She Walks in Beauty · A Woman's Journey Through Poems by Kennedy, Caroline -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents She Walks in Beauty Introduction FALLING IN LOVE

A Very Valentine - GERTRUDE STEIN Song - JOHN KEATS I Do Not Love Thee - THE HONORABLE CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH NORTON From Hero and Leander - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Love’s Philosophy - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Having a Coke with You - FRANK O’HARA Symptom Recital - DOROTHY PARKER To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos - SAPPHO Come to the Orchard in Spring - RUMI

MAKING LOVE

Don’t try to rush things—from Poem 41 From From June to December Wild Nights—Wild Nights! - EMILY DICKINSON may i feel said he - E. E. CUMMINGS When He Pressed His Lips Corinna’s Going a-Maying - ROBERT HERRICK The Weather-Cock Points South - AMY LOWELL To His Mistress Going to Bed - JOHN DONNE The Song of Solomon 2:1–17, 3:1–5 Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour - WALLACE STEVENS Variation on the Word Sleep - MARGARET ATWOOD After Making Love We Hear Footsteps - GALWAY KINNELL It Is Marvellous . . . - ELIZABETH BISHOP White Heliotrope - ARTHUR SYMONS Youth - OSIP MANDELSTAM

BREAKING UP

Lilacs - KATHERINE GARRISON CHAPIN Unfortunate Coincidence - DOROTHY PARKER The Philosopher - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY From Summer with Monika - ROGER McGOUGH I’m Going to Georgia - FOLK SONG A Type of Loss - INGEBORG BACHMANN On Monsieur’s Departure - QUEEN ELIZABETH I The Eaten Heart—from The Knight of Curtesy My life closed twice before its close— - EMILY DICKINSON When We Two Parted - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Well, I Have Lost You - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY “No, Thank You, John” - CHRISTINA ROSSETTI when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story - GWENDOLYN BROOKS The End - ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

MARRIAGE

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Marriage - GREGORY CORSO From The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia - SIR PHILIP SIDNEY i carry your heart with me(i carry it in - E. E. CUMMINGS To My Dear and Loving Husband - ANNE BRADSTREET To Margo - GAVIN EWART A Word to Husbands - OGDEN NASH To the Ladies - LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH The Female of the Species - RUDYARD KIPLING From Paradise Lost - JOHN MILTON The Good Wife - PROVERBS 31:10–31 My Last Duchess - ROBERT BROWNING To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage - ROBERT LOWELL From a Survivor - ADRIENNE RICH Letter from My Wife - NAZIM HIKMET To Paula in Late Spring - W. S. MERWIN A Farmer’s Calendar - VIETNAMESE FOLK POEM

LOVE ITSELF

A Birthday - CHRISTINA ROSSETTI June Light - RICHARD WILBUR Protocols - VIKRAM SETH Jamesian - THOM GUNN From Proverbs and Song Verse - ANTONIO MACHADO Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee? - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you - PABLO NERUDA Code Poem for the French Resistance - LEO MARKS The Smaller Orchid - AMY CLAMPITT Sonnet 116 - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing - RUMI The Emperor - MATTHEW ROHRER Late Fragment - RAYMOND CARVER From The First Morning of the Second World - DELMORE SCHWARTZ 1 Corinthians 13:1–13

WORK

weaponed woman - GWENDOLYN BROOKS Night Waitress - LYNDA HULL In an Iridescent Time - RUTH STONE Madam and Her Madam - LANGSTON HUGHES Letters from Storyville - NATASHA TRETHEWEY Lineage - MARGARET WALKER I Want You Women Up North to Know - TILLIE OLSEN PS Education - ELLEN HAGAN At the Café - PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK Worked Late on a Tuesday Night - DEBORAH GARRISON The Age of Great Vocations - ALANE ROLLINGS Defining Worlds - G. Y. BAXTER What’s That Smell in the Kitchen? - MARGE PIERCY Father Grumble - FOLK SONG Epitaph - ANONYMOUS

