The Complete Poems by Graves, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Introduction The Complete Poems

Over the Brazier (1916)

The Poet in the Nursery Part I. – Poems Mostly Written At Charterhouse – 1910–1914 Star-Talk The Dying Knight and the Fauns Willaree The Face of the Heavens Jolly Yellow Moon Youth and Folly Ghost Music In Spite [Free Verse] In the Wilderness Oh, and Oh! Cherry-Time Part II. – POems Written Before La BassÉe –1915 On Finding Myself a Soldier The Shadow of Death A Renascence The Morning Before the Battle Limbo The Trenches Nursery Memories

I The First Funeral II The Adventure III I Hate the Moon

Big Words The Dead Fox Hunter It’s a Queer Time 1915 Over the Brazier

Goliath and David (1916)

The Bough of Nonsense Goliath and David A Pinch of Salt Babylon Careers The Lady Visitor in the Pauper Ward The Last Post A Dead Boche Escape Not Dead

From Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)

To an Ungentle Critic The Legion To Lucasta on Going to the Wars – for the Fourth Time Two Fusiliers To R.N. [To Robert Nichols] Dead Cow Farm Mr. Philosopher The Cruel Moon Finland The Caterpillar Sorley’s Weather The Cottage When I’m Killed Familiar Letter to Siegfried Sassoon [Letter to S.S. from Mametz Wood] Faun The Spoilsport The Shivering Beggar Jonah John Skelton I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? Double Red Daisies I’d Love to Be a Fairy’s Child The Next War Strong Beer Marigolds Love and Black Magic Smoke-Rings A Child’s Nightmare A Boy in Church Corporal Stare ‘The Assault Heroic’

From Treasure Box (1919)

Song: A Phoenix Flame [Morning Phoenix] Catherine Drury The Treasure Box The Kiss Lost Love Fox’s Dingle Mirror, Mirror!

Country Sentiment (1920)

A Frosty Night A Song for Two Children Dicky The Three Drinkers The Boy out of Church After the Play [The Forbidden Play] One Hard Look True Johnny The Voice of Beauty Drowned The God Called Poetry Rocky Acres Advice to Lovers Nebuchadnezzar’s Fall Give Us Rain Allie Loving Henry Brittle Bones Apples and Water Manticor in Arabia Outlaws Baloo Loo for Jenny Hawk and Buckle The Alice Jean The Cupboard The Beacon Pot and Kettle The Haunted House [Ghost Raddled] Neglectful Edward The Well-Dressed Children Thunder at Night Wild Strawberries [To E.M. – A Ballad of Nursery Rhyme] Jane Vain and Careless Nine o’Clock The Picture Book The Promised Lullaby Retrospect Haunted Retrospect: The Jests of the Clock Here They Lie Tom Taylor Country at War Sospan Fach The Leveller Hate Not, Fear Not A Rhyme of Friends A First Review

From The Pier-Glass (1921)

The Stake The Troll’s Nosegay The Pier-Glass The Finding of Love Reproach The Magical Picture Distant Smoke Raising the Stone The Gnat The Patchwork Bonnet Kit Logan and Lady Helen Down Saul of Tarsus Storm: At the Farm Window Black Horse Lane Return Incubus The Hills of May The Coronation Murder

Whipperginny (1923)

Whipperginny The Bedpost A Lover Since Childhood Song of Contrariety Love in Barrenness [The Ridge-Top] Song in Winter Unicorn and the White Doe Song: Sullen Moods Angry Samson [A False Report] Children of Darkness Richard Roe and John Doe The Dialecticians [The Philosophers] The Land of Whipperginny ‘The General Eliott’ A Fight to the Death Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend [Old Wives’ Tales] Christmas Eve The Snake and the Bull The Red Ribbon Dream In Procession Henry and Mary An English Wood What Did I Dream? [The Dream] Interlude: On Preserving a Poetical Formula Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist A History of Peace The Rock Below An Idyll of Old Age The Lord Chamberlain Tells of a Famous Meeting The Sewing Basket Against Clock and Compasses The Avengers The Poet’s Birth The Technique of Perfection The Sibyl A Crusader A New Portrait of Judith of Bethulia A Reversal The Martyred Decadents: A Sympathetic Satire Epigrams

On Christopher Marlowe A Village Feud [A Village Conflict] Dedicatory To R. Graves, Senior ‘A Vehicle, to Wit, A Bicycle’ Motto to a Book of Emblems

