Talking to the sun an illustrated anthology of poems for young people selected and introduced by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002

Farrell, Kate

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Children's poetry.

Art--Juvenile literature.

Art.

Poetry--Collections.

Genre:

Poetry

Juvenile works

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 pages) color illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art : [1985]

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston [1985]

Summary:

Poems from various time periods and many countries are organized by theme and illustrated with reproductions of art works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Contents:

Hymn to the sun: Hymn to the sun / Fang people

Poems to the sun / Ancient Egypt

Song for the sun that disappeared behind the rainclouds / Khoikhoin people

Five ghost songs / Ambo people

Beauteous one / Ancient Egypt

Here are no people song / Navaho Indians

Song of the flood / Navaho Indians

Approach of the storm / Chippewa Indians

House song to the east /Navaho Indians

Come unto these yellow sands: Come unto these yellow sands / William Shakespeare

Spring, the sweet spring / Thomas Nashe

Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare

How marigolds came yellow / Robert Herick

How violets came blue / Robert Herrick

Argument of his book / Robert Herrick

Daffodils / Robert Herrick

Locust tree in flower / William Carlos Williams

Spring / William Blake

Another Sarah / Anne Porter

We like March / Emily Dickinson

I think nk / James Schuyler

Spring / Reed bye

All the pretty little horses: All the pretty little horses

Lullaby / Akan people

Song of parents who want to wake up their son / Kwakiutl Indians

Puva, puva, puva / Hopi Indians

Lully, lulla: Song of kuk-ook, the bad boy / Eskim Mistress Isabel Pennell / John Skelton

Cottager to her infant / Dorothy Wordsworth

Minnie and Winnie / Alfred Lord Tennyson

From a childhood / Rainer Maria Rilke

Silly song / Federico Garcia Lorca

Miss blues'es child / Langston Hughes

Kirsten / Ted Berrigan

Poem for Shane on her brother's birthday / Donald T. Sanders

Autobiographia literaria / Frank O'Hara

Come live with me and be my love: Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe

Although I conquer all the earth / Ancient India

River-merchant's wife: A letter / Ezra pound (after Li Po)

Oath of friendship

Sonnet / Dante Alighieri

Phillida and Coridon / Nicholas Breton

It was a lover and his lass / William Shakespeare

Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick

A ternary of littles, upon a pipkin of jelly sent to a lady / Robert Herrick

I have lived and I have loved

Greensleeves

Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Birthday / Christina Rossetti

To an isle in the water / William Butler Yeats

Letter / Alfred; Lord Tennyson

Oh, when I was in love with you / A.E. Housman

Hops / Boris Pasternak

I want to say your name Leopold Sedar Senghor

Sunday / James Schuyler

Juke box love song / Langston Hughes

Song / Frank O'Hara

When the green woods laugi: When the green woods laugh / William Blake

Koocoo

If all the world were paper

Nut tree: Meet-on-the-road

Bingo

I'll sail upon the dog-star / Thomas Durfey

Humpty Dumpty's recitation / Lewis Carroll

Big rock candy mountains / American folksong

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll

Owl and the pussy

"I am cherry alive," the little girl sang / Delmore Schwartz

Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Today / Frank O'Hara

Rabbit as king of the ghosts: Rabbit as king of the ghosts / Wallace Stevens

Magnificent bull / Dinka people

Ground-squirrel song / Navaho Indians

I sing for the animals / Teton Sioux Indians

War god's horse song / Navaho Indians

I stood in the Maytime meadows: From the unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke / To ride

Paul Eluard / White horse

D.H. Lawrence / Engraved on the collar of a dog, which to his royal highness

Alexander Pope

Here's a little mouse / E.E. Cummings

Autumn cove / Li Po

Tyger / William Blake

Fallow deer at the lonely house / Thomas Hardy

Poem / William Carlos Williams / From jubilate agno

Christopher Smart / Owl

Hopi Indians

Wild goose, wild goose / Issa

Cat and the moon / William Butler Teats

Meditations of a parrot / John Ashbery

Peacock / D.H. Lawrence

Butterfly / D.H. Lawrence

They look/like newlyweds / Ryota

Where the bee sucks / William Shakespeare

Grasshoppers / John Clare

Bee! I'm expecting you! / Emily Dickinson

Spider / Basho

On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats

Three animals / Ron Padgett

Pig / Paul Eluard

Little fish / D.H. Lawrence

How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll

From elephant / Pablo Neruda

Elephant / Yoruba people

World's wanderers: World's wanderers / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Still night thoughts / Li Po

Spring night in lo-yang-hearing a flute / Li Po

They say you're staying in a mountain temple / Tu Fu

Thinking of east mountain / Li Po

Viewing the waterfall at Mount Lu / Li Po

So, we'll go no more a-roving / Lord Byron

To the moon / Giacomo Leopardi

To the moon / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Waiting both / Thomas Hardy

Moon rises / Federico Garcia Lorca

Silver / Walter De La Mare

Heaven / George Herbert

I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth

From to a skylark / William Wordsworth

Wind took up the northern things / Emily Dickinson

Sensation / Arthur Rimbaud

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert frost

Waking / Theodore Roethke

Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay

For the moment: For the moment / Pierre Reverdy

I've just come up / Joso

Well, let's go / Basho

First cold rain / Basho

May rains

On the temple bell / Buson

No one spoke / Ryota

Beside the road / Basho

How cool it feels / Basho

One person / Issa

From song of myself / Walt Whitman

To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams

Cuckoo / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams

Song / James Schuyler

In a train / Robert Bly

Pasture / Robert Frost

Some good things to be said for the iron age / Gary Snyder

Chocolate milk / Ron Padgett

Ballad of the morning streets

Amiri Baraka

Song form / Amiri Baraka

Convalescence / Noel Coward

Wind is blowing west / Joseph Ceravolo

Sleeping on the ceiling: Sleeping on the ceiling

Elizabeth Bishop

Dawn / Arthur Rimbaud

Who is the east? / Emily Dickinson

Most beautiful / Guido Gozzano

Song of wandering aengus /William Butler Yeats

Ose, oh pure contradiction / Rainer Maria Rilke

Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens

Great figure / William Carlos Williams

From free union / Andre Breton

Bavarian gentians / D.H. Lawrence

From liberty / Paul Eluard

Mr. Lizard is crying / Federico Garcia Lorca

Narcolepsy / Maureen Owen

Fog / Carl Sandburg

Canticle /David Shapiro

Tender buttons: From tender buttons

Gertrude Stein

Heart crown and mirror / Guillaume Apollinaire / Vowels / Arthur Rimbaud

It's raining / Guillaume Apollinaire

Ploughing on Sunday / Wallace Stevens

Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Up into the silence the green / E.E. Cummings

Sporting goods / Philippe Soupault

Thinnest shadow / John Ashbery

Poem / Frank O'Hara

True account of talking to the sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index of Authors and Titles

Index of First Lines

Notes:

Includes indexes

Other Format:

Print version Talking to the sun

OCLC:

1036887999