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When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

Ray Bradbury · 1973collection

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The noted science fiction author displays his talent for poetry in this slim collection.

Source · Open Library

Contents

  1. 1Remembrancepoem
  2. 2Pretend at Being Blind, Which Calls Truth Nearpoem
  3. 3The Boys Across the Street Are Driving My Young Daughter Madpoem
  4. 4Old Ahab's Friend, and Friend to Noah, Speaks His Piecepoem
  5. 5When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomedpoem
  6. 6Darwin, the Curiouspoem
  7. 7Darwin, in the Fieldspoem
  8. 8Darwin, Wandering Home at Dawnpoem
  9. 9Evidencepoem
  10. 10Telling Where the Sweet Gums Arepoem
  11. 11Emily Dickinson, Where Are You? Herman Melville Called Your Name Last Night in His Sleep!poem
  12. 12O Give a Fig for Newton, Praise for Him!poem
  13. 13I Was the Last, the Very Lastpoem
  14. 14Man Is the Animal That Criespoem
  15. 15Npoem
  16. 16Air to Lavoisierpoem
  17. 17Women Know Themselves; All Men Wonderpoem
  18. 18Death in Mexicopoem
  19. 19All Flesh Is One; What Matter Scores?poem
  20. 20The Machines, Beyond Shylockpoem
  21. 21The Beast Upon the Wirepoem
  22. 22Christ, Old Student in a New Schoolpoem
  23. 23This Time of Kitespoem
  24. 24If You Will Wait Just Long Enough, All Goespoem
  25. 25For a Daughter, Travelingpoem
  26. 26Old Mars, Then Be a Hearth to Uspoem
  27. 27The Thing That Goes by Night: The Self That Lazes Sunpoem
  28. 28Groonpoem
  29. 29That Woman on the Lawnpoem
  30. 30A Train Station Sign Viewed from an Ancient Locomotive Passing Through Long After Midnightpoem
  31. 31Please to Remember the Fifth of November: A Birthday Poem for Susan Margueritepoem
  32. 32That Is Our Eden's Spring, Once Promisedpoem
  33. 33The Fathers and Sons Banquetpoem
  34. 34Touch Your Solitude to Minepoem
  35. 35God Is a Child; Put Toys in the Tombpoem
  36. 36Ode to Electric Benpoem
  37. 37Some Live Like Lazaruspoem
  38. 38These Unsparked Flints, These Uncut Gravestone Bridespoem
  39. 39And This Did Dante Dopoem
  40. 40You Can Go Home Againpoem
  41. 41And Dark Our Celebration Waspoem
  42. 42Mrs. Harriet Hadden Atwood, Who Played the Piano for Thomas A. Edison for the World's First Phonograph Record, Is Dead at 105poem
  43. 43What Seems a Balm Is Salt to Ancient Woundspoem
  44. 44Here All Beautifully Collidespoem
  45. 45God for a Chimney Sweeppoem
  46. 46To Prove That Cowards Do Speak Best and True and Wellpoem
  47. 47I, Tom, and My Electric Granpoem
  48. 48Boys Are Always Running Somewherepoem
  49. 49O to Be a Boy in a Belfrypoem
  50. 50If I Were Epitaphpoem
  51. 51If Only We Had Taller Beenpoem