A grief ago 59
A grief ago, 59
A process in the weather of the heart 6
A process in the weather of the heart 6
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London 106
A saint about to fall 100
A saint about to fall, 100
A stranger has come 113
A Winter’s Tale 125
After the funeral 92
After the funeral, mule praises, brays, 92
All all and all the dry worlds lever 35
All all and all the dry worlds lever, 35
Altarwise by owl-light 76
Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway-house 76
Always when he, in country heaven, 196
Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred 146
And death shall have no dominion 73
And death shall have no dominion. 73
Ballad of the Long-legged Bait 160
Because the pleasure-bird whistles 82
Because the pleasure-bird whisdes after the hot wires, 82
Before I knocked 7
Before I knocked and flesh let enter, 7
Ceremony After a Fire Raid 137
Deaths and Entrances 123
Do not go gentle into that good night 122
Do not go gende into that good night, 122
Do you not father me 50
Do you not father me, nor the erected arm 50
Ears in the turrets hear 63
Ears in the turrets hear 63
Elegy 192
Especially when the October wind 16
Especially when the October wind 16
Fern Hill 170
Find meat on bones 70
‘Find meat on bones that soon have none, 70
Foster the light 65
Foster the light nor veil the manshaped moon, 65
Friend by enemy I call you out. 112
From love’s first fever to her plague 21
From love’s first fever to her plague, from the soft second 21
Grief thief of time 72
Grief thief of time crawls off, 72
Half of the fellow father as he doubles 32
Here in this spring 49
Here in this spring, stars float along the void; 49
Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo’s month 54
Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo’s month, 54
Holy Spring 169
How shall my animal 96
How shall my animal 96
How soon the servant sun 61
How soon the servant sun 61
I dreamed my genesis 30
I dreamed my genesis in sweat of sleep, breaking 30
I fellowed sleep 28
I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain, 28
I have longed to move away 69
I have longed to move away 69
I make this in a warring absence 83
I make this in a warring absence when 83
I see the boys of summer 1
I see the boys of summer in their ruin 1
I, in my intricate image 37
I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels, 37
If I were tickled by the rub of love 12
If I were tickled by the rub of love, 12
‘If my head hurt a hair’s foot’ 102
‘If my head hurt a hair’s foot 102
In Country Heaven 196
In Country Sleep 173
In my craft or sullen art 136
In my craft or sullen art 136
In the beginning 24
In the beginning was the three-pointed star, 24
In the mustardseed sun, 182
In the white giant’s thigh 189
Incarnate devil 43
Incarnate devil in a talking snake, 43
Into her lying down head 119
Into her lying down head 119
It is a winter’s tale 125
It is the sinners’ dust-tongued bell 88
It is the sinners’ dust-tongued bell claps me to churches 88
It was my thirtieth year to heaven 107
Lament 186
Lie still, sleep becalmed 147
Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound 147
Light breaks where no sun shines 26
Light breaks where no sun shines; 26
Love in the Asylum 113
My hero bares his nerves 10
My hero bares his nerves along my wrist 10
Myselves [/ The grievers/ Grieve] 137
Never and never, my girl riding far and near 173
Never until the mankind making 106
Not from this anger 95
Not from this anger, anticlimax after 95
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs 170
Now 56
Now [/ Say nay,/ Man dry man,] 56
O make me a mask 90
O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies 90
O [/Out of a bed of love] 169
On a Wedding Anniversary 132
On almost the incendiary eve 123
On no work of words 99
On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody 99
On the Marriage of a Virgin 135
Once below a time 141
Once below a time, 141
Once it was the colour of saying 94
Once it was the colour of saying 94
Our eunuch dreams 14
Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light, 14
Out of the sighs 52
Out of the sighs a little comes, 52
Over Sir John’s hill 179
Over Sir John’s hill, 179
Poem in October 107
Poem on His birthday 182
Prologue xxi
Shall gods be said to thump the clouds 48
Shall gods be said to thump the clouds 48
Should lanterns shine 68
Should lanterns shine, the holy face, 68
The bows glided down, and the coast 160
The conversation of prayers 105
The conversation of prayers about to be said 105
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower 9
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower 9
The hand that signed the paper 67
The hand that signed the paper felled a city; 67
The hunchback in the park 117
The hunchback in the park 117
The seed-at-zero 45
The seed-at-zero shall not storm 45
The sky is torn across 132
The spire cranes 91
The spire cranes. Its statue is an aviary. 91
The tombstone told when she died 98
The tombstone told when she died. 98
Then was my neophyte 74
Then was my neophyte, 74
There was a saviour 133
There was a saviour 133
This bread I break 42
This bread I break was once the oat, 42
This day winding down now xxi
This side of the truth 110
This side of the truth, 110
Through throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry, 189
To Others than You 112
Today, this insect 44
Today, this insect, and the world I breathe, 44
Too proud to die; broken and blind he died 192
Twenty-four years 104
Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes. 104
Unluckily for a death 114
Unluckily for a death 114
Vision and Prayer 148
Waking alone in a multitude of loves when morning’s light 135
Was there a time 55
Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles 55
We lying by seasand 87
We lying by seasand, watching yellow 87
When all my five and country senses see 86
When all my five and country senses see, 86
When I was a windy boy and a bit 186
When I woke 144
When I woke, the town spoke. 144
When once the twilight locks no longer 4
When once the twilight locks no longer 4
When the morning was waking over the war 146
When, like a running grave 18
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, 18
Where once the waters of your face 11
Where once the waters of your face 11
Who [/ Are you/ Who is born] 148
Why east wind chills 58
Why east wind chills and south wind cools 58