BEAUTY, CLOTHES, AND THINGS OF THIS WORLD

Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii, 191–232 - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What Do Women Want? - KIM ADDONIZIO The Catch - RICHARD WILBUR Cosmetics Do No Good - STEVE KOWIT Face Lift - SYLVIA PLATH Fatigue - HILAIRE BELLOC The Great Lover - RUPERT BROOKE Patterns - AMY LOWELL Crocheted Bag - ROSEMARY CATACALOS Delight in Disorder - ROBERT HERRICK The Rhodora Roses Only - MARIANNE MOORE Eagle Poem - JOY HARJO

MOTHERHOOD

A Cradle Song - W. B. YEATS Notes from the Delivery Room - LINDA PASTAN Socks - SHARON OLDS High School Senior - SHARON OLDS Nobody Knows But Mother - MARY MORRISON From “Clearances,” In Memoriam M.K.H. (1911–1984) - SEAMUS HEANEY if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have - E. E. CUMMINGS Somebody’s Mother - MARY DOW BRINE The Book of Ruth 1:16–17 The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law - ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Mother’s Closet - MAXINE SCATES Ode - ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Vietnam - WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA A Child - MARY LAMB blessing the boats - LUCILLE CLIFTON

SILENCE AND SOLITUDE

I’m happiest when most away - EMILY BRONTË Keeping Things Whole - MARK STRAND We All Know It - MARIANNE MOORE As Much As You Can - CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Sense of Something Coming - RAINER MARIA RILKE Death, Etc. - MAXINE KUMIN From When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone - GALWAY KINNELL Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain - LI PO The Poems of Our Climate - WALLACE STEVENS

GROWING UP AND GROWING OLD

You Begin - MARGARET ATWOOD Grown-up - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Puberty—With Capital Letters - ELLEN HAGAN Bra Shopping - PARNESHIA JONES The Summer Day - MARY OLIVER Living - DENISE LEVERTOV I stepped from plank to plank - EMILY DICKINSON to my last period - LUCILLE CLIFTON lumpectomy eve - LUCILLE CLIFTON Older, Younger, Both - JOYCE SUTPHEN Survivor - ROGER McGOUGH You Can’t Have It All - BARBARA RAS Sign - MARGE PIERCY The Greatest Love - ANNA SWIR Time - MARY URSULA BETHELL Going Blind - RAINER MARIA RILKE Old Woman - ELIZABETH JENNINGS Let It Be Forgotten - SARA TEASDALE Courage - ANNE SEXTON

DEATH AND GRIEF

The Bustle in a House - EMILY DICKINSON Never More Will the Wind - H. D. Grief - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Widow’s Lament in Springtime - WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Companion - JO McDOUGALL Remember - CHRISTINA ROSSETTI From To W. P. - GEORGE SANTAYANA To Death - OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY That it is a road - ARIWARA NO NARIHARA From In Memoriam A. H. H. - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Reconciliation - WALT WHITMAN

FRIENDSHIP

A Poem of Friendship - NIKKI GIOVANNI Letter to N.Y. - ELIZABETH BISHOP On Gifts for Grace - BERNADETTE MAYER Love - ROY CROFT To Hayley - WILLIAM BLAKE A Poison Tree - WILLIAM BLAKE August - LOUISE GLÜCK Summer at the Beach - LOUISE GLÜCK Girlfriends - ELLEN DORÉ WATSON My Friend’s Divorce - NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Chocolate - RITA DOVE Magnificat - MICHÈLE ROBERTS Secret Lives - BARBARA RAS To Flush, My Dog - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING HOW TO LIVE May 2 - DAVID LEHMAN From a Letter to His Daughter - RALPH WALDO EMERSON To be of use - MARGE PIERCY Leap Before You Look - W. H. AUDEN Try to Praise the Mutilated World - ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Leisure - W. H. DAVIES The Waking - THEODORE ROETHKE September, 1918 - AMY LOWELL 6 A.M. Thoughts - DICK DAVIS A Minor Bird - ROBERT FROST May today there be peace within - ST. TERESA OF AVILA The Bacchae Chorus - EURIPIDES The Dawn - W. B. YEATS Don’t Quit - UNKNOWN All Things Pass - LAO-TZU Simple Gifts - ANONYMOUS (SHAKER HYMN) 24th September 1945 - NAZIM HIKMET The Journey - MARY OLIVER Ithaka - CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY The Colder the Air - ELIZABETH BISHOP

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