The Bowl and Rim A Forced Music The Turn of a Page The Manifestation in the Temple To Any Saint A Dewdrop A Valentine

The Feather Bed (1923)

The Witches’ Cauldron [Prologue] The Feather Bed I Am the Star of Morning [Epilogue]

Mock Beggar Hall (1924)

Diplomatic Relations [George II and the Chinese Emperor] Hemlock Full Moon Myrrhina Twin Souls The North Window Attercop: The All-Wise Spider Antinomies Northward from Oxford Witches Antigonus: An Eclogue Essay on Continuity Knowledge of God Mock Beggar Hall: A Progression The Rainbow and the Sceptic

Welchman’s Hose (1925)

Alice Burrs and Brambles From Our Ghostly Enemy Death of the Farmer [The Figure-Head] Ovid in Defeat Diversions

To an Editor The Kingfisher’s Return Love Without Hope Traveller’s Curse After Misdirection Tilly Kettle

The College Debate Sergeant-Major Money A Letter from Wales The Presence The Clipped Stater The Poetic State Vanity [Essay on Knowledge] At the Games

The Marmosite’s Miscellany (1925)

To M. in India The Marmosite’s Miscellany The Moment of Weakness

From Poems (1914–26) (1927)

The Country Dance The Rose and the Lily An Occasion A Dedication of Three Hats Ancestors The Corner Knot Virgil the Sorcerer Recent Poems: 1925–26 Pygmalion to Galatea In Committee A Letter to a Friend In Single Syllables [This Is Noon] The Time of Day Blonde or Dark? Boots and Bed The Taint Dumplings’ Address to Gourmets Sorrow The Nape of the Neck A Visit to Stratford Pure Death The Cool Web

From Poems (1914–27) (1927)

The Progress Hell The Furious Voyage [The Dead Ship; Ship Master] O Jorrocks, I Have Promised Lost Acres Gardener [The Awkward Gardener] To a Charge of Didacticism The Philatelist-Royal Song: To Be Less Philosophical

Poems 1929 (1929)

Sick Love [Between Dark and Dark; O Love in Me] In No Direction In Broken Images Thief [To the Galleys] Warning to Children Dismissal Guessing Black or White Hector Against Kind Midway Cabbage Patch [Green Cabbage Wit] The Castle Welsh Incident [Railway Carriage] Back Door Front Door Soliloquy [Front Door] Anagrammagic [The Tow-Path] Vision in the Repair-Shop [Repair Shop] Nature’s Lineaments [Landscape] Sea Side [Sandhills] Wm. Brazier [Pavement] A Former Attachment [Quayside] Return Fare Single Fare It Was All Very Tidy A Sheet of Paper

Ten Poems More (1930)

The Reader Over My Shoulder History of the Word Interruption Survival of Love New Legends [The Age of Certainty] Saint [The Beast] Tap Room [Cracking the Nut Against the Hammer] The Terraced Valley Oak, Poplar, Pine Act V, Scene 5 Song: Lift-Boy [Tail Piece: A Song to Make You and Me Laugh]

From Poems 1926–1930 (1931)

Brother Bay of Naples Flying Crooked Reassurance to the Satyr Synthetic Such Dragons The Next Time

To Whom Else? (1931)

Largesse to the Poor The Felloe’d Year Time On Rising Early On Dwelling On Necessity The Foolish Senses Devilishly Provoked [Devilishly Disturbed] The Legs Ogres and Pygmies To Whom Else? As It Were Poems, i, ii, iii On Portents

From Poems 1930–1933 (1933)

The Bards [Lust in Song] Ulysses Down, Wanton, Down! The Philosopher [The Cell] The Succubus Nobody Danegeld Trudge, Body! Music at Night Without Pause The Clock Man [The Clock Men] The Commons of Sleep What Times Are These?

From Collected Poems (1938)

The Christmas Robin [Wanderings of Christmas] Certain Mercies The Cuirassiers of the Frontier Callow Captain The Stranger The Smoky House Variables of Green [Green Loving] The Goblet Fiend, Dragon, Mermaid Fragment of a Lost Poem Galatea and Pygmalion The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers Lunch-Hour Blues Hotel Bed at Lugano [Hotel Bed] Progressive Housing Leda The Florist Rose Being Tall At First Sight Recalling War X Parent to Children To Challenge Delight To Walk on Hills To Bring the Dead to Life To Evoke Posterity Any Honest Housewife [The Poets] Defeat of the Rebels The Grudge Never Such Love The Halfpenny The Fallen Signpost The China Plate Idle Hands The Laureate A Jealous Man The Cloak The Halls of Bedlam Or to Perish Before Day A Country Mansion The Eremites Advocates Self-Praise The Challenge To the Sovereign Muse The Ages of Oath Like Snow The Climate of Thought End of Play The Fallen Tower of Siloam The Great-Grandmother No More Ghosts Leaving the Rest Unsaid

