List of poems by Samuel Menashe

The goal of this article is to list all poems by Samuel Menashe, with chronology information.

The Volume column gives the collection where the poem was first included. For now, only The Many Named Beloved (MNB), No Jerusalem But This (NJBT), Fringe of Fire (FF), The Niche Narrows (NN) and New and Selected Poems (NSP) were consulted. The year of first publication is given in First published and the review in Venue.

Poems
Title	Volume	First published	Venue	Notes and links
A Bronze Head	NN			^[1]
A flock of little boats	MNB
A pot poured out	NJBT			^[1]^[2]
Achilles	NSP
Adam Means Earth	NN			^[1]^[2]
Alone he lay drunk	MNB
All my friends are homeless	MNB			^[1]^[2]
All my life when I woke up at night...		1950	unpublished	^[1]
All things that heal	MNB
Always (when I was a boy)	MNB	1960		^[3]
An amiable air alight	MNB
Anonymous	NN	1996	The New Yorker	^[1] Download ^[4]
Another Song of Sixpence	MNB
Any demon seems smart	MNB
Apotheosis	NSP	2005	Poetry	Download
April	MNB			^[1]^[2]
April (Fool)	NN			^[1]
Around my neck	MNB
As Leah who was little loved	MNB
As the tall, turbaned	MNB			^[1]^[2]
At a Standstill	NN			^[1]^[2]
At Cross Purposes	NN
At every instant I expect	MNB
At Millay's Grave	NN			^[1]
Autobiography	NSP			^[2]
Autumn	NJBT			^[2]
Awakening	NN
Awakening from Dreams	NJBT	1965	Encounter	^[1]
Beachhead	NSP
Bearings	NSP
Between Bare Boughs	MNB
Biographer	NSP	2008	Poetry	Download
Captain, Captive	NSP	2005	Poetry	Download ^[5]
Cargo	MNB			^[1]^[2]
Carnival	MNB
Chant at Dawn	MNB
Commemoration	NSP
Curriculum Vitae	NN			^[1]^[2]
Daily Bread	FF			^[2]
Descent	NJBT	2005	Poetry	^[1] Download
Diner	NSP
Dominion	NN			^[1]
Downpour	NN			^[1]^[2]
Dreaming	NJBT	1970	The Iowa Review	^[1] Download
Dreams	NJBT			^[1]^[2]
Due Soldi di Speranza	NSP	2005	The New Criterion	Download
Dusk	MNB			^[2]
Eaves at dusk	NJBT
Enclosure	NJBT
Enigma	MNB
Enlightenment	NN
Ensconced	NSP
Envoy	MNB
Epitaph	NJBT
Eyes	NN	2000	Metre	^[1] Download
Fall	NSP
Family Plot	NN			^[1]
Family Silver	NN			^[1]^[2]
Fastness	NJBT
Feedback	NJBT
Fire Dance	MNB
Forever and a Day	NN			^[1]^[2]
Full Fathom Five	NN			^[1]^[2]
Ghost at the Wake	NSP
God's Grotesques	MNB
Gray Boulder	FF			^[1]
Great Babylon	MNB
Grief	NN
Hallelujah	NN
Heat Wave ("I catnap, wake")	NSP
Heat Wave ("Sheets entangle him")	NSP	2004	Poetry	Download
Here	NSP	2004	Poetry	^[2] Download
Here Now		2009	Poetry	Download
Home Movie	NN	1995	The New Yorker	^[1]^[2] Download
I am chasing the Princess	MNB
I Am the Hive	NSP
I left my seed in a grove so deep	MNB
I lie in snows	FF			^[2]
Ice	MNB
Idol	MNB
If I were as lean as I feel	NJBT			^[1]
Image	NJBT	1964	Encounter
Image from Childhood	MNB
Improvidence	NN			^[1]^[2]
In Memoriam	NSP
In Memory of One without Wealth	MNB
In My Digs	NN			^[1]
In Stride	NJBT
In the catacomb of my mind	MNB
In the Ring	NSP
In the world	MNB
In Your Face		2009	Poetry	Download
Infant, Old Man	NN
Infanta	NSP
Inklings	NN	1999	The New Yorker	^[1] Download ^[4]
Insight	MNB
January to July	NSP
John the Baptist	MNB
Judgment Day	NJBT
Just now	FF			^[1]
Lament	FF	1964	Encounter
Landmark	NN			^[1]
Landscape	MNB
Le Lac Secret	MNB			^[1]
Leah Bribed Jacob	NSP			^[2]
Leavetaking	NSP
Life Is Immense	NSP			^[2]
Lifted Up	NJBT
Lust Puffs Up	MNB
"Make It New"	NSP
Manna	FF			^[1]
May	NJBT
Memento Mori	NN			^[1]^[2]
Mirror Image	NSP
Moon Night	MNB
My Angels Are Dark	MNB
My fingers run after air	MNB
My Mother's Grave	NJBT
Night Music	NN			^[1]^[2]
Night Walk	NN			^[1]
