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Cover Landing Page Title Page Contents Preface by CAROL ANN DUFFY I I sing my own true story, tell my travels … (600–1300)

Caedmon’s Hymn Song to a Child Jesus and the Sparrows from Beowulf from The Gododdin Bede’s Death Song Death Song for Owain ab Urien ‘Birdsong from a willow tree’ The Battle of Brunanburh The King of Connacht Wulf ‘Wind fierce to-night’ The Wife’s Lament Exile from The Seafarer ‘There’s a lady in these parts’ The Wish of Manchán of Liath The Praises of God The End of Clonmacnois Winter Cold Durham Advice to Lovers from Sweeney Astray Writing Out of Doors from The Mabinogi: Rhiannon ‘Derry I cherish ever’ I am Taliesin The Heart of the Wood This ae Night

II Bring us in good ale … (1300–1500)

from The Parliament of Fowls from The General Prologue from The Nun’s Priest’s Tale The Seagull The Thrush from Piers Plowman In Defence of Women from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from Pearl The Prologue The Toad and the Mouse A Girl’s Hair To a Ladye ‘I sing of a maiden’ Shirt of a Lad ‘The silver swan, who living had no note’ The Blackbird of Derrycairn ‘Dear, if you change, I’ll never choose again’ May Poem The Wife Who Would a Wanton Be Bring Us in Good Ale

III Fair rocks, goodly rivers, sweet woods … (1500–1600)

‘Western wind, when wilt thou blow?’ The Breach in the Wall This is the House That Jack Built ‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’ The Ballad which Anne Askew Made and Sang when She was in Newgate Satyr upon Sir Niel Laing A— B— on t he learned Bartholo Sylva The Doubt of Future Foes When I Was Fair and Young To Queen Elizabeth A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will Verses in Italian and French, written by the Queen of Scots to the Queen of England God send euerie Preist ane wyfe from The Faerie Queene Echo ‘Sweet kiss, thy sweets I fain would sweetly indite’ The Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer from Poly-Olbion The Passionate Shepherd to his Love from The Tempest from King John ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’ from Antony and Cleopatra from Love’s Labour’s Lost from Henry V from King Richard II ‘Now winter nights enlarge’ ‘There is a garden in her face’ Inviting a Friend to Supper To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us Song to Celia

IV Church-bells beyond the stars heard … (1600–1700)

The Flea The Sun Rising Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed Lady Greensleeves ‘Love like a juggler comes to play his prize’ ‘Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best’ The Argument of His Book Corinna’s Going a-Maying Delight in Disorder Julia in Silks To the Virgins to Make Much of Time Love Avarice Prayer The Glance The Battle of Inverlochy ‘Like as the damask rose you see’ from Life and Death Brothers The Twa Corbies Marriage of the Dwarfs from Paradise Lost Maggie Lauder Blue Song To His Coy Mistress The Mower to the Glow-Worms To my Daughter Catherine on Ashwednesday 1645, finding her weeping at prayers, because I would not consent to her fasting ‘I saw eternity the other night’ Son-days The Waterfall Friends Departed In Praise of a Girl Nature’s Cook A Song of Sorrow An Answer to another persuading a Lady to Marriage The Downfall of Charing Cross ‘If all the world were paper’ The Drowned Blackbird

V Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear … (1700–1800)

Verses Said to be Written on the Union The Liberty A Grey Eye Weeping The Glamoured To a very young Gentleman at a Dancing-School A New Song of New Similes Ode on Solitude from Song of Summer Wedlock: A Satire On Inclosures The Mother’s Lament for Her Child There’s Nae Luck about the House Satire upon the Heads; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring from Jubilate Agno On the New Laureate ‘Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds’ The Post-Boy Washing Day Cock Robbin Poet to Blacksmith Written near a port on a dark evening Caller Oysters The Daft-Days The Litany for Doneraile from Peter Grimes The School Boy Holy Thursday A Question Answered The Camp A Riddle Mary Morison A Red, Red Rose Ae Fond Kiss Green Grow the Rashes Lament for Culloden Hay Making Will Ye No Come Back Again? The Land o’ the Leal Love is like a dizziness The Village of Balmaquhapple

VI Silent icicles, quietly shining to the quiet moon … (1800–1850)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 from The Prelude Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Floating Island Frost at Midnight A Soliloquy of the full Moon, She being in a Mad Passion – Written in Winter ‘She walks in beauty, like the night’ ‘So, we’ll go no more a roving’ England in 1819 Ode to the West Wind Pleasant Sounds Th e Moors Summer Evening Oor Location Auld Mither Sc otlan’ ‘This living hand, now warm and capable’ A Song about Myself On the Grasshopper and the Cricket ‘Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art’ Grief When Our Two Souls ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’ Lord Walter’s Wife ‘Come i nto the garden, Maud’ The Charge of the Light Brigade Crossing the Bar The Visionary Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Meeting at Night Porphyria’s Lover

VII Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers … (1850–1900)

