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Tables of Contents for Inventions of Farewell
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
21
23
Introduction
23
10
I. WATCHING: VISIONS OF THE DYING AND THE DEAD
``Do Not Go Gentle'': Watching the Dying
33
42
Lord Randall Anon
36
1
The Death-Bed
37
1
Thomas Hood
``Twas Crisis--All the length had passed--(#1093)
38
1
Emily Dickinson
Danny Deever
39
2
Rudyard Kipling
``Out, Out--''
41
2
Robert Frost
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
43
2
William Carlos Williams
Sorrow
45
1
D. H. Lawrence
Dulce Et Decorum Est
46
1
Wilfred Owen
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
47
1
Dylan Thomas
Last Days
48
5
Donald Hall
Lament
53
4
Thom Gunn
As He Came Near Death
57
1
Roy Fisher
Death
58
1
John Stone
The Sacrifice
59
2
Frank Bidart
Thirteen Steps and the Thirteenth of March
61
2
Douglas Dunn
The Lifting
63
2
Sharon Olds
Terminal Resemblance
65
2
Louise Gluck
No Goodbyes
67
2
Paul Monette
New Dog (6), from Atlantis
69
3
Mark Doty
The Current (6), from The Work
72
1
Tom Sleigh
John Doe (V), from Ten Patients, and Another
73
2
Rafael Campo
``In the Chill of the Body'': Viewing the Dead
75
24
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
78
1
Walt Whitman
'Twas warm--at first (#614)
79
1
Emily Dickinson
Beside the Bed
80
1
Charlotte Mew
Triad
81
1
Adelaide Crapsey
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
82
1
Wallace Stevens
Death
83
2
William Carlos Williams
The Bride
85
1
D. H. Lawrence
Gazing upon him now (XVII), from Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree
86
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Brown Girl Dead
87
1
Countee Cullen
Habit
88
1
Ruth Stone
Viewing the Body
89
1
W. D. Snodgrass
Edge
90
1
Sylvia Plath
Marked with D.
91
1
Tony Harrison
His Ashes
92
2
Sharon Olds
The Burial
94
1
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Wake
95
1
Tess Gallagher
The Fare
96
1
Molly Peacock
Ashes
97
2
Malena Morling
``How to Perform a Funeral'': Ceremonies of Separation
99
22
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House (#547)
102
1
Emily Dickinson
Tract
103
3
William Carlos Williams
On the Road to Woodlawn
106
1
Theodore Roethke
Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery
107
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
Twelve Minutes
108
2
J. C. Hall
Minister
110
1
Anne Stevenson
On the Death of a Colleague
111
2
Stephen Dunn
The Eulogy
113
2
Carol Muske
Columbarium
115
1
Judi Benson
Paying Respects (3), from Blessings
116
2
Mary Stewart Hammond
Cremation
118
1
Agha Shahid Ali
Documentary
119
1
Joseph Stroud
Funeral
120
1
Carol Ann Duffy
``Death, Thou Shalt Die'': Imagining the Afterlife
121
30
Death, be not proud (X), from Holy Sonnets
125
1
John Donne
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!
126
2
Henry Vaughan
The Garden of Proserpine
128
4
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Cold Heaven
132
1
William Butler Yeats
Sister Lou
133
2
Sterling A. Brown
The Rites for Cousin Vit
135
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Explosion
136
1
Philip Larkin
The Heaven of Animals
137
2
James Dickey
Somewhere in Africa
139
2
Anne Sexton
Death's Door
141
2
Thom Gunn
November 26, 1992: Thanksgiving at the Sea Ranch, Contemplating Metempsychosis
143
2
Sandra M. Gilbert
``Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning''
145
1
Alice Walker
The Dead
146
1
Ellery Akers
Dust on the Mantel: Sonnet
147
4
Jacqueline Osherow
II. GRIEVING: LAMENTATIONS FOR THE DEAD
``Begin then, Sisters of the Sacred Well'': The Pastoral Tradition
151
28
Lycidas
154
6
John Milton
Adonais
160
19
Percy Bysshe Shelley
''Blood-Hot and Personal'': Mourning Deaths in the Family
179
50
C.L.M.
