Open House (poetry) 1941
The Lost Son and Other Poems (poetry) 1948
Praise to the End! (poetry) 1951
The Waking: Poems 1933–1953 (poetry) 1953
The Exorcism: A Portfolio of Poems (poetry) 1957
Words for the Wind (poetry) 1957
I Am! Says the Lamb (poetry) 1961
Party at the Zoo (poetry) 1963
Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical (poetry) 1963
The Far Field (poetry) 1964
On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke (essays) 1965
The Achievement of Theodore Roethke (poetry) 1966
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (poetry) 1966
Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke (letters) 1968
Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems (poetry) 1969
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943–1963 (notebooks) 1972
Dirty Dinky and Other Creatures: Poems for Children (poetry) 1973