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Tables of Contents for The Handbook of Heartbreak
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WESTERN WIND
1
1
Anonymous (fifteenth century)
LOVE SONG
2
1
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME
3
1
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
ROSES ONLY
4
1
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
PRIVILEGE OF BEING
5
2
Robert Hass (b. 1941)
WHO'S ON FIRST?
7
3
Lloyd Schwartz (b. 1941)
THEY FLEE FROM ME
10
1
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
AND IF I DID WHAT THEN?
11
1
George Gascoigne (ca. 1535-1577)
ONE ART
12
1
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
ADAM'S CURSE
13
2
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
MEN LOVED WHOLLY BEYOND WISDOM
15
1
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
DOING THIS
16
2
Tony Hoagland (b. 1953)
MY PICTURE LEFT IN SCOTLAND
18
1
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
MY LIFE BY SOMEBODY ELSE
19
1
Mark Strand (b. 1934)
UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE
20
1
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
LOVE SONG: I AND THOU
21
1
Alan Dugan (b. 1923)
ASTROPHEL AND STELLA, 31 ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies")
22
1
Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Caelica, LXIX ("When all this All doth pass from age to age")
23
1
Fulke Greville (1554-1628)
SONNETS, 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none")
24
1
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
MODERN LOVE, 17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host")
25
1
George Meredith (1828-1909)
NEUTRAL TONES
26
1
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
THE APPARITION
27
1
John Donne (1572-1631)
SONG ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field")
28
1
William Blake (1757-1827)
SONG ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?")
29
1
John Suckling (1609-1642)
EROS TURANNOS
30
2
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
SONNET XIX ("Methought I saw my late espoused saint")
32
1
John Milton (1608-1674)
STELLA'S BIRTH-DAY: MARCH 13, 172 6/7
33
3
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL
36
1
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
DEATH OF THE DAY
37
1
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
THIS LIVING HAND
38
1
John Keats (1795-1821)
249 ("Wild Nights-Wild Nights!")
39
1
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
305 ("The difference between Despair")
40
1
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
THE VOICE
41
1
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
SONNET ("Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend")
42
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
HELEN
43
1
H.D. (1886-1961)
THE BROTHERS
44
2
Edwin Muir (1887-1959)
BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER
46
1
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
CAPTAIN CARPENTER
47
3
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
SIMPLE AUTUMNAL
50
1
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING
51
1
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
LINES WRITTEN DURING A PERIOD OF INSANITY
52
1
William Cowper (1731-1800)
THE POET'S TASK / Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
53
1
Alfred Corn (b. 1943)
A PLAGUE OF STARLINGS
54
2
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
THE DREAM SONGS, 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so")
56
1
John Berryman (1914-1972)
THE DREAM SONGS, 29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart")
57
1
John Berryman (1914-1972)
THE INLAND LIGHTHOUSE
58
1
James McMichael (b. 1939)
KITCHENETTE BUILDING
59
1
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
SKUNK HOUR
60
2
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
MY MOTHER WOULD BE A FALCONRESS
62
3
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
GET IT AGAIN
65
3
Mark Halliday (b. 1949)
BRILLIANCE
68
3
Mark Doty (b. 1953)
THAT EVENING AT DINNER
71
3
David Ferry (b. 1924)
MEASURING THE TYGER
74
1
Jack Gilbert (b. 1925)
THE DAY LADY DIED
75
1
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
LADY LAZARUS
76
4
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
SPITE-HOMAGE TO SYLVIA PLATH
80
1
Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)
BODY
81
1
James Merrill (1926-1995)
THE DEFINITION OF LOVE
82
2
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
TEACHERS
84
1
W.S. Merwin (b. 1927)
MEMORY UNSETTLED
85
1
Thom Gunn (b. 1929)
FRAGMENT
86
1
C.K. Williams (b. 1936)
IN HOUSTON
87
2
Gail Mazur (b. 1937)
"OUT, OUT--"
89
2
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
THE YOKE
91
1
Frank Bidart (b. 1939)
THE WINDOW
92
4
Lynda Hull (1954-1994)
ROUND
96
1
Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)
MOCK ORANGE
97
1
Louise Gluck (b. 1943)
PERSONALS
98
1
C.D. Wright (b. 1949)
HOW I GOT THIS WAY
99
2
Patricia Traxler (b. 1944)
FRIENDS WHO HAVE FAILED
101
1
Alan Williamson (b. 1944)
"BOY 'CARRYING-IN' BOTTLES IN GLASS WORKS"
102
1
Michael Ryan (b. 1945)
WATCHING SHOAH IN A HOTEL ROOM IN AMERICA
103
2
Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945)
Renata Gorczynski
Benjamin Ivry
C.K. Williams
DOLOR
105
1
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
INSOMNIA
106
1
Jane Kenyon (b. 1947-1995)
FACING IT
107
1
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
OLD JOKE
108
2
Alan Shapiro (b. 1952)
LAMENTATION ON UR
110
1
Tom Sleigh (b. 1953)
OZYMANDIAS
111
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
THEY FEED THEY LION
112
2
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
MEMPHIS BLUES
114
3
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
NIGHT WASH
117
2
Anne Winters (b. 1939)
MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE LETTERS
119
1
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
THE WEARY BLUES
120
2
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SIDNEY
122
2
Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
RALEGH'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD, AN EPITAPH FOR BENT
124
1
Suzanne Qualls (b. 1951)
SONG ON PORCELAIN
125
2
Czestaw Mitosz (b. 1911)
Robert Pinsky
MID-TERM BREAK
127
1
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
ON MY FIRST SON
128
1
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
WAVING GOOD-BY
129
1
Gerald Stern (b. 1925)
ELEGY FOR JANE
130
1
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
LAST HIRED
131
2
Mark Turpin (b. 1953)
341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes--")
133
1
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
ENGLISH 1
134
2
David Gewanter (b. 1954)
BODY, REMEMBER
136
1
Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933)
Edmund Keeley
Phillip Sherrard
CORTEGE
137
8
Carl Phillips (b. 1959)
A LITANY IN TIME OF PLAGUE
145
2
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING
147
2
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
TICHBORNE'S ELEGY
149
1
Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)
CHURCH MONUMENTS
150
1
George Herbert (1593-1633)
MADAME LA FLEURIE
151
1
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
WHAT HE THOUGHT
152
Heather McHugh (b. 1948)