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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xiii
About the Texts
xxvii
Acknowledgments
xxix
Early Unpublished Poems
The Bird and Stone
1
1
The Concert
2
1
Conquest
2
1
Oxford City Wall
3
1
San Francisco Night Windows
4
1
Poems 1922-1943
The Fierce Horsemen
5
1
Wild Oats
5
1
Death Mask of a Young Man
The Mouse
6
1
The Moon
6
1
Portraits of Three Ladies
7
1
Alf Burt, Tenant Farmer
8
1
The Wrestling Match
9
2
from Thirty-Six Poems
The Return: An Elegy
11
2
Kentucky Mountain Farm
Rebuke of the Rocks
13
1
At the Hour of the Breaking of the Rocks
14
1
History Among the Rocks
14
1
Watershed
15
1
The Return
16
1
Pondy Woods
16
2
Eidolon
18
1
History
19
2
Letter from a Coward to a Hero
21
2
Late Subterfuge
23
1
Ransom
23
1
To a Friend Parting
24
1
So Frost Astounds
24
1
Cold Colloquy
25
1
The Garden
25
1
To a Face in a Crowd
26
3
from Eleven Poems on the Same Theme
Bearded Oaks
29
1
Picnic Remembered
30
1
Crime
31
1
Original Sin: A Short Story
32
1
End of Season
33
1
Revelation
34
1
Pursuit
35
1
Love's Parable
36
2
Terror
38
3
from Selected Poems 1923-1943
The Ballad of Billie Potts
41
11
Mexico is a Foreign Country: Four Studies in Naturalism
Butterflies Over the Map
52
1
The World Comes Galloping: A True Story
52
1
Small Soldiers with Drum in Large Landscape
53
1
The Mango on the Mango Tree
54
3
from Brother to Dragons
Jefferson's Opening Monologue
57
3
The annus mirabilis
60
1
The Murder of John
61
3
Jefferson on the Aftermath
64
2
John's Lament
66
1
The Recognition of Complicity
66
1
from Promises
To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress
Sirocco
67
1
Gull's Cry
67
1
The Child Next Door
68
1
The Flower
69
2
Colder Fire
71
2
Promises
What Was the Promise That Smiled from the Maples at Evening?
73
1
Court-martial
74
3
School Lesson Based on Word of Tragic Death of Entire Gillum Family
77
1
Summer Storm (Circa 1916), and God's Grace
78
2
Founding Fathers, Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U. S. A.
80
1
Infant Boy at Midcentury
81
1
When the Century Dragged
81
1
Modification of Landscape
82
1
Brightness of Distance
83
1
Dragon Country: To Jacob Boehme
83
2
Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace
85
1
And Don't Forget Your Corset Cover, Either
85
1
Keepsakes
85
1
Go It, Granny---Go It, Hog!
86
1
Friends of the Family, or Bowling a Sticky Cricket
87
1
You Never Knew Her Either, Though You Thought You Did
87
1
I Guess You Ought to Know Who You Are
88
1
Rumor Unverified Stop Can You Confirm Stop
88
1
Lullaby: A Motion like Sleep
88
3
from You, Emperors, and Others
Two Pieces after Suetonius
Apology for Domitian
91
1
Tiberius on Capri
92
1
Mortmain
After Night Flight Son Reaches Bedside of Already Unconscious Father, Whose Right Hand Lifts in a Spasmodic Gesture, as Though Trying to Make Contact: 1955
93
1
A Dead Language: Circa 1885
94
1
Fox-fire: 1956
94
1
In the Turpitude of Time: n.d.
95
1
A Vision: Circa 1880
96
1
Some Quiet, Plain Poems
Ornithology in a World of Flux
97
1
Holly and Hickory
97
1
The Well House
97
1
In Moonlight, Somewhere, They Are Singing
98
1
Debate: Question, Quarry, Dream
99
1
Two Studies in Idealism: Short Survey of American, and Human, History
Bear Track Plantation: Shortly after Shiloh
99
1
Harvard'61: Battle Fatigue
100
3
from Tale of Time
Tale of Time
What Happened
103
1
The Mad Druggist
104
1
Answer Yes or No
105
1
The Interim
105
4
What Were You Thinking, Dear Mother?
109
1
Insomnia
109
3
Homage to Emerson, On Night Flight to New York
His Smile
112
1
The Wart
113
1
The Spider
113
1
One Drunk Allegory
114
1
Multiplication Table
115
1
Wind
115
1
Does the Wild Rose?
