Blue-Eyed Grass:
Poems of Germany

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CONTENTS

Flax: A Prologue 17

Part One: Waking in Europe

Waking In Europe
Freiburg im Breisgau
At Durer's Self-portrait
Frau Brümmer in the Garden
A Swabian Scene
Digging
Song of the Black Forest
Black Forest Snowfall
Black Forest Song
Freiburg Still Life
Black Forest Woodcarving
A Scene from the Spessart
In Lohr Am Main
Tugendorf
Hesslar

Part Two: Landscapes of the Masters Rural Lines After Brueghel

Making Hay
Harvesting Wheat
Bringing Home the Herd
A Gloomy Day
Village In Snowtorm
Homage to Tilman Riemenschneider, 1460-1531
Stag Hunt

Lines Drawn from Dürer

• Prologue
  
• A Son Is Born
  
• Apprenticeship
  
• Walking Beyond Nuremberg
  
• Wanderjahre
  
• He Feels Warm Winds from the South
  
• He Reaches a Wide Audience
  
• He Portrays Himself on Wood
  
• A Piece of Turf
  
• He Dreams of Animals
  
• He Sketches His Mother in Charcoal
  
• He Illustrates Emperor Maximilian's Prayer Book
  
• Last Days and Words
  
• Epilogue

Part Three: Stones for the Dead

• A Hill near the Rhine
  
• The Summer the Poppies Bloomed
  
• The Name of a Place
  
• In the City of Bach
  
• Goethe and Others in Weimar
  
• Franconian Flames
  
• St. Martin's Day
  
• The Woman in the Erlangen Photograph (1938)
  
• Stones for the Dead
  
• Dream of a Cave
  
• Tannenbaum, 1940
  
• The Name on the Wall
  
• The Meditation Room
  
• If I Could
  
• A Jewish Cemetery in Franconia
  
• Letter to Klara Krapf from the Village of Wonfurt
  
• To the Brothers and Sister of Klara Krapf from Wonfurt
  
• To Babetta Reinstein from Gochsheim
  
• A Freight Yard in Würzburg
  
• Meditation in the Israelite Cemetery, Würzburg
  
• Fragments on Theresienstadt
  
• Stanzas from a Crematorium
  
• Song for Klara Krapf's Ashes