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Tables of Contents for The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xxiii
Harold Bloom
Uncollected Poems 1922-1943
3
30
Prophecy
3
1
Vision
3
1
Crusade
3
1
After Teacups
4
1
Midnight
5
1
The Fierce Horsemen
6
1
Wild Oats
6
1
To Certain Old Masters
6
1
The Golden Hills of Hell
7
1
Three Poems
8
1
I. Iron Beach
8
1
II. Mrs. Dodd's Daughter
8
1
III. Apocalypse
8
1
Death Mask of a Young Man
9
1
I. The Mouse
9
1
II. The Moon
9
1
Nocturne
10
1
Adieu Sentimentale
10
1
The Romance Macabre
11
1
Sonnets of Two Summers
11
1
I. Sonnet of a Rainy Summer
11
1
II. Sonnet of August Drouth
11
1
Praises for Mrs. Dodd
12
1
Portraits of Three Ladies
12
2
Autumn Twilight Piece
14
1
Admonition to the Dead
14
1
Apologia for Grief
14
1
Alf Burt, Tenant Farmer
15
1
Admonition to Those Who Mourn
16
1
The Mirror
16
1
Easter Morning: Crosby Junction
17
1
Mr. Dodd's Son
18
1
The Wrestling Match
18
1
Images on the Tomb
19
1
I. Dawn: The Gorgon's Head
19
1
II. Day: Lazarus
19
1
III. Evening: The Motors
20
1
IV. Night: But a Sultry Wind
20
1
August Revival: Crosby Junction
20
1
Pro Sua Vita
21
1
The Owl
22
1
Tryst on Vinegar Hill
23
1
Empire
24
1
The Limited
25
1
Athenian Death
25
2
Love's Voice
27
2
Goodbye
29
4
Thirty-Six Poems
33
32
The Return: An Elegy
33
2
Kentucky Mountain Farm
35
4
I. Rebuke of the Rocks
35
1
II. At the Hour of the Breaking of the Rocks
36
1
III. History Among the Rocks
36
1
IV. The Cardinal
37
1
V. The Jay
37
1
VI. Watershed
38
1
VII. The Return
38
1
Pondy Woods
39
2
Eidolon
41
1
Letter of a Mother
41
1
Genealogy
42
1
History
43
2
Resolution
45
1
Letter from a Coward to a Hero
46
2
Late Subterfuge
48
1
Ransom
49
1
Aged Man Surveys the Past Time
49
1
Toward Rationality
50
1
To a Friend Parting
50
1
Letter to a Friend
51
1
Aubade for Hope
51
1
Man Coming of Age
52
1
Croesus in Autumn
53
1
So Frost Astounds
53
1
The Last Metaphor
54
1
Pacific Gazer
55
1
Calendar
56
1
Problem of Knowledge
57
1
Cold Colloquy
57
1
For a Self-Possessed Friend
57
1
For a Friend Who Thinks Himself Urbane
58
1
The Garden
59
1
To One Awake
59
1
Garden Waters
60
1
To a Face in the Crowd
61
4
Eleven Poems on the Same Theme
65
16
Monologue at Midnight
65
1
Bearded Oaks
65
1
Picnic Remembered
66
2
Crime
68
1
Original Sin: A Short Story
69
1
End of Season
70
1
Revelation
71
1
Pursuit
72
1
Question and Answer
73
2
Love's Parable
75
2
Terror
77
4
Selected Poems 1923-1943
81
22
The Ballad of Billie Potts
81
11
Variation: Ode to Fear
92
2
Mexico is a Foreign Country: Five Studies in Naturalism
94
9
I. Butterflies Over the Map
94
1
II. Siesta Time in Village Plaza by Ruined Bandstand and Banana Tree
95
1
III. The World Comes Galloping: A True Story
96
1
IV. Small Soldiers with Drum in Large Landscape
97
1
V. The Mango on the Mango Tree
98
5
Promises Poems 1954-1956
103
42
To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress
103
6
I. Sirocco
103
1
II. Gull's Cry
103
1
III. The Child Next Door
104
1
IV. The Flower
104
3
V. Colder Fire
107
2
Promises
109
36
