The goal of this article is to list all poems by Samuel Menashe, with chronology information.
List of poems
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.
| Title | Volume | First published | Venue | Notes and links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bronze Head | NN | |||
| A flock of little boats | MNB | |||
| A pot poured out | NJBT | |||
| Achilles | NSP | |||
| Adam Means Earth | NN | |||
| Alone he lay drunk | MNB | |||
| All my friends are homeless | MNB | |||
| All my life when I woke up at night... | 1950 | unpublished | ||
| All things that heal | MNB | |||
| Always (when I was a boy) | MNB | 1960 | ||
| An amiable air alight | MNB | |||
| Anonymous | NN | 1996 | The New Yorker | Download |
| Another Song of Sixpence | MNB | |||
| Any demon seems smart | MNB | |||
| Apotheosis | NSP | 2005 | Poetry | Download |
| April | MNB | |||
| April (Fool) | NN | |||
| Around my neck | MNB | |||
| As Leah who was little loved | MNB | |||
| As the tall, turbaned | MNB | |||
| At a Standstill | NN | |||
| At Cross Purposes | NN | |||
| At every instant I expect | MNB | |||
| At Millay's Grave | NN | |||
| Autobiography | NSP | |||
| Autumn | NJBT | |||
| Awakening | NN | |||
| Awakening from Dreams | NJBT | 1965 | Encounter | |
| Beachhead | NSP | |||
| Bearings | NSP | |||
| Between Bare Boughs | MNB | |||
| Biographer | NSP | 2008 | Poetry | Download |
| Captain, Captive | NSP | 2005 | Poetry | Download |
| Cargo | MNB | |||
| Carnival | MNB | |||
| Chant at Dawn | MNB | |||
| Commemoration | NSP | |||
| Curriculum Vitae | NN | |||
| Daily Bread | FF | |||
| Descent | NJBT | 2005 | Poetry | Download |
| Diner | NSP | |||
| Dominion | NN | |||
| Downpour | NN | |||
| Dreaming | NJBT | 1970 | The Iowa Review | Download |
| Dreams | NJBT | |||
| Due Soldi di Speranza | NSP | 2005 | The New Criterion | Download |
| Dusk | MNB | |||
| Eaves at dusk | NJBT | |||
| Enclosure | NJBT | |||
| Enigma | MNB | |||
| Enlightenment | NN | |||
| Ensconced | NSP | |||
| Envoy | MNB | |||
| Epitaph | NJBT | |||
| Eyes | NN | 2000 | Metre | Download |
| Fall | NSP | |||
| Family Plot | NN | |||
| Family Silver | NN | |||
| Fastness | NJBT | |||
| Feedback | NJBT | |||
| Fire Dance | MNB | |||
| Forever and a Day | NN | |||
| Full Fathom Five | NN | |||
| Ghost at the Wake | NSP | |||
| God's Grotesques | MNB | |||
| Gray Boulder | FF | |||
| 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 | Download |
| Here Now | 2009 | Poetry | Download | |
| Home Movie | NN | 1995 | The New Yorker | 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 | |||
| Ice | MNB | |||
| Idol | MNB | |||
| If I were as lean as I feel | NJBT | |||
| Image | NJBT | 1964 | Encounter | |
| Image from Childhood | MNB | |||
| Improvidence | NN | |||
| In Memoriam | NSP | |||
| In Memory of One without Wealth | MNB | |||
| In My Digs | NN | |||
| 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 | Download |
| Insight | MNB | |||
| January to July | NSP | |||
| John the Baptist | MNB | |||
| Judgment Day | NJBT | |||
| Just now | FF | |||
| Lament | FF | 1964 | Encounter | |
| Landmark | NN | |||
| Landscape | MNB | |||
| Le Lac Secret | MNB | |||
| Leah Bribed Jacob | NSP | |||
| Leavetaking | NSP | |||
| Life Is Immense | NSP | |||
| Lifted Up | NJBT | |||
| Lust Puffs Up | MNB | |||
| "Make It New" | NSP | |||
| Manna | FF | |||
| May | NJBT | |||
| Memento Mori | NN | |||
| 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 | |||
| Night Walk | NN | |||
| Night Watch | NN | |||
| Nightfall, Morning | NN | |||
| Norway | NSP | |||
| November | MNB | |||
| Now | NSP | |||
| O Many Named Beloved | MNB | |||
| Oh Lady lonely as a stone | MNB | |||
| Off the Wall | NN | |||
| Old as the Hills | NN | |||
| Old Mirror | MNB | |||
| On my Birthday | NJBT | |||
