Fatherhood. Poems About Fathers

Foreword
BECOMING: ON BIRTH AND INFANCY
THOMAS DEKKER
"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes"
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Etude Realiste
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
"Sweet and low, sweet and low"
w. в. YEATS A Cradle Song
WILLIAM BLARE Infant Joy
WILLIAM BLAKE Infant Sorrow
su TUNG-P'O On the Birth of His Son
GEORGE MACDONALD The Baby
SIDNEY LANIER Baby Charley
D. H. LAWRENCE A Baby Asleep After Pain
WILLIAM BLAKE A Cradle Song
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth
of a Son
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
From Frost at Midnight
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To an Infant
RUDYARD KIPLING Seal Lullaby
WILLIAM CANTON Laus Infantium
KENNETH REXROTH The American Century
RICHARD MURPHY Natural Son
SIR WALTER SCOTT Lullaby of an Infant Chief
GALWAY KINNELL The Olive Wood Fire
DONALD HALL My Son My Executioner
DAUGHTER TO FATHER
GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG Supernatural Love
ANNE BRADSTREET
To Her Father with Some Verses
HENRY CLAY WORK Come Home, Father!
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
My Father and the Figtree
SOPHIE CABOT BLACK To Her Father
DEBORA GREGER The Armorer's Daughter
GWEN HARWOOD For My Father
LOUISE GLUCK SnOW
SOPHIE CABOT BLACK Turning Away
KATHA POLLITT A Chinese Bowl
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
To My Father on His Birthday
HARRYETTE MULLEN Father (Part l)
DEBORAH GARRISON
Dad, You Returned to Me This Morning
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Amateur Fighter
SOPHIE CABOT BLACK Brunnhilde, to Her Father
FATHERS AND SONS
HOMER From The Iliad, Book VI
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From Henry IV, Part 2
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Alec Yeaton's Son
FRANK L. STANTON Mighty Like a Rose
THOMAS BASTARD De Puero Balbutiente
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To William Shelley
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
"Child, when they say that others"
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Anecdote for Fathers
COVENTRY PATMORE The Toys
THOMAS HOOD A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three
Years and Five Months
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The Child Is Father to the Man
TED HUGHES Dust as We Are
SEAMUS HEANEY Follower
SEAMUS HEANEY Digging
SEAMUS HEANEY The Nod
GALWAY KINNELL
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
HOWARD NEMEROV
September, the First Day of School
JOHN BERRYMAN From Dream Songs
WILLIAM STAFFORD Listening
EUGENE FIELD
Inscription for My Little Son's Silver Plate
ANDREW HUDGINS
Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead
MICHAEL LONGLEY The Branch
CZESLAW MILOSZ Father in the Library
CZESLAW MILOSZ Father's Incantations
YEHUDA AMICHAI
My Son, My Son, My Head, My Head
JOSEPH BRODSKY Odysseus to Telemachus
LOUISE GLUCK Telemachus' Fantasy
BORIS PASTERNAK Hamlet
RUSSELL EDSON The Changeling
RAYMOND CARVER Photograph of My Father in
His Twenty-second Year
JASON SHINDER The Past
MURRAY JACKSON Gifts
RICHARD WILBUR
My Father Paints the Summer
FATHER TO DAUGHTER
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From King Lear
CHARLES KINGSLEY To a Child
BEN JONSON On My First Daughter
ROBERT BURNS A Poet's Welcome to His Love-
begotten Daughter
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To Ianthe
MARK STRAND For Jessica, My Daughter
STEPHEN SPENDER To My Daughter
GEORGE OPPEN Sara in Her Father's Arms
TED HUGHES Full Moon and Little Frieda
RICHARD WILBUR The Writer
w. в. YEATS A Prayer for My Daughter
GRANDFATHERS
ELIZABETH BISHOP For Grandfather
w. s. MERWIN
Grandfather in the Old Men's Home
SARA TEASDALE Grandfather's Love
ANDREW WATERHOUSE
Climbing My Grandfather
ROBERT LOWELL Dunbarton
MEGHAN O'ROURKE
Elegy for a Grandfather
CHARLES REZNIKOFF My Grandfather, Dead
Long Before I Was Born
DONALD HALL Maple Syrup
SORROW, FURT, REGRET
WILLIAM BLAKE The Little Boy Lost
THOMAS CAMPBELL Lord Ullin's Daughter
STANLEY KUNITZ The Portrait
HENRI COLE Radiant Ivory
C. D. WRIGHT Tours
THEODORE ROETHKE My Papa's Waltz
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH The Lesson
LUCILLE CLIFTON cigarettes
MEGHAN O'ROURKE Ohio
JAMES ТАТЕ The Lost Pilot
LOUIS SIMPSON
My Father in the Night Commanding No
SYLVIA PLATH Daddy
WILLIAM JAY SMITH American Primitive
HOWARD MOSS Elegy for My Father
ELEGIES: ILLNESS, LOSS, AND LETTING GO
BEN JONSON On My First Son
JOHN BEAUMONT
To My Dear Son, Gervase Beaumont
THOMAS GRAY Epitaph on a Child
ROBERT BURNS On My Ever Honoured Father
LOUISE GLUCK Metamorphosis
SHARON OLDS Nullipara
SHARON OLDS His Terror
SHARON OLDS His Stillness
ROBERT HERRICK
Epitaph upon a Child that Died
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Childless Father
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
God Gave to Me a Child in Part
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The Erl-King
GALWAY KINNELL Parkinson's Disease
PASCALE PETIT The Strait-jackets
TONY HOAGLAND Benevolence
SUSAN WICKS My Father Is Shrinking
MARY OLIVER Poem for My Father's Ghost
ELISE PASCHEN Threshold
ROBERT LOWELL
Terminal Days at Beverly Farms
EAMON GRENNAN Walk, Night Falling, Memory
of My Father
DONALD HALL White Apples
BRENDAN KENNELLY I See You Dancing, Father
DYLAN THOMAS
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS The Drunkard's Child
w. s. MERWIN Strawberries
JOHN BERRYMAN From Dream Songs
MILLER WILLIAMS Vision in Black and White
SEAMUS HEANEY Seeing the Sick
MARK STRAND Elegy for My Father
Index of Authors
Acknowledgments