I. What Was the Promise That Smiled from the Maples at Evening?
109
1
II. Court-martial
110
3
III. Gold Glade
113
1
IV. Dark Woods
114
2
1. Tonight the Woods Are Darkened
114
1
2. The Dogwood
115
1
3. The Hazel Leaf
115
1
V. Country Burying (1919)
116
1
VI. School Lesson Based on Word of Tragic Death of Entire Gillum Family
117
2
VII. Summer Storm (Circa 1916), and God's Grace
119
1
VIII. Founding Fathers, Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A.
120
2
IX. Foreign Shore, Old Woman, Slaughter of Octopus
122
1
X. Dark Night of
123
2
XI. Infant Boy at Midcentury
125
2
1. When the Century Dragged
125
1
2. Modification of Landscape
126
1
3. Brightness of Distance
127
1
XII. Lullaby: Smile in Sleep
127
2
XIII. Man in Moonlight
129
3
1. Moonlight Observed from Ruined Fortress
129
1
2. Walk by Moonlight in Small Town
130
1
3. Lullaby: Moonlight Lingers
131
1
XIV. Mad Young Aristocrat on Beach
132
1
XV. Dragon Country: To Jacob Boehme
133
2
XVI. Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace
135
3
1. And Don't Forget Your Corset Cover, Either
135
1
2. Keepsakes
135
1
3. Go It, Granny -- Go It, Hog!
136
1
4. Friends of the Family, or Bowling a Sticky Cricket
137
1
5. You Never Knew Her Either, Though You Thought You Did, Inside Out
137
1
6. I Guess You Ought to Know Who You Are
138
1
7. Rumor Unverified Stop Can You Confirm Stop
138
1
XVII. Boy's Will, Joyful Labor without Pay, and Harvest Home (1918)
138
3
1. Morning
138
1
2. Work
139
1
3. The Snake
139
1
4. Hands Are Paid
140
1
XVIII. Lullaby: A Motion like Sleep
141
1
XIX: The Necessity for Belief
142
3
You, Emperors, and Others Poems 1957-1960
145
38
Garland for You
145
9
I. Clearly about You
145
1
II. Lullaby: Exercise in Human Charity and Self-Knowledge
146
1
III. Man in the Street
147
1
IV. Switzerland
148
1
V. A Real Question Calling for Solution
149
1
VI. The Letter about Money, Love, or Other Comfort, if Any
150
2
VII. Arrogant Law
152
1
VIII. The Self That Stares
153
1
Two Pieces after Suetonius
154
2
I. Apology for Domitian
154
1
II. Tiberius on Capri
155
1
Mortmain
156
3
I. After Night Flight Son Reaches Beside of Already Unconscious Father, Whose Right Hand Lifts in a Spasmodic Gesture, as Though Trying to Make Contact: 1955
156
1
II. A Dead Language: Circa 1885
157
1
III. Fox-fire: 1956
157
1
IV. In the Turpitude of Time: n.d.
158
1
V. A Vision: Circa 1880
159
1
Fatal Interview: Penthesilea and Achilles
159
2
Some Quiet, Plain Poems
161
3
I. Ornithology in a World of Flux
161
1
II. Holly and Hickory
161
1
III. The Well House
162
1
IV. In Moonlight, Somewhere, They Are Singing
162
1
V. In Italian They Call the Bird Civetta
163
1
VI. Debate: Question, Quarry, Dream
164
1
Ballad: Between the Boxcars (1923)
164
3
I. I Can't Even Remember the Name
164
1
II. He Was Formidable
165
1
III. He Has Fled
166
1
Two Studies in Idealism: Short Survey of American, and Human, History
167
2
I. Bear Track Plantation: Shortly after Shiloh
167
1
II. Harvard '61: Battle Fatigue
168
1
Nocturne: Traveling Salesman in Hotel Bedroom
169
1
So You Agree with What I Say? Well, What Did I Say?
