The first book / Here I am, and other poems about the self: from The world is round / I am cherry alive / My shadow / Crying / O dear! How disgusting is life! / Bad morning / Ode to Pablo's tennis shoes / Don't worry if your job is small / It couldn't be done / Personal / A man said / Sonnet 94 / Dust of snow / If-- / from A drama of exile / Between what I see and what I say-- / Micah 6:8 --

I dreamed I had to pick a mother out, and other poems about family: Disobedience / Brother / Brother and sister / If Little Red Riding Hood-- / Andre / The parent / Bilingual/biling¿e / Ballad of Birmingham / Manners

It is the duty of the student, and other poems about school: Duty of the student / Gnome / Sick / Homework / Lucky trade / Bubble troubles / How to paint a donkey / The lesson / Theme for English B / if everything happens that can't be done

I'm expecting you! and other poems about friendship and love: Bee! I'm expecting you! / Vade mecum / Evil / A poison tree / Tableau / Voices rising / He wishes for the cloths of heaven / The dream keeper / A blessing / Invitation to love / 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / For Katrina's sun-dial / Liberty

I met a little elf-man, once, and other poems about fairies, ogres, and witches: The little elf / The fairies / I'd love to be a fairy's child / Some one / Under the bed / What's that? / from The masque of queens / Song of the ogres / The splendour falls on castle walls

Where can a man buy a cap for his knee? and other nonsensical poems: Foolish questions / Way down South / There was an old man in a garden / There was an old person whose habits / Baby ate a microchip / from Through the looking-glass / Herbert Glerbett / The toys talk of the world / All about boys and girls / Some worlds inside of words / The tale of custard the dragon

We dance round in a ring and suppose, and other poems about sports and games: The secret sits / Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Block city / The girls in the circle / We real cool / Slam, dunk, & hook / Defender / Zuri at bat / Casey at the bat / Casey's revenge / May

Four score and seven years ago, and other poems about war: Will, lost in a sea of trouble / The destruction of Sennacherib / Ozymandias / from Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / Shiloh / Gettysburg Address / Charge of the light brigade / Ukase / When he was small, when he would fall / The unknown soldier / First they came for the Jews / from "Voice from Lemnos" / Peace

The world is so full of a number of things, and other poems about nature: from "Auguries of innocence" / Happy thought / What are heavy? / Devotion / Will there really be a "morning"? / Ballad of the morning streets / who are you, little i / In beauty may I walk / Tommy / from As You Like It, II, v, 5-12: 18-25 / Anecdote of the jar / The snow man / Winter trees / from The metamorphoses, Book I / The world / from The Canterbury tales, general prologue / Young Lochinvar / The cremation of Sam McGee / Paul Revere's ride / Kubla Khan / Catch a little rhyme