Lyric verse, including the long poem, "The gift outright", read by the poet at President Kennedy's inauguration.

Pod of the milkweed -- Away! -- Cabin in the clearing -- Closed for good -- America is hard to see -- One more brevity -- Escapist-never -- For John F. Kennedy his Inauguration -- Cluster of Faith: Accidentally on purpose -- Never naught song -- Version -- Concept self-conceived -- Forgive, O Lord -- Kitty Hawk -- Auspex -- Draft horse -- Ends -- Peril of hope -- Questioning faces -- Does no one at all ever feel this way in the least? -- Bad island-Easter -- Our doom to bloom -- Objection to being stepped on -- A-wishing well -- How hard it is to keep from being king when it's in you and in the situation -- Lines written in dejection on the eve of great success -- Milky Way is a cowpath -- Some science fiction -- Quandary: Quandary -- Reflex -- In a glass of cider -- From iron -- Four-room shack aspiring high -- But outer space -- On being chosen poet of Vermont -- We vainly wrestle with the blind belief -- It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling -- In winter in the woods alone.