Introduction -- Verses (1878) -- Sonnets: -- Le Viol d'Amour -- Vespers -- Bettine to Goethe -- Spring song -- Prophecies of summer -- Song ("O love, where are the hours fled") -- Heaven -- Maiden, arise -- Spring -- May Marian -- Opportunities -- Last token -- Raffaelle to the Fornarina -- Chriemhild of burgundy -- Some woman to some man -- Lines on Chaucer -- What we shall say fifty years hence, of our fancy-dress quadrille -- Nothing more -- June and December -- October -- Woman I know -- Daisies -- Impromptu -- Notre Dame des Fleurs -- Translations from the German (Three songs from the German of Emanuel Geibel) -- Longing (From the German of Schiller) -- Song(From the German of Ruckert) -- Artemis to Actaeon, and other verse (1909) -- Artemis to Actaeon -- Life -- Vesalius in Zante -- Margaret of Cortona -- Torchbearer -- Mortal lease -- Experience -- Grief -- Chartres -- Two backgrounds -- Tomb of Ilaria Guinigi -- One grief -- Eumenidies -- Orpheus -- Autumn sunset -- Moonrise over Tyringham -- All souls -- All saints -- Old pole star -- Grave -- Non dolet! -- Hunting-song Survival -- Uses -- Meeting -- Twelve poems (1926) -- Nightingales in Provence -- Mistral in the Maquis -- Les Salettes -- Dieu d'Amour -- Segesta -- Tryst -- Battle sleep -- Elegy -- With the tide -- La folle du logis -- First year -- Alternative epitaphs -- Uncollected poems 1879-1938 -- Only a child -- Parting day -- Areopagus -- Euryalus -- Happiness -- Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre -- Sonnet -- Last Giustiniani -- Life -- Jade -- Phaedra -- Mould and vase -- Bread of angels -- Ogrin the hermit -- Summer afternoon -- High pasture -- Belgium -- Hymn of the Lusitania -- Great blue tent -- On active service -- You and you -- Lyrical epigrams -- Garden valedictory -- Had I been only -- Treasure -- Manuscript poems 1881-1915 -- Intense loves's utterance -- Song (Mirth of life's blooming time) -- Gifts -- October in Newport -- Cynthia -- O love, let the world for once go by -- When I am gone, recall my hair -- Senlis -- Coming of the god -- Terminus -- She said to me: "nay, take my body and eat"-- Ex tenebrae -- Restoration -- Room -- Rambouillet -- You come between me & the night -- Beaumetz, February 23rd 1915 -- Biographical note -- Note on the texts -- Notes -- Index of titles.;From Books Cover: From first to last, poetry was part of Edith Wharton's writing life. While rarely (after early youth) her primary focus, it always served her as a medium for recording the most vivid impressions and emotions, an intimate journal of longings and regrets. "Poetry was important to Wharton," writes editor Louis Auchincloss, "because it enabled her to express the deeply emotional side of her nature that she kept under such tight control, not only in her life but in the ordered sweep of her fiction." In later years her poetry also engaged with the public passions of wartime, as she found herself involved with the plight of allied soldiers in France. Her first models were Romantic, but in the course of her life she absorbed the influences of symbolism and modernism; and throughout her poetic career she showed a care for form even in her most private utterances, as in the erotic ode "Terminus" never published in her lifetime. This volume collects the bulk of Wharton's significant poetry, including much work previously uncollected or unpublished.