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Inventions of farewell, a book of elegies, edited and with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-460) and index

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Inventions of farewell

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edited and with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert

a book of elegies

Lord Randall, Anon, Death-bed, Thomas Hood, Twas crisis-All the length had passed, Emily Dickinson, Danny Deever, Rudyard Kipling, "Out, Out-", Robert Frost, Last words of my English grandmother, William Carlos Williams, Sorrow, D.H. Lawrence, Dulce et decorum est, Wilfred Owen, Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas, Last days, Donald Hall, Lament, Thom Gunn, As he came near death, Roy Fisher, Death, John Stone, Sacrifice, Frank Bidart, Thirteen steps and the thirteenth of March, Douglas Dunn, Lifting, Sharon Olds, Terminal resemblance, Louise Gluck, No goodbyes, Paul Monette, New dog (6), from Atlantis, Mark Doty, Current (6), from The work, Tom Sleigh, John Doe (V), from Ten patients, and another, Rafael Campo, Sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, Walt Whitman, Twas warm-at first (#614), Emily Dickinson, Beside the bed, Charlotte Mew, Triad, Adelaide Crapsey, Emperor of ice-cream, Wallace Stevens, Death, William Carlos Williams, Bride, D.H. Lawrence, Gazing upon him now (XVII), from Sonnets from an ungrafted tree, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Brown girl dead, Countee Cullen, Habit, Ruth Stone, Viewing, W.D. Snodgrass, Edge, Sylvia Plath, Marked with D., Tony Harrison, His ashes, Sharon Olds, Burial, Ellen Bryant Voight, Wake, Tess Gallagher, Fare, Molly Peacock, Ashes, Malena Morling, There's been a death, in the opposite house (#547), Emily Dickinson, Tract, William Carlos Williams, On the road to Woodlawn, Theodore Roethke, Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery, Gwendolyn Brooks, Twelve minutes, J.C. Hall, Minister, Anne Stevenson, On the death of a colleague, Stephen Dunn, Eulogy, Carol Muske, Columbarium, Judi Benson, Paying respects (3), from Blessings, Mary Stewart Hammond, Cremation, Agha Shahid Ali, Documentary, Joseph Stroud, Funeral, Carol Ann Duffy, Death, be not proud (X), from Holy Sonnets, John Donne, They are all gone into the world of light, Henry Vaughan, Garden of Proserpine, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Cold Heaven, William Butler Yeats, Sister Lou, Sterling A. Brown, Rites for cousin Vit, Gwendolyn Brooks, Explosion, Philip Larkin, Heaven of animals, James Dickey, Somewhere in Africa, Anne Sexton, Death's door, Thom Gunn, November 26, 1992: Thanksgiving at the Sea Ranch, contemplating metempsychosis, "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning", Alice Walker, Dead, Ellery Akers, Dust on the Mantel: Sonnet, Jacqueline Osherow, Lycidas, John Milton, Adonais, Percy Bysshe Shelley, C.L.M, John Masefield, At my father's grave, Hugh MacDiarmid, Feel me, May Swenson, Marker Slants...(384), from Dream songs, John Berryman, Sailing home from Rapallo, Robert Lowell, Bedside, Diana O'Hehir, Olga poems, Denise Levertov, Great Blue Heron, Carolyn Kizer, Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg, Shortest day, William Dickey, Woman mourned by daughters, Adrienne Rich, Dad, Elaine Feinstein, Flood, Tony Harrison, Clearances (Sonnets 2, 3, 7), Seamus Heaney, Mi Mama, the playgirl, Richard Garcia, Autumn, Marilyn Hacker, Trying to, Wendy Barker, Lost Pilot, James Tate, Arrangements, Alan Williamson, Gathering the bones together, Gregory Orr, Songs for my father, Yusef Komunyakaa, After father died (2), from Fathers in the snow, Jill Bialosky, This hour and what is dead, Li-Young Lee, Tricycles, Francisco Aragon, Methought I saw my late espoused saint, John Milton, My dearest dust, Lady Catherine Dyer, She dwelt among the untrodden Ways, Slumber did my spirit seal, William Wordsworth, R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida, Emily Bronte, Going, Voice, Thomas Hardy, Winter, Curtains, Ruth Stone, "Rosina Alcona to Julius Brenzaida", Judith Wright, Under the roof of memory, Peter Davison, Letter with no address, Donald Hall, June 15, 1992: Widow's walk, Harpswell, Maine, Sandra M. Gilbert, Dining, Douglas Dunn, Crazy menu, Tess Gallagher, Half life, Paul