Christ’s Cross-Examination
p. 84
Christ’s Foreskin
p. 78
Christ in Hell
p. 88
Courage
p. 85
Cracks open the leaden corncrake sky with crass, angelic
p. 374
Crippled, the antarctic fire with chiselled skill
p. 405
Curtal Sonnet
p. 386
David’s Duel
p. 71
Dead Leaves
p. 365
Dear Chris, The Trouble Is, As You Must Know’ (To Mr
Chris Mahon)
p. 346
Desert Song For Moses
p. 415
Doubting Thomas
p. 88
Do ye the savage old law deny p. 400
Dragged from his doings p. 384
Dreaming when dawn’s left hand p. 408
Eden
p. 395
Eight and twenty years
p. 432
Epigraph On A Printer
p. 377
Epiphany
p. 77
‘Epithalamion’
p. 370
Exodus
p. 68
Father of fire who, with bold simony
p. 404
First Communion
p. 83
Fish And Heroes
p. 368
Fish grey, fish brown
p. 450
Foreword 1974 (from Moses)
p. 97
Foreword 1976 (from Moses)
p. 100
Forgive my writing verse: I get so bored’ (To Mr S. G. Byam JR)
p. 346
Forgive the lateness, please, of this reply (to Mr Alan Fox)
p. 344
From ‘The Circular Pavane’
p. 388
Gasping in the dunny in the dead of dark
p. 383
Girl
p. 359
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves(1)
p. 70
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves(2)
p. 71
Golden Calf Song
p. 419
Guessing Game
p. 73
Guilt in the Ghetto
p. 87
Happy Birthday Tae Andrew
p. 347
He bought me from a Saracen
p. 429
Here on the final pyre
p. 440
Heroes are dead to us
p. 354
His bowels are of gold, his veins of silver
p. 438
His Own Image and Likeness
p. 54
How come that such a scholar
p. 444
How dare I dare to dream
p. 437
Holy King David
p. 72
Holy Starvation
p. 58
I am sick of a kingdom which is a jewelled prison
p. 439
I choose no tail or toy!
p. 302
I had not thought to hear
p. 400
I love hate p. 430
I send these lines to you in Agincourt p. 342
I sought scent, and found it in your hair
p. 388
I wouldn’t frirk Uranus
p. 440
I wrote on the beach, with a stick of salty wood
p. 403
I’m weary of working with words that you write
p. 436
Ich nem’ ein’ Zigarett’
p. 444
I’ll crash the moon
p. 446
Ill-Starred
p. 85
Imagination is your true Apollo
p. 406
In Memoriam Wystan Hugh Auden KMT
p. 398
In this spinning room, reduced to a common noun
p. 379
Independence Day
p. 390
J.B.W.
p. 404
Jack’s Story
p. 367
January 1
p. 351
Joseph the Jew (1)
p. 65
Joseph the Jew (2)
p. 65
Jubilee Anthem. For Malayan Boys’ Voices
p. 420
Land where the birds have no song, the flowers
p. 374
Late as I am, but blame the mails, not me (to Mr Selwyn
C. Gamble)
p. 343
Lex for law and order
p. 439
Limbo
p. 87
Limerick: The Angler Of Kinsale
p. 399
Local Industry
p. 92
Lot at Home
p. 66
Lot in Repose
p. 67
Lot’s Wife
p. 67
Marriage Round
p. 418
Man
p. 53
Martha and Mary
p. 83
Miriam’s Song of Triumph
p. 416
Money isn’t everything
p. 446
Moses – A Restive People
p. 205
Moses – Abominations Before The Lord
p. 279
Moses – Balaam
p. 258
Moses – Death And The Law
p. 228
Moses – Jordan
p. 293
Moses – Miracles Of The Desert
p. 185
Moses – Return Into Egypt
p. 137
Moses – The Bondage
p. 101
Moses – The Death Of Dathan
p. 250
Moses – The Exodus
p. 173
Moses – The Golden Calf
p. 216
Moses – The Mountain
p. 195
Moses – The Passover
p. 168
Moses – The Plagues
p. 150
Moses – The Young Moses
p. 113
Moses – Unrest
p. 238
Moses – Zimri
p. 268
Moses – The Burning Bush
p. 125
Moses’s Song
p. 418
My adorable Fred
p. 443
My dead tree. Give me back my dead dead tree
p. 443
My father, his wife
p. 355
My love lay across the waters p. 450
Nathan’s Song
p. 449
Noah’s Ark
p. 61
None but the coward
p. 428
Nostalgia In Head Plunging
p. 407
Not, of course, that either of us thought
p. 378
Nymphs and satyrs, come away
p. 369
O Lord, O Ford, God Help Us, Also You
p. 331
Oh, love, love, love
p. 442
Original Sin
p. 80
Orpheus And Eurydice
p. 360
Our Norman betters
p. 407
Out of the station puffs the train
p. 405
Passover Hymn
p. 454
Pastorale
p. 414
‘Perhaps I am not wanted then
p. 380
Pigs snort from the yard
Prayer
p. 414
Princess’s Lullaby/Queen’s Lullaby
p. 413
Privy Matters
p. 95
‘Prudence! Prudence!’ The Pigeons Call
p. 368
Rice-paper land, O lotus-footed
p. 376
Say nothing, Priest, father, mother
p. 302
September, 1938
p.
