New And Collected Poems 1931-2001

Contents Cover Title Page Publisher's Note Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz A Poem on Frozen Time (Poemat o czasie zastygłym, 1933) Artificer Three Winters (Trzy zimy, 1936) The Song The Gates of the Arsenal Hymn Dawns Slow River Statue of a Couple Rescue (Ocalenie, 1945) Ballad of Levallois Encounter A Book in the Ruins Day of Generation Campo dei Fiori The World The Road The Gate The Porch The Dining Room The Stairs Pictures Father in the Library Father's Incantations From the Window Father Explains A Parable of the Poppy By the Peonies Faith Hope Love The Excursion to the Forest The Bird Kingdom Fear Recovery The Sun Voices of Poor People A Treatise on Poetry (Traktat poetycki, 1957) Preface I. Beautiful Times II. The Capital III. The Spirit of History IV. Natura Ode King Popiel and Other Poems (Król Popiel i inne wiersze, 1962) King Popiel Magpiety Lessons No More Ode to a Bird Happiness What Once Was Great Should, Should Not What Does It Mean Heraclitus Greek Portrait The Master A Frivolous Conversation In Milan From the Chronicles of the Town of Pornic Bluebeard's Castle The Owners Vandeans Our Lady of Recovery Album of Dreams Far West Throughout Our Lands Those Corridors Three Talks on Civilization Sentences I Sleep a Lot Dithyramb Bobo's Metamorphosis (Gucio zaczarowany, 1965) It Was Winter Bobo's Metamorphosis Rivers Grow Small They Will Place There Telescreens On the Other Side And the City Stood in Its Brightness City Without a Name (Miasto bez imienia, 1969) The Year City Without a Name When the Moon Veni Creator Window With Trumpets and Zithers How It Was On the Road Whiteness Thesis and Counter-Thesis Counsels Incantation Ars Poetica? Higher Arguments in Favor of Discipline Derived from the Speech Before the Council of the Universal State in 2068 Island My Faithful Mother Tongue Uncollected Poems (1954–1969) Esse A Mistake How Ugly To Robinson Jeffers To Raja Rao From the Rising of the Sun (Gdzie wschodzi słońce i kędy zapada, 1974) A Task An Hour A Story Readings Oeconomia Divina Tidings L'Accélération de l'Histoire Elegy for N. N. An Appeal Calling to Order Not This Way So Little On Angels Seasons Gift From the Rising of the Sun I. The Unveiling II. Diary of a Naturalist III. Lauda IV. Over Cities Hymn of the Pearl (Hymn o perle, 1981) A Magic Mountain The View Caesarea Study of Loneliness A Felicitous Life The Fall Temptation Secretaries V. A Short Recess VI. The Accuser VII. Bells in Winter New Poems (1985–1987) A Portrait with a Cat Mary Magdalen and I A Skull In a Jar All Hallows' Eve This Only Proof Amazement Idea Filina Reading the Japanese Poet Issa (1762–1826) Notes Before Majesty A Poetic State Distance When After a Long Life On Pilgrimage Early Morning A Portal The Separate Notebooks A Mirrored Gallery Pages Concerning the Years of Independence The Wormwood Star Bypassing Rue Descartes Account Rivers Unattainable Earth (Nieobjęta ziemia, 1986) The Garden of Earthly Delights 1. Summer 2. A Ball 3. Paradise 4. Earth 5. Earth Again After Paradise The Hooks of a Corset Annalena Yellow Bicycle Into the Tree One More Day Winter A Boy In Salem 1913 At Dawn At Noon Return to Kraków in 1880 The City Preparation "With not-quite truth . . ." Consciousness On Prayer Father Ch., Many Years Later Initiation Elegy for Y. Z. Anka Theodicy Table I Table II My-ness Thankfulness Poet at Seventy "To find my home . . ." A Confession For Jan Lebenstein With Her Old Women How It Should Be in Heaven Caffé Greco And Yet the Books On Parting with My Wife, Janina Powers La Belle Époque The Trans-Siberian Railway Beyond the Urals First Performance The Northern Route Revolutionaries A Parisian Scene The Titanic Fear-Dream (1918) In a Buggy at Dusk 1945 Six Lectures in Verse Provinces (Dalsze okolice, 1991) Blacksmith Shop Adam and Eve Evening Reading the Notebook of Anna Kamienska Youth In Common A Photograph Lastingness Either-Or Two Poems Conversation with Jeanne A Poem for the End of the Century Spider Far Away Inheritor Gathering Apricots Meditation On a Beach Return *** Good Night December 1 Dante Meaning Kazia A Philosopher's Home Facing the River (Na brzegu rzeki, 1995) At a Certain Age A Lecture Why Capri Report Lithuania, After Fifty-two Years A Goddess The Manor A Certain Neighborhood A Naiad Who? City of My Youth A Meadow Translating Anna Swir on an Island of the Caribbean To My Daimonion The Wall of a Museum Biography of an Artist The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hell Realism One More Contradiction Woe! Pierson College Sarajevo To Allen Ginsberg A Human Fly House in Krasnogruda A Polka-dot Dress Plato's Dialogues Undressing Justine Retired Wanda To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only You Whose Name This World Happenings Elsewhere A Hall After Enduring Body In Szetejnie Road-side Dog (Piesek przydrozny, 1998) Road-side Dog Pelicans A Ball Watering Can From My Dentist's Window Autumn Helene Helene's Religion Yokimura America Christopher Robin Rivers This (To, 2000) I This To a Hazel Tree I Do Not Understand My Grandfather Sigismund Kunat Lake After Traveling The Head Forget In a City II An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at an Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis For My Eighty-eighth Birthday A Run By a Stream O! O! (Gustav Klimt) O! (Salvator Rosa) O! (Edward Hopper) Wherever Voyeur So-called Life Prescription In Black Despair Example Awakened Submerged Vipera Berus Texas Craftsman You, Vanquished Specimens The Year 1900 Obviously My Secrets If III Zone of Silence Selecting Iwaszkiewicz's Poems for an Evening of His Poetry at the National Theater in Warsaw Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II What I Learned from Jeanne Hersch Opposed to Each Other Zdziechowski Against the Poetry of Philip Larkin On the Death of a Poet On the Inequality of Men Aleksander Wat's Tie To Robert Lowell Pastels by Degas On Poetry, Upon the Occasion of Many Telephone Calls After Zbigniew Herbert's Death Unde Malum Rozewicz IV Gardener One and Many An Alcoholic Enters the Gates of Heaven The Rite Persons In a Parish Prayer After Rays of Dazzling Light Late Ripeness Notes Index of Poems and Translators About the Authors Selected Works in English by Czeslaw Milosz Copyright About the Publisher