Machine generated contents note: Carl Sandburg Envoi: Home. Isabella Lickbarrow Colin And Lucy -- John Milton The Blissful Bower -- Pam Ayres Yes, I'll Marry You, My Dear -- George Mackay Brown The Finished House -- Ruth Stone The Cabbage -- Simon Armitage `Mother, Any Distance...' -- Eavan Boland A Ballad Of Home -- Home, Sweet Home -- Leonidas Of Alexandria `Cling To Thy Home!' -- John Clare Home Happiness -- Carol Ann Duffy The Windows -- James Russell Lowell From A Winter-Evening Hymn To My Fire -- W. H. Davies The Treasured Three -- Robert Herrick A Thanksgiving To God For His House -- Emily Dickinson `I Learned -- At Least -- What Home Could Be -- ' -- William Wordsworth From Home At Grasmere -- Billy Collins A Sense Of Place -- Philip Larkin Home Is So Sad -- Pauline Prior-Pitt Day 60 -- Anna Mcdonald Prospect Heights Lament -- Wendell Berry Stay Home -- Removals -- Linda Pastan To A Daughter Leaving Home -- Anna Akhmatova Lot's Wife -- Osip Mandelstam Tristia -- Rita Dove Exit -- W. S. Graham How Are The Children Robin -- Douglas Dunn A Removal From Terry Street -- S. T. Coleridge Reflections On Having Left A Place Of Retirement -- Charles Harper Webb Loving A House -- Vsevolod Nekrasov [Untitled] -- W. S. Merwin The Truth Of Departure -- East, West, Home's Best -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow `Stay, Stay At Home, My Heart, And Rest' -- Robert Browning Home-Thoughts, From Abroad -- Billy Collins Consolation -- Joachim Du Bellay From The Regrets -- Ovid From Tristia -- King Al-Mu'Tamid of Sevilla Remembering Silves -- Mahmoud Darwish I Belong There -- Sir John Harington Of The Warres In Ireland -- Ahmed Tidjani-Cisse Home News -- Marina Tsvetaeva Homesickness -- Anne Bronte Home -- Li T'Ai-Po Night Thoughts -- Jules Supervielle Homesick For The Earth -- Homecomings -- Catullus Carmen XXXI -- Judith Wright Two Hundred Miles -- Homer From The Odyssey -- Carol Ann Duffy Who Loves You -- Carol Rumens Coming Home -- Lenrie Peters Homecoming -- Rudyard Kipling The Prodigal Son -- Wislawa Szymborska Homecoming -- Christina Rossetti At Home -- George Macdonald The Shortest And Sweetest Of Songs -- Happy Families -- Roger Mcgough Happiness -- Jacques Prevert Breakfast -- Thomas Campion Fortunati Nimium -- George Meredith From Modern Love -- Wendy Cope Being Boring -- Lisel Mueller Happy And Unhappy Families -- Elizabeth Hands On An Unsociable Family -- Kenn Nesbitt My Family's Fond Of Gadgets -- Naomi Shihab Nye Where Children Live -- Eamon Orennan Father In Front Of A Picture -- Elizabeth Bishop Sestina -- Stevie Smith A House Of Mercy -- About the House -- Charles Tomlinson The Door -- Robert Browning Love In A Life -- John Donne The Sunne Rising -- Amy Lowell Bath -- David Yezzi Living Room -- William Shakespeare Winter's Song -- William Carlos Williams This Is Just To Say -- W. H. Auden The Geography Of The House -- Joy Harjo Perhaps The World Ends Here -- Spick And Span -- Buson `Patching A Tear' -- Michael Longley Household Hints -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld Washing-Day -- Vicki Feaver Ironing -- Fiona Wright From Tupperware Sonnets -- Marilyn Nelson Dusting -- Basho `Year's End' -- George Macbeth A Tidy Poem On Untidiness -- U. A. Fanthorpe What, In Our House? -- A Woman's Place -- Anne Sexton Housewife -- Phoebe Cary From Shakespearian Readings -- Anon. From Ballad Of A Tyrannical Husband -- Emily Dickinson `How Many Times These Low Feet Staggered -' -- Eavan Boland Woman In Kitchen -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- From Aurora Leigh -- Elizabeth Moody Sappho Burns Her Books And Cultivates The Culinary Arts -- Yi Lei From A Single Woman's Bedroom -- Vacant Possession -- Edwin Arlington Robinson The House On The Hill -- Ryokan An Abandoned Hut -- Medbh Mcguckian Little House, Big House -- Elizabeth Jennings Old Woman -- Vidya Panicker Aftermath Of A Departure -- Vittoria Colonna From Letter To Ferrante Francesco D'Avalos -- Sharon Olds Forty-One, Alone, No Gerbil -- Ruth Stone Curtains -- Edward Thomas Wind And Mist -- `I Remember, I Remember ...' -- Thomas Hardy The Self-Unseeing -- John Clare My Early Home -- Jeanne Marie Beaumont When I Am In The Kitchen -- John Eppel Remember Granny Trot's Mulberry Jam? -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson From In Memoriam -- John Updike Shillington -- Philip Larkin I Remember, I Remember -- Ruth Pitter Time's Fool -- Town And Country -- Aemilia Lanyer From The Description Of Cooke-Ham -- Elizabeth Alexander My Grandmother's New York Apartment (I) -- Horace Epodes, II -- Roger Mcgough Posh And Shite -- Maxine Kumin Chores -- Rebecca Watts Economics -- Jon Stallworthy Feet Off The Ground -- The People Next Door -- John Heywood A Quiet Neighbour -- Martial I, 86: My Neighbour, Novius -- Ian Hamilton Neighbours -- Benjamin Zephaniah Neighbours -- David Allan Evans Neighbors -- Hesiod From Works And Days -- John Ashbery Breezeway -- Robert Frost Mending Wall -- Seamus Heaney The Nod -- Entertaining -- Robert Herrick Ceremonies For Christmasse -- Rupert Brooke Dining-Room Tea -- Sir John Betjeman How To Get On In Society -- Ogden Nash Children's Party -- Marge Piercy Getting It Back -- Marianne Moore Silence -- Martial III, 27: Dinner Invitations -- Issa `Plum Blossom Scent' -- Brenda Shaughnessy Visitor -- Deceptively Spacious -- Petronius Arbiter `Small House And Quiet Roof Tree' -- W.B. Yeats The Lake Isle Of Innisfree -- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali Inside My Zulu Hut -- William Cowper From The Task -- Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea -- The House Of Socrates -- Mark Boog Small House -- Nazim Hikmet The Blue-Eyed Giant, The Miniature Woman And The Honeysuckle -- Ryokan `My Hut Lies ...' -- Kathleen Raine `This Little House' -- Safe As Houses -- George Bruce My House -- Robert Louis Stevenson Block City -- Pakalikkottan The Playhouse -- Gillian Clarke Hearthstone -- Anne Bradstreet Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House, July 10Th, 1666 -- Vsevelod Nekrasov [Untitled] -- U. A. Fanthorpe Sirensong -- Bertolt Brecht Place Of Refuge -- Bernard O'Donoghue Safe Houses -- Mary E. Coleridge The Witch -- Umberto Saba The Broken Pane -- Homeless -- Hartley Coleridge `A Lonely Wanderer Upon Earth Am I' -- Padraic Colum An Old Woman Of The Roads -- George Crabbe From The Village -- Imtiaz Dharker Living Space -- Dream House -- Mary Oliver On Losing A House -- A. A. Milne The Wrong House -- Amy Levy The Old House -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal The Past -- Bella Dizhur `Here Is An Island ...' -- Rhian Edwards The Estate Agent's Daughter -- On Houses And Homes: Meditations -- Kapka Kassabova A House We Can Never Find -- John Burnside What We Know Of Houses -- Iman Mersal The Idea Of Houses -- Vinita Agrawal Home -- Les Murray Home Suite -- Derek Walcott Love After Love -- Emily Dickinson `I Dwell In Possibility -- ' -- Philippe Jaccottet Words In The Air -- Rumi The Guest House -- Lal Ded [Untitled] -- John Donne The House Of God -- Carl Sandburg Envoi: Home.
Summary:
"Poets from around the world celebrate the universal appeal of the comforts of home in this unique anthology. Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits’ huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent her day; we join with Robert Herrick as he gives thanks for his ́humble roof . . . weatherproof́; we peep in on Amy Lowell in the bath and John Donne in his bed, and join Joy Harjo at the kitchen table. Home can mean many things: from Horace’s rural farm to Billy Collins’s favorite armchair, from Milton’s ́blissful boweŕ in Paradise to Imtiaz Dharker’s ́Living Spacé in the slums of Mumbai. Mary Oliver imagines her dream house, Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility—́a fairer House than Prose,́ and a wide range of displaced poets long for their home countries: Ovid, Joachim du Bellay, Kapka Kassabova, Mahmoud Darwish, and even Jules Supervielle feeling ́Homesick for the Earth.́ Wherever you happen to dwell or whatever your idea of domestic bliss, you are sure to find visions that resonate in No Place Like Home. "-- Provided by publisher
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