INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

• a burst of iris so that 33
• A certain day became a presence to me 157
• A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket 158
• A state you must dare not enter 59
• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever 5
• Adlestrop 145
• Afterwards 77
• All that is gold does not glitter 74
• All winter I was waiting 140
• And death shall have no dominion 55
• And did those feet in ancient time 60
• And did you get what 195
• Apple Blossom 153
• As a child I waved to people I didn’t know 34
• As I walked out one evening 132
• Atlas 129
• Auguries of Innocence 51
• Auld Lang Syne 38

• Be cheerful, sir 22
• Being 67
• Being Boring 37
• A Birthday 189

• Call, by all means, but just once 31
• Candy 172
• The Catch 183
• Celia Celia 61
• The Character of a Happy Life 146
• The Charge of the Light Brigade 111
• Children, if you dare to think 88
• A Christmas Carol 72
• Church Going 173
• Climbing 100
• Clownlike, happiest on your hands 163
• Come, come, for you will not find another friend like Me 121
• Come live with me and be my Love 155
• Come to the Edge 6
• Conquer we shall, but we must first contend 99
• Conviction 71
• Count That Day Lost 152

• The Daffodils 136
• Dead Woman 138
• Dearest, note how these two are alike 40
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 20
• Dignified 52
• Do not go gentle into that good Night 169
• Do not stand at my grave and weep 124
• Does the road wind up-hill all the way? 50
• Don’t see him. Don’t phone or write a letter 93
• Dover Beach 127
• Dreams 187
• Dusk-light; the news tells of another train derailed 80

• Early Version 110
• Earth 178
• Earth has not anything to show more fair 12
• The End (Milne) 17
• The End (Herrick) 99
• Endymion 5
• Envying Owen Beattie 116
• An Epilogue 76
• Eternity 27
• Every day is a fresh beginning 19
• Everyone Sang 95
• Everyone suddenly burst out singing 95
• Everything is Going to Be All Right 143

• Fare Well 118
• First they came for the Jews 106
• For the present there is just one moon 190
• For the Spartan Dead at Thermopylai 176
• Forget 183
• Freight 103
• From time to time our love is like a sail 87
• Frost at Midnight 192
• Full Moon and Little Frieda 158

• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may 179
• Give me a man that is not dull 32
• Glory be to God for dappled things 10
• The Good Morrow 167
• Green 188

• Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths 63
• Half a league, half a league 111
• Happiness (Dunn) 59
• Happiness (Carver) 184
• Happy the Man 94
• Happy the man, and happy he alone 94
• He turns not back who is bound to a star 120
• He who binds to himself a joy 27
• He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 63
• Heaven on Earth 154
• Henry V 78
• Heraclitus 28
• High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy) 7
• High up in the apple tree climbing I go 100
• Hinterhof 29
• His Desire 32
• History 23
• Hold fast to dreams 187
• Holy Island 140
• Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 30
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 65
• How happy is he born and taught 146
• How should I not be glad to contemplate 143
• How straight it flew, how long it flew 56
• How strange to think of giving up all ambition! 64
• The Hug 18

• ‘I Am’ 135
• I am the ship in which you sail 103
• I Am the Song 107
• I am the song that sings the bird 107
• I am – yet what I am none cares or knows 135
• I believe in the soul; so far 161
• I envy not in any moods 14
• I have been young, and now am not too old 70
• I have seen flowers come in stony places 76
• I know that I shall meet my fate 115
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 125
• I like to get off with people 71
• I May, I Might, I Must 102
• I saw a Peacock with a fiery tail 3
• i thank You God for most this amazing 148
• I, Too 97
• I, too, sing America 97
• I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow 62
• I wander’d lonely as a cloud 136
• I went out to the hazel wood 26
• I wish I could show you 42
• I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I 167
• If – 104
• If ever two were one, then surely we 137
• If I can stop one Heart from breaking 69
• If I should die, think only this of me 36
• If suddenly you do not exist 138
• If you ask me ‘What’s new?’, I have nothing to say 37
• If you can keep your head when all about you 104
• If you sit down at set of sun 152
• If you think you are beaten, you are 49
• If you will tell me why the fen 102
• In Memoriam A. H. H. 14
• In summer’s heat, and mid-time of the day 41
• In the bleak mid-winter 72
• In the pathways of the sun 86
• Inniskeen Road: July Evening 185
• Invictus 58
• Iris 33
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 115
• It is summer, and we are in a house 170
• It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined 18

