- Interiors from a Childhood
- Indoor Garden
- Unholding Here
- Notes from a Menagerie
- Dark Destroyer
- Difficult Letter
- Hotel Room Revisted
- Footnote for a Bestiary
- Epitaph for a Monster of Our Times
- Sheer Edge
- The Year of the Foxes
- Stars
- The Comforters
- The Music Lesson
- A Classroom in the Fifties
- From a Plague Year
- The Judas Touch
- Wolf Boy
- Halfway Home
- This Day under My Hand
- Health Farm
- The Carp
- Glasshouse Mountains
- Letter from North Queensland: 1892
- Poem
- High Wind
- At a School Athletics Day
- Birthday Poem
- At Kew Gardens
- Babysitting
- Easier
- Air Rifle
- Snow
- Suburban
- Four Odes of Horace
- The Death of a Borgia Pope
- Thaw
- Summer
- On Refusing an All-risk Insurance Policy
- Bicycle
- Asphodel
- Confessions of an Only Child
- Adrift
- Early Discoveries
- Evergreen
- Intimations
- An Ordinary Evening at Hamilton
- At Deception Bay
- Episode from an Early War
- With the Earlier Deaths
- A Charm against the Dumps
- Decade's End
- Mythologies
- Notes on an Undiscovered Continent
- The Little Aeneid
- Among the Ruins
- Eternal City
- In the Grand Manner
- After Baedeker
- Bad Dreams in Vienna
- Report from Champagne Country
- In the Pinewood
- News from the Dark Ages
- A Poet among Others
- At Revenna
- Reading Horace outside Sydney, 1970
- Stooping to Drink
- Off the Map
- Between Towns
- Pieces for a Northern Winter
- Natural History Museum
- The Gift, Another Life
- A Commentary on Galatians
- The Elements of Geometry
- Religio Medici
- Theologia Germanica
- Guide to the Perplexed
- The Fables
- Elective Affinities
- A Critique of Pure Reason
- Metamorphoses
- A Thousand and One Nights
- Gray's Anatomy
- The City of God
- To Be Written in Another Tongue
- Escape from the City of Glass
- In the Sea's Giving
- Inspirations
- Wild Lemons
- The Garden
- Reading a View
- Elegy: The Absences
- For Two Children
- The Switch
- First Things Last
- The Crab Feast
- A Poor Man's Guide to Southern Tuscany
- An Die Musik
- Ode: Stravinsky's Grave
- A Place in Tuscany
- Crows
- The Housemaid's Song
- From a Time of Disruption, 1982
- By the Campo Santo
- Harvest Month
- A Brief History of Tuscany
- At Laterina
- Two More Pieces for a Northern Winter
- Haystacks
- Magpie
- A to Z
- Urban Pastoral
- The Blue Apron
- Pentecostal
- Open Door
- Mulberry Tree Dreaming
- Familiar Story
- Beside the Sea
- In the Beginning
- Vocation
- Nostalgie
- This Landscape
- Two from the Folk Museum
- Aerial Views
- Overheard
- The Iron Gate
- Far and Near
- Hemisphere
- Earth Tremor: Yaddo, N.Y., 1988
