CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface by Angela Leighton
  4.  
  5. Warning
  6. My Nurse’s House
  7. From a Hill
  8. Glauco
  9. Evening
  10. To Mamma
  11. Meditation
  12. A Conscript’s Dream
  13. Random Order
  14. Target
  15. After Lights-out
  16. The Sapling
  17. To My Wife
  18. The Nanny Goat
  19. To My Daughter
  20. Autumn
  21. The Stream
  22. Trieste
  23. Old City
  24. The Cat
  25. After Sadness
  26. Three Streets
  27. Our Time of Day
  28. The Poet
  29. The Wife
  30. New Verses to the Moon
  31. Erotic Melancholy
  32. The Pier
  33. After a Stroll
  34. New Verses to Lina (8)
  35. The Errand-boy with the Wheelbarrow
  36. A Memory
  37. Guido
  38. The Patriarch
  39. Caffè Tergeste
  40. The Cobbler
  41. Bedtime Story for My Little Girl
  42. Portrait of My Little Girl
  43. Winter Noon
  44. Envoi
  45. The Thorn of Love (7)
  46. The Thorn of Love (12)
  47. By the Seashore
  48. Morning Song
  49. Finale
  50. Autobiography (3)
  51. Autobiography (10)
  52. Autobiography (12)
  53. Autobiography (15)
  54. The Lustful Man
  55. Girls (1)
  56. Paradise Sonnet
  57. The Sideboard
  58. Eros
  59. The Love Song
  60. Prayer for a Poor Girl
  61. Prayer to His Mother
  62. First Fugue
  63. Bargain Eatery
  64. The Ice Cream Cart
  65. Heroics
  66. Words
  67. Snow
  68. Ashes
  69. Spring
  70. Ulysses
  71. Five Poems for the Game of Football (3): Thirteenth Match
  72. Five Poems for the Game of Football (5): Goal
  73. Winter
  74. Happiness
  75. Three Cities
  76. ‘Fruit & Veg’
  77. Woman
  78. Mouth
  79. Beginning of Summer
  80. Since
  81. When the Thought
  82. February Evening
  83. The Broken Window
  84. Last Verses to Lina
  85. Portrait
  86. Phaedra
  87. Harbour
  88. Men’s Swimming Champion
  89. I Had
  90. Teatro degli Artigianelli
  91. Two Madrigals for the Duchess of Aosta
  92. The Visit
  93. I Loved
  94. Mediterranea
  95. Drunken Songs
  96. Three Poems to Telemachus
  97. Ulysses
  98. Opicina 1947
  99. Epigraph
  100. Blackbird
  101. Nietzsche
  102. Divertimento
  103. Man and the Animals
  104. Last
  105.  
  106. Afterword
  107. Notes
  108. Acknowledgements
  109. About the Authors
  110. Copyright