Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology : Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage - Hardcover

Hass, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060169192 ISBN 13: 9780060169190

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

Synopsis

An anthology of poetry and prose suitable for reading at wedding ceremonies features unconventional readings from Chinese, African, native American, Buddhist, Christian, and other cultures. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco, 2008), Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996), Human Wishes (1989), Praise (1979), and Field Guide (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Review:

The Peace: A Wedding Song by Aristophanes
Variation On The Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood
The Dance by Wendell Berry
Bind Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart by Bible
I Have Come Into My Garden by Bible
Psalm 1 by Bible
Psalm 100 by Bible
Psalm 148 by Bible
Wake Up, My Love, My Companion by Bible
The Question Answer'd by William Blake
In The Month Of May by Robert Bly
O, My Luve's Like A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Roman Epithalamion by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Epithalamion by Richard Crashaw
50 Poems: 42 by Edward Estlin Cummings
The Love Of God, Unutterable And Perfect by Dante Alighieri
Choice by Emily Dickinson
The Contract by Emily Dickinson
Friendship by Emily Dickinson
It Was A Quiet Way by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
All Kings, And All Their Favorites by John Donne
An Epithalamion For Lawyers by John Donne
The Good-morrow by John Donne
A Wedding Song On St. Valentine's Day by John Donne
Young Phoenixes, And Yet The Old Shall Love by John Donne
Of Man And Wife by Richard Eedes
Iphigeneia At Aulis, Sels. by Euripides
Song Of The River-god [to Amoret] by John Fletcher
Master Speed by Robert Frost
Everywhere Is Here, Sels. by Robert Ranke Graves
Whole Love by Robert Ranke Graves
Love (3) by George Herbert
Good-morrow by Thomas Heywood
At The Wedding March by Gerard Manley Hopkins
As I Dig For Wild Orchids by Izumi Shikibu
The Minute I Heard My First Love Story by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
This Marriage Be Wine With Haalvah, Honey Dissolving In Milk by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Turn Me Like A Waterwheel Turning A Milestone by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
You That Love Lovers by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
I Unpetalled You, Like A Rose by Juan Ramon Jimenez
To The Bridge Of Love by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Now, Bride And Bridegroom, Help To Sing by Ben Jonson
The Flute Of Interior Time Is Played Whether We Hear It Or Not by Kabir
Married Love by Kuan Tao-sheng
Is It For Now Or For Always by Philip Larkin
Wedding-wind by Philip Larkin
Know Deeply, Know Thyself More Deeply, Sels. by David Herbert Lawrence
Man And Woman Are Like The Earth, That Brings Forth Flowers by David Herbert Lawrence
The Owl And The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear
The Ache Of Marriage by Denise Levertov
Earth by Czeslaw Milosz
Riding Birds, Feeling Under Our Thighs The Soft Feathers by Czeslaw Milosz
The Two Of You by Czeslaw Milosz
Adam And Eve In The Garden by John Milton
Lavender's Blue (2) by Mother Goose
The Sacred Marriage Of Shiva And Parvati, Sels. by Parancoti Munivar
The Knowing by Sharon Olds
The Wedding Vow by Sharon Olds
Into The Enormous Sky Flew by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Wreath For A Bridal by Sylvia Plath
If Everything Happens That Can't Eb Done by Ezra Pound
Sonnet: 12, Sels. by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Sonnet: 17 by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Sonnet: 48, Sels. by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Everything That Touches Us, Me And You by Rainer Maria Rilke
Isn't The Secret Intent by Rainer Maria Rilke
Love In A Single Year by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lovers, Gratified In Each Other, I Am Asking You by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sonnets To Orpheus: First Part, 12 by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sonnets To Orpheus: First Part, 4 by Rainer Maria Rilke
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Song For The Goddess Of Love by Sappho
Prothalamion For An Autumn Wedding by Eleanor May Sarton
The Tao by Seng-ts'an
Infinite Love by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 116 by William Shakespeare
Heart And Soul by Philip Sidney
Long Their Coupled Joys Maintain by Philip Sidney
Long Their Coupled Joys Maintain by Philip Sidney
A Pavane For The Nursery by William Jay Smith
Now Is This Love Already Forth To Come by Edmund Spenser
Open The Temple Gates Unto Their Love by Edmund Spenser
The Sacred Ceremonies There Partake, %the Which Do Endless Matrimony by Edmund Spenser
Re-statement Of Romance by Wallace Stevens
The Song Of A Traveller by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wedding Song: Lullaby For Sleepy Lovers by Theocritus
Ancient Egyptian Song by Anonymous
The Book Of Song, Sels. by Anonymous
Butterfly Song by Anonymous
Calling-one's-own by Anonymous
The Courtship Of Inanna And Dumuzi by Anonymous
I Want To Be Your Friend by Anonymous
I'll Give My Love An Apple Without A Core by Anonymous
Now You Will Feel No Rain by Anonymous
Prayer Of First Dancers by Anonymous
Proposals by Anonymous
Six Dream Songs: 3: Sleep by Anonymous
Song by Anonymous
Song by Anonymous
Song by Anonymous
Wedding Song by Anonymous
Bed Of Perfect Health by Walt Whitman
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd by Walt Whitman
A Wedding Toast by Richard Wilbur
Marriage by William Carlos Williams
The Rewaking by William Carlos Williams
A Blessing by James Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0060169192
• ISBN 13: 9780060169190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 193
• Editor: Mitchell Stephen