A poem on frozen time (Poemat o czasi zastyglym, 1933) : Artificer
Three winters (Trzy zimy, 1936) : The song ; The gates of the arsenal ; Hymn ; Dawns ; Slow river ; Statue of a couple
Rescue (Ocalenie, 1945) : Ballad of Levallois ; Encounter ; Day of generation ; Campo dei fiori ; The world: The road; The gate; The porch; The dining room; The stairs; Pictures; Father in the library; Father's incantations; From the window; Father explains; A parable of the poppy; By the peonies; Faith; Hope; Love; The excursion to the forest; The bird kingdom; Fear; Recovery; The sun ; Voices of poor people: A song on the end of the world; Song of a citizen; The poor poet; Café; A poor Christian looks at the ghetto; Outskirts ; Songs of Adrian Zieliński ; Farewell ; Flight ; In Warsaw ; Dedication
from Daylight (Światło dzienne, 1953) : Song of porcelain ; Child of Europe ; Mid-twentieth-century portrait ; A nation ; Birth ; A family ; Ocean ; The journey ; The spirit of the laws ; A legend ; Earth ; You who wronged ; Mittelbergheim
Treatise on Poetry (Traktat petycki, 1957)
Preface : from I. Beautiful times ; from III. Spirit of history
King Popiel and other poems (Król Popiel i inne wiersze, 1962) : King Popiel ; Magpiety ; Lessons ; No more ; Ode to a bird ; Happiness ; What once was great ; Should, should not ; What does it mean ; Heraclitus ; Greek portrait ; The master ; A frivolous conversation ; In Milan ; From the chronicles of the town of Pornic: Bluebeard's Castle; The owners; Vandeans; Our Lady of Recovery ; Album of dreams ; Far west ; Throughout our lands
Bobo's metamorphosis (Gucio zaczarowany, 1965) : It was winter ; Bobo's metamorphosis ; Rivers grow small ; They will place there telescreens ; On the other side ; And the city stood in its brightness ; Those corridors ; Three talks on civilization ; Sentences ; I sleep a lot ; Dithyramb
City without a name (Miasto bez imienia, 1969) : The year ; City without a name ; When the moon ; Veni creator ; Window ; With trumpets and zithers ; How it was ; On the road ; Whiteness ; Thesis and counter-thesis ; Counsels ; Incantation ; Ars poetica? ; Higher arguments in favor of discipline derived from the speech before the Council of the Universal State in 2068 ; Island ; My faithful mother tongue
Uncollected poems, 1954-1969 : Esse ; A mistake ; How ugly ; To Robinson Jeffers; To Raja Rao
From the rising of the sun (Gdzie wschodzi słońce i kȩdy zapada, 1974) : A task ; An hour ; A story ; Readings ; Oeconomia divina ; Tidings ; L'accélération de l'histoire ; Elegy for N.N. ; An appeal ; Calling to order ; Not this way ; So little ; On angels ; Seasons ; Gift ; From the rising of the sun: I. The unveiling; II. Diary of a naturalist; III. Lauda; IV. Over cities; V.A short recess; VI. The accuser; VII. Bells in winter
Hymn of the pearl (Hymn o perle, 1981) : A magic mountain ; The view ; Caesarea ; Study of loneliness ; A felicitous life ; The fall ; Temptation ; Secretaries ; Proof ; Amazement ; Idea ; Filina ; Reading the Japanese poet Issa (1762-1826) ; Notes ; Before majesty ; A poetic state ; Distance ; When after a long life ; On pilgrimage ; Early morning ; A portal ; The separate notebooks: a mirrored gallery; pages concerning the years of independence; The wormwood star ; Bypassing Rue Descartes ; Account ; Rivers
Unattainable Earth (Nieobjȩta ziemia, 1986) : The garden of earthly delights: 1. Summer; 2. A ball; 3. Paradise; 4. Earth; 5: Earth again ; After paradise ; The hooks of a corset ; Annalena ; Yellow bicycle ; Into the tree ; One more day ; Winter ; A boy ; In Salem ; 1913 ; At dawn ; At noon ; Return to Kraków in 1880 ; The city ; Preparation ; "With not-quite truth ..." ; Consciousness ; On prayer ; Father Ch., many years later ; Initiation ; Elegy for Y.Z. ; Anka ; Theodicy ; Table I ; Table II ; My-ness ; Thankfulness ; Poet at seventy ; "To find my home ..."
New poems, 1985-1987 : A portrait with a cat ; Mary Magdalen and I ; A skull ; In a jar ; All Hallows' Eve ; This only ; A confession ; For Jan Lebenstein ; With her ; Old women ; How it should be in heaven ; Caffé Greco ; And yet the books ; On parting with my wife, Janina ; Powers ; La Belle Époque: The Trans-Siberian Railway; Beyond and Urals; First performance; The northern route; Revolutionaries; A Parisian scene; The Titanic ; Fear dream (1918) ; In a buggy at dusk ; 1945 ; Six lectures in verse.