• June 1966 180
• Just before winter 164

• Late Fragment 195
• Laugh, and the world laughs with you 85
• Leisure 150
• Let me put it this way 114
• Let the day grow on you upward 178
• Let us go then, you and I 43
• Life’s Variety 130
• Little Gidding 196
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 42
• Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 92
• Lying flat in the bracken of Richmond Park 180
• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota 162

• Machines 40
• Markings 91
• Milton 60
• Modern Love 170
• Morning has broken 21
• Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold 98
• My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up 16
• My Brilliant Image 42
• My heart is like a singing bird 189
• My Heart Leaps Up 66
• My heart leaps up when I behold 66

• New Every Morning 19
• No Man is an Island, entire of it self 20
• No, the candle is not crying, it cannot feel pain 122
• Nothing is so beautiful as spring 159
• Now that it is night 154
• Now welcome Summer with thy sunne. soft 149

• Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth 7
• Oh, to be in England 30
• The Old Stoic 177
• The Old World 161
• On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 98
• On grim estates at dawn, on college tracks 52
• On His Blindness 171
• Once I am sure there’s nothing going on 173
• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more 78
• One Art 75
• Our boat was slow to reach Bethsaida; winds oppressed us 110
• Our Own Land 13
• Out of the night that covers me 58
• Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly 162
• Ovid’s Elegies 41

• Pass the tambourine, let me bash our praises 108
• The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 155
• The Peace of Wild Things 168
• Penelope 86
• The Peninsula 11
• Pied Beauty 10
• Pippa’s Song 54
• Portrait of a Child 166
• Prayer 90
• Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age 90
• The Present 190
• Prometheus Unbound 144
• Pushing Forty 164

• The Railway Children 160
• Reflections on Ice-Breaking 172
• Report on Experience 70
• Richard II 101
• Riches I hold in light esteem 177
• Riders 109
• The Road Not Taken 68
• Roundel 149

• Say not the struggle nought availeth 165
• Seaside Golf 56
• She Walks in Beauty 186
• She walks in beauty, like the night 186
• Should auld acquaintance be forgot 38
• A Shropshire Lad 92
• Silent comrade of the distances 67
• So early it’s still almost dark out 184
• Soar, Don’t Settle 96
• Soar, don’t settle for earth 96
• The Soldier 36
• Solitude 85
• Some Saian sports my splendid shield 57
• Some say that love’s a little boy 181
• Sometimes 4
• Sometimes things don’t go, after all 4
• The Song of Solomon 16
• The Song of Wandering Aengus 26
• Sonnets from the Portuguese 65
• Spring 159
• Stay near to me and I’ll stay near to you 29
• Still I Rise 8

• Talent 151
• Tell them in Lakedaimon, passerby 176
• The Tempest 22
• The Angel that presided o’er my birth 131
• The art of losing isn’t hard to master 75
• The bicycles go by in twos and threes 185
• The dawn was apple-green 188
• The first blossom was the best blossom 153
• The free bird leaps 125
• The Frost performs its secret ministry 192
• The sea is calm to-night 127
• The surest thing there is is we are riders 109
• The trees are coming into leaf 142
• The year’s at the spring 54
• There is a kind of love called maintenance 129
• They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead 28
• Thinking 49
• Thinking of England 80
• This is the word tightrope. Now imagine 151
• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle 101
• Thoughts in a Garden 141
• To have stood on the Arctic island 116
• To my Dear and Loving Husband 137
• To see a World in a Grain of Sand 51
• To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite 144
• To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 179
• Today 23
• The Trees 142
• Two Cures for Love 93
• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 68

• Unconscious of amused and tolerant eyes 166
• Up-Hill 50
• Upon Westminster Bridge 12

• Variation on a Theme by Rilke 157
• Voice 31

• The Waking 62
• Walk on, through the wind 15
• Warning to Children 88
• Watering the Horse 64
• Waving 34
• The Way Things Are 122
• The Way We Live 108
• We don’t wear it in sacred amulets on our chests 13
• We marked the pitch: four jackets for four goalposts 91
• We Two Boys Together Clinging 119
• Wedding 87
• What I spent I had 191
• What If This Road 153
• What if this road, that has held no surprises 153
• What is this life if, full of care 150
• What we call the beginning is often the end 196
• What wondrous life is this I lead! 141
• When despair for the world grows in me 168
• When I am sad and weary 61
• When I consider how my light is spent 171
• When I lie where shades of darkness 118
• When I was One 17
• When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay 77
• When we climbed the slopes of the cutting 160
• When you have nothing more to say, just drive 11
• Why do we grumble because a tree is bent 130

• Yes. I remember Adlestrop 145
• You may write me down in history 8
• You’ll Never Walk Alone 15
• You’re 163