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Index
Cover
Landing Page
Title Page
Contents
Preface
PART ONE Poems (1933)
I ‘He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye’
II ‘Rolled over on Europe: the sharp dew frozen to stars’
III ‘Marston, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe.’
IV ‘Not to you I sighed. No, not a word’
V ‘Acts passed beyond the boundary of mere wishing’
VI ‘I hear the cries of evening, while the paw’
VII ‘Different living is not living in different places’
VIII ‘An “I” can never be a great man’
IX Beethoven’s Death Mask
X ‘Never being, but always at the edge of Being’
XI ‘My parents quarrel in the neighbour room’
XII ‘My parents kept me from children who were rough’
XIII ‘What I expected was’
XIV In 1929
XV The Port
XVI ‘Moving through the silent crowd’
XVII ‘Who live under the shadow of a war’
XVIII ‘How strangely this sun reminds me of my love!’
XIX ‘Your body is stars whose million glitter here’
XX The Prisoners
XXI ‘Without that once clear aim, the path of flight’
XXII ‘oh young men oh young comrades’
XXIII ‘I think continually of those who were truly great.’
XXIV ‘After they have tired of the brilliance of cities’
XXV The Funeral
XXVI The Express
XXVII The Landscape near an Aerodrome
XXVIII The Pylons
XXIX ‘Abrupt and charming mover’
XXX ‘In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic’
XXXI ‘Those fireballs, those ashes’
XXXII ‘From all these events, from the slump, from the war, from the boom’
XXXIII ‘Not palaces, an era’s crown’
PART TWO
‘Lying awake at night’
‘That girl who laughed and had black eyes’
XXVI Van der Lubbe
Speech from a Play
‘If it were not too late!’
In No Man’s Land
Polar Exploration
The Past Values
An Elementary School Class Room in a Slum
Hampstead Autumn
The Room above the Square
View from a Train
Two Armies
Ultima Ratio Regum
The Coward
A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map
War Photograph
Fall of a City
At Castellon
The Bombed Happiness
Darkness and Light
The Separation
To a Spanish Poet
Auf dem Wasser zu Singen
The Vase of Tears
The Double Shame
No Orpheus, No Eurydice
The Drowned
The Barn
To Natasha
from Elegy for Margaret II, V
Man and Woman
Lost
Seascape
To My Daughter
Missing My Daughter
Nocturne
Sirmione Peninsula
Subject: Object: Sentence
Middle East
from Diary Poems: 26 January 1970
A Father in Time of War
Air Raid
The Generous Days
A First War Childhood
PART THREE
Orpheus Eurydice Hermes (Rilke)
from The Duino Elegies: The First Elegy (Rilke)
from The Duino Elegies: The Fifth Elegy (Rilke)
Paris (Aragon)
Ballad of the Exterior Life (Hofmannsthal)
from Antigone
About the Author
By the Same Author
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