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Why Am I Grown So Cold?: Poems of the Unknowable

Myra Cohn Livingston

First published 1982
Publisher Margaret K. McElderry / Atheneum
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Carol Wald
Pages xxi+269
Price $11.95
ISBN 0689502427

First edition. The copyright is assigned for the year 1982 to the editor. This entry is for the initial printing, no number line. "Published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart" on copyright page. Jacket collage by the artist as stated on front flap of dust jacket. The cover artwork extends across the back cover and is signed by the artist. The table of contents appears on pages xiii-xxi. The LCCN appears on the copyright page. Data from Archive.org copy of fourth printing and an ebay copy. Price from an ad in The Horn Book magazine. Other price: $12.95 is printed on front flap of the dust jacket.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction (Why Am I Grown So Cold?: Poems of the Unknowable) Myra Cohn Livingston Essay
6 Deep in a Windless Buson Poem
7 I Am Afraid Eastern Eskimo Poem
8 The Secret James Stephens Poem
9 There Came a Gray Owl at Sunset Southwest Tribes Poem
10 The Bat Theodore Roethke Poem
11 The Warning Adelaide Crapsey Poem
12 Nothing Walter de la Mare Poem
13 In the Night Elizabeth Madox Roberts Poem
15 There Is a Grey Thing that Lives in the Tree-tops Stephen Crane Poem
16 House Fear Robert Frost Poem
17 "Who's in the Next Room?" Thomas Hardy Poem
18 Phantoms of the Steppe Alexander Pushkin Poem
21 Nightmares Siv Cedering Fox Poem
24 Troll Chanting from Out of the "Kalevala" Anselm Hollo Poem
25 C Is for Charms Eleanor Farjeon Poem
27 Merlin & the Snake's Egg Leslie Norris Poem
30 From: The Witch, Act V, Scene I Thomas Middleton Poem
31 The Spell Robert Herrick Poem
32 Charmes Robert Herrick Poem
33 An Imprecation Against Foes and Sorcerers uncredited Poem
34 From: The Third Book of Ayres, XVIII Thomas Campion (1567–1620) Poem
35 The Alchemist: Chant for the Transmutation of Metals Ezra Pound Poem
38 From: Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I William Shakespeare Poem
40 The Omens Ann Stanford Poem
41 Incantation to Oedipus John Dryden Poem
42 From: A Cornish Litany Traditional, English Poem
44 I Called to the Wind Kyorai Poem
44 Into a Forest Otsuji Poem
45 The Voice Walter de la Mare Poem
46 Long Distance William Stafford Poem
47 Winter Song Juan Ramón Jiménez Poem
48 Singing on the Moon Ted Hughes Poem
49 The Lockless Door Robert Frost Poem
50 Sometimes Hermann Hesse Poem
51 From: The Princess Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
52 The Empty House Russell Hoban Poem
54 Night-Piece Raymond R. Patterson Poem
55 The Loreley Heinrich Heine Poem
56 A Sea-Spell (For a Picture) Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poem
58 Haunted House Valerie Worth Poem
59 The Abandoned House Patricia Hubbell Poem
60 Ghost House Robert Frost Poem
62 I Know Some Lonely Houses Off the Road Emily Dickinson Poem
64 Silent Hill Zilpha Keatley Snyder Poem
65 Galente Garden: II Juan Ramón Jiménez Poem
66 The Wicked Hawthorn Tree W. B. Yeats Poem
67 The Haunted Palace Edgar Allan Poe Poem
69 Elfin Town Rachel Field Poem
70 Fairyland Rabindranath Tagore Poem
72 Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem
74 From: His Dream of the Sky-Land: A Farewell Poem Li Po Poem
76 Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps Poem
78 Magical Eraser Shel Silverstein Poem
79 Welsh Incident Robert Graves Poem
81 Barbarossa Friedrich Rückert Poem
83 The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats Poem
86 The Sorceress! Vachel Lindsay Poem
87 The Witches' Sabbath Ben Jonson Poem
89 Korf's Enchantment Christian Morgenstern Poem
91 La Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats Poem
94 The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay Poem
100 Beware: Do Not Read This Poem Ishmael Reed Poem
104 The Toadstool Wood James Reeves Poem
105 The Pointed People Rachel Field Poem
106 The Fairies Patricia Hubbell Poem
