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Collected poems, 1928-1953 / Stephen Spender.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR6037.P47 A17 1965
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Azzolina, David S. 1957- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber and Faber, 1965.
- Contents:
- He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye
- Rolled over on Europe: the sharp dew frozen to stars
- Marston, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe
- Not to you I sighed. No not a word
- Acts passed beyond the boundary of mere wishing
- At the end of two months' holiday there came a night
- Different living is not living in different places
- An I can never be great man
- Beethoven's death mask
- Never being, but always at the edge of being
- My parents kept me from children who were rough
- What I expected, was
- In 1929
- The port
- Moving through the silent crowd
- Who live under the shadow of a war
- Shapes of death haunt life
- How strangely this sun reminds me of my love
- To T.A.R.H.
- The prisoners
- Without that once clear aim, the path of flight
- Passing, men are sorry for the birds in cages
- Oh young men, oh young comrades
- I think continually of those who were truly great
- Your body is stars whose million glitter here
- After they have tired of the brilliance of cities
- Perhaps
- The funeral
- The express
- The landscape near an aerodrome
- The pylons
- In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic
- Abrupt and charming mover
- From all these events, from the slump, from the war, from the boom
- Not palaces, an era's crown
- Polar explorations
- The living values
- The uncreating chaos
- Exiles from their land, history their domicile
- An elemantary school classroom in a slum
- A footnote from Marx's Chapter, The working day
- Hoelderlin's old age
- Variations on my life
- Archaic head
- Dark and light
- The room above the square
- Thoughts during an air raid
- Two armies
- Ultima Ratio Regum
- A stopwatch and an ordnance map
- In no man's land
- The coward
- Fall of a city
- Port Bou
- To a Spanish poet
- Two kisses
- The little coat
- The vase of tears
- Stranger, you who hide my love
- No Orpheus No Eurydice
- The double shame
- Auf dem wasser zu singen
- A separation
- The war god
- Air raid across the bay at Plymouth
- June
- The drowned
- Rejoice in the abyss
- A man-made world
- Memento
- The fates
- Epilogue to a human drama
- We fly through a night of stars
- Within our nakedness, nakedness still
- Were born; must die; were loved; must love
- Since we are what we are, what shall we be
- Exiles from single being or belief
- The immortal spirit is that single ghost
- One is the witness through whom the whole
- Darling of our hearts, drowning
- From a tree choked by ivy, rotted
- Poor girl, inhabitant of a stark land
- Already you are beginning to become
- The final act of love
- Dearest and nearest brother
- The dream
- One
- Absence
- Daybreak
- Lost
- Seascape
- The barn
- Dusk
- Meeting
- Ice
- Word
- The trance
- O
- In Attica
- Messenger
- Empty house
- To my daughter
- Missing my daughter
- Nocturne
- Sirmione peninsula
- Dylan Thomas (November 1953)
- After Rilke: Orpheus Eurydice Hermes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by David Azzolina.
- Penn Rare copy is second impression 1965. Also has inscription.
- Cited in:
- Kulkarni. Stephen Spender, A32b
- OCLC:
- 317474752
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