182
2
John Masefield
At My Father's Grave
184
1
Hugh MacDiarmid
Feel Me
185
2
May Swenson
The Marker Slants ... (384), from The Dream Songs
187
1
John Berryman
Sailing Home from Rapallo
188
2
Robert Lowell
Bedside
190
1
Diana O'Hehir
from The Olga Poems (I)
191
1
Denise Levertov
The Great Blue Heron
192
2
Carolyn Kizer
from Kaddish (I)
194
5
Allen Ginsberg
The Shortest Day
199
1
William Dickey
A Woman Mourned by Daughters
200
1
Adrienne Rich
Dad
201
1
Elaine Feinstein
Flood
202
1
Tony Harrison
from Clearances (Sonnets 2, 3, 7)
203
2
Seamus Heaney
Mi Mama, the Playgirl
205
1
Richard Garcia
Autumn 1980
206
3
Marilyn Hacker
Trying To
209
2
Wendy Barker
The Lost Pilot
211
2
James Tate
Arrangements
213
3
Alan Williamson
Gathering the Bones Together
216
4
Gregory Orr
from Songs for My Father
220
2
Yusef Komunyakaa
After father died (2), from Fathers in the Snow
222
1
Jill Bialosky
This Hour and What Is Dead
223
2
Li-Young Lee
Tricycles
225
4
Francisco Aragon
``How You Call to Me, Call to Me'': Lamenting the Death of the Beloved
229
30
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
232
1
John Milton
My Dearest Dust
233
1
Lady Catherine Dyer
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
234
1
William Wordsworth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
235
1
William Wordsworth
R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida
236
2
Emily Bronte
The Going
238
2
Thomas Hardy
The Voice
240
1
Thomas Hardy
Winter
241
1
Ruth Stone
Curtains
242
1
Ruth Stone
``Rosina Alcona to Julius Brenzaida''
243
2
Judith Wright
Under the Roof of Memory
245
2
Peter Davison
Letter with No Address
247
4
Donald Hall
June 15, 1992: Widow's Walk, Harpswell, Maine
251
2
Sandra M. Gilbert
Dining
253
2
Douglas Dunn
Crazy Menu
255
2
Tess Gallagher
Half Life
257
2
Paul Monette
``Sorrow's Springs'': Grieving for the Deaths of Children
259
18
On My First Son
262
1
Ben Jonson
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet...
263
1
Anne Bradstreet
On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips...
264
1
Katherine Philips
Why did baby die...?
265
1
Christina Rossetti
Maternity
266
1
Alice Meynell
First Death in Nova Scotia
267
2
Elizabeth Bishop
For a Lost Child
269
1
William Stafford
Little Elegy
270
1
X. J. Kennedy
the lost baby poem
271
1
Lucille Clifton
I Decide Not to Have Children
272
2
Marilyn Nelson
Child Burial
274
3
Paula Meehan
``How Far from then Forethought of'': Mourning the Deaths of Friends
277
24
Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
280
1
Thomas Gray
from In Memoriam (7, 8, 67)
281
2
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
My Friend
283
1
Christina Rossetti
Felix Randal
284
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
285
1
A. E. Housman
Elegy (V), from Memorial to D.C.
