She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems (21 page)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly” © 1931, 1958 and “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” © 1923, 1951 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. “The Philosopher” © 1922, 1950 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Grown Up” © 1922, 1950 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor, The Millay Society.

Marianne Moore, “Roses Only,” and “We All Know It” from
The Poems of Marianne Moore
, edited by Grace Schulman. Copyright © 2003 by Marianne Craig Moore, Executor of the Estate of Marianne Moore. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Faber & Faber Ltd.

Pablo Neruda, from
100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos De Amor
by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Tapscott. Copyright © Pablo Neruda 1959 and Fundación Pablo Neruda, Copyright © 1986 by the University of Texas Press. By permission of the University of Texas Press.

Ogden Nash, “A Word to Husbands” from
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash
. Copyright © 1962 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd. and Carlton Publishing Group.

Naomi Shihab Nye, “My Friend's Divorce.” By permission of Naomi Shihab Nye, 2010.

Frank O'Hara, “Having a Coke with You” from
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
by Frank O'Hara, edited by Donald Allen. Copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O'Hara, copyright renewed 1999 by Maureen O'Hara Granville-Smith and Donald Allen. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Sharon Olds, “Socks” and “High School Senior” from
Wellspring
by Sharon Olds. Copyright © 1996 by Sharon Olds. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Jonathan Cape, The Random House Group Ltd.

Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day” from
House of Light
. Copyright © 1990 Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

Mary Oliver, “The Journey” from
Dream Work
. Copyright © 1986 by Mary Oliver. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. and the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, Inc.

Tillie Olsen, “I Want You Women Up North to Know.” Copyright © 1934 Tillie Olsen, originally published in
Partisan Magazine
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Dorothy Parker, “Symptom Recital.” Copyright 1926, renewed © 1954 by Dorothy Parker, “Unfortunate Coincidence.” Copyright 1926, renewed © 1954 by Dorothy Parker, from
The Portable Dorothy Parker
, edited by Marion Meade. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.

Linda Pastan, “Notes from the Delivery Room” from
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998.
Copyright © 1971 by Linda Pastan. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company. Electronic rights granted by permission of the author, in care of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.

Marge Piercy, “Sign, “To be of use,” and “What's That Smell in the Kitchen?” from
Circles on the Water
. Copyright © 1982 by Marge Piercy. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and the Wallace Literary Agency.

Sylvia Plath, “Face Lift” from
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
, edited by Ted Hughes. Copyright © 1960, 65, 71, 81 by the Estate of Sylvia Plath. Editorial material copyright © 1981 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Faber & Faber Ltd.

Barbara Ras, “Secret Lives” and “You Can't Have It All” from
One Hidden Stuff
. Copyright © 2006 by Barbara Ras. Used by permission of Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and the author.

Adrienne Rich, “From a Survivor” from
The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950-2001
by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 1973 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Rainer Maria Rilke, “Sense of Something Coming” from
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, A Translation from the German and Commentary
by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1981 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Michèle Roberts, “Magnificat,” from
The Mirror of the Mother: Selected Poems 1975-1985.
© Michèle Roberts. Reprinted with permission from Aitken Alexander Associates Limited.

Theodore Roethke, “The Waking.” Copyright 1945 by Theodore Roethke, from
Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. and Faber & Faber Ltd.

Matthew Rohrer, “The Emperor.” Copyright © 2010 by Matthew Rohrer. Used with permission of the author.

Alane Rollings, “The Age of Great Vocations” from
In Her Own Sweet Time.
© 1989 by Alane Rollings. Reprinted with permission of Wesleyan University Press.

Rumi, “Come to the Orchard in Spring” and “Out beyond ideas . . .” from
A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings By Coleman Barks
. Copyright © 2006 by Coleman Barks. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

George Santayana, “To WP,” 1984 from
The Collected Poems
, forthcoming, The MIT Press.

Sappho, “To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos” from
Sappho and Alcaeus: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Lesbian Poetry
by Denys Page (1969). Reprinted with the permission of Oxford University Press.

Maxine Scates, “Mother's Closet” by Maxine Scates from
Black Loam
© 2005, Cherry Grove Collections, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Delmore Schwartz, “The First Morning of the Second World” from
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
. Copyright © 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Vikram Seth, “Protocols” from
All You Who Sleep Tonight
. Copyright © 1987, 1990 by Vikram Seth. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Irene Skolnick Literary Agency.

Anne Sexton, “Courage” from
The Awful Rowing Toward God
. Copyright © 1975 by Loring Conant, Jr., Executor of the Estate of Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Gertrude Stein, “A Very Valentine,” Reprinted with the permission of Stanford G. Gann, Jr., Literary Executor of the Gertrude Stein Estate.

Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour” and “The Poems of Our Climate” from
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Faber & Faber Ltd.

Ruth Stone, “In an Iridescent Time.” Reprinted by permission of Ruth Stone.

Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole” from
Reasons For Moving; Darker; The Sargentville Notebook
by Mark Strand. Copyright © 1973 by Mark Strand. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Joyce Sutphen, “Older, Younger, Both.” Copyright © 2000 Joyce Sutphen. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Anna Swir, “The Greatest Love,” translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan, from
Talking to My Body.
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Wislawa Szymborska, “Vietnam” from
Poems, New and Collected: 1957-1997
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Arthur Symons, “White Heliotrope,” reprinted with the permission of The Literary Estate of Arthur Symons.

Natasha Trethewey, “Letters from Storyville: December 1910” from
Bellocq's Ophelia
. Copyright © 2002 by Natasha Trethewey. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press. Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.

Margaret Walker, “Lineage” from
This is My Century: New and Collected Poems
by Margaret Walker. Copyright © 1989 by Margaret Walker. Reprinted by permission from The University of Georgia Press.

Ellen Watson, “Girlfriends.” Used by permission of the author.

Richard Wilbur, “June Light” from
The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems
. Copyright 1947 and renewed 1975 by Richard Wilbur, reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Faber & Faber Ltd. This material may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher.

Richard Wilbur, “The Catch” from
New and Collected Poems
. Copyright ©1987 by Richard Wilbur, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Faber & Faber Ltd. This material may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher.

William Carlos Williams, “The Widow's Lament in Springtime” from
Collected Poems Volume I: 1909-1939
(Carcanet Press, 1987). Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited
.

Adam Zagajewski, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” from
Without End: New and Selected Poems
by Adam Zagajewski, translated by several translators. Copyright © 2002 by Adam Zagajewski. Translation copyright © 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted with the permission of Farrar Straus & Giroux, LLC. and Faber & Faber Ltd.

About the Author

CAROLINE KENNEDY
is the author and editor of seven bestselling books on constitutional law, American history, politics, and poetry.

The credits section of this ebook constitutes a continuation of this copyright page.

Electronic rights were not secured for the following poems that appear in the print edition of
She Walks in Beauty
: Julia Alvarez, “Woman's Work,” “Hairwashing,” and “Woman Friend”; Sandra Cisneros, “Little Clown, My Heart”; Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart of a Woman”; Sappho, “We know this much”

Copyright © 2011 Caroline Kennedy

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She walks in beauty : a woman's journey through poems / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy. — 1st ed.

    p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4013-4145-9

    1. Poetry—Collections. I. Kennedy, Caroline

    PN6101.S475 2011

    808.81—dc22

        2011002177

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