Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
from THE DWELLING-PLACE (1977)
I
The Exile
Chiaroscuro
The Invalid Storyteller
The Sparking of the Forge
East Anglian Churchyard
Genealogy: The Portrait
Victorian Gothic
The Ruined Abbey
The Long Climb
The Well
II
The Dedication
The Rector
Arthur Dead
In Malignant Times
Likeness
The Goldsmith
Sanctuary
The Disenchanted
Bird Watcher
Saxon Buckle
from DEVOTIONS (1982)
I
The Advent Carols
Narcissus, Echo
My Great Aunt, Nearing Death
On the Demolition of the ‘Kite’ District
Il Palazzo della Ragione
Pony and Boy
Two Cambridge Images
Beyond Recall
II from Air and Earth
Migrant
Beside the Autobahn
Aerial Songs
On the Devil’s Dyke
III
The Natural History of the Rook
Near Walsingham
Home
Homecoming
For the Fly-Leaf of a King James Bible
Antiphonal Sonnets
Gothic Polyphony
To Nicholas Hawksmoor
Venice
A Woodland Scene
The Parable of the Sower
The Peaceable Kingdom
Chinoiserie: The Porcelain Garden
Prayer for my Children
OF EARTHLY PARADISE (1992)
I
Invocation
Three Brueghel Paintings
St Francis Preaching to the Birds
The San Damiano Crucifix
The Coat of Many Colours
Cattle Market
Birdsong and Polyphony
The Infinite Variety
The Thirst
To Robert Wells
II A Catalogue of Flowers
Wild Flowers
Bindweed Song
An Autumn Vision
Post-war Childhoods
Conservancy
Alkanet
To Paint a Salt Marsh
III
Work
The Law of the House
At the Grave of Ezra Pound
At the Grave of William Morris
Fonte Branda in Siena
A Plaque
To a Poet from Eastern Europe, 1988
To Haydn and Mozart
The Kitchen Table
IV
Charon’s Bark
Two Journals
The Temple of Aphrodite
Amores
Re-reading my Poem ‘Saxon Buckle’
Transference
The Dream
In the Greenwood
The Garden
Oasis
The Earth Rising
V
Caedmon of Whitby
KING ALFRED’S BOOK & OTHER POEMS (1992–2000)
I
King Alfred’s Book
Lindisfarne Sacked
House-martin
The River in Springtime
The Manor House
Anthem
Psalm
Grace
The Pig Man
Kaspar Hauser
II Three Epistles
To Thom Gunn, on his Sixtieth Birthday
Letter to J.A. Cuddon
In Memoriam Graham Davies, Psychotherapist (1937–1993)
III
Visitation
The Heron
Vacations
To Pyrrha
Soft and Hard Porn
Fin de Siècle
The New Era
IV
Epitaph
At a Friend’s Funeral
Fernando Pessoa’s Lisbon
Wood Work
Stone Work
A Baroque Concerto
Casa Natal de Borges
The Translator’s Apology
Olivier Messiaen
THE MYSTERY OF THINGS (2006)
I
Bottom’s Dream
Dog Rose in June
Wonderwoman
Greensleeves
In the Library
The Ruin
Much Ado about Nothing
The Holy of Holies
Recorded Message
A Vision
The Ladder
Bethel
The Architect at his Mountain Villa
For my Daughter’s Wedding
Overnight Snow
Plenty
Chutney
The Apple Trees
At Great Coxwell
Behold, the Fowls of the Air
In the Beginning
W.S. Graham Reading
To George Herbert
The Source
The Falls
II
Ghostliness
Stigmata
I The Visit to La Verna
II A Quotation
III As it Was
IV The Conversation
V Padre Pio
VI Symmetry
VII Spiritual Biography
VIII Walled Garden
IX The Second Day
X Piero’s Resurrection (1)
XI Piero’s Resurrection (2)
XII Healer
XIII The Names of Flowers
XIV The Desert
The Need for Angels
REPORT FROM NOWHERE & OTHER POEMS (2006–2011)
I
To One who Accused him of Writing Hate-mail
Meditation
To a Buddhist
The Nice and the Nasty
The Language of Flowers
Message
To his Muse
II
Learning to Read
In the Conservatory
A Blue Tit’s Egg
Gregoire, 60
Cinnabar Moth
A Curse
Gaudier-Brzeska in the Trenches
A Farmhouse near Modena, c.1980
III
Remembering John Heath-Stubbs
Shakespeare
Brook’s Lear
In Hospital
Fragment
A Far-off Country
Civitas
Report from Nowhere
POEMS WRITTEN FOR SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (2009–10)
A Valedictory Ode
The Sidney Carol
SELECTED POEMS FROM THE HUNGARIAN
Jenő Dsida
Maundy Thursday
Miklós Radnóti
Garden on Istenhegy
In the Margins of the Prophet Habbakkuk
First Eclogue
Written in a Copy of Steep Path
Foaming Sky
Autumn Begins Restlessly
Night
Paris
O Ancient Prisons
Eighth Eclogue
Forced March
Postcards
István Vas
Romanus Sum
János Pilinszky
Harbach 1944
The French Prisoner
The Passion at Ravensbrück
Introitus
Van Gogh’s Prayer
György Gömöri
Fake Semblances of Odysseus
Letter from a Declining Empire
Domokos Szilágyi
Job
György Petri
You are knackered, my Catullus
Stairs
Now Only
Gratitude
To Be Said Over and Over Again
Electra
To Imre Nagy
Daydreams
A Recognition
What a Shame
A Smile
Without
Anna T. Szabó
The Labour Ward
She Leaves me
OTHER TRANSLATIONS
Catullus
‘Odi et amo’
St Francis of Assisi
Canticle of the Sun
Dante
Sestina
Dante to Love’s Faithful
Guido Cavalcanti
Cavalcanti’s Reply
Rainer Maria Rilke
Archaic Torso of Apollo
‘Say, poet, what it is you do’
Fernando Pessoa
‘I leave to the blind and deaf’
‘There was a rhythm in my sleep’
from The Keeper of Flocks (by ‘Alberto Caeiro’)
‘You who, believing in your Christs and Marys’ (by ‘Ricardo Reis’)
Czesław Miłosz
From a Notebook: Bon on Lake Geneva
Lyubomir Nikolov
A Wasp
Hornets
Scaling Carp
St George’s Day
Osip Mandelstam
Hagia Sophia
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines
Copyright