Selected Poems

The Stunted Strong

• Valley-Folk
• Ellen Waring
• George Burroughs
• New Brunswick
• Rose

The Haloed Tree

• The Seed I Sowed, Believing
• Winter Apples
• Butterfly
• A Ballad of Orchard Evening

Descent from Eden

• The Dragon Tree
• The Golden Fish
• No Man Can Trust His Fairest Love Is Kind
• Ode to Fredericton
• The Water and the Rock
• When the Switch that Time Corrodes
• Within My Templed Flesh

Lost Dimension

• Big Cyrus
• Tame Goose

Star-People

• Funeral Direction
• Poet
• The Light That Once
• The Cage
• Monism
• The Butterfly
• Like Two Slant Trees
• Under the Willow
• Perspective
• After You Left Me

Immortal Plowman

• Tied Wolf
• William Cain
• T.V. Watcher
• The Wind and the Tree

In Praise of Chastity

• Lyric
• Avalon

The Chains of Liliput

• The Golden Lure
• The Black and the Gold

The House Without a Door

• A Classicist’s Lament
• Cruelty
• A Prayer

Against Perspective

• The Tree
• In a Hospital
• Dialectic
• Still
• I Shall Not When I Die

A Long Apprenticeship: The Collected Poems of Fred Cogswell

• Love on My Part
• Phaeton
• I’ve Little Patience With
• Didactic
• There are Two Worlds in Time

Pearls

• The Death
• How It Was
• Fireflies: Cape Traverse
• Could I...
• Vilanelle: Dung on the Roses
• When I am Blind to All I See

Meditations: 50 Sestinas

• The Berries on the Rowan
• Poet’s Funeral