Contents: If you please -- They say I speak of love alone-- -- Oxymoron -- Comfort -- February 12 -- Power -- Saint -- He asked for a kiss-- -- Comment in a class in biography -- They say I catch pain in a rhyme-- -- The puritan -- I wish to give, but feel the cold of fear-- -- Of the patriarchs -- Bride -- Here is the place we met-- -- This moment there is nothing but your touch-- -- Even a child I was not slow to grasp-- -- Prophetic of memory -- Generations -- Japanese quince -- Beth in the sand -- Postman -- Butcher -- Milkman -- Orange man -- Landlord -- A scene from The Hungry Moon -- Of Freddie -- Of Beth and the blocks -- San Francisco Clinic -- Spoil-Banks, Indiana -- Apologia -- First love is water-- -- (For the verse-choir version of The Hungry Moon) -- The Sunday Manila -- Girl with a rope -- Grinnell spruce -- For Pete entering the Army -- For Citizen L. -- Boy rescued from a rubber raft-- -- For my dear -- Moving picture -- Love song on a wet morning -- On the lake -- Boy bathing -- Poet in Michigan -- Of Colorado mountains--on the way to the library -- Question and answer (after reading Kenneth Burke) -- From number 8, Denver -- White-rabbit-running -- On finishing a novel manuscript -- Quatrain without a gift -- Asked of dean -- Three -- The elegant wives of the pueblo -- Dream at a distance -- But tonight -- The demanding -- In envied citadels-- .

Loose inside front cover is "Love Note on a Train (for August 16, 1949)."