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Vintage International
Publication Date
1989.
Edition
New edition.
Language
English
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Mingus Union High School - NF - Nonfiction Books
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9780679724834
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Table of Contents
From the Book - Regular Print - New edition.
1. Who stands, the crux left of the watershed 1 --
2. From the very first coming down 2 --
3. Control of the passes was, he saw, the key 3 --
4. Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings 3 --
5. Watch any day his nonchalant pauses, see 4 --
6. Will you turn a deaf ear 5 --
7. Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all 7 --
8. It was Easter as I walked in the public gardens 7 --
9. Since you are going to begin to-day 12 --
10. Consider this and in our time 14 --
11. This lunar beauty 16 --
12. To ask the hard question is simple 17 --
13. Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle 18 --
14. What's in your mind, my dove, my coney 19 --
15. "O where are you going?" said reader to rider 20 --
16. Though aware of our rank and alert to obey orders 20 --
17. O Love, the interest itself in thoughtless Heaven 25 --
18. O what is that sound which so thrills the ear 26 --
19. Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys 28 --
20. Out on the lawn I lie in bed 29 --
21. A shilling life will give you all the facts 32 --
22. Our hunting fathers told the story 33 --
23. Easily, my dear, you move, easily your head 33 --
24. Summer holds: upon its glittering lake 36 --
25. Now through night's caressing grip 41 --
26. O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges 42 --
27. Look, stranger, at this island now 43 --
28. Now the leaves are falling fast 43 --
29. Dear, though the night is gone 44 --
30. Casino 45 --
31. Journey to Iceland 46 --
32. "O who can ever gaze his fill" 48 --
33. Lay your sleeping head, my love 50 --
34. Spain 51 --
35. Orpheus 55 --
36. Miss Gee 55 --
37. Wrapped in a yielding air, beside 59 --
38. As I walked out one evening 60 --
39. Oxford 63 --
40. In Time of War 64 --
41. Capital 78 --
42. Musee des Beaux Arts 79 --
43. Epitaph on a Tyrant 80 --
44. In Memory of W. B. Yeats 80 --
45. Refugee Blues 83 --
46. Unknown Citizen 85 --
47. September 1, 1939 86 --
48. Law, say the gardeners, is the sun 89 --
49. In Memory of Sigmund Freud 91 --
50. Lady, weeping at the crossroads 95 --
51. Song for St. Cecilia's Day 96 --
52. Quest 99 --
53. But I Can't 110 --
54. In Sickness and in Health 111 --
55. Jumbled in the common box 115 --
56. Atlantis 116 --
57. At the Grave of Henry James 119 --
58. Mundus et Infans 123 --
59. Lesson 125 --
60. Sea and the Mirror 127 --
61. Noon 175 --
62. Lament for a Lawgiver 176 --
63. Under Which Lyre 178 --
64. Fall of Rome 183 --
65. In Praise of Limestone 184 --
66. Song 187 --
67. A Walk After Dark 188 --
68. Memorial for the City 190 --
69. Under Sirius 195 --
70. Fleet Visit 197 --
71. Shield of Achilles 198 --
72. Willow-Wren and the Stare 200 --
73. Nocturne 201 --
74. Bucolics 202 --
75. Horae Canonicae 216 --
76. Homage to Clio 232 --
77. First Things First 236 --
78. More Loving One 237 --
79. Friday's Child 237 --
80. Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno 239 --
81. Dame Kind 242 --
82. You 245 --
83. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics 246 --
84. On the Circuit 248 --
85. Et in Arcadia Ego 250 --
86. Thanksgiving for a Habitat 252 --
87. Epithalamium 278 --
88. Fairground 280 --
89. River Profile 282 --
90. Prologue at Sixty 284 --
91. Forty Years On 287 --
92. Ode to Terminus 289 --
93. August 1968 291 --
94. A New Year Greeting 292 --
95. Moon Landing 294 --
96. Old People's Home 295 --
97. Talking to Myself 296 --
98. A Lullaby 299 --
99. A Thanksgiving 300 --
100. Archaeology 302.
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