The Second-Fated
A Slice of Wedding Cake [Bitter Thoughts on Receiving a Slice of Cordelia’s Wedding Cake]
A Plea to Boys and Girls
A Bouquet from a Fellow Roseman
Yes
The Outsider
From STEPS (1958)
The Enlisted Man
Mike and Mandy [Caroline and Charles]
Nothing
Call It a Good Marriage
Read Me, Please!
The Twin of Sleep
Around the Mountain
III
From FOOD FOR CENTAURS (1960)
Twice of the Same Fever
Established Lovers
The Quiet Glades of Eden
Heroes in Their Prime
Catkind
Two Children [The Young Goddess]
Here Live Your Life Out!
Joan and Darby
Superman on the Riviera
The Picture Nail
Old World Dialogue
The Were-Man
The Person from Porlock
From THE PENNY FIDDLE (1960)
The Penny Fiddle
Robinson Crusoe
The Six Badgers
Jock o’ Binnorie
From MORE POEMS (1961)
Lyceia
Symptoms of Love
The Sharp Ridge
Under the Olives
The Visitation
Fragment
Apple Island
The Falcon Woman
Troughs of Sea
The Laugh
The Death Grapple
The Starred Coverlet
The Intrusion
Patience
The Cure
Hag-Ridden
Turn of the Moon
The Secret Land
Seldom Yet Now
To Myrto of Myrtles
Anchises to Aphrodite
A Lost World
The Dangerous Gift
Surgical Ward: Men
Nightfall at Twenty Thousand Feet
The Simpleton
Two Rhymes About Fate and Money
The Two Witches
Burn It!
Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday!
From COLLECTED POEMS 1961 (1961)
Ruby and Amethyst
From THE MORE DESERVING CASES (1962)
The Miller’s Man
July 24th
Safe Receipt of a Censored Letter
From NEW POEMS 1962 (1962)
Recognition
The Watch
Name Day
Uncalendared Love
The Meeting
Lack
Not at Home
Horizon
Golden Anchor
Lion Lover
Ibycus in Samos
Possessed
The Winged Heart
In Trance at a Distance
The Wreath
In Her Praise
The Alabaster Throne
A Restless Ghost
Between Moon and Moon
Beware, Madam!
The Cliff Edge
Acrobats
Ouzo Unclouded
The Broken Girth
Inkidoo and the Queen of Babel
Three Songs for the Lute
I Truth Is Poor Physic
II In Her Only Way
III Hedges Freaked with Snow
The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele
The Unnamed Spell
From MAN DOES, WOMAN IS (1964)
A Time of Waiting
Expect Nothing
No Letter
The Why of the Weather
In Time
Fire Walker
Deed of Gift
At Best, Poets
She Is No Liar
A Last Poem
The Pearl
The Leap
Bank Account
Judgement of Paris
Man Does, Woman Is
The Ample Garden
To Myrto About Herself
The Three-Faced
Dazzle of Darkness
Myrrhina
Food of the Dead
Eurydice
To Beguile and Betray
I Will Write
Bird of Paradise
The Metaphor
Secrecy
Joseph and Mary
An East Wind
Dance of Words
A Blind Arrow
The Oleaster
The Septuagenarian
Non Cogunt Astra
Song: Sword and Rose
Endless Pavement
In Disguise
A Measure of Casualness
In Time of Absence
The Green Castle
Not to Sleep
The Hearth
That Other World
The Beds of Grainne and Diarmuid
Rain of Brimstone
Consortium of Stones
The Black Goddess
Broken Neck
O
Woman of Greece
The Colours of Night
Between Trains
To the Teumessian Vixen
The Hung Wu Vase
La Mejicana
Lamia In Love
After the Flood
A Late Arrival
Song: With No Return
All I Tell You From My Heart
The Undead
From ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL (1964)
Ann at Highwood Hall
St Valentine’s Day
I Have a Little Cough, Sir
Joseph and Jesus
LOVE RESPELT (1915)
The Red Shower
Above the Edge of Doom
Wild Cyclamen
Gift of Sight
Batxóca
The Snap-Comb Wilderness
Change
A Court of Love
Black
Between Hyssop and Axe
Gold and Malachite
Ambience
The Vow
The Frog and the Golden Ball
Those Who Came Short
Whole Love
This Holy Month
The Blow
The Impossible
The Fetter
Iron Palace
True Joy
Tomorrow’s Envy of Today
The Hidden Garden
The Wedding
What Will Be, Is
Son Altesse
Everywhere Is Here
Song: The Far Side of Your Moon
Deliverance
Conjunction
Nothing Now Astonishes
I’d Die for You [Postscript]
From COLLECTED POEMS 1965 (1965)
Grace Notes
Good Night to the Old Gods
The Sweet-Shop Round the Corner
Double Bass
Descent into Hell
The Pardon
Point of No Return
A Shift of Scene
From SEVENTEEN POEMS MISSING FROM ‘LOVE RESPELT’ (1966)
Cock in Pullet’s Feathers
Dead Hand
Arrears of Moonlight
What Did You Say?