| On the leafless winter vine | MNB | |||
| On the Level | NN | |||
| 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 | |||
| Peace | NSP | |||
| Peaceful Purposes | NJBT | 1969 | New York Review of Books | Download |
| Petals | NSP | |||
| Pirate | NJBT | |||
| Pirate's Port and Voyage | MNB | |||
| Pity us | MNB | |||
| Praise all that deprives us | MNB | |||
| Promised Land | MNB | |||
| Psalm | 2009 | Poetry | Download | |
| R and R | NSP | |||
| Railroad Flat | NSP | |||
| Red Glints in Black Hair | NJBT | |||
| Reeds rise from water | NJBT | |||
| Rest In Peace | NSP | |||
| Roads run forever | MNB | |||
| Rue | NSP | 2004 | Poetry | Download |
| Ruins | NSP | |||
| Rural Sunrise | NJBT | |||
| Salt and Pepper | NN | |||
| Salt on a sparrow's tail | MNB | |||
| Scissors | NN | |||
| Scribe, Condemned | NSP | |||
| Self Employed | NJBT | |||
| Shade | NJBT | |||
| She who saw he moon last night | MNB | |||
| Sheen | NJBT | 1965 | The New Yorker | Download |
| Sheep Meadow | NJBT | |||
| Simon Says | NN | |||
| Sketches: By the Sea | NN | |||
| Skull | NSP | |||
| Sleep | NJBT | |||
| Small Kingdom | MNB | |||
| Small Stones | MNB | |||
| Sore Loser | 2000 | Metre | Download | |
| So they stood | FF | |||
| Solitude | NN | |||
| Someone Walked Over My Grave | MNB | 1956 | Yale Review | |
| Sparrow | NSP | |||
| Spring Snow | NSP | |||
| Spur of the Moment | NN | |||
| Star-crossed | NN | |||
| Still Life | NSP | |||
| Stone would be water | MNB | |||
| Story Teller | NSP | |||
| Sudden Shadow | MNB | |||
| Sunset, Central Park | NJBT | |||
| Survival | NN | |||
| Take any man | MNB | |||
| Telescoped | NN | |||
| Tempus Fugit | 2009 | Poetry | Download | |
| Tenement Spring | MNB | |||
| The Abandoned One | MNB | |||
| The Annunciation | NN | |||
| The Apple of My Eye | NJBT | |||
| The Bare Tree | NJBT | |||
| The Dead of Winter | NN | |||
| The friends of my father | NJBT | |||
| The Golden | MNB | |||
| The high dome of Sancta Sofia | MNB | |||
| The Hill I See | NSP | |||
| The Hollow of Morning | MNB | |||
| The Host | NN | |||
| The Living End | NN | 1998 | The New Yorker | Download |
| The Moment of Your Death | NJBT | 1970 | The Iowa Review | Download |
| The Niche | NJBT | |||
| The Offering | NSP | |||
| The Oracle | NN | |||
| The Reservoir | NSP | |||
| The Room of My Friend | MNB | |||
| The Sanderling | NJBT | |||
| The Sandpiper | NN | |||
| The Scrutiny | NN | |||
| The Sea Staves | FF | |||
| 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 | |||
| The Spright of Delight | NN | |||
| The Visitation | NN | 2000 | Metre | Download |
| This sky is like a bowl | MNB | |||
| To Open | NJBT | |||
| Transfusion | NSP | |||
| Transplant | NN | |||
| Triptych | NSP | |||
| Twilight | NN | |||
| Uniform | NJBT | |||
| Using the window ledge | NJBT | |||
| Visionary Conversation | MNB | |||
| Voyage | MNB | |||
| Walking Under | FF | |||
| Walking Stick | NN | 1999 | Tundra | Download |
| Warrior Wisdom | MNB | |||
| Waterfall | NN | |||
| Western Wind | NN | |||
| What to Expect | NN | 1995 | The New Yorker | 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 | Download |
| Winter | NJBT | 1970 | The New Yorker | Download |
Notes
- ^ This poem is included on the audio CD Samuel Menashe Reading from his Poems available from the Poetry Archive. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ This poem is featured in the film Life is Immense: Visiting Samuel Menashe by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, distributed with the Bloodaxe Books edition of NSP.
- New version 2006, in NSP
- ^ Republished in 2000 in Metre: http://metre.ff.cuni.cz/front.article/download-file/192.
- New version 2007, in NSP
- Republished in 2000 in Metre: http://metre.ff.cuni.cz/front.article/download-file/192