107 Fairies Hilda Conkling Poem
108 The Fairies William Allingham Poem
111 The Beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen Robert Herrick Poem
113 The Twelve-Elf Christian Morgenstern Poem
115 From: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II William Shakespeare Poem
116 From: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene IV William Shakespeare Poem
117 From: Prometheus Unbound Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem
118 From: The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
120 The Starlight Night Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem
121 The Elfin Knight Scots ballad, American version Poem
124 Wall Shadows Carl Sandburg Poem
125 The Island of Yorrick N. M. Bodecker Poem
126 Something Is There Lilian Moore Poem
127 The Only Ghost I Ever Saw Emily Dickinson Poem
128 Ghost Christian Morgenstern Poem
129 Sentimental Conversation Paul Verlaine Poem
130 The Horse José María Eguren Poem
131 Songs of the Ghost Dance Paiute Indian Poem
132 In the Old House Joan Aiken Poem
134 The Phantom Horsewoman Thomas Hardy Poem
136 Wraith Edna St. Vincent Millay Poem
138 The Listeners Walter de la Mare Poem
140 Spirits Victor Hernandez Cruz Poem
144 That Duck, Bobbing Up Joso Poem
145 That Woman Down There Beneath the Sea Central Eskimo Poem
146 Sea Monster W. S. Merwin Poem
147 The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
148 Down Below Joan Aiken Poem
149 The Sea Serpent Chantey Vachel Lindsay Poem
151 Song of the Mermaids and Mermen Sir Walter Scott Poem
153 The Fisherman Writes a Letter to the Mermaid Joan Aiken Poem
155 Klabauterwife's Letter Christian Morgenstern Poem
156 The Ghost of the Cargo Boat Pablo Neruda Poem
159 Siren Chorus George Darley Poem
160 The Mermaid Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
163 The Merman Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
165 In a Museum Cabinet May Swenson Poem
167 The Sea-Ritual George Darley Poem
170 From: Suppose You Met a Witch Ian Serraillier Poem
171 Halloween Witches Felice Holman Poem
172 The Ride-by-Nights Walter de la Mare Poem
173 The Witch's Cat Ian Serraillier Poem
174 The Hag Robert Herrick Poem
175 Tiggady Rue David McCord Poem
176 Once Upon a Time Issa Poem
177 Old Moll James Reeves Poem
178 The Turn of the Road James Stephens Poem
179 From The Masque of Queens Ben Jonson Poem
182 St. Swithin's Chair Sir Walter Scott Poem
184 Moon-Witches Ted Hughes Poem
185 Witchcraft Was Hung, in History Emily Dickinson Poem
188 The Devil's Nine Questions Scots ballad, American version Poem
190 The Devil's Bag James Stephens Poem
191 From: King Lear, Act III, Scene IV William Shakespeare Poem
192 Z is for Zoroaster Eleanor Farjeon Poem
194 In the Orchard James Stephens Poem
195 Hickenthrift and Hickenloop X. J. Kennedy Poem
196 The Bean-Stalk Edna St. Vincent Millay Poem
198 Fable Joan Aiken Poem
200 In Black Chasms Leslie Norris Poem
201 From: The Sorcerer W. S. Gilbert Poem
204 The Erl-King Sir Walter Scott Poem
206 From: Scenes from the Faust of Goethe Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem
216 The Six Badgers Robert Graves Poem
217 The Pumpkin Robert Graves Poem
218 The Haunted Oven X. J. Kennedy Poem
219 Afreet David McCord Poem
220 The Mewlips J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
222 The Worst Shel Silverstein Poem
223 Queer Things James Reeves Poem
224 Strange Tree Elizabeth Madox Roberts Poem
225 The Village of Erith Anonymous Poem
226 Overheard on a Saltmarsh Harold Monro Poem
227 The Genie Ann Stanford Poem
229 From: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene I William Shakespeare Poem
230 The Slithergadee Has Crawled Out of the Sea Shel Silverstein Poem
232 What Is the Opposite of a Prince? Richard Wilbur Poem
233 Uncle Mells and the Witches' Tree Elizabeth Madox Roberts Poem
234 The Abominable Baseball Bat X. J. Kennedy Poem
235 My Aunt Ted Hughes Poem
237 Alison Gross unknown Poem
240 The Cap and Bells W. B. Yeats Poem
242 The Bear Ann Stanford Poem
244 Tamlane unknown Poem
251 The Song of Wandering Aengus W. B. Yeats Poem