123 Anglo-saxon Poems Brought To Life By An All-star Cast Of Contemporary Poets In An Authoritative Bilingual Edition. Poems Of Exile And Longing: The Seafarer / Mary Jo Salter -- The Wife's Lament -- Eavan Boland -- Deor / Seamus Heaney -- Wulf And Eadwacer / Paul Muldoon -- The Husband's Message / Michael Schmidt -- The Wanderer / Greg Delanty. Third Riddle-hoard: A Part Of Earth Is Made Fairer / Gail Holst-warhaft -- I Watched A Wonder, A Bright Marauder / Molly Peacock -- I Dance Like Flames / David Constantine -- Wondrous Is This World, Incomparable / David Wojahn -- A Sea Monster Came Sailing / James Mcgonigal -- At Rest, Laborers Lean On Me / Gary Soto -- Dank Earth, Dealing Dumbfounding Chill / Robert B. Shaw -- It Was A Creature Traveling With Pendulum Motion / Jacqueline Jones Lamon. Poems About Dying: Bede's Dying Words / Anthony Cronin -- The Fortunes Of Men / Kelly Cherry -- The Damned Soul Addresses The Body / Maurice Riordan -- The Ruin / Yusef Komunyakaa. Fourth Riddle-hoard: It Is Written In Scriptures / Saskia Hamilton -- Forever Is The Creator / David Wojahn -- But When Renewal Comes / David Constantine -- I Saw, At Foreplaying, Two Wondrous Ones / Marcia Karp -- A Noble Guest Of Brave Lineage / David Cavanagh -- A King Who Keeps To Himself Dwells / Elizabeth Spires -- A Curious Thing Dangles By Man's Thigh / Peter Constantine -- I Saw In A Corner Something Swelling / Richard Wilbur -- A Moth Ate Words / Jane Hirshfield -- I Heard Of A Circle That Spoke Before Men / Lia Hills. Biblical Stories And Lives Of Saints: From Genesis A: The Fall Of The Rebel Angels And The First Day / Harvey Shapiro -- From Genesis A: Offering Of Isaac / David Ferry -- From Exodus: The Israelites Cross The Red Sea / David Curzon -- From Judith: Beheading Holofernes / Peter Constantine -- A Vision Of The Cross / Ciaran Carson -- The Descent Into Hell / John F. Deane -- From Andreas / Eamon Grennan. Fifth Riddle-hoard: Fighter Across The Earth / Peter Campion -- I Saw Four Beings / Jane Hirshfield -- I Saw The Captives Carried In / Macdara Woods -- I Saw A Tree Tinseled With Light / James Harpur -- A Boy Came Walking To Where He Knew -- Marcia Karp -- I Was In There Where I Saw A Turning / Phillis Levin -- The Wind Sends Small Creatures / Gary Soto -- I Stood Once By Sand, Near The Sea-surge / Jane Hirshfield -- She Has Me Under Lock And Key / Neil Rollinson -- I Am The Hard, Headstrong Push And Pull / Gail Holst-warhaft. First Riddle-hoard: Who Is So Smart, So Crafty-spirited / Peter Campion -- Busy From Time To Time, In Rings / Phillis Levin -- I Am A Monad Gashed By Iron / David Curzon -- All That Adorns Me Keeps Me / Lawrence Raab -- I Can Chortle Away In Any Voice / Patricia Mccarthy -- Days Before Birth I Was Left Here For Dead / James Mcgonigal -- My Jacket Is Polished Gray / Billy Collins -- I Crush And Compress, Ruin And Ravage The Raw / Elizabeth Powell -- I Saw Ten Of Them Ramble Across The Land / Enda Wyley -- Armed And Deadly Those Were My Early Days / James Mcgonigal. Poems About Historical Battles, People And Places: The Battle Of Maldon / David R. Slavitt -- The Battle At Brunanburh / Robert Hass -- The Death Of Alfred / Robert Hass -- The Death Of Edgar / Paul Mcloughlin -- Durham / Derek Mahon -- The Battle Of Finnsburh: A Fragment / X. J. Kennedy -- Waldere: Two Fragments / Matthew Hollis -- Widsith / Bernard O'donoghue. Second Riddle-hoard: My Throat's A Torch, The Rest Of Me Rust / David Barber -- All My Life's A Struggle With Water And Wind / Lawrence Raab -- Some Wonder Am I / Dennis O'driscoll -- My Tooth Is Long, My Work Even Longer / Gary Soto -- Five Dozen Reached The Brink / Paul Farley -- Wob Is My Name Approximately / James Mcgonigal -- I'm A Creature To Conjure With / David Barber -- Call Me Fabulous / Gerry Murphy -- Some Enemy Took My Life / Jane Hirshfield -- From Groves And Green Hills Girdling The City / Robert B. Shaw. Poems About Living: Maxims I-a / David Curzon -- Maxims I-b / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Maxims I-c / Mark Halliday -- Vainglory / Alan Jenkins -- The Riming Poem / A. E. Stallings -- The Rune Poem / James Harpur -- Maxims Ii / Rachel Hadas -- The Gifts Of Men / Major Jackson -- Precepts / Jay Parini -- A Song Of The Cosmos / Daniel Tobin -- Two Passages From The Second Dialogue Of Solomon And Saturn / Fiona Sampson. Prayers, Admonitions, And Allegories: Caedmon's Hymn / Harvey Shapiro -- The Kentish Hymn / Derek Mahon -- King Alfred's Epilogue To The Pastoral Care Of Gregory The Great / Maurice Riordan -- From The Phoenix / Robert Anthony Welch -- The Panther / Brad Leithauser -- Whale / Robert Pinsky. Sixth Riddle-hoard: Alive I Was -- I Didn't Speak A Bit / Phillis Levin -- Up Beyond The Universe And Back / Edwin Morgan -- I Saw That Creature Wander On The Way / Jennifer Grotz -- For The Hearing Ear She Shapes Her Sound / Gail Holst-warhaft -- High On This Headland Day And Night I Stand / Robert B. Shaw -- I Was Little (little Did I Know) / David Barber -- I Was A Girl, A Gray Queen / Molly Peacock -- I Saw Her -- Quick -- She Slipped Behind / Molly Peacock -- Sea Fed, Shore Sheltered / Gail Holst-warhaft -- I Am A Prince's Property And Joy / Macdara Woods. Remedies And Charms: Field Remedy / Nick Laird -- The Nine Herbs Charm / Tom Sleigh -- Against A Dwarf / Thomas Mccarthy -- Charm For Bearing A Full-term Baby / Carol Muske-dukes -- Against Water-elf Disease / Michael Collier -- Charm For A Swarm Of Bees / David Barber -- Charm For Stolen Cattle / Jennifer Grotz -- For Loss Of Cattle / Kathryn Maris -- Charm For A Journey / Peter Sirr -- Against A Wen / Maurice Riordan. Final Riddle-hoard: I Stand At The Noble's Shoulder / Jon Stallworthy -- Look At My Puffed-up Breast / Patricia Mccarthy -- Old Was My Race, Steady And Gaining / Jacqueline Jones Lamon -- On Earth There's A Creature Sprung From A Wonder / David Constantine -- My Home Harps On As I Hold My Tongue / David Barber -- Many Men Were Sitting / Marcia Kemp -- When I Was A Tree In The Wood The Creatures / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -- I Am Noble, Known To Earls / Jane Hirshfield. Edited By Greg Delanty, Michael Matto, [foreword By Seamus Heaney]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. In Old English With English Translations.

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