Since there is no escape, since at the end
         My body will be utterly destroyed,
       This hand I love as I have loved a friend,
         This body I tended, wept with and enjoyed;
       Since there is no escape even for me
         Who love life with a love too sharp to bear:
       The scent of orchards in the rain, the sea
         And hours alone too still and sure for prayer --
       Since darkness waits for me, then all the more
       Let me go down as waves sweep to the shore
         In pride; and let me sing with my last breath;
       In these few hours of light I lift my head;
       Life is my lover -- I shall leave the dead
         If there is any way to baffle death.

i
   Blue Squills
   Stars
   "What Do I Care?"
   Meadowlarks
   Driftwood
   "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
   August Moonrise
ii
   Memories. Places
   Memories. Old Tunes
   Memories. "Only in Sleep"
   Memories. Redbirds
   Memories. Sunset: St. Louis
   Memories. The Coin
   Memories. The Voice
iii
   Day and Night
   Compensation
   I Remembered
   "Oh You Are Coming"
   The Return
   Gray Eyes
   The Net
   The Mystery
iv
   In a Hospital. Open Windows
   In a Hospital. The New Moon
   In a Hospital. Eight O'Clock
   In a Hospital. Lost Things
   In a Hospital. Pain
   In a Hospital. The Broken Field
   In a Hospital. The Unseen
   In a Hospital. A Prayer
v
   Spring Torrents
   "I Know the Stars"
   Understanding
   Nightfall
   "It Is Not a Word"
   "My Heart Is Heavy"
   The Nights Remember
   "Let It Be Forgotten"
vi
   The Dark Cup. May Day
   The Dark Cup. "Since There Is No Escape"
   The Dark Cup. "The Dreams of My Heart"
   The Dark Cup. "A Little While"
   The Dark Cup. The Garden
   The Dark Cup. The Wine
   The Dark Cup. In a Cuban Garden
   The Dark Cup. "If I Must Go"
vii
   In Spring, Santa Barbara
   White Fog
   Arcturus
   Moonlight
   Morning Song
   Gray Fog
   Bells
   Lovely Chance
viii
   "There Will Come Soft Rains"
   In a Garden
   Nahant
   Winter Stars
   A Boy
   Winter Dusk
ix
   By the Sea. The Unchanging
   By the Sea. June Night
   By the Sea. "Like Barley Bending"
   By the Sea. "Oh Day of Fire and Sun"
   By the Sea. "I Thought of You"
   By the Sea. On the Dunes
   By the Sea. Spray
   By the Sea. If Death Is Kind
x
   Thoughts
   Faces
   Evening: New York
   Snowfall
   The Silent Battle
   The Sanctuary
   At Sea
   Dust
   The Long Hill
xi
   Summer Storm
   In the End
   "It Will Not Change"
   Change
   Water Lilies
   "Did You Never Know?"
   The Treasure
   The Storm
xii
   Songs For Myself. The Tree
   Songs For Myself. At Midnight
   Songs For Myself. Song Making
   Songs For Myself. Alone
   Songs For Myself. Red Maples
   Songs For Myself. Debtor
   Songs For Myself. The Wind in the Hemlock