When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Publishing Information:
First cloth edition published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1973.
ISBN No. 0394479319.
Contents:
When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed contains the following poems:
- Remembrance
- Pretend at Being Blind, Which Calls Truth Near
- The Boys Across the Street Are Driving My Young Daughter Mad
- Old Ahab's Friend, and Friend to Noah, Speaks His Peace
- Darwin, the Curious
- Darwin, in the Fields
- Darwin, Wandering Home at Dawn
- Evidence
- Telling Where the Sweet Gums Are
- Emily Dickinson, Where Are You? Herman Melvill Called Your Name Last Night in His Sleep!
- O Give a Fig for Newton, Praise for Him!
- I Was the Last, the Very Last
- Man Is the Animal That Cries
- N
- Air to Lavoisier
- Women Know Themselves; All Men Wonder
- Death in Mexico
- All Flesh Is One; What Matter Scores?
- The Machines, Beyond Shylock
- That Beast upon the Wire
- Christ, Old Student in a New School
- This Time of Kites
- If You Will Wait Just Long Enough, All Goes
- For a Daughter, Traveling
- Old Mars, Then Be a Hearth to Us
- The Thing That Goes By Night: The Self That Lazes Sun
- Groon
- That Woman on the Lawn
- A Train Station Sign Viewed from an Ancient Locomotive Passing Through Long after Minight
- Please to Remember the Fifth of November: A Birthday Poem for Susan Marguerite
- That Is Our Eden's Spring, Once Promised
- The Fathers and Sons Banquet
- Touch your Solitude to Mine
- God Is a Child; Put Toys in the Tomb
- Ode to Electric Ben
- Some Live like Lazarus
- These Unsparked Flints, These Uncut Gravestone Brides
- And This Did Dante Do
- You Can Go Home Again
- And Dark Our Celebration Was
- Mrs. Harriet Hadden Atwood, Who Played the Piano for Thomas A. Edison for the World's First Phonograph Record, Is Dead at 105
- What Seems a Balm Is Salt to Ancient Wounds
- Here All Beautifully Collides
- God for a Chimney Sweep
- To Prove That Cowards Do Speak Best and True and Well
- I, Tom, and My Electric Gran
- Boys Are Always Running Somewhere: A Poem
- O to Be a Boy in a Belfry
- If I Were Epitaph
- If Only We Had Taller Been
Comments:
When Elephants Last in Dooryards Bloomed is Bradbury's first collection of poetry. There is a wide range of feeling, subject, and style to these poems. Bradbury writes of the lost worlds of childhood, reveling in the far corners of the universe, tracing in vivid detail the landscapes and figures of his unbounded imagination, making the familiar miraculous and the mysterious marvelously knowable. This collection shows Bradbury at the height of his creative powers.
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