From No More Ghosts (1940)

The Glutton [The Beast] A Love Story The Thieves To Sleep

From Work In Hand (1942)

Dawn Bombardment The Worms of History A Withering Herb The Shot Dream of a Climber Lollocks Despite and Still The Suicide in the Copse Frightened Men A Stranger at the Party The Oath Language of the Seasons Mid-Winter Waking The Rock at the Corner

From Poems 1938–1945 (1945)

The Beach The Villagers and Death The Door Under the Pot Through Nightmare To Lucia at Birth Death by Drums She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep Instructions to the Orphic Adept Theseus and Ariadne Lament for Pasiphaë The Twelve Days of Christmas Cold Weather Proverb To Juan at the Winter Solstice Satires and Grotesques The Persian Version The Weather of Olympus Apollo of the Physiologists The Oldest Soldier Grotesques, i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi The Eugenist 1805 At the Savoy Chapel

From Collected Poems (1914–1947) (1948)

To Poets Under Pisces June The Last Day of Leave To Be Called a Bear [To Be Named a Bear] A Civil Servant Gulls and Men Magical Poems The Allansford Pursuit Amergin’s Charm [The Alphabet Calendar of Amergin] The Sirens’ Welcome to Cronos Dichetal do Chennaib The Battle of the Trees The Song of Blodeuwedd Intercession in Late October The Tetragrammaton Nuns and Fish The Destroyer Return of the Goddess

From Poems and Satires 1951 (1951)

The White Goddess The Chink Counting the Beats The Jackals’ Address to Isis The Death Room The Young Cordwainer Your Private Way My Name and I Conversation Piece The Ghost and the Clock Advice on May Day For the Rain It Raineth Every Day Questions in a Wood The Portrait Darien The Survivor Prometheus SATIRES Queen-Mother to New Queen Secession of the Drones Damocles Homage to Texas The Dilemma General Bloodstock’s Lament for England ‘¡Wellcome, to the Caves of Artá!’ To a Poet in Trouble

From Poems 1953 (1953)

To Calliope The Straw The Foreboding Cry Faugh! Hercules at Nemea Dialogue on the Headland Lovers in Winter Esau and Judith The Mark With the Gift of a Ring Liadan and Curithir The Sea Horse The Devil at Berry Pomeroy Reproach to Julia Dethronement Cat-Goddesses The Blue-Fly Rhea The Hero Marginal Warning The Encounter I’m Through with You For Ever With Her Lips Only The Blotted Copy-Book The Sacred Mission From the Embassy Sirocco at Deyá

From Collected Poems 1955 (1955)

Penthesileia Poets’ Corner Coronation Address Beauty in Trouble A Lost Jewel The Window Sill Spoils

From the Crowning Privilege (1955)

The Clearing The Three Pebbles Possibly [The Question] End of the World To a Pebble in My Shoe The Tenants My Moral Forces Interview

From 5 Pens in Hand (1958)

The Face in the Mirror Forbidden Words Song for New Year’s Eve Alexander and Queen Janet [A Ballad of Alexander and Queen Janet] The Coral Pool Gratitude for a Nightmare Friday Night The Naked and the Nude Woman and Tree Destruction of Evidence The Second-Fated A Slice of Wedding Cake [Bitter Thoughts on Receiving a Slice of Cordelia’s Wedding Cake] A Plea to Boys and Girls A Bouquet from a Fellow Roseman Yes The Outsider

From Steps (1958)

The Enlisted Man Mike and Mandy [Caroline and Charles] Nothing Call It a Good Marriage Read Me, Please! The Twin of Sleep Around the Mountain

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From Food for Centaurs (1960)

Twice of the Same Fever Established Lovers The Quiet Glades of Eden Heroes in Their Prime Catkind Two Children [The Young Goddess] Here Live Your Life Out! Joan and Darby Superman on the Riviera The Picture Nail Old World Dialogue The Were-Man The Person from Porlock

From The Penny Fiddle (1960)

The Penny Fiddle Robinson Crusoe The Six Badgers Jock o’Binnorie

From More Poems (1961)

Lyceia Symptoms of Love The Sharp Ridge Under the Olives The Visitation Fragment Apple Island The Falcon Woman Troughs of Sea The Laugh The Death Grapple The Starred Coverlet The Intrusion Patience The Cure Hag-Ridden Turn of the Moon The Secret Land Seldom Yet Now To Myrto of Myrtles Anchises to Aphrodite A Lost World The Dangerous Gift Surgical Ward: Men Nightfall at Twenty Thousand Feet The Simpleton Two Rhymes About Fate and Money The Two Witches Burn It! Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday!

