Table of Contents
Introduction Ann Kjellberg ix
A Note on the Text xvii
Six Tears Later 3
I Sit by the Window 5
Lithuanian Divertissement 7
Nature Morte 11
The Funeral of Bobò 18
Nunc Dimittis 21
An autumn evening in the modest square 25
In the Lake District 27
The Butterfly 28
Lagoon 35
A Part of Speech 40
In England 55
Plato Elaborated 64
Letters from the Ming Dynasty 68
May 24, 1980 70
A Polar Explorer 71
Dutch Mistress 72
The Hawk's Cry in Autumn 73
Sextet 78
Roman Elegies 84
To Urania 92
Seven Strophes 93
Eclogue IV: Winter 95
The Fly 105
In Memoriam 118
A Song 119
A Footnote to Weather Forecasts 121
Star of the Nativity 124
Memory of My Father: Australia 125
Epitaph for a Centaur 126
Vertumnus 127
Transatlantic 139
Daedalus in Sicily 140
Clouds 141
Portrait of Tragedy 146
Törnfallet 150
Homage to Chekhov 152
A Tale 154
View with a Flood 159
Ischia in October 160
In Front of Casa Marcello 163
Reveille 165
To My Daughter 167
MCMXCV 168
Flourish 169
Taps 170
Index of Titles and First Lines 173