Messenger : new and selected poems, 1976-2006 /
Ellen Bryant Voigt.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.
- 238 p. ; 25 cm.
The hen -- Harvest -- Dialogue : poetics -- Stork -- Damage -- The letter -- The visit -- Snakeskin -- Tropics -- Blue ridge -- A fugue -- The happiness poems -- Talking the fire out -- For my father -- Year's end -- Liebesgedicht -- Jug brook -- Sweet everlasting -- The last class -- Visiting the graves -- The photograph -- The field trip -- The trust -- The farmer -- Bright leaf -- Amaryllis -- Nightshade -- The waterfall -- Dancing with poets -- Feast day -- Short story -- Stone pond -- The lotus flowers -- The innocents -- At the piano -- Variations : at the piano -- After Keats -- Woman who weeps -- Two trees -- Variations : two trees -- Soft cloud passing -- Effort at speech -- Song and story -- Largesse -- Winter field -- Long marriage -- Lesson -- Himalaya -- High winds flare up and the old house shudders -- The garden, spring, the hawk -- The art of distance -- Horace : Ode I.xxxiv -- Autumn in the yard we planted -- Practice -- The feeder -- Deathbed -- The hive -- Harvesting the cows -- Rubato -- Redbud -- The tattered dress -- Prayer -- Adagio -- Messenger.