Talking to the Sun : An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People

Name: Talking to the Sun : An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People
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ISBN: 9780030058493

ISBN-10: 003005849X

ISBN-13: 9780030058493

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kenneth Koch

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Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry
Binding: Hardcover
Weight: 22.0
Language: English

Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Koch has been a faculty member at Columbia since 1959 and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Koch has written works of fiction, poetry, essays and plays as well as Wishes, Lies and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red, which are books on teaching poetry.

Introduction	p. 6
Hymn to the Sun
Hymn to the Sun	p. 8
Poems to the Sun	p. 9
Song for the Sun That Disappeared behind the Rainclouds	p. 9
Five Ghost Songs	p. 10
O Beauteous One	p. 10
There Are No People Song	p. 11
Song of the Flood	p. 12
The Approach of the Storm	p. 12
House Song to the East	p. 13
Come Unto These Yellow Sands
Come unto These Yellow Sands	p. 14
Spring, the Sweet Spring	p. 15
Under the Greenwood Tree	p. 15
How Marigolds Came Yellow	p. 16
How Violets Came Blue	p. 16
The Argument of His Book	p. 16
To Daffodils	p. 17
The Locust Tree in Flower	p. 18
Spring	p. 18
Another Sarah	p. 19
We Like March	p. 19
I Think	p. 20
Spring	p. 21
All the Pretty Little Horses
All the Pretty Little Horses	p. 22
Lullaby	p. 23
Song of Parents Who Want to Wake up Their Son	p. 23
Puva, puva, puva	p. 23
Lully, Lulla	p. 24
The Song of Kuk-ook, the Bad Boy	p. 24
To Mistress Isabel Pennell	p. 25
The Cottager to Her Infant	p. 26
Minnie and Winnie	p. 26
From a Childhood	p. 27
Silly Song	p. 28
Miss Blues'es Child	p. 28
Kirsten	p. 29
Poem for Shane on Her Brother's Birthday	p. 30
Autobiographia Literaria	p. 31
Come Live with Me and Be My Love
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	p. 33
Although I Conquer All the Earth	p. 33
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	p. 34
Oath of Friendship	p. 35
Sonnet	p. 36
Phillida and Coridon	p. 37
It Was a Lover and His Lass	p. 38
Upon Julia's Clothes	p. 38
A Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady	p. 39
I Have Lived and I Have Loved	p. 39
Greensleeves	p. 40
Indian Serenade	p. 41
A Birthday	p. 41
To an Isle in the Water	p. 42
The Letter	p. 43
Oh, When I Was in Love with You	p. 44
Hops	p. 44
I Want to Say Your Name	p. 45
Sunday	p. 46
Juke Box Love Song	p. 46
Song	p. 47
When the Green Woods Laugi
When the Green Woods Laugh	p. 48
The Koocoo	p. 49
If All the World Were Paper	p. 49
A Nut Tree	p. 50
Meet-on-the-Road	p. 50
Bingo	p. 51
I'll Sail upon the Dog-star	p. 51
Humpty Dumpty's Recitation	p. 52
The Big Rock Candy Mountains	p. 53
Jabberwocky	p. 53
The Owl and the Pussy-cat	p. 54
"I Am Cherry Alive," the Little Girl Sang	p. 54
Counting-Out Rhyme	p. 55
Today	p. 55
A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts	p. 56
The Magnificent Bull	p. 57
Ground-Squirrel Song	p. 57
I Sing for the Animals	p. 57
The War God's Horse Song	p. 57
I Stood in the Maytime Meadows	p. 59
From The Unicorn	p. 59
To Ride	p. 59
The White Horse	p. 59
Engraved on the Collar of a Dog, Which to His Royal Highness	p. 60
Here's a little mouse	p. 60
Autumn Cove	p. 61
The Tyger	p. 61
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House	p. 61
Poem	p. 62
From Jubilate Agno	p. 62
The Owl	p. 63
Wild Goose, Wild Goose	p. 63
The Cat and the Moon	p. 63
Meditations of a Parrot	p. 64
Peacock	p. 64
Butterfly	p. 65
They look/like newlyweds	p. 65
Where the Bee Sucks	p. 66
Grasshoppers	p. 66
Bee! I'm Expecting You!	p. 66
Spider	p. 66
On the Grasshopper and Cricket	p. 67
Three Animals	p. 67
Pig	p. 68
Little Fish	p. 68
How Doth the Little Crocodile	p. 68
From Elephant	p. 69
The Elephant	p. 69
The World's Wanderers
The World's Wanderers	p. 70
Still Night Thoughts	p. 71
Spring Night in Lo-yang-Hearing a Flute	p. 71
They Say You're Staying in a Mountain Temple	p. 71
Thinking of East Mountain	p. 71
Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu	p. 71
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving	p. 72
To the Moon	p. 72
To the Moon	p. 72
Waiting Both	p. 73
The Moon Rises	p. 73
Silver	p. 73
Heaven	p. 74
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	p. 75
From To a Skylark	p. 75
The Wind Took up the Northern Things	p. 75
Sensation	p. 76
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	p. 76
The Waking	p. 77
Afternoon on a Hill	p. 77
For the Moment
For the Moment	p. 78
I've just come up	p. 79
Well, let's go	p. 79
First cold rain	p. 79
May rains	p. 79
On the temple bell	p. 79
No one spoke	p. 79
Beside the road	p. 79
How cool it feels	p. 79
One person	p. 79
From Song of Myself	p. 80
To a Poor Old Woman	p. 81
Cuckoo	p. 81
The Red Wheelbarrow	p. 81
Song	p. 81
In a Train	p. 82
The Pasture	p. 82
Some Good Things to Be Said for the Iron Age	p. 82
Chocolate Milk	p. 83
Ballad of the Morning Streets	p. 83
Song Form	p. 83
Convalescence	p. 84
The Wind Is Blowing West	p. 84
Sleeping on the Ceiling
Sleeping on the Ceiling	p. 86
Dawn	p. 87
Who Is the East?	p. 87
The Most Beautiful	p. 88
The Song of Wandering Aengus	p. 89
Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction	p. 89
Disillusionment of Ten O'clock	p. 90
The Great Figure	p. 90
From Free Union	p. 91
Bavarian Gentians	p. 91
From Liberty	p. 92
Mr. Lizard Is Crying	p. 93
Narcolepsy	p. 94
Fog	p. 94
Canticle	p. 95
Tender Buttons
From Tender Buttons	p. 97
Heart Crown and Mirror	p. 98
Vowels	p. 98
It's Raining	p. 99
Ploughing on Sunday	p. 100
Pied Beauty	p. 101
Up into the silence the green	p. 101
Sporting Goods	p. 102
The Thinnest Shadow	p. 102
Poem	p. 103
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island	p. 104
Appendix	p. 106
Acknowledgments	p. 107
Credits	p. 108
Index of Authors and Titles	p. 110
Index of First Lines	p. 111
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