170
1
Prognosis: A Short Story, the End of Which you Will Know Soon Enough
171
2
I. And Oh --
171
1
II. What the Sand Said
172
1
III. What the Joree Said, The Joree Being Only a Bird
173
1
Autumnal Equinox on Mediterranean Beach
173
1
Nursery Rhymes
174
4
I. Knockety-Knockety-Knock
174
1
II. News of Unexpected Demise of Little Boy Blue
175
1
III. Mother Makes the Biscuits
176
1
IV. The Bramble Bush
177
1
Short Thoughts for Long Nights
178
5
I. Nightmare of Mouse
178
1
II. Nightmare of Man
178
1
III. Colloquy With Cockroach
178
1
IV. Little Boy on Voyage
178
1
V. Obsession
178
1
VI. Joy
179
1
VII. Cricket, on Kitchen Floor, Enters History
179
1
VIII. Little Boy and General Principle
179
1
IX. Grasshopper Tries to Break Solipsism
179
4
Tale of Time Poems 1960-1966
183
40
Patriotic Tour and Postulate of Joy
183
1
Dragon-Tree
183
1
Ways of Day
184
1
Tale of Time
185
9
I. What Happened
185
1
II. The Mad Druggist
186
1
III. Answer Yes or No
187
1
IV. The Interim
187
4
V. What Were You Thinking, Dear Mother?
191
1
VI. Insomnia
191
3
Homage to Emerson, On Night Flight to New York
194
4
I. His Smile
194
1
II. The Wart
194
1
III. The Spider
195
1
IV. One Drunk Allegory
195
1
V. Multiplication Table
196
1
VI. Wind
197
1
VII. Does the Wild Rose?
197
1
Shoes in Rain Jungle
198
1
Fall Comes in Back-Country Vermont
199
3
The Day Dr. Knox Did It
202
5
I. Place and Time
202
1
II. The Event
203
1
III. A Confederate Veteran Tries to Explain the Event
204
1
IV. The Place Where the Boy Pointed
205
1
V. And All That Came Thereafter
206
1
Holy Writ
207
8
I. Elijah on Mount Carmel
207
2
II. Saul at Gilboa
209
6
Delight
215
8
I. Into Broad Daylight
215
1
II. Love: Two Vignettes
215
1
1. Mediterranean Beach, Day after Storm
215
1
2. Deciduous Spring
216
1
III. Something is Going to Happen
216
1
IV. Dream of a Dream the Small Boy Had
217
1
V. Two Poems About Suddenly and a Rose
218
1
1. Dawn
218
1
2. Intuition
219
1
VI. Not to Be Trusted
219
1
VII. Finisterre
219
4
Incarnations Poems 1966-1968
223
31
1. Island of Summer Island of Summer
223
13
I. What Day Is
223
1
II. Where the Slow Fig's Purple Sloth
223
1
III. Natural History
224
1
IV. Riddle in the Garden
225
1
V. Paul Valery Stood on the Cliff And Confronted the Furious Energies of Nature
226
1
VI. Treasure Hunt
227
1
VII. Moonrise
227
1
VIII. Myth on Mediterranean Beach: Aphrodite as Logos
228
2
IX. Mistral at Night
230
1
X. The Ivy
231
1
XI. Where Purples Now the Fig
231
1
XII. The Red Mullet
231
1
XIII. A Place Where Nothing Is
232
1
XIV. Masts at Dawn
233
1
XV. The Leaf
234
2
2. Internal Injuries
236
12
Penological Study: Southern Exposure
236
6
I. Keep That Morphine Moving, Cap
236
1
II. Tomorrow Morning
237
1
III. Wet Hair: If Now His Mother Should Come
237
1
IV. Night: The Motel Down the Road From the Pen
238
1
V. Where They Come to Wait for the Body: A Ghost Story
239
1
VI. Night Is Personal
240
1
VII. Dawn
241
1
Internal Injuries
242
6
I. The Event
242
1
II. The Scream
243
1
III. Her Hat
243
1
IV. The Only Trouble
244
1
