The Fall and Other Poems

Baptism -- Restoration -- Timor mortis -- The libertine against abortion -- The spring advances -- The fall -- The Boston school of beauty -- The attic -- Dirge -- Lines written on my daughter Faith's second birthday -- What water washes wears away -- Diaspora -- Black scrawl -- Song -- Tetrameter -- Fiat rex -- The profligate poet calls for Bishop Golias -- The Winter orchard -- The November funeral of a twelve-year-old girl -- Henry Carter in his bath -- Larvatus prodeo -- Twelve quatrains -- Modern Catholic verse -- On publishing his memoirs -- The kiln -- The feet like water -- On an ancient Roman frieze -- Washington, the first of May -- Hades' lament at Persephone's annual departure -- Hymeneal -- St. Columbkille's -- Love in Boston -- In refusal of politics -- About the author.