In a poem in this collection, the speaker recalls "how quivering and  erce we were, there snowbound together, simmering like wasps in our tent of books!"
In a poem in this collection, the speaker recalls "how quivering and  erce we were, there snowbound together, simmering like wasps in our tent of books!" a ter asking, "Remember our lists of birds?" and describing to the addressee how the new owners have changed their old house in Maine. The poet inserted his precocious daughter Harriet's exclamation "But you can't love everyone, your heart won't let you!" into a poem in this collection adapted from the story In the Village by Elizabeth Bishop, whose trip with the author to the coast of Maine is recounted in this collection's opening poem. This collection, which includes "The Scream," "The Old Flame," and "Water," ends with a poem in which the speaker describes how his nose once "crawled like a snail on the glass" in a building that stands in "a Sahara of snow" in South Boston as "a savage servility slides by on grease." For 10 points, name this collection whose title poem describes the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, a work of Robert Lowell.
In a poem in this collection, the speaker recalls "how quivering and  erce we were, there snowbound together, simmering like wasps in our tent of books!"
For the Union Dead