Title: The silver swan ;
Authors: Gregory, Horace,; Zaturenska, Marya,; Bloomfield, Diana; Zaturenska, Marya,; Bloomfield, Diana,
Date: 1966
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
Physical description: 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: The mystery of life and the romance of the past are celebrated in the collection of ballads, elegies, and poems.
Contents: Silver swanne, who oliving had no note / anonymous -- Flowers in the valley / anonymous -- Fair ladies tall lovers / E.E. Cummings -- Do you remmeber the night / George Petrie -- Three cherry trees / Walter de la Mare -- White fury of the spring / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- White rose / Sacheverell Sitwell -- River roses / D.H. Lawrence -- Judith Gautier -- August / Francis Ledwidge -- Rainy summer / Alice Meynell -- September / Ted Hughes -- Immortal autumn / Archibald Mac Leish -- good hours / Robert Frost -- Song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats -- What terra lemnia gave thee birth?: Epicurean ode -- John Hall -- Captive bird of paradise / Ruth Pitter -- Flowering forest / Dame Edith Sitwell -- Nightingales / Robert Bridges -- L'An Trentiesme de Mon Eage / Archibald MacLeish -- Fantasy -- Gerard de Nerval -- Under the round tower / William Butler Yeats -- First of all my dreams was of / E . E. Cummings -- Chorus of Oedipus at Colonus -- Robert Fitzgerald --^ Hesoid, 1908 / Alexander Mair -- English in Virginia (April, 1607) / Charles Rezinkoff -- Song / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Do you not hear the aziola cry?: Azoila / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Augury / Stefan George -- Shiva / Robinson Jeffers -- O what is that sound that so thrills the ear / W.H. auden -- House in St. Petersburg / Stanley Burnshaw -- Black / Arthur Gregor -- Poison tree / William Blake -- Helen o Tyre / William Wadsworth Longfellow -- Through lane it lay / Emily Dickinson -- Flowers: for Heliodora / Meleager of Gadara -- On Lydia distracted / Philip Ayres -- Dagonet's canzonet / Ernest Rhys -- Gallery / Andrew Marvel -- Alas! poor queen / Marion Angus -- To the Princess Margaret Tudor / William Dunbar -- Sestina / Dante Alighieri -- Eve of Crećy / William Morris -- Rose-cheeked Laura / Tomas Campion -- Love without hope / Robert Graves -- Lines written in Windsor Forest / Alexander Pope -- Petrarch for laura / Claire McAllistair -- Lovely dames / W.H. Davies --^ Casabianca / Elizabeth Bishop -- Dancer lone and white: Ecstasy / Rachel Annand Taylor -- La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats -- Burnt bridge / Louis MacNeice -- Orpheus' dream / Edwin Muir -- To Ann Scott-Moncrieff / Edwin Muir -- Phantom / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Doubts / Rupert Brooke -- Never more will the wind / H.D -- In the mind's eye / Thomas Hardy -- Phantom horsewoman / Thomas Hardy -- Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom -- Princess of Scotland / Rachel Annand Taylor -- Goddess / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Fair-haired angel of the evening: To the evening star / William Blake -- Water and shadow / Marya Zaturenska -- From a childhoot / Rainer maria Rilke -- Elizabeth at the piano / Horace Gregory -- World to do / Theodore Weiss -- Song from the Gypsies Metamorphos'd / Ben Jonson -- Now silent falls / Walter de la Mre -- In this hotel / Emanauel Carnevali -- Three formes of Heccate: Conjuration, to Electra / Robert Herrick --^ Excerpt from the third book of Ayres / Thomas Campion -- Impossibilites to his friend / Robert Herrick -- Duet from Becket / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Nursery rhyme / W.H. Auden -- Souling song / Traditional: English -- Incantation to Oedipus / John Dryden -- Under the juniper tree: Lady, three whit leopards from Ash Wednesday / T.S. Eliot -- As a plane tree by the water / Robert Lowell -- For a marriage of St. Catherine / Dante Gabriel rosetti -- Staffa / John Keats -- Golden net / William Blake -- Trumpet blowing: Trumpet / Edward Thomas -- After reading translations of ancient texts on stone and clay / Charles Rezinkoff -- Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian hordes / Isaac Rosenberg -- Ode ot Hengist and Hora / Robinson Jeffers -- Shameful death / William Morris -- Mermen keep the tone and time: Sea ritual / George Darley -- Atlantis from Priapus and the Pool / Conrad Aiken -- City in the sea / Edgar Allan Poe -- Song by Lady Happy, as a sea goddess / M. Cavendish --^ Frutta di Mare / Geoffrey Scott -- Love at sea / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Ballad of hte western island in the north country / Anonymous -- Wet litany / Rudyard Kipling -- Way / Edwin Muir -- Notes -- Index of titles -- Index of authors -- Index of first lines.
Subject headings (LCSH): American poetry.; Children's poetry; English poetry.; Poetry.