Night Watch	NN
Nightfall, Morning	NN
Norway	NSP			^[2]
November	MNB			^[2]
Now	NSP
O Many Named Beloved	MNB			^[1]
Oh Lady lonely as a stone	MNB			^[1]
Off the Wall	NN			^[1]
Old as the Hills	NN			^[1]
Old Mirror	MNB
On my Birthday	NJBT			^[1]
On the leafless winter vine	MNB
On the Level	NN			^[1]
Paean ("Seated upon the open sea")	MNB
Paean ("That ogre who devours me")	MNB
Pagan Poem	NSP
Pan's Work Is Done	MNB
Paradise - After Giovanni di Paolo	MNB
Parchment of dead leaves	MNB
Paschal Wilderness	NJBT
Passage	MNB
Passive Resistance	NSP	2000	Metre	Download
Pastoral	MNB			^[1]
Peace	NSP
Peaceful Purposes	NJBT	1969	New York Review of Books	Download
Petals	NSP
Pirate	NJBT			^[1]
Pirate's Port and Voyage	MNB
Pity us	MNB			^[1]^[2]
Praise all that deprives us	MNB
Promised Land	MNB			^[1]^[2]
Psalm		2009	Poetry	Download
R and R	NSP
Railroad Flat	NSP
Red Glints in Black Hair	NJBT			^[1]
Reeds rise from water	NJBT			^[1]
Rest In Peace	NSP
Roads run forever	MNB			^[1]
Rue	NSP	2004	Poetry	Download
Ruins	NSP
Rural Sunrise	NJBT			^[1]
Salt and Pepper	NN			^[1]^[2]
Salt on a sparrow's tail	MNB
Scissors	NN			^[1]^[2]
Scribe, Condemned	NSP
Self Employed	NJBT			^[1]
Shade	NJBT			^[1]
She who saw he moon last night	MNB			^[1]
Sheen	NJBT	1965	The New Yorker	Download
Sheep Meadow	NJBT
Simon Says	NN
Sketches: By the Sea	NN
Skull	NSP
Sleep	NJBT			^[1]^[2]
Small Kingdom	MNB
Small Stones	MNB
Sore Loser		2000	Metre	Download
So they stood	FF			^[2]
Solitude	NN
Someone Walked Over My Grave	MNB	1956	Yale Review	^[1]
Sparrow	NSP			^[1]
Spring Snow	NSP
Spur of the Moment	NN
Star-crossed	NN			^[1]
Still Life	NSP
Stone would be water	MNB			^[1]
Story Teller	NSP
Sudden Shadow	MNB			^[1]
Sunset, Central Park	NJBT			^[1]
Survival	NN			^[1]
Take any man	MNB			^[1]
Telescoped	NN			^[1]
Tempus Fugit		2009	Poetry	Download
Tenement Spring	MNB			^[1]
The Abandoned One	MNB
The Annunciation	NN
The Apple of My Eye	NJBT
The Bare Tree	NJBT			^[1]^[2]
The Dead of Winter	NN			^[1]^[2]
The friends of my father	NJBT			^[1]
The Golden	MNB
The high dome of Sancta Sofia	MNB
The Hill I See	NSP
The Hollow of Morning	MNB
The Host	NN			^[1]
The Living End	NN	1998	The New Yorker	^[1]^[2] Download ^[6]
The Moment of Your Death	NJBT	1970	The Iowa Review	Download
The Niche	NJBT			^[1]
The Offering	NSP
The Oracle	NN			^[1]
The Reservoir	NSP
The Room of My Friend	MNB			^[1]
The Sanderling	NJBT
The Sandpiper	NN			^[1]
The Scrutiny	NN
The Sea Staves	FF			^[2]
The Shot	MNB
The Social Life		1995	The New Yorker	Download
The Stars Are	NSP	2004	Poetry	Download
The Water	NJBT
The yield of my peaceful yawning	MNB
There is No Jerusalem but This	MNB
These Stone Steps	NJBT	1970	The Iowa Review	Download
The Shrine Whose Shape I Am	NJBT			^[1]
The Spright of Delight	NN
The Visitation	NN	2000	Metre	^[1] Download
This sky is like a bowl	MNB
To Open	NJBT
Transfusion	NSP
Transplant	NN			^[1]^[2]
Triptych	NSP			^[1]
Twilight	NN
Uniform	NJBT
Using the window ledge	NJBT
Visionary Conversation	MNB
Voyage	MNB			^[1]^[2]
Walking Under	FF
Walking Stick	NN	1999	Tundra	^[1] Download
Warrior Wisdom	MNB			^[1]^[2]
Waterfall	NN			^[1]
Western Wind	NN			^[1]
What to Expect	NN	1995	The New Yorker	^[1] Download
When I die	MNB
When I was a young man	MNB
White Hair Does Not Weigh	NJBT
Who		2010	Poetry	Download
Whose Name I Know	NSP
Wind	NJBT
Windows: Old Window	NSP
Winter	NJBT	1970	The New Yorker	^[1]^[2] Download
Winter	NJBT	1970	The New Yorker	^[1]^[2] Download

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