Dover Beach A Christmas Carol The Queen of Hearts The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay A Scherzo (a Shy Person’s Wishes) Seven Times One: Exultation The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Akond of Swat The Walrus and the Carpenter Proud Songsters After a Journey Neutral Tones The Convergence of the Twain Felix Randal God’s Grandeur Hurrahing in Harvest The Sea and the Skylark ‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’ London Snow On a Dead Child Manly Sports The Lady Poverty ‘She was poor, but she was honest’ The Woman of Llyn y Fan’s Call to Her Cattle Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad-House Symphony in Yellow The Motor Bus Soliloquy of a Maiden Aunt ‘When first my way to fair I took’ ‘Here dead lie we because we did not choose’ Tam i’ the Kirk The Way Through the Woods

VIII All the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire … (1900–1918)

The Wild Swans at Coole The Song of Wandering Aengus No Second Troy Easter, 1916 An Irish Airman Foresees his Death The Farmer’s Bride On the Road to the Sea The Trees are Down Rooms Ballade of Genuine Concern Hannaker Mill The Villain No The Birthnight The Rolling English Road Ballade of Liquid Refreshment Adlestrop Words What shall I give? Tall Nettles The Nightingale Near the House Overheard on a Saltmarsh The Lion and Albert Mrs Reece Laughs The Fired Pot Meditation at Kew Survivors The General Everyone Sang Falling Asleep August 1914 Break of Day in the Trenches Lunch Hour The Silent One First Time In The Soaking Anthem for Doomed Youth Disabled Dulce et Decorum Est Insensibility

IX I think we are in rats’ alley where the dead men lost their bones … (1918–1945)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock from The Waste Land Full Moon The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly Ducks A Saturday in the ’20s The Bonnie Broukit Bairn Back Bedroom Mary’s Song The Blue Jacket Alas! Poor Queen The Bells of Rhymney The Angry Summer Cascando Piano Innocent England Week-night Service The Fox Childhood To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train The Ponnage Pool The Interrogation The Late Wasp from In Parenthesis Aubade Still Falls the Rain Desire in Spring To a Conscript of 1940 Refugee Blues Night Mail In Memory of W. B. Yeats Carrickfergus Soap Suds Snow Ghosts in New Houses What the Gardener Said to Mrs Traill He Liked the Dead Lessons of the War In Hospital: Poona (i) All Day it has Rained … The Mountain over Aberdare A Wartime Dawn Canoe

X Hi yih, yippity-yap, merrily I flow … (1945–1970)

Fern Hill Poem on His Birthday In my Craft or Sullen Art Anne Donne Tilth The Christmas Robin An Old Woman Speaks of the Moon Wild Honey Sin Lovers are Separate Ends Meet from The Sound of the Wind that is Blowing The River God of the River Mimram in Hertfordshire Correspondence between Mr Harrison in Newcastle and Mr Sholto Peach Harrison in Hull Infelice The Long Garden Epic What Is a Man? Listening to Collared Doves Northumbrian Sequence: IV To my sister Sian Brither Worm I’m Neutral Ghaisties Poem From Llanybri Poem For a Child Expected Black Friday Dead ponies The Bee Meeting Blackberrying Addiction to an Old Mattress The Sofas, Fogs and Cinemas I Shall Vote Labour Tonight at Noon Celia, Celia from Briggflatts

XI The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, the guildhalls, the carved choirs … (1970–2000)

To My Wife at Midnight Greenock at Night I Find You Loch Thom Feeding Ducks Toad Deceptions? The Bright Field The Moon in Lleyn Zero The Elm Decline Eden Rock The Green Man’s Last Will and Testament Thoughts after Ruskin Midge Sir James Murray Canedolia Barn Owl Water Butter Hamnavoe Market Haddock Fishermen Money Water Going, Going I Was Not There The Boasts of Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd Epithalamion The Lost Woman Scotland The Child’s Story My Grandmother A Bird in the House When I am Reading Owl and Mouse You Are at the Bottom of My Mind Some Poetry Hampstead: the Horse Chestnut Trees Father in the Railway Buffet Football at Slack Wind Epiphany Elegy for the Welsh Dead, in the Falkland Islands, 1982 from Mercian Hymns Punishment The Harvest Bow The Guttural Muse A Keen for the Coins The Blackbird of Glanmore

XII if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo … (2000–)

Englan Voice The Nation Handbag Willow Song Immigrant Begin River & Fountain Dreams of a Summer Night Extra Helpings Swineherd gaelic is alive When I Grow Up New Year Behind the Asylum Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest’s Parlour The Achill Woman How the Wild South East was Lost ‘Unrelated Incidents’ – No. 3 Shakespeare at School Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990 Belfast Confetti Poor Snow Listen Mr Oxford Don Alien To a Cuckoo at Coolanlough I think someone might write an elegy Incantata Inglan is a Bitch The Orchids at Cwm y Gaer Cousin Coat Aubade From the Irish Phrase Book I swear Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan Seed The Singer On the Roof of the World The Wife of Bath Speaks in Brixton Market From Dublin to Ramallah The Women of Mumbles Head The Numties Song of a Wire Fence Pride Mappamundi Elevation Flood Before and After Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead Blackwater To the Women of the Merrie England Coffee Houses, Huddersfield A Private Bottling The London Eye from The Electric Poly-Olbion Our Town with the Whole of India! Another Westminster Bridge Liverpool Blues And They Call It Lovely Derry 10th February: Queen In Belfast Already someone’s set their dogs among the swans Us

Acknowledgements Index of Poets and Translators Index of Titles and First Lines About the Editors Copyright

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