392
Sevilla, Seviya, Sevija – or Seville
p. 429
Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, rounded by river
p. 387
Sick of the sycophantic singing, sick
p. 321
Signs (Dogs Of Peace)
p. 307
Sixth-form Triolets
p. 366
Slavery slavery
p. 427
So the world ticks, aye, like to a ticking clock
p. 396
So will the flow of time and fire
p. 348
Soldier’s Song
p. 413
Some consider love is great
p. 344
Sonnett À L’Hôtel Le Clos Voltaire
p. 352
Sonnet In Alexandrines
p. 356
‘Spaniards’
p. 92
Spread the Word
p. 89
Spring In Camp, 1941
p. 393
Summer, 1940
p. 393
Talk is easy. Easiest for one who
p. 301
Thank you. Enough, brother Teryth
p. 301
That The Earth Rose Out Of A Vast Basin Of Electric Sea
p. 355
The Age of Man
p. 62
The afternoon hour has struck for you to
p. 375
The Annunciation
p. 75
The Battle of Gideon
p. 69
The Bet
p. 94
The Circumcision
p. 77
The Creation of the World
p. 51
The Dragon’s mouth will consummate our search
p. 372
The Earthly Paradise of the Beasts
p. 51
The Eighth of December
p. 75
The Fair Judith
p. 73
The Father of the Saints
p. 91
The First Clothes
p. 56
The First Mouthful
p. 55
The Flight of the Holy Family
p. 79
The Foxes
p. 69
The Good Samaritan
p. 452
The House of God
p. 82
The Judgment of Solomon
p. 72
The Last Day (To The Editors, Yale News) p. 343
The kind of laugh that Wodehouse imparts is
p. 401
The Last Days
p. 90
The Last Judgment
p. 91
The Lowdown On Art Or Æsthetics For The Science Student
p. 362
The Madonna’s Marriage
p. 76
The moon awaits your sleeping: fear to be kissed
p. 382
The Music Of The Spheres
p. 377
Then as the moon engilds the Thalian fields
p. 396
The New Wine
p. 61
The orchidaceous catalogue begins
p. 95
The Pet Beast
p. 303
The Princely Progress
p. 317
The Prodigal Son
p. 450
The sea, green and deep
The Second Sin
p. 60
The Slaughter of the Innocents
p. 79
The State of Innocence (1)
p. 57
The State of Innocence (2)
p. 58
The stoat’s cry tears long slivers of the night
p. 382
The Sword
p. 327
The Tower
p. 63
The Three Dimensions
p. 423
The Two Breeds
p. 86
The urgent temper of the laws
p. 388
The Universal Deluge
p. 60
The verses of E. Lucie-Smith
p. 353
The Visit
p. 76
The Wedding at Cana (1)
p. 80
The Wedding at Cana (2)
p. 81
The Wedding at Cana (3)
p. 81
The Wiggle Poof
p. 402
The work ends when the work ends
p. 397
The young things who frequent movie palaces
p. 401
They fear and hate
p. 391
They lit the sun, and then their day began
p. 322
This lovely queen, if I should win her
p. 444
Thus kneeling at the altar rail
p. 400
Thy mouth, a fig, thy teeth
p. 449
To Amaryllis After The Dance
p. 359
To be a king, to be a king
p. 433
To Chas
p. 345
To Tirzah
p. 371
To Vladimir Nabokov On His 70th Birthday
p. 325
Tomorrow will be love for the loveless, and for the lover love
p. 380
Travel Song
p. 418
Travelling Song
p. 416
Two Uses for Ashes
p. 94
Une P’tite Spécialité Called L’Amour
p. 447
Useless to hope to hold off
p. 385
Waking and sleeping
p. 445
Water Song
p. 415
We will build a bridge to heaven
p. 442
We’ll be coming home
p. 442
‘What can I say? I’d better try a sonnet’ (to Mr Peter Brule)
p. 345
What I’d like to do
p. 431
When It Is All Over
p. 357
Where sweat starts, nothing starts. True, life runs
p. 373
Whisky
p. 349
Whitsun
p. 89
Winter wins
p. 405
Wir Danken Unsrem Führer
p. 358
Words Getting In The Way
p. 424
‘Work’
p. 93
You take my heart with such unformed grace
p. 376
You went that way as you always said you would
p. 397
You were there, and nothing said
p. 353
You whom the fisherfolk of Myra believe
p. 445
Your presence shines about the fumes of fat
p. 372
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