TO THE MOON An Anthology of Lunar Poems
Edited by CAROL ANN DUFFY
PICADOR Contents
Introduction xvii
The Moon - Sappho i
Full Moon - Sappho 2
The Morning Glory - from the Shi King or Book of Odes 3
Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River — Yang-ti 4
Full Moon — Tu Fu 5
Moonlit Night — Tu Fu 6
Living in the Summer Mountains - Yu Hsuan-chi 7
Riddle — Anon. 8
Although the Wind — Lady Izumi Shikibu 9
Moon, Flowers, Man - Su Tung-P'o 10
On the Spirit of the Heart as Moon-Disk - Kojiju 11
Night Thoughts - Lu Yu 12
Evening on the Mountain: Song to the Moon in a Well - Yi Kyubo 13
The Neglected Wife - Yi Talch'ung 14
Mad Song - Anon. 1$
IX from Epithalamion — Edmund Spenser 18
from Astrophil and Stella — Sir Philip Sidney ip
Of the Moon - Charles Best 20
Hymn to Diana - Ben Jonson 21
Eternitie — Robert Herrick 22
To Music, to Becalm a Sweet Sick Youth - Robert Herrick 23
Thanks, Gentle Moone, for thy Obscured Light - Anon. 24
The Nightingale - John Milton 2$
from Book IV of Paradise Lost — John Milton 26
To The Moon - Charlotte Smith 27
Moon - Henry Rowe 28
The Rigs o' Barley — Robert Burns 30
Frost at Midnight - S. T. Coleridge 32
A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion — S. T. Coleridge
To the Autumnal Moon - S. T. Coleridge 39
The Young May Moon — Thomas Moore 40
While Gazing on the Moons Light - Thomas Moore 41
We'll Go No More A-Roving — Lord Byron 43 The Moon - Percy Bysshe Shelley 44
from Pleasures of Spring - John Clare 4$
To the Moon - Giacomo Leopardi 47
The Morning Moon - William Barnes 48 the Eclipse of the Moon of October 1865 - Charles Tennyson Turner
The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear 5/
Meeting at Night - Robert Browning 53
The Road - Nikolay Platonovich Ogarev 54
Look Down, Fair Moon — Walt Whitman 55
Dirge for Two Veterans — Walt Whitman $6
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold 58
The Moon — William McGonagall 60
A Match with the Moon - Dante Gabriel Rossetti 62
The Moon was But a Chin of Gold — Emily Dickinson 63
Lady Moon — Christina Rossetti 64
At a Lunar Eclipse - Thomas Hardy 65
To the Moon - Thomas Hardy 66
I Looked Up From My Writing - Thomas Hardy 67
xi Moonrise - Gerard Manley Hopkins 69
Clair de Lune - Paul Verlaine 70
On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank - A. E. Housman 7/
White In the Moon the Long Road Lies - A. E. Housman 73
Clair de Lune — Jules Laforgue 74
The Cat and the Moon — W. B. Yeats 76
At Dieppe - Arthur Symons 78
Mr Flood's Party - Edwin Arlington Robinson 79
Wind and Silver - Amy Lowell 82
Moon-Lover — Robert Service 83
Moon Compasses — Robert Frost 87
Liberty - Edward Thomas 88
Overheard On A Saltmarsh - Harold Monro 90
It was the Lovely Moon - John Freeman 92
Autumn - T. E. Hulme 93
Morning Song - Sara Teasdale 94
Moon's Ending - Sara Teasdale 95
Phases of the Moon — Elinor Wylie 96
xii Week-Night Service — D. H. Lawrence 97
Red Moon-Rise — D. H. Lawrence 99
Moonrise — D. H. Lawrence 101
A Poplar and the Moon - Siegfried Sassoon 103
Sleeping Out: Full Moon — Rupert Brooke 104
Clouds - Rupert Brooke 106
Hooded Night — Robinson Jeffers 107
The New Moon - Zora Cross 108
If Still Your Orchards Bear - Edna St Vincent Millay 109
Full Moon — Vita Sackville-West 111
Ars Poetica - Archibald MacLeish 112
Voyage to the Moon — Archibald MacLeish 114
who knows if the moon's . . . - E. E. Cummings 116
Full Moon - Robert Graves 117
The Cruel Moon - Robert Graves 119
An Old Woman Speaks of the Moon - Ruth Pitter 120
The Moon Sails Out - Federico Garcia Lorca 121
Chaplinesque - Hart Crane 122
xiii Meditation - Hart Crane 124
Nightwalker — Padraic Fallon 125
Make This Night. . . — W. H. Auden 126
Moon Landing - W. H. Auden nj
Insomnia - Elizabeth Bishop 129
A Nameless Woman - No Ch'onmyong 130
The Moon In Lleyn - R. S. Thomas 131
Landing on the Moon — May Swenson 133
Clown In The Moon - Dylan Thomas J35
In My Craft or Sullen Art - Dylan Thomas 136
The Moon and the Night and the Men - John Berryman
Translunar Space March - Edwin Morgan 139
Sad Steps - Philip Larkin 141
Moon Object - Dannie Abse 142
The Well - Denise Levertov 144
In Praise of Creation - Elizabeth Jennings 145
You Can Have It - Philip Levine 146
Full Moon and Little Frieda - Ted Hughes 149
xiv The Harvest Moon — Ted Hughes 150
August Full Moon - Ruth Fainlight 151
The Moon and the Yew Tree - Sylvia Plath 152
The Worshipful Company of Moonwatchers — Jenny Joseph
Moon - Mark Strand 157
Piano - Harry Fainlight 158
Eclipse of the Moon — Gillian Clarke 159
On the Moon - David Hart 160
Speech Balloon - Imtiaz Dharker 161
The Woman in the Moon — Carol Ann Duffy 164
Moon Hymn - Alice Oswald 16$
Prayer - Alice Oswald 167
Index of Poets 169
Index of Titles 171
Index of First Lines 173
Contributors' Biographies 176
Acknowledgements 187
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