(first lines are in italics, subtitles in SMALL CAPITALS)

  1. A beautiful girl said something in your praise, 29
  2. A Byron-Shelley Conversation, 231
  3. Afterword on Rupert Brooke, 171
  4. A Last Attachment, 187
  5. All the winter I have lain here, 91
  6. And so we too came where the rest have come, 91
  7. And we are two, but neither tall nor short, 99
  8. An Epistle to a Patron, 13
  9. Apollo and the Sibyl, 65
  10. At Beaulieu, 118
  11. Autumn Journey, 115
  1. Barj made all things, the wild, 299
  2. Because of the memory of one we held dear, 36
  1. Call out, celebrate the beam, 19
  2. Campanella, 104
  3. Canterbury thought, 297
  4. Cefalù, 42
  5. Chaka, 44
  6. Chapel-at-Ease, 44
  7. Coeur de Lion, 86
  8. Coming across a letter, 31
  9. Coming to write my letter, overcast, 88
  10. Counting the heavy days and heavy hours, 98
  11. Creation Myth, 299
  1. Dark hollow faces under caps, 149
  2. Dark steel, the muffled flash, 107
  3. Drypoints of the Hasidim, 149
  1. Ecumenical Exchange, 1989, 297
  2. Eight times the autumn weather, 197
  1. False Bay, 33
  2. Family Mottoes, 281
  3. February is the shortest month, and good, 58
  4. Finis Coronat Opus, 301
  5. Forbecause a prisoner lies, 86
  6. For Fugitives, 39
  7. For the Deserted, 38
  8. For Thieves and Beggars, 40
  9. For you who loved me too, 39
  1. Gregory Nazianzen, 101
  1. Handfast Point, 117
  2. HE BATHES IN THE MORNING, 50
  3. HE COMPARES OLD CUSTOMS WITH THOSE OF HIS KINGDOM, 46
  4. Her Majesty, 302
  5. His Dog and Pilgrim, 211
  6. Hither, where tangled thickets of the acacia, 34
  7. HOW FESTIVALS WERE CELEBRATED, 48
  1. I am not lodged in such and such a street, 94
  2. If I could conjure shapes for you and me, 95
  3. If I could seize that castle, hill and plain, 95
  4. I have come back, and find the empty street, 99
  5. I’ll take some wax and mould your likeness there, 97
  6. In a Province, 36
  7. In the Wood, 18
  8. I said that you should stint your wit, 30
  9. I sat down, my requirement, 294
  10. I saw from the gliding train, 115
  11. I think they came, 292
  12. I took my pen and added up the days, 98
  13. I wish there were a passage underground, 95
  14. I would never have sold, 294
  1. Keeper’s Wood, 32
  2. Kings and Bishops murder law, 88
  1. Last Poem, 302
  2. Les Congés du Lépreux, 89
  3. LETTER, 99
  4. Love and good luck breathed on the builder’s hand, 97
  1. March has flooded meadows, 93
  2. Memoirs in Oxford, 121
  3. ‘Mine dear old enemy, 255
  4. More beautiful than any gift you gave, 25
  5. Mortimer, 93
  6. ‘Moult sond Prud’hommes les Templiers’, 88
  7. Must then all human love, 60
  8. My lord, hearing lately of you opulence in promises and your house, 13
  1. Not a Paris Review Interview, 245
  2. Now that few people need, 245
  3. Now wars and waters, stars, 61
  1. On a Cold Night, 23
  2. On a report that in some Rest Homes Residents who are Depressed will be Charged at a Higher Rate, 296
  3. One thing we have, but maybe as the seeds, 96
  4. Only the Arab Stallion will I, 17
  5. On the plain is a tower, 40
  1. Pale cliffs and sky, 117
  2. Plague and sores beyond relief, 89
  3. Paternis suppar, 281
  1. Renouncing an Epigram, 306
  1. Sea View, 116
  2. She has decided that she no longer loves me, 22
  3. She I love leaves me, and I leave my friends, 33
  4. Soldiers Bathing, 55
  5. Sometimes the light falls here too as at Florence, 73
  6. Spenser has Britomart on guard in the enchanter’s house, 187
  7. Stand at the grave’s head, 302
  8. Strafford, 107
  9. Strambotti, 94
  10. Such were the gifts inflicted upon us who trembled, 51
  11. Sunlight catches a wall, 116
  12. Sweet everlasting Love, daughter of God, 101
  1. Tall oaks are, 118
  2. That at last the illustrious child, 24
  3. The afternoon fills the grey wood, 18
  4. The air cool and soft, 44
  5. The Babiaantje, 34
  6. The Book, 61
  8. The ceiling is carried on corbels laid, 37
  9. The Diamond, 60
  10. The Dice, 59
  11. The dungeon where they keep me is of rock, 104
  12. The eyelid severed from its terrible schemes, 48
  13. The god of lovers chose you of his race, 94
  14. The Inn, 58
  15. The Intention, 24
  16. The kingdom of our love is like a tree, 96
  17. THE KING WATCHES AT NIGHT, 44
  18. The Letter, 31
  19. The lover who could wear you like a cross, 97
  20. The mind, an irremediable virgin, 38
  21. The Moonflower, 35
  22. The Old Age of Michelangelo, 73
  23. THE PEOPLE REST AFTER CONQUESTS, 51
  24. The Question, 63
  25. There would come up many idle men to sit with the strangers, 46
  26. The sea at evening moves across the sand, 55
  27. The secret drops of love run through my mind, 35
  28. These softs and solids, this clear, that rough, 42
  29. The Stolen Heart, 91
  30. The sun shines on the gliding river, 121
  31. The Tears of a Muse in America, 19
  32. The Token, 25
  33. The Two Beggars: A Reminiscence, 298
  34. The villains and fools, 295
  35. The way in is to pause and look again, look back, 171
  36. The Wind in the Tree, 22
  37. The Yüan Chên Variations, 197
  38. Think, if at seventy the news is, 301
  39. Thyme, tufa, sage, anemone, 65
  40. To a Friend on his Marriage, 29
  41. To a Granddaughter on one of her Suggestions for a Christmas Present, 295
  42. To a Man on his Horse, 17
  43. To My Sister, 30
  44. To the vigilance of my exertions a lax pause, 28
  1. Van Gogh’s old pensioner, [On a report that in some Rest Homes …], 296
  2. Vivat, 302
  1. Walks in Rome, 255
  2. Watching Song, 83
  3. Watch, I warn you, 83
  4. Wanting more courage than a wandering knight, 96
  5. We never rode out so, 231
  6. Were we not then, before we were, 59
  7. What mind lying open to my mind, 23
  8. What thoughts could ride or hover in my mind, 94
  9. Who made this palace of so rare a stone, 98
  10. Wings rise, the shrubs flutter, 50
  11. Within these dusky woods, 32
  12. Words from Edmund Burke, 26
  1. Youth and Age, 294