V. The Jet Must Be Hunting for Something
244
1
VI. Be Something Else
245
1
VII. The World Is a Parable
246
1
VIII. Driver, Driver
246
2
3. Enclaves In the Mountains
248
6
I. Skiers
248
1
II. Fog
248
6
Audubon: A Vision Audubon: A Vision
254
17
I. Was Not the Lost Dauphin
254
1
II. The Dream He Never Knew the End Of
255
6
III. We Are Only Ourselves
261
1
IV. The Sign Whereby He Knew
261
2
V. The Sound of That Wind
263
3
VI. Love and Knowledge
266
1
VII. Tell Me a Story
266
5
Or Else Poem/Poems 1968-1974
271
54
I. The Nature of a Mirror
271
1
Interjection #1: The Need for Re-evaluation
271
1
II. Natural History
271
1
III. Time as Hypnosis
272
1
IV. Blow, West Wind
273
2
Interjection #2: Caveat
274
1
V. I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision
275
7
Interjection #3: I Know a Place Where All is Real
282
1
VI. Ballad of Mister Dutcher and the Last Lynching in Gupton
282
3
VII. Chain Saw at Dawn in Vermont In Time of Drouth
285
2
VIII. Small White House
287
1
Interjection #4: Bad Year, Bad War: A New Year's Card, 1969
287
1
IX. Forever O'Clock
288
1
X. Rattlesnake Country
290
4
XI. Homage to Theodore Dreiser
294
3
1. Psychological Profile
294
1
2. Vital Statistics
295
2
3. Moral Assessment
297
1
XII. Flaubert In Egypt
297
3
Interjection #5: Solipsism and Theology
299
1
XIII. The True Nature of Time
300
1
1. The Faring
300
1
2. The Enclave
300
1
XIV. Vision Under the October Mountain: A Love Poem
301
1
XV. Stargazing
302
1
Interjection #6: What You Sometimes Feel on Your Face at Night
302
1
XVI. News Photo
303
4
XVII. Little Boy and Lost Shoe
307
1
XVIII. Composition in Gold and Red-Gold
307
2
Interjection #7: Remarks of Soul to Body
309
1
XIX. There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall
309
1
XX. Reading Late at Night, Thermometer Falling
310
5
XXI. Folly on Royal Street before the Raw Face of God
315
2
Interjection #8: Or, Sometimes, Night
317
1
XXII. Sunset Walk in Thaw-Time in Vermont
317
2
XXIII. Birth of Love
319
2
XXIV. A Problem in Spatial Composition
321
4
Can I See Arcturus From Where I Stand? Poems 1975
325
14
A Way to Love God
325
1
Evening Hawk
326
1
Loss, of Perhaps Love, in Our World of Contingency
326
1
Answer to Prayer
327
1
Paradox
328
1
Midnight Outcry
329
1
Trying to Tell You Something
330
1
Brotherhood in Pain
331
1
Season Opens on Wild Boar in Chianti
331
2
Old Nigger on One-Mule Cart Encountered Late at Night When Driving Home From Party in the Back Country
333
6
Now and Then Poems 1976-1978
339
43
I. Nostalgic
339
14
American Portrait: Old Style
339
3
Amazing Grace in the Back Country
342
2
Boy Wandering in Simms' Valley
344
1
Old Flame
345
1
Evening Hour
345
1
Orphanage Boy
346
1
Red-Tail Hawk and Pyre of Youth
347
4
Mountain Plateau
351
1
Star-Fall
351
1
Youth Stares at Minoan Sunset
352
1
II. Speculative
353
28
Dream
353
1
Dream of a Dream
353
1
First Dawn Light
354
1
Ah, Anima!
355
1
Unless
356
1
Not Quite Like a Top
357
1
Waiting
358
1
The Mission
359
1
Code Book Lost
360
1
When the Tooth Cracks -- Zing!