Lure of Murder
The Gorge
Ecstasy of Chaos
Stolen Jewel
The Eagre
The Snapped Thread [The Tangled Thread]
Fortunate Child
Loving True, Flying Blind
The Near Eclipse
Dancing Flame
Birth of Angels
On Giving
From COLOPHON TO ‘LOVE RESPELT’ (1967)
The P’eng that was a K’un
Like Owls
In Perspective
The Utter Rim
Bower-Bird
Mist
The Word
Perfectionists
Prison Walls
A Dream of Hell
Our Self
Bites and Kisses
Sun-Face
and Moon-Face
Freehold
The Necklace
A Bracelet
Blackening Sky
Blessed Sun
Lion-Gentle
Song: The Palm Tree
Spite of Mirrors
Pride of Love
Hooded Flame
Injuries
Her Brief Withdrawal
The Crane
Strangeness
From THE POOR BOY WHO FOLLOWED HIS STAR (1968)
Hide and Seek
The Hero
At Seventy-Two
From POEMS 1965–1968 (1968)
Song: How Can I Care?
Song: Though Once True Lovers
Song: Cherries or Lilies
Song: Crown of Stars
Song: Fig Tree in Leaf
Song: Dew-drop and Diamond
Song: Just Friends
Song: Of Course
Song: Three Rings for Her
Sincèrement
Dans un Seul Lit
Is Now the Time?
Twins
Sail and Oar
Gooseflesh Abbey
The Home-Coining
With the Gift of a Lion’s Claw
Wigs and Beards
Personal Packaging, Inc.
Work Room
The Ark
All Except Hannibal
The Beggar Maid and King Cophetua
For Ever
Jugum Improbum
De Arte Poetica
Sit Mihi Terra Levis
Astymelusa
Tousled Pillow
To Be In Love
Fact of the Act
To Ogmian Hercules
Arrow Shots
She to Him
Within Reason
The Yet Unsayable
None the Wiser
The Narrow Sea
The Olive-Yard
BEYOND GIVING (1969)
PART I
Song: To a Rose
Song: Dream Warning
Song: Beyond Giving
Trial of Innocence
Poisoned Day
Superstition [Leave-Taking]
In the Name of Virtue
What We Did Next
Compact
Song: New Year Kisses
Song: The Clocks of Time
Gold Cloud
Song: Basket of Blossom
Song: Wherever We May Be
What Is Love?
Song: The Promise
Song: Yesterday Only
PART II
Semi-Detached
Iago
Against Witchcraft
Troublesome Fame
Tolling Bell
Blanket Charge
The Strayed Message
Song: The Sundial’s Lament
Poem: A Reminder
Antorcha y Corona, 1968; Torch and Crown, 1968
Armistice Day, 1918
The Motes
From POEMS ABOUT LOVE (1969)
If and When
From POEMS 1968–1970 (1970)
Song: The Sigil
Song: Twinned Heart
Song: Olive Tree
Song: Once More
Song: Victims of Calumny
Love Gifts
Mankind and Ocean
Virgin Mirror
Secret Theatre
How It Started
Brief Reunion
The Judges
Love and Night
Child with Veteran
Purification
Powers Unconfessed
Pandora
Solomon’s Seal
To Put It Simply
To Tell and Be Told
The Theme of Death
At the Well
Logic
Robbers’ Den
The Accomplice
First Love
Through a Dark Wood
In the Vestry
When Love Is Not
The Reiteration
Man of Evil
The Raft
The Uncut Diamond
My Ghost [The Co-Walker]
The Risk
Something to Say
OCCASIONALIA
Research and Development: Classified
The Imminent Seventies
Carol of Patience
H
Invitation to Bristol
The Primrose Bed
The Strangling in Merrion Square
The Awakening
From THE GREEN-SAILED VESSEL (1971)
The Hoopoe Tells Us How [Dedicatory]
PART I: LOVE POEMS
The Wand
Five; Quinque
Arrow on the Vane
Gorgon Mask
To Be Poets
With a Gift of Rings
Casse-Noisette
The Garden
The Green-Sailed Vessel
Dreaming Children
The Prohibition
Serpent’s Tail
Until We Both …
The Miracle
The Rose
Testament
The Crab-Tree
Three Locked Hoops
Cliff and Wave
PART II: MAINLY SATIRES
Those Blind from Birth
Fools
The Gateway
Advice from a Mother
A Reduced Sentence
The Gentleman
Complaint and Reply
Song: Reconciliation
Knobs and Levers
The Virus
Druid Love
Problems of Gender
Confess, Marpessa
Jus Primae Noctis
Work Drafts
From POEMS 1970–1972 (1972)
