Love Poetry Out Loud (18 page)
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Authors: Robert Alden Rubin
The pensive gnu, the staid aardvark
4
The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems
78
The telephone
146
There are, perhaps, whom passion gives a grace
129
Thine eyes still shined for me, though far
34
This coral's shape echoes the hand
124
This is a word we use to plug
109
Thou art my lute, by thee I sing
83
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore
32
Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches
122
We sat together at one summer's end
162
We started speaking
140
We stood by a pond that winter day
106
We're always fighting about household chores
45
When we two parted
93
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
104
Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
58
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
132
Whisper of yellow globes
125
Wild NightsâWild Nights!
24
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me
137
You are the bread and the knife
2
You said, that October
180
You say I love not, 'cause I do not play
153
Your thighs are appletrees
56
NDEX OF
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UTHORS
Alvarez, Julia
45
Atwood, Margaret
109
Auden, W. H.
120
Behn, Aphra
101
Berryman, John
65
Bevington, Louisa S.
114
Bible, The New English
88
Blackburn, Paul
183
Blake, William
152
Bradstreet, Anne
64
Bridges, Robert
138
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
62
Browning, Robert
169
Burns, Robert
68
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
93
Carew, Thomas
69
Carroll, Lewis
5
Carver, Raymond
142
Collins, Billy
2
Common
28
Conkling, Grace Hazard
105
Cope, Wendy
47
Crozier, Lorna
119
cummings, e. e.
84
Cunningham, J.V.
129
Dillard, R. H. W
26
DJ Renegade
146
Dove, Rita
100
Dugan, Alan
50
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
83
Dunn, Stephen
134
Eliot, T. S.
154
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
34
Forché, Carolyn
111
Giovanni, Nikki
14
Graves, Robert
117
Heaney, Seamus
37
Herrick, Robert
153
Hope, A. D.
7
Hughes, Langston
63
Jarrell, Randall
71
Jonson, Ben
67
Joyce, James
107
Keats, John
58
Larkin, Philip
166
MacLeish, Archibald
78
Mansfield, Katherine
140
Merwin, W. S.
149
Mew, Charlotte
185
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
49
Montagu, Mary Whortly, Lady
187
Nash, Ogden
11
Parrish, Ritah
40
Phillips, Robert
96
Piercy, Marge
115
Plath, Sylvia
167
Pound, Ezra
132
Raleigh, Sir Walter
54
Roethke, Theodore
4
Rossetti, Christina Georgina
82
Shakespeare, William
18
,
77
,
91
,
148
,
175
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
36
Snyder, Gary
180
Spenser, Edmund
95
Struther, Jan
182
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
92
Toomer, Jean
125
Verlaine, Paul
122
Voisine, Connie
86
Walcott, Derek
124
Whitman, Walt
32
Wilde, Oscar
108
Williams, William Carlos
56
Wordsworth, William
35
Young, Dean
176
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The Spoken Word Revolution
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“A Girl in a Library,” from
The Complete Poems
, by Randall Jarrell. Copyright © 1969 and renewed 1997 by Mary von S. Jarrell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“Bearded Oaks,” from
Selected Poems 1923â1975
, by Robert Penn Warren. Copyright © by Robert Penn Warren. Reprinted by permission of William Morris Agency, Inc. on behalf of the author.
“Coral,” from
Collected Poems: 1948â1984
, by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“Down, Wanton, Down!” from
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, by Robert Graves. Copyright © 1966 by Robert Graves. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
“Fire and Ice,” from
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, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1916, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1964 by Leslie Frost Ballantine. Copyright © 1936, 1944 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
“For an Amorous Lady,” from
Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
, by Theodore Roethke. Copyright © 1936 by Theodore Roethke. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
“December at Yase,” from
The Back Country
, by Gary Snyder. Copyright © 1968 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Freedom,” by Jan Struther. Copyright © 1938 by Jan Struther. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the Estate of Jan Struther.
“Good Morning, Love!” from
The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn
, edited by Edith Jarolim. Copyright © 1985 by Joan Blackburn. Reprinted by permission of Persea Books, Inc. (NewYork).
“Good Night,” by W. S. Merwin. First published in the
New Yorker
, May 2, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted by permission of the Wylie Agency.
“Her Lips Are Copper Wire,” from
Cane
, by Jean Toomer. Copyright © 1923 by Boni & Liveright, renewed 1951 by Jean Toomer. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
“Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,” from
Collected Poems 1937â1971
, by John Berryman. Copyright © 1989 by Kate Donahue Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“I, Being Born a Woman,” from
Collected Poems
(HarperCollins), by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Copyright © 1923, 1951 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor.
“I Will Not Let Thee Go,” from
Poetical works of Robert Bridges
, by Robert Bridges. Copyright © 1936 by Robert Bridges. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
“Juke Box Love Song,” from
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
, by Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Letter Home,” from
New and Selected Poems 1974â1994
, by Stephen Dunn. Copyright © 1994 by Stephen Dunn. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
“Litany,” from
Nine Horses
, by Billy Collins. Copyright © 2002 by Billy Collins. Reprinted by permission of Random House.
“Lonely Hearts,” from
Making Cocoa for Kingsley
Amis, by Wendy Cope. Copyright © 1986 by Wendy Cope. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
“Love Poem,” by Connie Voisine. Originally published in
Slate
. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Love Portions,” from
The Woman I Kept to Myself
, by Julia Alvarez, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Copyright © 2004 by Julia Alvarez. Reprinted by permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York. All rights reserved.
“Love Song,” from
The Portable Dorothy Parker
, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright © 1926 and renewed 1954 by Dorothy Parker. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
“Love Song: I and Thou,” from
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
, by Alan Dugan. Copyright © 2001 by Alan Dugan. Reprinted by permission of Seven Stories Press,
www.sevenstories.com
.
“Love under the Republicans (or Democrats),” by Ogden Nash. Copyright © 1930 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
“Love: Two Vignettes,” from
Selected Poems 1923â1975
, by Robert Penn Warren. Copyright © by Robert Penn Warren. Reprinted by permission of William Morris Agency, Inc. on behalf of the author.
“Lullaby,” from
Collected Poems
, by W. H. Auden. Copyright © 1940, 1968 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
“Meeting and Passing,” from
The Poetry of Robert Frost
, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1916, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1964 by Leslie Frost Ballantine. Copyright © 1936, 1944 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
“Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments,” from
Collected Poems, 1917â1982
, by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © 1985 by The Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Poem (for Marie),” from
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966â1996
, by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber Ltd.
“Poem for Sigmund,” from
Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence
, by Lorna Crozier. Copyright © 1988 by Lorna Crozier. Reprinted by permission of McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
“Portrait of a Lady,” from
Collected Poems: 1909â1939, Volume 1
, by William Carlos Williams. Copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Pucker,” from
Poetry Slam
: The Competitive
Art of Performance Poetry
, by Ritah Parrish. Copyright © 2000 Ritah Parrish. Reprinted by permission of Manic D Press, San Francisco.
“Resignation,” from
The Collected Poetry of Nikki
Giovanni, by Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 1968, 1972, 1974, 1976 by Nikki Giovanni. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Since the Majority of Me,” from
Collected Poems
, by Philip Larkin. Copyright © 1988, 2003 by the Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LIC, and Faber and Faber Ltd.