Poetry

Open House, Knopf, 1941.

The Lost Son and Other Poems, Doubleday, 1948.

Praise to the End!, Doubleday, 1951.

The Waking: Poems 1933-1953, Doubleday, 1953.

Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke, Secker & Warburg, 1957, Doubleday, 1958.

I Am! Says the Lamb, Doubleday, 1961.

Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical, Poems, Stone Wall Press, 1963.

The Far Field, Doubleday, 1964.

The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, Doubleday, 1966.

Dirty Dinkey and Other Creatures: Poems for Children, edited by B.Roethke and Stephen Lushington, Doubleday, 1973.

Prose

On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose, edited by Ralph J. Mills, Jr., University of Washington Press, 1965.

Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke, edited by Mills, University of Washington Press, 1968.

Straw for the Fire (selections from notebooks), edited by David Wagoner, Doubleday, 1972.