From Collected Poems 1961 (1961)

Ruby and Amethyst

From The More Deserving Cases (1962)

The Miller’s Man July 24th Safe Receipt of a Censored Letter

From New Poems 1962 (1962)

Recognition The Watch Name Day Uncalendared Love The Meeting Lack Not at Home Horizon Golden Anchor Lion Lover Ibycus in Samos Possessed The Winged Heart In Trance at a Distance The Wreath In Her Praise The Alabaster Throne A Restless Ghost Between Moon and Moon Beware, Madam! The Cliff Edge Acrobats Ouzo Unclouded The Broken Girth Inkidoo and the Queen of Babel Three Songs for the Lute

I Truth Is Poor Physic II In Her Only Way III Hedges Freaked with Snow

The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele The Unnamed Spell

From Man Does, Woman Is (1964)

A Time of Waiting Expect Nothing No Letter The Why of the Weather In Time Fire Walker Deed of Gift At Best, Poets She Is No Liar A Last Poem The Pearl The Leap Bank Account Judgement of Paris Man Does, Woman Is The Ample Garden To Myrto About Herself The Three-Faced Dazzle of Darkness Myrrhina Food of the Dead Eurydice To Beguile and Betray I Will Write Bird of Paradise The Metaphor Secrecy Joseph and Mary An East Wind Dance of Words A Blind Arrow The Oleaster The Septuagenarian Non Cogunt Astra Song: Sword and Rose Endless Pavement In Disguise A Measure of Casualness In Time of Absence The Green Castle Not to Sleep The Hearth That Other World The Beds of Grainne and Diarmuid Rain of Brimstone Consortium of Stones The Black Goddess Broken Neck O Woman of Greece The Colours of Night Between Trains To the Teumessian Vixen The Hung Wu Vase La Mejicana Lamia In Love After the Flood A Late Arrival Song: With No Return All I Tell You From My Heart The Undead

From Ann at Highwood Hall (1964)

Ann at Highwood Hall St Valentine’s Day I Have a Little Cough, Sir Joseph and Jesus

Love Respelt (1915)

The Red Shower Above the Edge of Doom Wild Cyclamen Gift of Sight Batxóca The Snap-Comb Wilderness Change A Court of Love Black Between Hyssop and Axe Gold and Malachite Ambience The Vow The Frog and the Golden Ball Those Who Came Short Whole Love This Holy Month The Blow The Impossible The Fetter Iron Palace True Joy Tomorrow’s Envy of Today The Hidden Garden The Wedding What Will Be, Is Son Altesse Everywhere Is Here Song: The Far Side of Your Moon Deliverance Conjunction Nothing Now Astonishes I’d Die for You [Postscript]

From Collected Poems 1965 (1965)

Grace Notes Good Night to the Old Gods The Sweet-Shop Round the Corner Double Bass Descent into Hell The Pardon Point of No Return A Shift of Scene

From Seventeen Poems Missing From ‘LOVE RESPELT’ (1966)

Cock in Pullet’s Feathers Dead Hand Arrears of Moonlight What Did You Say? Lure of Murder The Gorge Ecstasy of Chaos Stolen Jewel The Eagre The Snapped Thread [The Tangled Thread] Fortunate Child Loving True, Flying Blind The Near Eclipse Dancing Flame Birth of Angels On Giving

From Colophon To ‘Love Respelt’ (1967)

The P’eng that was a K’un Like Owls In Perspective The Utter Rim Bower-Bird Mist The Word Perfectionists Prison Walls A Dream of Hell Our Self Bites and Kisses Sun-Face and Moon-Face Freehold The Necklace A Bracelet Blackening Sky Blessed Sun Lion-Gentle Song: The Palm Tree Spite of Mirrors Pride of Love Hooded Flame Injuries Her Brief Withdrawal The Crane Strangeness

From The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star (1968)

