James Agee: Selected Poems

edited by andrew hudgins

• Introduction

• Permit Me Voyage

• Lyrics
• A Song
• Description of
• Elysium
• The Happy Hen
• Dedication
• Ann Garner
• A Chorale
• Epithalamium
• Sonnets
• Permit Me Voyage

• Other Poems

• Apotheosis
• The Storm
• The Shadow
• A Lovers' Dialogue
• The Rendezvous
• Good Friday
• RÈsumÈ
• Sonnet ("Death never swoops us round with sudden black")
• Two Sonnets
• Description of Elysium
• The Truce
• Resolution
• A Poem of Poets
• A Parable of Doors
• Delinquent
• Home Again Blues
• The Passionate Poet to His Love
• "When I was small delight and fear"
• Lyrics
• Class Ode, 1932
• "As you came through
• the far land"
• Theme with Variations
• Sonnet ("Now it is competent, our common heart")
• Sonnet ("Two years have passed, and made a perfect wheel")
• "Him we killed and laid alone"
• "A low pit and sink of shade"
• "When Eve first saw the glittering day"
• A Poem for Brahms' Death-Bed
• Period Pieces from the Mid-Thirties
• Three Cabaret Songs
• "You green in the young day"
• "Now on the stunned floor of darkness"
• A Song
• Two Songs on the Economy of Abundance
• "Now I lay me down >beside"
• Lyric
• from John Carter
• In Memory of My Father
• Lyrics
• Sunday: Outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee
• Sun Our Father
• Summer Evening
• Lyric
• "As in a woodland rarely"
• To Walker Evans
• On the Word Asleep
• On the Word Kingdom
• "O my poor country I have so much hated"
• Dear Father
• "I walked into a wasted place"
• "We soldiers of all nations who lie killed"
• November 1945
• Christmas 1945
• "How many little children sleep"
• Sonnets
• "I bore my bearer on a wasted mountain"
• "O I begin to know: neither could live"
• "Just this: from now on, to go on foot"
• A Lullaby
• Lines Suggested by a Tennessee Song
• Exiit Diluculo
• Draft Lyrics for Candide