
Collected Poems, 1930-1973
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From the very beginning of May Sarton's career, in her fiction, memoir, and poetry, her work has been touched by a deep sense of order. The careful structure of her work provides an elegant backdrop against which her emotions are free to unfold, rising up through the cracks and fissures of her poems' architecture only to pass through and disappear like a summer thunderstorm. The author's search for reason, love of nature, and diverse passions are on full display in this masterful collection, illustrating why May Sarton is considered one of the twentieth century's finest literary minds.
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Person
An accomplished memoirist, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her memoir Journal of a Solitude(1973) was an account of her experiences as a female artist.Sarton spent her later years in York, Maine, living and writing by the sea. In her memoir Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year(1992), she shares her own personal thoughts on getting older. Her final poetry collection, Coming into Eighty, was published in 1994.Sarton died on July 16, 1995, in York, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Publisher's Note on Poetry
- Encounter in April (1930-1937)
- First Snow
- "She Shall Be Called Woman"
- Strangers
- Inner Landscape (1936-1938)
- Prayer before Work
- Architectural Image
- Understatement
- Summary
- Address to the Heart
- Memory of Swans
- After Silence
- Canticle
- From Men Who Died Deluded
- Afternoon on Washington Street
- Winter Evening
- A Letter to James Stephens
- The Lion and the Rose (1938-1948)
- Monticello
- Charleston Plantations
- Where the Peacock Cried
- In Texas
- Boulder Dam
- Colorado Mountains
- Of the Seasons
- Meditation in Sunlight
- Difficult Scene
- The Window
- The Lion and the Rose
- Indian Dances
- Santos: New Mexico
- Poet in Residence:
- The Students
- Campus
- Before Teaching"
- After Teaching
- Place of Learning
- The Work of Happiness
- After a Train Journey
- O Who Can Tell?
- The Clavichord
- Song: "Now let us honor with violin and flute"
- In Memoriam
- Now Voyager
- My Sisters, O My Sisters
- The Lady and the Unicorn
- Question
- Perspective
- Return
- "O Saisons! O Chateaux!"
- These Pure Arches
- We Have Seen the Wind
- Homage to Flanders
- The Sacred Order
- What the Old Man Said
- Navigator
- Who Wakes
- Return to Chartres
- To the Living
- The Tortured
- The Birthday
- The Leaves of the Tree (1948-1950)
- Myth
- Song without Music
- The Swans
- The Second Spring
- Kot's House
- To an Honest Friend
- Landscape Pursued by a Cloud
- Evening Music
- Lullaby
- Islands and Wells
- Boy by the Waterfall
- Poets and the Rain
- Winter Grace
- The Land of Silence (1950-1953)
- The First Autumn
- The Sacred Wood
- Summer Music
- As Does New Hampshire
- Transition
- Villanelle for Fireworks
- Provence
- Journey by Train
- Evening in France
- From All Our Journeys
- Where Warriors Stood
- Take Anguish for Companion
- Innumerable Friend
- The Caged Bird
- The Land of Silence
- Letter to an Indian Friend
- Of Prayer
- The Tree
- A Light Left On
- Because What I Want Most is Permanence
- Song: "This is the love I bring"
- Leaves before the Wind
- In a Dry Land
- Prothalamion
- Kinds of Wind
- The Seas of Wheat
- These Images Remain:
- "Now that the evening gathers up the day"
- "Even such fervor must seek out an end"
- "So to release the soul, search out the soul"
- "The rose has opened and is all accomplished"
- "But parting is return, the coming home"
- "The stone withstands, but the chisel destroys"
- "What angel can I leave, gentle and stern"
- "These images remain, these classic landscapes"
- "Here are the peaceful days we never knew"
- Without the Violence
- Humpty Dumpty
- Giant in the Garden
- Journey toward Poetry
- Italian Garden
- Letter from Chicago
- On a Winter Night
- Now I Become Myself
- In Time Like Air (1953-1958)
- A Celebration for George Sarton
- Dialogue
- The Furies
- The Action of the Beautiful
- On Being Given Time
- The Metaphysical Garden
- Where Dream Begins
- Lament for Toby, a French Poodle
- Green Song
- These Were Her Nightly Journeys
- The Olive Grove
- Mediterranean
- At Muzot
- To the North
- After Four Years
- Somersault
- The Frog, that Naked Creature
- The Phoenix
- In Time Like Air
- Nativity
- Annunciation
- All Souls
- Lifting Stone
- Binding the Dragon
- The Fall
- The Other Place
- Definition
- Forethought
- A Pair of Hands
- My Father's Death
- The Light Years
- Spring Day
- By Moonlight