Her Beauty
Always
Desert Fringe
The Title of Poet
Depth of Love
Breakfast Table
The Half-Finished Letter
The Hazel Grove
Pity
Silent Visit
Coronet of Moonlight
Song: To Become Each Other
Heaven
Growing Pains
Friday Night
The Pact
Poor Others
A Toast to Death
The Young Sibyl
Records
The Flowering Aloe
Circus Ring
Ageless Reason
As When the Mystic
Unposted Letter (1963)
Birth of a Goddess
Beatrice and Dante
The Dilemma
The Wall
Women and Masks (translation)
Tilth
The Last Fistful
The Traditionalist
The Prepared Statement
St Antony of Padua
Broken Compact
The Encounter
Age Gap
Nightmare of Senility
Absent Crusader
Dream Recalled on Waking
Colophon
From TIMELESS MEETING (1973)
The Promised Ballad
The Impossible Day
The Poet’s Curse
Seven Years [Where Is the Truth?]
Love as Lovelessness
The Scared Child
As All Must End
Touch My Shut Lips
The Moon’s Last Quarter
True Evil
When and Why
The Window Pane
Pride of Progeny
That Was the Night
Song: The Queen of Time
Should I Care?
Timeless Meeting
Envoi
AT THE GATE (1974)
Ours Is No Wedlock
The Discarded Love Poem
Earlier Lovers
Fast Bound Together
£. s. d.
Three Words Only
True Magic
The Tower of Love
The Lov
e Letter
Song: Seven Fresh Years
As a Less Than Robber
Singleness in Love
Love Charms
At the Gate
The Moon’s Tear
Song: From Otherwhere or Nowhere
Name
Two Disciplines
The Ugly Secret
Three Years Waiting
From COLLECTED POEMS 1975 (1975)
The Crystal
A Charm for Sound Sleeping
The New Eternity
History of the Fall
Elsewhere
What Can We Not Ask?
Two Crucial Generations
To Come of Age
September Landscape
Crucibles of Love
Woman Poet and Man Poet
The Field-Postcard
If No Cuckoo Sings
Mountain Lovers
Three Times In Love
The Sentence
Spring 1974
Advent of Summer
The Unpenned Poem
The Green Woods of Unrest
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
JUVENILIA: 1910–1914
A Pot of White Heather
The Mountain Side at Evening
The Will o’ the Wisp
The King’s Son
The Miser of Shenham Heath
Rondeau
’Am and Advance: A Cockney Study
Peeping Tom
The Ballad of the White Monster
The Future
Alcaics Addressed to My Study Fauna
The Cyclone
The Ape God
Lament in December
Merlin and the Child
A Day in February
The Wasp
Five Rhymes:
My Hazel-Twig
After the Rain
Envy
The King’s Highway
The Glorious Harshness of the Parrot’s Voice
Two Moods
The Briar Burners
The Tyranny of Books
The Exhaust-Pipe
The Organ Grinder
1918–1927
The Two Brothers
Peace
Bazentin, 1916
The Dancing Green
The Personal Touch
Song: The Ring and Chain
The Oxford English School
The Stepmother and the Princess
Cynics and Romantics
Records for Wonder
Old Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire
Misgivings, on Reading a Popular ‘Outline of Science’
The Toads
A History
Four Children
The Bargain
In the Beginning Was a Word
The Bait
An Independent
[The Untidy Man]
1934–1939
Midsummer Duet
Majorcan Letter, 1935
Assumption Day
The Moon Ends in Nightmare
1952–1959
The Housing Project
Advice to Colonel Valentine
Hippopotamus’s Address to the Freudians
Twin to Twin
Considine
The Juggler
The Young Witch
Birth of a Great Man
To Magdalena Mulet, Margita Mora & Lucia Graves
The Pumpkin
Max Beerbohm at Rapallo
The Grandfather’s Complaint
Song: A Beach in Spain
Bathunts at Bathurst
To a Caricaturist, Who Got Me Wrong
In Jorrocks’s Warehouse
A Fever
Augeias and I
Is It Peace?
Fingers in the Nesting Box
Barabbas’s Summer List
Stable Door
Flight Report
School Hymn for St Trinian’s
1960–1974
A Piebald’s Tail