Poems by James Wright
Youth
... Got out of it, and fled to Chicago, furious to free himself ...
A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
... Alone with the fire ghost of Catullus, the contemptuous graces tossing ...
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
... And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, ...
Saint Judas
... how I alone Bargained the proper coins, and slipped away ...
Bologna: A Poem About Gold
... Mary in Bologna, sunlight I gathered all morning &emsp ...
The Journey
... Many men Have searched all over Tuscany and never found ...
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
... 6 Staring politely, they will not mark my face ...
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
... Beany, the kid whose yellow hair turns green, ...
You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey
... He plucked a gray field mouse ...
To the Muse
... If I could. But the only way I can get you to come up ...
Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota
... To my right, In a field of sunlight between two pines, ...
Rip
... That I carved young, with a girl's, is healed over, now, ...
Fear Is What Quickens Me
... I can hear rabbits and mourning dovees whispering together ...
May Morning
... hopelessness, he stays alive in every shady place, starving along the ...
Small Frogs Killed On The Highway
... It is everything, the wet green stalk of the field ...
