Complete Poems by Day-Lewis, Cecil -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Contents About the Book About the Author Dedication Title Page Introduction Beechen Vigil 1925

Dedication Epigraph The Net Beechen Vigil A Creation Rose-Pruner In a Wood Songs of Sirens Words A Rune for Anthony John Fairy to Children Song of Fairies Tapestries Lost Lines from the French No Meaner Quest Late Summer Dream-Maker Once in Arcady A Forest Piece Lines from Catullus Sanctuary An April Mood Eve He Thanks Earth for his Beloved The Fisher

Country Comets 1928

Epigraph Dedication Prelude Autumn of the Mood Sun and Waterfall Cyprian! Cyprian! Naked Woman with Kotyle Haven in Ithaca Magicians in Dorset From the Waters of Loch Linnhe The Shadow-Pimp It is the True Star Between Hush and Hush A Second Narcissus Retrospect: From a Street in Chelsea The only Pretty Ring-Time Under the Willow Photograph of a Bacchante At Greenlanes My Love came to Me Wreck near Ballinacarig Arcadian To his Mistress The Perverse Apologue

Transitional Poem 1929

Dedication Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Notes

From Feathers to Iron 1931

Dedication Epigraph Chapter One Epilogue

The Magnetic Mountain 1933

Dedication Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four

A Time to Dance 1935

Learning to Talk Moving In The Conflict Losers In Me Two Worlds A Warning to those who Live on Mountains Johnny Head-in-Air The Ecstatic Poem for an Anniversary Sonnet Two Songs A Carol A Time to Dance Epilogue

Noah and the Waters 1936

Dedication Author’s Foreword Epigraph Prologue

Overtures to Death 1938

Dedication Maple and Sumach February 1936 Bombers A Parting Shot Newsreel Regency Houses Landscapes Sex-Crime The Bells that Signed A Happy View Overtures to Death When they have lost In the Heart of Contemplation Sonnet for a Political Worker Questions The Volunteer The Nabara Spring Song Night Piece The Three Cloud-Maidens Behold the Swan Song The Escapist Passage from Childhood Self-Criticism and Answer

Word Over all 1943

Dedication Epigraph Part One

The Lighted House The Album The Hunter’s Game Departure in the Dark Cornet Solo O Dreams, O Destinations

Part Two

Word Over All The Image The Poet It Would be Strange The Assertion Watching Post The Stand-To Where are the War Poets? Angel Airmen Broadcast Lidice Ode to Fear The Dead Reconciliation Will it be so again?

Part Three

The Innocent One and One Windy Day in August After the Storm Fame Jig Hornpipe The Fault The Rebuke

Poems 1943–1947 1948

Dedication Epigraph The Double Vision Juvenilia Sketches for a Self-Portrait Marriage of Two Married Dialogue The Woman Alone Ending Heart and Mind A Failure The Unwanted The Sitting Statuette: Late Minoan The Revenant The House-Warming Meeting The Heartsease Is it far to go? New Year’s Eve Emily Brontë Birthday Poem for Thomas Hardy Who Goes There? Lines for Edmund Blunden on his Fiftieth Birthday Buzzards over Castle Hill A Hard Frost The Christmas Tree The Chrysanthemum Show Two Songs Minor Tragedy On the Sea Wall Ewig All Gone The Neurotic The Two Travellers Seen From the Train Outside and In The Misfit In the Shelter Two Translations

An Italian Visit 1953

Epigraph Dedication Part One

Dialogue at the Airport

Part Two

Flight to Italy

Part Three

A Letter from Rome

Part Four

Bus to Florence

Part Five

Florence: Works of Art Singing Children: Luca Della Robbia Judith and Holofernes: Donatello Annunciation: Leonardo Perseus Rescuing Andromeda: Piero di Cosimo Boy with Dolphin Verrochio

Part Six

Elegy Before Death: At Settignano

Part Seven

The Homeward Prospect

Pegasus 1957

Dedication Part One

Pegasus Psyche Baucis and Philemon Ariadne on Naxos

Part Two

A Riddle Seasonable Thoughts for Intellectuals The Committee The Wrong Road The Pest Almost Human George Meredith, 1861 The Mirror Love and Pity The Tourists In Memory of Dylan Thomas Elegiac Sonnet Final Instructions

Part Three

The House Where I was Born Father to Sons Son and Father Christmas Eve ‘The Years O’ Lot 96 Time to Go On a Dorset Upland Dedham Vale, Easter 1954 The Great Magicians Moods of Love Last Words

The Gate 1962

Dedication Acknowledgments Bread and Wine The Gate View from an Upper Window The Newborn Sheepdog Trials in Hyde Park Circus Lion Getting Warm – Getting Cold Walking Away This Young Girl Travelling Light Things An Episode A Loss A Meeting An Upland Field The Disabused Not Proven Wind’s Eye In Loving Memory Edward Elgar Ideal Home Fisherman and/or Fish The Antique Heroes The Graves of Academe ‘Said the Old Codger’ The Unexploded Bomb The Christmas Rose Requiem for the Living

The Room 1965

Dedication Fables and Confessions:

The Room On not Saying Everything The Way In The Passion for Diving Derelict Saint Anthony’s Shirt Days before a Journey Fishguard to Rosslare The Hieroglyph Seven Steps in Love The Fox The Romantics Stephanotis The Dam An Operation

Others:

Who Goes Home? Pietà Elegy for a Woman Unknown Young Chekhov The Widow Interviewed For Rex Warner on his Sixtieth Birthday My Mother’s Sister Madrigal for Lowell House This Loafer Grey Squirrel: Greenwich Park Terns Apollonian Figure A Relativist Moral The Voyage

The Whispering Roots 1970

Dedication Epigraph Part One

The House Where I was Born Ballintubbert House, Co. Laois Fishguard to Rosslare Golden Age, Monart, Co. Wexford Avoca, Co. Wicklow Near Ballyconneely, Co. Galway Land Kilmainham Jail: Easter Sunday, 1966 Remembering Con Markievicz Lament for Michael Collins Ass in Retirement Beauty Show, Clifden, Co. Galway Harebells over Mannin Bay At Old Head, Co. Mayo Sailing from Cleggan Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo An Ancestor Goldsmith outside Trinity The Whispering Roots

Part Two

Some Beautiful Morning A Skull Picked Clean All Souls’ Night Hero and Saint Sunday Afternoon A Privileged Moment A Picture by Renoir A Tuscan Villa Merry-go-Round Philosophy Lectures After an Encaenia Tenure Epitaph for a Drug-Addict A Marriage Song At East Coker

Posthumous Poems 1979

Dedication The Park, Guy’s Hospital: Early Morning The Expulsion: Masaccio My Méséglise Way Snowfall on a College Garden Three Little Pictures Reflections 1 Reflections 2 Poets, Uncage the Word! A Christmas Way Plus Ultra Recurring Dream Going My Way? Hellene: Philhellene Remembering Carrownisky Children Leaving Home At Lemmons

Vers d’Occasion

Then and Now Hail, Teesside! Old Vic, 1818–1968 Feed my Little Ones In a Library For the Investiture of the Prince of Wales Battle of Britain Keep Faith with Nature Beethoven, 1770–1970 St. Paul’s – Old and New Hymn for Shakespeare’s Birthday Another Day A Short Dirge for St. Trinian’s Cat Tuscany Keats, 1821–1971

Index of First Lines Acknowledgements Copyright

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