Selected Poems by Cunard, Nancy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents Introduction OUTLAWS · 1921

Outlaws And if the End Be Now?… Moon The Sonnet of Happiness I II Praise The Lovers Wheels Zeppelins The Last of Pierrot Sonnet War Monkery! 1917 Promise Lament Mood The Knave of Spades Psalm Prayer Sirens Evenings The River Nene Voyages North The Love Story Transmutation Love Poor-Streets The Wreath Sonnet Answer to a Reproof Sonnet Western Islands The Haunted Castle Thamar

SUBLUNARY · 1923

Sublunary In a Café Eusebius Doubts Iris of Memories Mary Queen of Scots Ballad of 5 Rue De L’Etoile Memory at the Fair Adolescence The April Hour Premature Spring Sonnet Mist In the Valley of Willows At Martin-Eglise Bottles, Mirrors and Alchemy Drought Shall We Forget? In the Valley of Arques The Siege Twelve Chimes upon the Clock Horns in the Valley Here is the Autumn If We Devise Tonight – Adventurer The New Friend Sonnet The Spiders Weave Provence

Southward Beaucaire At Les Baux To Vaucluse Came Petrarch and Laura At St Rémy Saintes Maries-De-La-Mer By the Dordogne The Night in Avignon New Coasts Red Earth, Pale Olive, Fragmentary Vine The Solitary Pale Moon, Slip of Malachite Tempests Echoes Toulonnaise A Vis-à-vis Spenkler Allegory Pays Hanté

From Afar

From Afar Buddha above the Hearth The Caravans Return What If the Bell Is Loud Time Alone Grapples I Ask No Questionable Understanding These Rocked the Cradle An Exile You Have Lit the Only Candle I Think of You I Have Never Loved One That Was Not Proud at Heart So May You Nail Your Sorrow to My Name’s Cross I Shall Depart At Fuenterrabia in Spain Cap Du Figuier To the Eiffel Tower Restaurant I Am Not One for Expression To I. T. and T. W. E. ‘Les Jeunes’ Crepuscule Sentimentale Opium Les Masques

PARALLAX · 1925 FROM · POEMS TWO 1925 · 1930

Simultaneous In Provins

FROM · RELÈVE INTO MAQUIS · 1944

Relève into Maquis

MAN SHIP TANK GUN PLANE · 1944 FROM THE BODLEIAN MANUSCRIPT

Love’s Alba Against Time, Time’s Against Love Love, Death, Time, Weather Between Time and Etc Tell It, Glen And Also Faustus Yes, It Is Spain To Eat Today Pamiatnik – Memorial of Bittersweet E O S Sequences from a Long Epic on Spain The Lands That Were Today Journey to the New World The Chilean Sonnets Psalm for Trinidad ‘How Long?’ Is Not ‘For Ever’ Less Than the Slave In answer to Trinidad’s poet who asks me ‘…What was it moved you to enlist In our sad cause your all of heart and soul?’ 14 Juillet 1941 Fragment in the Old World Incarnations Whose Desert? Dordogne

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED OR UNCOLLECTED POEMS

Soldiers Fallen in Battle Remorse Uneasiness Brigit Victor and Nancy at Pertenhall in Feb, Say, of the Early Fifties Pain Sonnets Stripling To Professor Bernelot Moens To Douglas Cooper from Nancy Cunard For Douglas Cooper Passport to Freedom The Poet to His Wars Three Prison Sonnets By Their Faces Shall Ye Know Them In the Watches of the Night Order To Whom? Portrait-Sonnet ‘Till Dawn do us Deliver’ 8 AM Sonnet From Afar Of Liberty Saintes De La Mer Aigues Mortes Trasimene When We Must Go Our Ways The Solitary The White Cat Wansford Bridge Spring Looking at a Photograph in the Same Dress 1928 to 1926 For December 1929’s Spring Poem The Boeuf Blues Equatorial Way Southern Sheriff ‘Rape’ Réanville In the Studio In San Gimignano June for Italy – June For Freedom Kikuyu Jaime Late Night Sonnet Letter Lincoln The Love Story ¿Me Oyes, Mijito? Mosley 1943 Myself And an Afternoon April, 1942 Saturday Night in ‘The Golden Lion’ October-November Night in ‘The Coach & Horses’ Of a Glass Stopper Found in the Sea at Collioure S.W. France, in 1951 Pisces Pulled Plough ‘Come, Liberating Wine!’ Oath – History Repeats From Prison You

Notes to the Poems Further Reading Acknowledgements About the Author Copyright

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