360
1
Sister Water
361
1
Memory Forgotten
362
1
Waking to Tap of Hammer
363
1
Love Recognized
364
1
The Smile
364
1
How to Tell a Love Story
365
1
Little Black Heart of the Telephone
365
1
Last Laugh
366
2
Heat Lightning
368
1
Inevitable Frontier
369
1
Heart of the Backlog
370
2
Identity and Argument for Prayer
372
1
Diver
373
1
Rather Like a Dream
374
1
Departure
375
1
Heat Wave Breaks
376
1
Heart of Autumn
376
5
Being Here Poetry 1977-1980 October Picnic Long Ago
381
64
I.
382
10
Speleology
382
1
When Life Begins
383
1
Boyhood in Tobacco Country
384
1
Filling Night with the Name: Funeral as Local Color
385
1
Recollection in Upper Ontario, from Long Before
386
2
The Moonlight's Dream
388
1
The Only Poem
389
1
Platonic Drowse
390
1
Grackles, Goodbye
391
1
II.
392
11
Youthful Truth-Seeker, Half-Naked, at Night, Running down Beach South of San Francisco
392
1
Snowshoeing Back to Camp in Gloaming
393
2
Why Have I Wandered the Asphalt of Midnight?
395
1
August Moon
396
1
Dreaming in Daylight
397
1
Preternaturally Early Snowfall in Mating Season
398
2
Sila
400
3
III.
403
12
Empty White Blotch on Map of Universe: A Possible View
403
1
Function of Blizzard
404
1
Dream, Dump-heap, and Civilization
405
1
Vision
405
2
Globe of Gneiss
407
1
Part of What Might Have Been a Short Story, Almost Forgotten
408
2
Cocktail Party
410
1
Deep -- Deeper Down
411
1
Sky
412
1
Better Than Counting Sheep
412
1
The Cross
413
2
IV.
415
8
Truth
415
1
On Into the Night
415
1
No Bird Does Call
416
1
Weather Report
417
1
Tires on Wet Asphalt at Night
418
1
Timeless, Twinned
419
1
What is the Voice that Speaks?
420
1
Language Barrier
420
1
Lesson in History
421
1
Prairie Harvest
422
1
V.
423
22
Eagle Descending
423
1
Ballad of Your Puzzlement
423
3
Antinomy: Time and Identity
426
1
Trips to California
427
1
Auto-da-fe
428
2
Aspen Leaf in Windless World
430
1
Acquaintance with Time in Early Autumn
431
1
Safe in Shade
432
1
Synonyms
433
3
Swimming in the Pacific
436
2
Night Walking
438
1
Passers-By on Snowy Night
439
6
Rumor Verified Poems 1979-1980
445
47
I. Prologue
445
3
Mediterranean Basin
445
3
I. Chthonian Revelation: A Myth
445
1
II. Looking Northward, Aegeanward: Nestlings on Seacliff
446
2
II. Paradox of Time
448
7
Blessed Accident
448
1
Paradox of Time
449
3
I. Gravity of Stone and Ecstasy of Wind
449
1
II. Law of Attrition
450
1
III. One I Knew
451
1
Small Eternity
452
1
Basic Syllogism
453
1
Sitting on Farm Lawn on Sunday Afternoon
454
1
III. Events
455
9
Going West
455
1
Nameless Thing
456
1
Rumor Verified
457
1
Sunset Scrupulously Observed
458
1
Minneapolis Story
459
1
Mountain Mystery
460
1
Convergences
461
3
IV. A Point North
464
4
Vermont Thaw
464
1
Cycle
465
1
Summer Rain in Mountains
466
1
Vermont Ballad: Change of Season
467
1
V. If This Is the Way it Is
468
7
Questions You Must Learn to Live Past
468
1
After Restless Night
469
1
What Was the Thought
470
1
Dead Horse in Field
471
1
Immanence
472
1
The Corner of the Eye
473
1
If
474
1
VI. But Also
475
7
What Voice at Moth-Hour
475
1
Another Dimension
475
1
Glimpses of Seasons
476
3
I. Gasp-Glory of Gold Light
476
1
II. Snow Out of Season
477
1
III. Redwing Blackbirds
477
1
IV. Crocus Dawn
478
1
English Cocker: Old and Blind
479
1
Dawn
479
1
Millpond Lost
480
1
Summer Afternoon and Hypnosis
481
1
VII. Fear and Trembling
482
5
If Ever
482
1
Have You Ever Eaten Stars?
