She Walks in Beauty_ A Woman's Journey Through Poems - Caroline Kennedy [0]
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She walks in beauty GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
INTRODUCTION
FALLING IN LOVE
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A Very Valentine GERTRUDE STEIN
Song JOHN KEATS
I Do Not Love Thee THE HONORABLE CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH NORTON
From Hero and Leander CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Love’s Philosophy PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Having a Coke with You FRANK O’HARA
Symptom Recital DOROTHY PARKER
To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos SAPPHO
Come to the Orchard in Spring RUMI
MAKING LOVE
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Don’t try to rush things—from Poem 41
From From June to December
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! EMILY DICKINSON
may i feel said he E. E. CUMMINGS
When He Pressed His Lips
Corinna’s Going a-Maying ROBERT HERRICK
The Weather-Cock Points South AMY LOWELL
To His Mistress Going to Bed JOHN DONNE
The Song of Solomon 2:1–17, 3:1–5
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour WALLACE STEVENS
Variation on the Word Sleep MARGARET ATWOOD
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps GALWAY KINNELL
It Is Marvellous . . . ELIZABETH BISHOP
White Heliotrope ARTHUR SYMONS
Youth OSIP MANDELSTAM
BREAKING UP
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Lilacs KATHERINE GARRISON CHAPIN
Unfortunate Coincidence DOROTHY PARKER
The Philosopher EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
From Summer with Monika ROGER McGOUGH
I’m Going to Georgia FOLK SONG
A Type of Loss INGEBORG BACHMANN
On Monsieur’s Departure QUEEN ELIZABETH I
The Eaten Heart—from The Knight of Curtesy
My life closed twice before its close— EMILY DICKINSON
When We Two Parted GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
Well, I Have Lost You EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
“No, Thank You, John” CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story GWENDOLYN BROOKS
The End ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
MARRIAGE
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Marriage GREGORY CORSO
From The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in E. E. CUMMINGS
To My Dear and Loving Husband ANNE BRADSTREET
To Margo GAVIN EWART
A Word to Husbands OGDEN NASH
To the Ladies LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH
The Female of the Species RUDYARD KIPLING
From Paradise Lost JOHN MILTON
The Good Wife PROVERBS 31:10–31
My Last Duchess ROBERT BROWNING
To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage ROBERT LOWELL
From a Survivor ADRIENNE RICH
Letter from My Wife NAZIM HIKMET
To Paula in Late Spring W. S. MERWIN
A Farmer’s Calendar VIETNAMESE FOLK POEM
LOVE ITSELF
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A Birthday CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
June Light RICHARD WILBUR
Protocols VIKRAM SETH
Jamesian THOM GUNN
From Proverbs and Song Verse ANTONIO MACHADO
Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee? ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you PABLO NERUDA
Code Poem for the French Resistance LEO MARKS
The Smaller Orchid AMY CLAMPITT
Sonnet 116 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing RUMI
The Emperor MATTHEW ROHRER
Late Fragment RAYMOND CARVER
From The First Morning of the Second World DELMORE SCHWARTZ
1 Corinthians 13:1–13
WORK
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weaponed woman GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Night Waitress LYNDA HULL
In an Iridescent Time RUTH STONE
Madam and Her Madam LANGSTON HUGHES
Letters from Storyville NATASHA TRETHEWEY
Lineage MARGARET WALKER
I Want You Women Up North to Know TILLIE OLSEN
PS Education ELLEN HAGAN
At the Café PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK
Worked Late on a Tuesday Night DEBORAH GARRISON
The Age of Great Vocations ALANE ROLLINGS
Defining Worlds G. Y. BAXTER
What’s That Smell in the Kitchen? MARGE PIERCY
Father Grumble FOLK SONG
Epitaph ANONYMOUS
BEAUTY, CLOTHES, AND THINGS OF THIS WORLD
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Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii, 191–232 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What Do Women Want? KIM ADDONIZIO
The Catch RICHARD WILBUR
Cosmetics Do No Good STEVE KOWIT
Face Lift SYLVIA PLATH
Fatigue HILAIRE BELLOC
The Great Lover RUPERT BROOKE
Patterns AMY LOWELL
Crocheted Bag ROSEMARY CATACALOS
Delight in Disorder ROBERT HERRICK
The Rhodora
Roses Only MARIANNE MOORE
Eagle Poem JOY HARJO
MOTHERHOOD
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A Cradle Song