Opened Ground · Poems, 1966-96 by Heaney, Seamus -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Praise Title Page Dedication Author’s Note Table of Contents from DEATH OF A NATURALIST (1966)

Digging Death of a Naturalist The Barn Blackberry-Picking Churning Day Follower Mid-Term Break The Diviner Poem Personal Helicon Antaeus

from DOOR INTO THE DARK (1969)

The Outlaw The Forge Thatcher The Peninsula Requiem for the Croppies Undine The Wife’s Tale Night Drive Relic of Memory A Lough Neagh Sequence The Given Note Whinlands The Plantation Bann Clay Bogland

from WINTERING OUT (1972)

Fodder Bog Oak Anahorish Servant Boy Land Gifts of Rain Toome Broagh Oracle The Backward Look A New Song The Other Side Tinder The Tollund Man Nerthus Wedding Day Mother of the Groom Summer Home Serenades Shore Woman Limbo Bye-Child Good-night Fireside Westering

from STATIONS (1975)

Nesting-Ground July England’s Difficulty Visitant Trial Runs The Wanderer Cloistered The Stations of the West Incertus

from NORTH (1975)

Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication Funeral Rites North Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces Bone Dreams Bog Queen The Grauballe Man Punishment Strange Fruit Kinship Act of Union Hercules and Antaeus from Whatever You Say Say Nothing Singing School

from FIELD WORK (1979)

Oysters Triptych The Toome Road A Drink of Water The Strand at Lough Beg Casualty Badgers The Singer’s House The Guttural Muse Glanmore Sonnets An Afterwards The Otter The Skunk A Dream of Jealousy Field Work Song Leavings The Harvest Bow In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge Ugolino

from SWEENEY ASTRAY (1983)

Sweeney in Flight The Names of the Hare

from STATION ISLAND (1984)

The Underground Sloe Gin Chekhov on Sakhalin Sandstone Keepsake

from Shelf Life

Granite Chip Old Smoothing Iron Stone from Delphi Making Strange The Birthplace Changes A Bat on the Road A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann A Kite for Michael and Christopher The Railway Children Widgeon Sheelagh na Gig ‘Aye’ The King of the Ditchbacks Station Island

from Sweeney Redivivus

The First Gloss Sweeney Redivivus In the Beech The First Kingdom The First Flight Drifting Off The Cleric The Hermit The Master The Scribes Holly An Artist The Old Icons In Illo Tempore On the Road Villanelle for an Anniversary

from THE HAW LANTERN (1987)

For Bernard and Jane McCabe Alphabets Terminus From the Frontier of Writing The Haw Lantern From the Republic of Conscience Hailstones The Stone Verdict The Spoonbait Clearances The Milk Factory The Wishing Tree Grotus and Coventina Wolfe Tone From the Canton of Expectation The Mud Vision The Disappearing Island The Riddle

from THE CURE AT TROY (1990)

Voices from Lemnos

from SEEING THINGS (1991)

The Golden Bough Markings Man and Boy Seeing Things An August Night Field of Vision The Pitchfork The Settle Bed from Glanmore Revisited A Pillowed Head A Royal Prospect Wheels within Wheels Fosterling

from Squarings

Lightenings Settings Crossings Squarings A Transgression

from THE SPIRIT LEVEL (1995)

The Rain Stick Mint A Sofa in the Forties Keeping Going Two Lorries Damson Weighing In St Kevin and the Blackbird from The Flight Path Mycenae Lookout The Gravel Walks Whitby-sur-Moyola ‘Poet’s Chair’ The Swing Two Stick Drawings A Call The Errand A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also The Strand The Walk At the Wellhead At Banagher Tollund Postscript

Crediting Poetry

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm

Index of Titles

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X

Index of First Lines About the Author Copyright

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