naturalist

III.. Lauda

IV.. Over Cities

V.. A Short Recess

VI.. The Accuser

VII.. Bells in Winter

Hymn of the Pearl (Hymn o perle, 1981)

A Magic Mountain

The View

Caesarea

Study of Loneliness

A Felicitous Life

The Fall

Temptation

Secretaries

Proof

Amazement

Idea

Filina

Reading the Japanese Poet Issa (1762-1826)

Before Majesty

A Poetic State

Distance

When After a Long Life

On Pilgrimage

Early Morning

A Portal

The Separate Notebooks

A Mirrored Gallery

Pages Concerning the Years of Independence

The Wormwood Star

Bypassing Rue Descartes

Account

Rivers

Unattainable Earth (Nieobjeta ziemia, 1986)

The Garden of Earthly Delights

1.. Summer

2.. A Ball

3.. Paradise

4.. Earth

5.. Earth Again

After Paradise

The Hooks of a Corset

Annalena

Yellow Bicycle

Into the Tree

One More Day

Winter

A Boy

In Salem

1913

At Dawn

At Noon

Return to Krakow in 1880

The City

Preparation

"With not-quite truth ..."

Consciousness

On Prayer

Father Ch., Many Years Later

Initiation

Elegy for Y. Z.

Anka

Theodicy

Table I

Table II

My-ness

Thankfulness

Poet at Seventy

"To find my home ..."

New Poems 1985-1987

A Portrait with a Cat

Mary Magdalen and I

A Skull

In a Jar

All Hallows' Eve

This Only

A Confession

For Jan Lebenstein

With Her

Old Women

How It Should Be in Heaven

Caffe Greco

And Yet the Books

On Parting with My Wife, Janina

Powers

La Belle Epoque

The Trans-Siberian Railway

Beyond the Urals

First Performance

The Northern Route

Revolutionaries

A Parisian Scene

The Titanic

Fear-Dream (1918)

In a Buggy at Dusk

1945

Six Lectures in Verse

Provinces (Dalsze okolice, 1991)

Blacksmith Shop

Adam and Eve

Evening

Creating the World

Linnaeus

In Music

Incarnated

Mister Hanusevich

Philology

And Yet

At Yale

Beinecke Library

The Thistle, the Nettle

Reconciliation

Abode

A New Province

Reading the Notebook of Anna Kamienska

Youth

In Common

A Photograph

Lastingness

Either-Or

Two Poems

Conversation with Jeanne

A Poem for the End of the Century

Spider

Far Away

Inheritor

Gathering Apricots

Meditation

On a Beach

Return

***

Good Night

December 1

Dante

Meaning

Kazia

A Philosopher's Home

Facing the River (Na brzegu rzeki, 1995)

At a Certain Age

A Lecture

Why

Capri

Report

Lithuania, After Fifty-two Years

A Goddess

The Manor

A Certain Neighborhood

A Naiad

Who?

City of My Youth

A Meadow

Translating Anna Swir on an Island of the Caribbean

To My Daimonion

The Wall of a Museum

Biography of an Artist

The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hell

Realism

One More Contradiction

Woe!

Pierson College

Sarajevo

To Allen Ginsberg

A Human Fly

House in Krasnogruda

A Polka-dot Dress

Plato's Dialogues

Undressing Justine

Retired

Wanda

To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only

You Whose Name

This World

Happenings Elsewhere

A Hall

After Enduring

Body

In Szetejnie

Road-Side Dog (Piesek przydrozny, 1998)

Road-side Dog

Pelicans

A Ball

Watering Can

From My Dentist's Window

Autumn

Helene

Helene's Religion

Yokimura

America

Christopher Robin

Rivers

This (To, 2000)

This

To a Hazel Tree

I Do Not Understand

My Grandfather Sigismund Kunat

Lake

After Traveling

The Head

Forget

In a City

An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at an Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis

For My Eighty-eighth Birthday

A Run

By a Stream

O!

O! (Gustav Klimt)

O! (Salvator Rosa)

O! (Edward Hopper)

Wherever

Voyeur

So-called Life

Prescription

In Black Despair

Awakened

Submerged

Vipera Berus

Texas

Craftsman

You, Vanquished

Specimens

The Year 1900

Obviously

My Secrets

If

Zone of Silence

Selecting Iwaszkiewicz's Poems for an Evening of His Poetry at the National Theater in Warsaw

Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II

What I Learned from Jeanne Hersch

Opposed to Each Other

Zdziechowski

Against the Poetry of Philip Larkin

On the Death of a Poet

On the Inequality of Men

Aleksander Wat's Tie

To Robert Lowell

Pastels by Degas

On Poetry, Upon the Occasion of Many Telephone Calls After Zbigniew Herbert's Death

Unde Malum

Rozewicz

Gardener

One and Many

An Alcoholic Enters the Gates of Heaven

The Rite

Persons

In a Parish

Prayer

After

Rays of Dazzling Light

Late Ripeness.