482
1
Twice Born
483
1
The Sea Hates the Land
484
1
Afterward
485
2
VIII. Coda Fear and Trembling
487
5
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
492
37
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
492
37
Altitudes and Extensions 1980-1984
529
58
I.
529
9
Three Darknesses
529
1
Mortal Limit
530
1
Immortality Over the Dakotas
531
1
Caribou
532
1
The First Time
533
1
Minnesota Recollection
534
2
Arizona Midnight
536
1
Far West Once
536
2
II.
538
11
Rumor at Twilight
538
1
Old Dog Dead
538
3
Hope
541
1
Why You Climbed Up
541
1
Literal Dream
542
2
After the Dinner Party
544
1
Doubleness in Time
544
3
Snowfall
547
2
III. New Dawn
549
8
I. Explosion: Sequence and Simultaneity
549
1
II. Goodbye to Tinian
549
1
III. Take-off: Tinian Island
550
1
IV. Mystic Name
551
1
V. When?
552
1
VI. Iwo Jima
553
1
VII. Self and Non-Self
553
1
VIII. Dawn
553
1
IX. The Approach
554
1
X. What That Is
554
1
XI. Like Lead
555
1
XII. Manic Atmosphere
555
1
XIII. Triumphal Beauty
555
1
XIV. Home
556
1
XV. Sleep
556
1
IV.
557
3
The Distance Between: Picnic of Old Friends
557
1
True Love
558
1
Last Walk of Season
559
1
V.
560
5
Old-Time Childhood in Kentucky
560
1
Covered Bridge
561
1
Re-interment: Recollection of a Grandfather
562
1
Last Meeting
563
2
VI.
565
10
Muted Music
565
1
The Whole Question
566
1
Old Photograph of the Future
566
1
Why Boy Came to Lonely Place
567
1
Platonic Lassitude
568
1
Seasons
568
2
I. Downwardness
568
1
II. Interlude of Summer
569
1
The Place
570
1
First Moment of Autumn Recognized
571
1
Paradigm of Seasons
571
1
If Snakes Were Blue
572
1
Little Girl Wakes Early
573
1
Winter Wheat: Oklahoma
574
1
VII.
575
4
Youthful Picnic Long Ago: Sad Ballad on Box
575
1
History During Nocturnal Snowfall
576
1
Whistle of the 3 A.M.
576
1
Last Night Train
577
2
VIII.
579
5
Milton: A Sonnet
579
1
Whatever You Now Are
579
1
Wind and Gibbon
580
1
Delusion? -- No!
581
1
Question at Cliff-Thrust
581
1
It Is Not Dead
582
1
Sunset
583
1
IX. Myth of Mountain Sunrise
584
3
Uncollected Poems 1943-1989
587
38
Bicentennial
587
12
A Few Axioms for a Young Man
599
2
Somewhere
601
1
Praise
602
1
Aging Man at Noon in Timeless Noon of Summer
603
1
Lord Jesus, I Wonder
603
1
Commuter's Entry in a Connecticut Diary
604
1
You Sort Old Letters
605
1
Aging Painter Sits Where the Great Tower Heaves Down Midnight
606
5
Was It One of the Long Hunters of Kentucky Who Discovered Boone at Sunset?
611
1
Goodbye
612
2
Remark for Historians
614
1
Institute of the Impossible
614
2
Winter Dreams
616
1
Breaking the Code
617
1
Problem of Autobiography Vague Recollection or Dream?
618
1
Instant on Crowded Street
618
1
Old Love
619
2
Upwardness
621
1
Uncertain Season in High Country
622
1
The Loose Shutter
623
1
John's Birches
623
2
Introduction to the Notes
625
13
Abbreviations
638
1
Emendations
639
6
Textual Notes
645
164
Explanatory Notes
809
8
Index of Titles and First Lines
817