Poetry, A Witness Tree, collection of 43 poems, presented to Earle Bernheimer, November 20, 1942 [in Bernheimer file]

Scope and content:

"To a Moth Seen in Winter", "A Considerable Speck (Microscopic)", "The Lost Follower", "For the Fall of Nineteen Thirty Eight" ["November"], "The Rabbit Hunter", "A Loose Mountain (Telescopic)", "It is Almost the Year Two Thousand", "In a Poem", "On Our Sympathy with the Under Dog", "Boeotion", ["The Secret Sits"], "An Equalizer", ["Assurance"], ["A Question"], ["An Answer"], "Trespass", "A Nature Note", "Of the Stones of the Place", "Not of School Age", "A Serious Step Lightly Taken", "The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus", "Beech", "Sycamore", "The Silken Tent", "All Revelations", "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length", "Come In", "I Could Give All to Time", "Carpe Diem", "The Discovery of the Madeiras --A Rhyme of Hackluyt", "The Wind and the Rain", "The Most of It", "Never Again Would Birds Song Be the Same", "The Subverted Flower", "Willfull Homing", "A Cloud Shadow", "The Quest of the Purple-Fringed", "The Gift Outright", "Triple Bronze", "Our Hold on the Planet", "To a Young Wretch" ["To a Young Wretch (Boethian)"], "The Lesson for Today", "Time Out",

Physical description:
TMsS, 74 p.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968