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"He has had enough of meddling who can please A young girl in the indolence of her youth, Or an old man upon a winter's night." -- W.B.Yeats
New Poems: 2000- "Adam Freeman"
"Air Base, Iceland, 1965", "A Clear Day in Mexico", "Targets", "Mi Amor, My Love", "Prayer on the Death of a Lady of Perfect Taste"
"A Choice", "San Miguel de Allende, Sept.11, 2001", "Be Careful What You Ask For"
Poems: 1950-1999 "In the Dead Hours", "The White Crane", "Orpheus Waking", "A Thread", "On Mykonos"
"Interior with Figures", "The Effects of Poison", "In the Lobby", "A Partial Insight", "Dream"
"Song", "Gino at Mass", "The Butcher", "The Greengrocer's Daughter"
"For Two Men, Old Now", "Great-Grandmother: A Reminiscence", "Great-Grandpa Died on Monday"
"Art News", "After Reading Claudia Roth Pierpoint on Marina Tsvetaeva", "After Dinner, Saint-Tropez", "Hibiscus Tea", "Just off the Ring Road"
"One of the Thoughtful Children", "Clair de Lune ", "Notes on a Dead Love", "Remembrance", "The Old Pirate", "No Peace but Rage"
"Boy on a Bicycle", "Blessings on All This Green Unpleasance", "Note to a Contemporary, 1953", "The Expatriate", "Volcanoes"
"The Historian", "The American Professor", "Il Maggiordomo", "Entering the Palazzo", "Nobiltà Obbliga"
"The Marchesa", "An Exile", "The Contessa Mounted on her Arabian and at Home", "The Principessa", "La Nobildonna"
"On the Terrace of Casa Vivaio", "The House in Tuscany", "How to Get to My House in Mexico", "Mexico, La Noche"
"Her Complaint", "Avis Compared", "Barbara Speaks to the River", and "The Unfaithful Wife" (translated from Garcia Lorca)
"Family Outing", "Poem", "Picnic", "Ruminations"
"In Memory of Dylan Thomas", "Losses", "The Salesman Who Reads Greek", "Calle Refugio"
"Letter from Lon", "Long Distance", "Winter from a Window", "Visiting Graveyards"
"Tulip, Ark.", "Children Playing on Sunday", "Butchering", "Turning the Corner", "Exodus"
"View", "On Corfu", "To the Mountain", "What Am I Doing", "A Being in a Square"
"In the Museum", "The Antiquarian", "Glamour Girl, Firenze", "Foreign Student", "A Curse Upon a Rich Old Man"
"If God", "News from the Cave", "The Apostate's Rhyme", "Warning", "Tool Talk", "Bovinity"
"Una Nobildonna" (the unabridged text; extracts appear on Pages 8 & 9)
"Letter to Italy", and "Castile" (translated from M.Machado)
"The Wolf's Motives" (translated from Rubén Darío)
"Tithing", "The Wise Man", "The Poor Man Thinks", "A Fragment" (translated from Calderon de la Barca, Rimbaud, Leopardi)
"To Himself", "To the Moon", "The Infinite", "To the Evening" (translated from Leopardi, Foscolo)
"Love's Pain", "Love's Power", "To His Beloved", "Love's Torment" (translated from Ugo Foscolo)
"The Sacred Dancer", "Three Self-Portraits" (translated from Alfieri, Foscolo, Manzoni)
"To His Brother", "On His Father's Death", "Florentia", "To Italy" (translated from Ugo Foscolo)
"To Zante", "Song", "Imitation", "Twenty Centuries", "Fantasy for a Beginning of Spring" (translated from Foscolo, Lope de Vega, Leopardi, Storni, Penna)
"The Balcony", "Solitary Pines", "Serenade", "To the Sun" (translated from Penna, Foscolo)
"To Himself", "To His Muse", "I Am Not Who I Was", "Five Lyrics", "Ulysses" (translated from Foscolo, Penna, Saba)
"The Flowers", "Evening in the Garden", "Lesson in Aesthetics" (translated from Palazzeschi, Penna)
Grateful acknowedgement is expressed to N.E.Phillips for valuable contributions to the translation of the poems by Ugo Foscolo and Aldo Palazzeschi.
Short stories by Carl Selph may be found in the General Site Archive (see links below). Further pages will be added to this index, so keep coming back!
Links to this Carl Selph Collected Poetry Index are featured on:
Acknowledgments: Versions of some of these poems, which were written in the years1950 through 1999, first appeared in Bellowing Ark, The Beloit Poetry journal, Blue Unicorn, The California Quarterly, The Colorado Quarterly, Descant, The Georgia Review, El Independiente, The Lyric, Mankato Poetry Review, Poetry Chap-Book, Poetry Motel, Prairie Schooner, Preview, San Miguel Writer, The University of Kansas City Review, Whetstone, and in two earlier collections -- Two Poets (with Edsel Ford), 1951, and In a Galloping Wind, 1953.
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