Monette, On my first son, Ben Jonson, In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Anne Bradstreet, On the death of my first and dearest child, Hector Philips..., Katherine Philips, Why did baby die...?, Christina Rossetti, Maternity, Alice Meynell, First death in Nova Scotia, Elizabeth Bishop, For a lost child, William Stafford, Little Elegy, X.J. Kennedy, Lost baby poem, Lucille Clifton, I decide not to have children, Marilyn Nelson, Child burial, Paula Meehan, Sonnet on the death of Richard West, Thomas Gray, In memoriam, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, My friend, Christina Rossetti, Felix Randal, Gerard Manley Hopkins, With rue my heart is laden, A.E. Housman, Elegy (V), from Memorial to D.C., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elegy for Jane, Theodore Roethke, Long, disconsolate lines, Jane Cooper, For John Chappell, Gary Snyder, Sea canes, Derek Walcott, Death's blue-eyed girl, Linda Pastan, Impossible to tell, Robert Pinsky, Or else, Heather McHugh, Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746, William Collins, Mother and poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Portent, Herman Melville, Parentage, Alice Meynell, Epitaphs of the war, Rudyard Kipling, Unknown soldiers, Edgar Lee Masters, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (IV, V), Ezra Pound, General, Siegfried Sassoon, To his love, Ivor Gurney, Lynching, Claude McKay, Anthem for doomed youth, Wilfred Owen, Song for a dark girl, Langston Hughes, Fury of aerial bombardment, Richard Eberhart, Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday, Robert Hayden, Death of the ball turret gunner, Randall Jarrell, Six Million, Naomi Replansky, After, Shirley Kaufman, Driving through Minnesota during the Hanoi bombings /, Robert Bly, For the record, Audre Lorde, Blue, William Heyen, Facing it, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tiananmen, James Fenton, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, Walt Whitman, To an athlete dying young, A.E. Housman, For a dead lady, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Buffalo Bill's lament (VIII), from Portraits, E.E. Cummings, Day lady died, Frank O'Hara, Malcolm, Lucille Clifton, Poem for Dizzy, Betty Adcock, Elegy for Elvis, Richard Blessing, Death of Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Olds, Sonnet in Primary Colors, Rita Dove, Lament for the Makaris, William Dunbar, To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare..., Ben Jonson, London, 1802, William Wordsworth, Her-"last Poems" - (#600), Emily Dickinson, At Melville's Tomb, Hart Crane, North Haven, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Hayden, I have moved to Dublin...(312), from The dream songs, John Berryman, How it is, Maxine Kumin, Lament for the makers, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia's death, Anne Sexton, Death of John Berryman, William Dickey, For Lew Welch in a snowfall, Gary Snyder, For the poets (Christopher Okigbo & Henry Dumas), Jayne Cortez, Ballad of ladies lost and found, Marilyn Hacker, And, yes, those spiritual matters, Christopher Gilbert, Tichborne's elegy, Chidiock Tichborne, No longer mourn for me when I am dead (Sonnet LXXI), William Shakespeare, Song, Thomas Flatman, My own epitaph, John Gay, Crossing the bar, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Prospice, Robert Browning, This consciousness that is aware (#817), Emily Dickinson, Remember, Christina Rossetti, To the oaks of Glencree, J.M. Synge, Death Song, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Soldier, Rupert Brooke, Burial, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Cottage Hospital, John Betjeman, Funeral oration, David Wright, Dream of burial, James Wright, After my death, David Young, Fragment, C.K. Williams, Tropical Death, Grace Nichols, Litany in time of plague, Thomas Nashe, Elegy written in a country churchyard, Thomas Gray, During wind and rain, Thomas Hardy, Spring and fall, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ghost, Walter De La Mare, Grass, Carl Sandburg, Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin, Ezra Pound, Dirge without music, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Not waving but drowning, Stevie Smith, Groundhog, Richard Eberhart, Pardon, Richard Wilbur, Someone, Dennis O'Driscoll

Book of elegies