Theodore Roethke
Bio
Roethke Reading Roethke
The Dream
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
The Voice
The Sensualists
The Lost Son
My Papa's Waltz
Words for the Wind
The Swan
The Surly One
Songs For The Squeeze-Box
The Sloth
She
A Rouse for Stevens
Reply to a Lady Editor
The Renewal
Love’s Progress
selections from Praise to the End
The Other
Memory
A Lady Came to a Bear
Dinky
Four for Sir John Davies
The Long Alley
All the Earth, All the Air
Open House
Open House
Feud
Death Piece
Prognosis
To My Sister
The Premonition
Interlude
Orders for the Day
Prayer
The Signals
The Adamant
The Light Comes Brighter
The Bat
Night Journey
The Heron
Mid-country Blow
Slow Season
In Praise of Prairie
The Coming of the Cold
No Bird
The Unextinguished
Long Live the Weeds
Genesis*
Epidermal Macabre*
Against Disaster*
Reply to Censure*
The Auction*
On the Road to Woodlawn*
Silence*
Academic*
For an Amorous Lady*
Poetaster*
Vernal Sentiment*
Prayer Before Study*
Ballad of the Clairvoyant Widow*
My Dim-wit Cousin*
The Lost Son
Weed Puller
Orchids
Transplanting
Child on Top of a Greenhouse
A Field of Light
Carnations*
Praise to the End
Where Knock is Open Wide
O Lull Me, Lull Me
I Cry, Love! Love!
Give Way, Ye Gates
The Far Field
Her Reticence
Her Longing
Her Time
Light Listened
The Geranium
In a Dark Time
Uncollected Poems
Light Poem
Song
The Waking
The Visitant
Vocalist - David Juda, Heather C. Liston*
Poem source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke - Anchor Books - 1991
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