Donald Davidson Papers
Appendix A: List of Poems Written by Davidson

WRITINGS-POEMS

A:

• Admonition to the Dead
  
• Advice to Shepherds
  
• Aftermath
  
• All Fool's Calendar
  
• II Calendar
  
• All Fool's Calendar
  
• All Fool's Calendar
  
• Androcles Again
  
• Assembly
  
• Assembly at Murfreesboro
  
• At the Torture Post
• Aunt Maria and the Gourds
• Avalon
  

B:

• A Barren Look
• Battle Vow
• Bird of Paradise
  
• Blood of Heroes
  
• Boudoir
• Boundary
  
• Bryony
  
• Burial of an Idea
  

C:

• Cabined
• The Case of Motorman 17: Commitment Proceedings
• The Charm
  
• Charm Against the Evil Eye
  
• Charm for the Evil Eye
  
• The Charmless One
  
• Cities of Refuge
  
• Coat of Arms
• Color Blind
  
• Competition
  
• Corymba
  
• Country Music
• Countersong
  
• Country Roses: A Song
  
• Crabbed Youth and Age
  
• Crabbed Youth and Merry Age/ Southward Returning
  
• Crabbed Youth and Merry Age
  
• Crime
• Cross Question, Crooked Answer: A Civil War Seminar
• Cumberland Bound (Bound for Cumberland)
  
• Curve

D:

• David Crockett
  
• The Deserter: A Christmas Eclogue
• Desolate Stream
  
• A Dirge
  
• Dryan-from An Outland Piper
  

E:

• Earthbound
  
• Ecclesiasticus
  
• Echo
• An Epinician Ode in Honor of John Crowe Ransom
  

F:

• The Family Trouble-Motorman 17: Commitment Proceedings
  
• A Farewell
  
• Fear in a Cubicle
• Fiddler Dow
  
• First Alienist [part of Case of Motorman 17]
• For a Student Celebration
  
• For Example
  
• Forrest Rides
  
• Four Sacred
  
• From a Window
  
• Funeral in a Garden

G:

• The Game
• A God at Bay
  
• Gradual of the Northern Summer
  
• Graph of the Cosmos
  
• Graph of the Cosmos
  
• Gravure
  
• Guest at Morning
  

H:

• Handicap
  
• Harold Pennybunch
• Hermitage
• Hit or Miss
  
• The House of No Surrender
  
• Hunter

I-J:

• Idyl
  
• In Blue Stocking Hollow: Bedford County
  
• Jasper
  
• Joe Clisby's Song
  
• John Darrow
  
• Johnnie Armstrong

L:

• The Last Charge
  
• The Last Rider
  
• The Last Rider
  
• Lee in the Mountains, 1865 -1870
• Legend
• Lines Written for Allen Tate
• Lines for a Tomb
  
• Lines to Atticus
  
• Litany
  
• Long Green

M:

• Manslaughter
  
• Martha and Shadow
• Meeting with Scylla
  
• Morning Love
• Morning was Golden

N:

• Naiad in The Double Dealer
• The Nervous Man
• Ninth Part of Speech
• Not Long Green
  

O:

• Ode to the Home Town
  
• Old Black Joe Comes Home
• The Old Man of Thorn
  
• On Culleoka Road
  
• On a Replica of the Parthenon
  
• On Winstead Hill
  

P:

• Palingenesis
  
• Pastoral -In the Modern Style
• Pavane
  
• Peek-a-Boo!
  
• Plus and Minus
  
• Portraits of Three Ladies
  
• A Prayer
  
• Preface
  
• Priapus Younger
• Projection of a Body Upon Space
  

R:

• Randall, My Son
• The Rebel Yell
  
• Resume
  
• Retreat
  
• Return in Autumn
• Ritual of a Summer Day
  
• Riddle of a Day Summer
  
• Robertson County Nights
• The Running of Streight

S:

• Second Harvest
  
• Sequel of Appomattox
  
• Sideways Forever
  
• Sky Mark
• Soldier and Son
  
• Southward Returning
• Spoken at a Castle Gate
  
• Stone and Roses
  
• A Study in Shadows
  
• The Swan
  
• Swan and Exile
  
• The Swinging Bridge
  

T:

• The Terrible
  
• To-
  
• To Anybody
• To the Army of Tennessee
  
• To the Army of Tennessee
• To Tom, A Yowling
  
• To An Unwilling Student
  
• To See Through All Things
  
• A Toast: From Bread Loaf to Elizabeth Drews
  
• A Touch of Snow
• A Trooper of Forrest
• Twilight on Union Street
  
• Two Landscapes
  

V-Z:

• Vicisti, Leuconoe
  
• The Vision
  
• The Vow
• Wassail! To Julia and John and Anne
  
• The Way to Thorn
  
• Who's Got . . . ?
  
• Wild Game
  
• Wilderness Meeting
  
• Wind Chant for Autumn
  
• Woodlands, 1956
  
• X, Y, and Z

Poems Untitled

• Find me a shepherd who can say. . .
  
• Sir, with not the slightest surprise . . .
  
• Let now the brutal melodies . . .
  
• Threading the maze that is myself . . .
  
• When I left my old home . . .
  
• The Angel proffered Apostle John . . .

Poems Miscellaneous (includes untitled poems and fragments)

• Prefatory Note
  
• The Tall Men 1927 (frag.)
  
• Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, 1932-1938 (frag.)
  
• The Return
  
• A Little terrible . . .
  
• From the Tomb of the Bishop
  
• Let now the jaded melodies
  
• Gnawing a little, day by day, somehow . . .
  
• Under this hollow ice a soundless ocean . . .
  
• Sing ah, for this bright thought . . .
  
• Under the pulsing stars the lights swims free . . .
  
• And you whose breath is but the dirty sneer. . .
  
• Out of the sullen fury of the time . . .
  
• Burning as if the summer wind had blown . . .
  
• For this body give a soul . . .
  
• Sir, with not the slightest surprise . . .
  
• To the High Muck - le- Muck, with a bellows . . .
  
• "The Season is dry, I said and promises yet no rain"
  
• What solemn Incantation. . .
  
• Closing the door, she first was softly ware
  
• Close now the gate and lock the guardian tower . . .

A Notebook--Notes for Poetry and Prose

• Randall, My Son
  
• The Bell Witch
  
• The Hermitage
  
• Your mother's folks were Huguenots,. . .
  
• Traveler, haste, the time runs on
  
• General Lee Remembers
  
• Assembly at Murfreesbora
  
• In the dark and green of water-oaks the fall of the cold spring rain
  
• The Starlings
  
• Guerillas
  
• Meeting in Nashville
  
• Country Roses, O
  
• Summer in Vermont, Winter in Georgia -Prose
  
• The Negroes-Prose
  
• Emmett Blue and the "Passionate" Flower
  
• Notes for Articles-Not Enough Cooks; Eastern Pilgrimage; Folklore; The Laughter of Time

The Journal-Questioni, Gennaio - Marzo 1960

• Lee Sulle Montagne
  
• Una Pastorale Della Georgia: Randall, Figlio Mio
  
• L'uomo Eccitabile (from Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1950)
  
• Il Sud di un "Reazionario" : Donald Davidson, an article by Claudio Gorlier
  

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