286
2
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elegy for Jane
288
1
Theodore Roethke
Long, Disconsolate Lines
289
1
Jane Cooper
For John Chappell
290
1
Gary Snyder
Sea Canes
291
1
Derek Walcott
Death's Blue-Eyed Girl
292
1
Linda Pastan
Impossible to Tell
293
7
Robert Pinsky
Or Else
300
1
Heather McHugh
``The Stained Stones'': Elegizing Those Dead by Violence
301
36
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
305
1
William Collins
Mother and Poet
306
5
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Portent
311
1
Herman Melville
Parentage
312
1
Alice Meynell
from Epitaphs of the War
313
1
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown Soldiers
314
1
Edgar Lee Masters
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (IV, V)
315
2
Ezra Pound
The General
317
1
Siegfried Sasson
To His Love
318
1
Ivor Gurney
The Lynching
319
1
Claude McKay
Anthem for Doomed Youth
320
1
Wilfred Owen
Song for a Dark Girl
321
1
Langston Hughes
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
322
1
Richard Eberhart
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
323
2
Robert Hayden
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
325
1
Randall Jarrell
The Six Million
326
2
Naomi Replansky
After
328
1
Shirley Kaufman
Driving through Minnesota during the Hanoi Bombings
329
1
Robert Bly
For the Record
330
2
Audre Lorde
Blue
332
1
William Heyen
Facing It
333
1
Yusef Komunyakaa
Tiananmen
334
3
James Fenton
``Brightness Falls from the Air'': Grieving for the Great and Beautiful
337
24
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
340
9
Walt Whitman
To an Athlete Dying Young
349
2
A. E. Housman
For a Dead Lady
351
1
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Buffalo Bill's Lament (VIII), from Portraits
352
1
E. E. Cummings
The Day Lady Died
353
1
Frank O'Hara
malcolm
354
1
Lucille Clifton
Poem for Dizzy
355
2
Betty Adcock
Elegy for Elvis
357
2
Richard Blessing
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
359
1
Sharon Olds
Sonnet in Primary Colors
360
1
Rita Dove
``Laments for the Makers'': Poets Mourning Other Poets
361
40
Lament for the Makaris
364
4
William Dunbar
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare...
368
3
Ben Jonson
London, 1802
371
1
William Wordsworth
Her--``last Poems'' -- (#600)
372
1
Emily Dickinson
At Melville's Tomb
373
1
Hart Crane
North Haven
374
2
Elizabeth Bishop
Paul Laurence Dunbar
376
1
Robert Hayden
I have moved to Dublin...(312), from The Dream Songs
377
1
John Berryman
How It Is
378
1
Maxine Kumin
Lament for the Makers
379
8
W. S. Merwin
Sylvia's Death
387
3
Anne Sexton
The Death of John Berryman
390
1
William Dickey
For Lew Welch in a Snowfall
391
1
Gary Snyder
For the Poets (Christopher Okigbo & Henry Dumas)
392
3
Jayne Cortez
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
395
4
Marilyn Hacker
And, Yes, Those Spiritual Matters
399
2
Christopher Gilbert
``If I Should Die, Think Only This of Me'': Self-Elegies
401
22
Tichborne's Elegy
404
1
Chidiock Tichborne
No longer mourn for me when I am dead (Sonnet LXXI)
405
1
William Shakespeare
Song
406
1
Thomas Flatman
My Own Epitaph
407
1
John Gay
Crossing the Bar
408
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Prospice
409
1
Robert Browning
This Consciousness that is aware (#817)
410
1
Emily Dickinson
Remember
411
1
Christina Rossetti
To the Oaks of Glencree
412
1
J. M. Synge
A Death Song
413
1
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Soldier
414
1
Rupert Brooke
Burial
415
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Cottage Hospital
416
2
John Betjeman
A Funeral Oration
418
1
David Wright
A Dream of Burial
419
1
James Wright
After My Death
420
1
David Young
Fragment
421
1
C. K. Williams
Tropical Death
422
1
Grace Nichols
``Death & Co.'': Meditations on Mortality
423
22
A Litany in Time of Plague
426
2
Thomas Nashe
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
428
5
Thomas Gray
During Wind and Rain
433
1
Thomas Hardy
Spring and Fall
434
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Ghost
435
1
Walter de la Mare
Grass
436
1
Carl Sandburg
Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
437
2
Ezra Pound
Dirge Without Music
439
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not Waving but Drowning
440
1
Stevie Smith
The Groundhog
441
2
Richard Eberhart
The Pardon
443
1
Richard Wilbur
Someone
444
1
Dennis O'Driscoll
Contributors Notes
445
16
Permissions Acknowledgments
461
10
Index
471