Collected Poems by Betjeman, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Contents Acknowledgements Introduction by Andrew Motion Mount Zion (1932)

Death in Leamington Hymn The ’Varsity Students’ Rag The City An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn For Nineteenth-Century Burials Camberley Croydon Westgate-on-Sea The Wykehamist The Sandemanian Meeting-House in Highbury Quadrant

Continual Dew (1937)

The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel Distant View of a Provincial Town Slough Clash went the Billiard Balls Love in a Valley An Impoverished Irish Peer Our Padre Exchange of Livings Undenominational City A Hike on the Downs Dorset Calvinistic Evensong Exeter Death of King George V The Heart of Thomas Hardy Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London The Flight from Bootle Public House Drunk

Old Lights for New Chancels (1940)

Cheltenham A Shropshire Lad Upper Lambourne Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden Holy Trinity, Sloane Street On Seeing an Old Poet in the Café Royal An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828 Trebetherick Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus-stop Group Life: Letchworth Bristol and Clifton Sir John Piers Myfanwy Myfanwy at Oxford Lake District In Westminster Abbey Senex Olney Hymns On a Portrait of a Deaf Man Saint Cadoc Blackfriars

New Bats in Old Belfries (1945)

Henley-on-Thames Parliament Hill Fields A Subaltern’s Love-song Bristol On an Old-Fashioned Water-Colour of Oxford A Lincolnshire Tale St. Barnabas, Oxford An Archaeological Picnic May-Day Song for North Oxford Before Invasion, 1940 Ireland with Emily Margate, 1940 Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm The Planster’s Vision In a Bath Teashop Before the Anaesthetic, or A Real Fright On Hearing the Full Peal of Ten Bells from Christ Church, Swindon, Wilts. Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants East Anglian Bathe Sunday Afternoon Service in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall The Irish Unionist’s Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922 In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava South London Sketch, 1944 South London Sketch, 1844

Selected Poems (1948)

Indoor Games near Newbury St. Saviour’s, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N. Beside the Seaside North Coast Recollections A Lincolnshire Church The Town Clerk’s Views

A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954)

Harrow-on-the-Hill Verses turned Sunday Morning, King’s Cambridge Christmas The Licorice Fields at Pontefract Church of England thoughts Essex Huxley Hall House of Rest Middlesex Seaside Golf I. M. Walter Ramsden, ob. March 26, 1947, Pembroke College, Oxford Norfolk The Metropolitan Railway Late-Flowering Lust Sun and Fun Original Sin on the Sussex Coast Devonshire Street W.1 The Cottage Hospital A Child Ill Business Girls Remorse The Old Liberals Greenaway The Olympic Girl The Dear Old Village The Village Inn Station Syren Hunter Trials A Literary Discovery How to Get On in Society Variation on a Theme by T. W. Rolleston

Poems in the Porch (1954)

Diary of a Church Mouse

Poems Written After 1954

Wantage Bells Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus False Security Eunice Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station Thoughts on The Diary of a Nobody Longfellow’s Visit to Venice Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class Hertfordshire Lord Cozens Hardy Variation on a Theme by Newbolt Inevitable N.W.5 & N.6 From the Great Western In the Public Gardens

High and Low (1966)

Preface to High and Low Cornish Cliffs Tregardock By the Ninth Green, St. Enodoc Winter Seascape Old Friends A Bay in Anglesey A Lament for Moira McCavendish The Small Towns of Ireland Ireland’s Own Great Central Railway Matlock Bath An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield Lines written to Martyn Skinner Uffington Anglo-Catholic Congresses In Willesden Churchyard The Commander Autumn 1964 The Hon. Sec. Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk Good-bye Five o’Clock Shadow A Russell Flint Perp. Revival i’ the North Agricultural Caress Narcissus The Cockney Amorist Harvest Hymn Meditation on the A30 Inexpensive Progress Mortality Reproof Deserved Caprice Cricket Master

A Nip in the Air (1974)

On Leaving Wantage 1972 On a Painting by Julius Olsson R.A. Beaumaris, December 21, 1963 Hearts Together Aldershot Crematorium The Newest Bath Guide In Memory of George Whitby, Architect Delectable Duchy The Costa Blanca Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican Executive Meditation on a Constable Picture A Wembley Lad County Greek Orthodox Dilton Marsh Halt Loneliness Back from Australia The Manor House, Hale, near Liverpool Shattered Image A Ballad of the Investiture 1969 14 November, 1973 A Mind’s Journey to Diss Fruit Inland Waterway For Patrick, aetat: LXX The Last Laugh

Uncollected Poems (1982)

1940 Interior Decorator (London Magazine 1964) The Lift Man Archibald The Retired Postal Clerk Cheshire Advertising Pays Dumbleton Hall Thoughts in a Train Shetland 1973 To the Crazy Gang Kegans Henley Regatta 1902 1930 Commercial Style Guilt A Romance Advent 1955 The Old Land Dog Before the Lecture The Parochial Church Council The Shires An Ecumenical Invitation The Conversion of St. Paul (The Listener 1955) St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street Hill Woman Driver The Ballad of George R. Sims (New Statesman 1968) Civilized Woman To Stuart Piggott, 1975 Chelsea 1977

Additional Poems

The Friends of the Cathedral (from Poems in the Porch, 1954) The Empty Pew (1948)

Summoned by Bells (1960)

I. Before MCMXIV II. The Dawn of Guilt III. Highgate IV. Cornwall in Childhood V. Private School VI. London VII. Marlborough VIII. Cornwall in Adolescence IX. The Opening World

Notes Index of First Lines Index of Places Also by John Betjeman About the Author Copyright