116
1
from Incarnations
Island of Summer
What Day Is
117
1
Where the Slow Fig's Purple Sloth
118
1
Natural History
118
1
Riddle in the Garden
119
1
Paul Valery Stood on the Cliff And Confronted the Furious Energies of Nature
120
1
Treasure Hunt
121
1
Myth on Mediterranean Beach: Aphrodite as Logos
121
3
The Ivy
124
1
Where Purples Now the Fig
124
1
The Red Mullet
124
1
A Place Where Nothing Is
125
1
Masts at Dawn
126
1
The Leaf
127
3
Audubon: A Vision
Audubon: A Vision
Was Not the Lost Dauphin
130
1
The Dream He Never Knew the End Of
131
6
We Are Only Ourselves
137
1
The Sign Whereby He Knew
137
2
The Sound of That Wind
139
3
Love and Knowledge
142
1
Tell Me a Story
142
3
from Or Else
The Nature of a Mirror
145
1
Natural History
145
1
Time as Hypnosis
146
1
Blow, West Wind
147
1
Interjection #1: Caveat
148
1
I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision
149
7
Interjection #2: I Know a Place Where All is Real
156
1
Chain Saw at Dawn in Vermont In Time of Drouth
156
2
Small White House
158
1
Forever O'Clock
158
2
Rattlesnake Country
160
4
Homage to Theodore Dreiser: Psychological Profile
164
1
Flaubert In Egypt
165
2
Vision Under the October Mountain: A Love Poem
167
1
Stargazing
168
1
Little Boy and Lost Shoe
168
1
Composition in Gold and Red-Gold
169
1
There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall
170
1
Reading Late at Night, Thermometer Falling
171
5
Folly on Royal Street before the Raw Face of God
176
2
Sunset Walk in Thaw-Time in Vermont
178
2
Birth of Love
180
1
A Problem in Spatial Composition
181
2
from Can I See Arcturus From Where I Stand?
A Way to Love God
183
1
Evening Hawk
184
1
Answer to Prayer
185
1
Paradox
186
1
Midnight Outcry
186
1
Old Nigger on One-Mule Cart Encountered Late at Night When Driving Home From Party in the Back Country
187
4
from Now and Then
American Portrait: Old Style
191
3
Boy Wandering in Simms' Valley
194
1
Orphanage Boy
195
1
Red-Tail Hawk and Pyre of Youth
196
4
Youth Stares at Minoan Sunset
200
1
Ah, Anima!
200
1
Unless
201
1
Not Quite Like a Top
202
1
Waiting
203
1
The Mission
204
1
When the Tooth Cracks---Zing!
205
1
Love Recognized
206
1
How to Tell a Love Story
206
1
Little Black Heart of the Telephone
207
1
Last Laugh
208
1
Heat Lightning
209
1
Inevitable Frontier
210
2
Heart of the Backlog
212
1
Diver
213
1
Rather Like a Dream
214
1
Heart of Autumn
215
2
from Being Here
Speleology
217
1
When Life Begins
218
1
Grackles, Goodbye
219
1
Youthful Truth-Seeker, Half-Naked, at Night, Running down Beach South of San Francisco
220
1
Snowshoeing Back to Camp in Gloaming
221
2
Sila
223
3
Vision
226
1
Part of What Might Have Been a Short Story, Almost Forgotten
227
2
Cocktail Party
229
1
The Cross
230
1
Language Barrier
231
1
Antinomy: Time and What Happened
232
1
Auto-da-fe
233
2
Passers-By on Snowy Night
235
2
from Rumor Verified
Chthonian Revelation: A Myth
237
1
Looking Northward, Aegeanward: Nestlings on Seacliff
238
1
Going West
239
2
Rumor Verified
241
1
Mountain Mystery
241
2
Vermont Ballad: Change of Season
243
1
Dead Horse in Field
244
1
The Corner of the Eye
245
1
What Voice at Moth-Hour
246
1
Another Dimension
246
1
English Cocker: Old and Blind
247
1
Have You Ever Eaten Stars?
248
1
Afterward
249
1
Fear and Trembling
250
1
from Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
Little Bear Paws and Joseph's Surrender
251
5
Joseph at Grant's Funeral
256
3
from Altitudes and Extensions
Three Darknesses
259
2
Mortal Limit
261
1
Immortality Over the Dakotas
261
1
Arizona Midnight
262
1
Hope
262
1
New Dawn
Explosion: Sequence and Simultaneity
263
1
Goodbye to Tinian
263
1
Take-off: Tinian Island
264
1
Mystic Name
265
1
When?
266
1
Iwo Jima
267
1
Self and Non-Self
267
1
Dawn
268
1
The Approach
268
1
What That Is
268
1
Like Lead
269
1
Manic Atmosphere
269
1
Triumphal Beauty
269
1
Home
270
1
Sleep
270
1
True Love
270
1
Last Walk of Season
271
1
Last Meeting
272
1
Muted Music
273
1
Why Boy Came to Lonely Place
274
1
Youthful Picnic Long Ago: Sad Ballad on Box
275
1
Last Night Train
276
1
Question at Cliff-Thrust
277
2
Index of Titles and First Lines
279