- Reflections in a Double Mirror
- Death and the Lovers
- Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine (1958-1961)
- A Divorce of Lovers:
- "Now these two warring halves are to be parted"
- "I shall not see the end of this unweaving"
- "One death's true death, and that is-not to care"
- "Did you achieve this with a simple word"
- "What price serenity these cruel days"
- "Dear fellow-sufferer, dear cruelty"
- "Your greatness withers when it shuts out grief"
- "Now we have lost the heartways and the word"
- "What if a homing pigeon lost its home"
- "So drive back hating Love and loving Hate"
- "It does not mean that we shall find the place"
- "Others have cherished, perhaps loved me more"
- "Wild seas, wild seas, and the gulls veering close"
- "For all the loving words and difficult"
- "As I look out on the long swell of fields"
- "The cat sleeps on my desk in the pale sun"
- "After a night of driving rain, the skies"
- "These riches burst from every barren tree"
- "Where do I go? Nowhere. And who am I"
- "Now silence, silence, silence, and within it"
- Moving In
- Reflections by a Fire
- Mud Season
- Spring Planting
- A Flower-Arranging Summer
- Hour of Proof
- Der Abschied
- A Private Mythology (1961-1966)
- The Beautiful Pauses
- A Child's Japan
- A Country House
- Kyoko
- Japanese Prints
- Four Views of Fujiyama
- On the Way to Lake Chuzen-ji
- Lake Chuzen-ji
- Enkaku-ji, Zen Monastery
- Three Variations on a Theme
- Seen from a Train
- The Leopards at Nanzen-ji
- At Katsura, Imperial Villa
- The Inland Sea
- Tourist
- In a Bus
- Carp Garden
- A Nobleman's House
- Inn at Kyoto
- An Exchange of Gifts
- The Stone Garden
- Wood, Paper, Stone
- The Approach-Calcutta
- Notes from India
- 1. At Bhubaneswar
- 2. At Kanarak
- 3. At Puri
- 4. At Fathpur Sikri
- In Kashmir
- The Sleeping God
- Birthday on the Acropolis
- Nostalgia for India
- On Patmos
- Another Island
- At Lindos
- At Delphi
- Ballads of the Traveler
- Lazarus
- "Heureux Qui, Comme Ulysse."
- Of Havens
- The House in Winter
- Still Life in Snowstorm
- A Fugue of Wings
- An Observation
- Learning about Water
- An Artesian Well
- A Late Mowing
- A Country Incident
- Second Thoughts on the Abstract Gardens of Japan
- A Village Tale
- The Horse-Pulling
- Franz, a Goose
- Lovers at the Zoo
- Death and the Turtle
- Elegy for Meta
- Death of a Psychiatrist
- Conversation in Black and White
- The Walled Garden at Clondalkin
- A Recognition
- Joy in Provence
- Baroque Image
- As Does New Hampshire (1967)
- Winter Night
- March-Mad
- Metamorphosis
- Apple Tree in May
- A Glass of Water
- Stone Walls
- A Guest
- A Grain of Mustard Seed (1967-1971)
- A Ballad of the Sixties
- The Rock in the Snowball
- The Invocation to Kali
- The Kingdom of Kali
- The Concentration Camps
- The Time of Burning
- After the Tiger
- "We'll to the Woods No More, the Laurels Are Cut Down"
- Night Watch
- Proteus
- A Last Word
- Girl with 'Cello
- The Muse as Medusa
- For Rosalind
- The Great Transparencies
- Friendship: The Storms
- Evening Walk in France
- Dutch Interior
- A Vision of Holland
- Bears and Waterfalls
- A Parrot
- Eine Kleine Snailmusik
- The Fig
- A Hard Death
- The Silence
- Annunciation
- At Chartres
- Once More at Chartres
- Jonah
- Easter Morning
- The Godhead as Lynx
- The Waves
- Beyond the Question
- Invocation
- A Durable Fire (1969-1972)
- Gestalt at Sixty
- Myself to Me
- Dear Solid Earth
- The Return of Aphrodite
- Inner Space
- Things Seen
- Mozart Again
- The Tree Peony
- A Chinese Landscape
- Reeds and Water
- The Snow Light
- Warning
- Surfers
- All Day I Was with Trees
- A Storm of Angels
- The Angels and the Furies
- After an Island
- Fulfillment
- The Autumn Sonnets:
- "Under the leaves an infant love lies dead"
- "If I can let you go as trees let go"
- "I wake to gentle mist over the meadow"
- "I never thought that it could be, not once"
- "After a night of rain the brilliant screen"
- "As if the house were dying or already dead"
- "Twice I have set my heart upon a sharing"
- "I ponder it again and know for sure"
- "This was our testing year after the first"
- "We watched the waterfalls, rich and baroque"
- "For steadfast flame wood must be seasoned"
- February Days
- Note to a Photographer
- March in New England
- Composition
- Burial
- Of Grief
- Prisoner at a Desk
- Birthday Present
- Elegy for Louise Bogan
- Letters to a Psychiatrist:
- Christmas Letter, 1970
- The Fear of Angels
- The Action of Therapy
- I Speak of Change
- Easter 1971
- The Contemplation of Wisdom
- A Biography of May Sarton
- Copyright Page
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