Hide and Seek The Hero At Seventy-Two

From Poems 1965–1968 (1968)

Song: How Can I Care? Song: Though Once True Lovers Song: Cherries or Lilies Song: Crown of Stars Song: Fig Tree in Leaf Song: Dew-drop and Diamond Song: Just Friends Song: Of Course Song: Three Rings for Her Sincèrement Dans un Seul Lit Is Now the Time? Twins Sail and Oar Gooseflesh Abbey The Home-Coining With the Gift of a Lion’s Claw Wigs and Beards Personal Packaging, Inc. Work Room The Ark All Except Hannibal The Beggar Maid and King Cophetua For Ever Jugum Improbum De Arte Poetica Sit Mihi Terra Levis Astymelusa Tousled Pillow To Be In Love Fact of the Act To Ogmian Hercules Arrow Shots She to Him Within Reason The Yet Unsayable None the Wiser The Narrow Sea The Olive-Yard

Beyond Giving (1969)

Part I Song: To a Rose Song: Dream Warning Song: Beyond Giving Trial of Innocence Poisoned Day Superstition [Leave-Taking] In the Name of Virtue What We Did Next Compact Song: New Year Kisses Song: The Clocks of Time Gold Cloud Song: Basket of Blossom Song: Wherever We May Be What Is Love? Song: The Promise Song: Yesterday Only Part II Semi-Detached Iago Against Witchcraft Troublesome Fame Tolling Bell Blanket Charge The Strayed Message Song: The Sundial’s Lament Poem: A Reminder Antorcha y Corona, 1968; Torch and Crown, 1968 Armistice Day, 1918 The Motes

From Poems About Love (1969)

If and When

From Poems 1968–1970 (1970)

Song: The Sigil Song: Twinned Heart Song: Olive Tree Song: Once More Song: Victims of Calumny Love Gifts Mankind and Ocean Virgin Mirror Secret Theatre How It Started Brief Reunion The Judges Love and Night Child with Veteran Purification Powers Unconfessed Pandora Solomon’s Seal To Put It Simply To Tell and Be Told The Theme of Death At the Well Logic Robbers’ Den The Accomplice First Love Through a Dark Wood In the Vestry When Love Is Not The Reiteration Man of Evil The Raft The Uncut Diamond My Ghost [The Co-Walker] The Risk Something to Say OCCASIONALIA Research and Development: Classified The Imminent Seventies Carol of Patience H Invitation to Bristol The Primrose Bed The Strangling in Merrion Square The Awakening

From The Green-Sailed Vessel (1971)

The Hoopoe Tells Us How [Dedicatory] Part I: Love Poems The Wand Five; Quinque Arrow on the Vane Gorgon Mask To Be Poets With a Gift of Rings Casse-Noisette The Garden The Green-Sailed Vessel Dreaming Children The Prohibition Serpent’s Tail Until We Both… The Miracle The Rose Testament The Crab-Tree Three Locked Hoops Cliff and Wave Part II: Mainly Satires Those Blind from Birth Fools The Gateway Advice from a Mother A Reduced Sentence The Gentleman Complaint and Reply Song: Reconciliation Knobs and Levers The Virus Druid Love Problems of Gender Confess, Marpessa Jus Primae Noctis Work Drafts

From Poems 1970–1972 (1972)

Her Beauty Always Desert Fringe The Title of Poet Depth of Love Breakfast Table The Half-Finished Letter The Hazel Grove Pity Silent Visit Coronet of Moonlight Song: To Become Each Other Heaven Growing Pains Friday Night The Pact Poor Others A Toast to Death The Young Sibyl Records The Flowering Aloe Circus Ring Ageless Reason As When the Mystic Unposted Letter (1963) Birth of a Goddess Beatrice and Dante The Dilemma The Wall Women and Masks (translation) Tilth The Last Fistful The Traditionalist The Prepared Statement St Antony of Padua Broken Compact A Dream of Frances Speedwell The Encounter Age Gap Nightmare of Senility Absent Crusader Dream Recalled on Waking Colophon

From Timeless Meeting (1973)

The Promised Ballad The Impossible Day The Poet’s Curse Seven Years [Where Is the Truth?] Love as Lovelessness The Scared Child As All Must End Touch My Shut Lips The Moon’s Last Quarter True Evil When and Why The Window Pane Pride of Progeny That Was the Night Song: The Queen of Time Should I Care? Timeless Meeting Envoi

At The Gate (1974)

Ours Is No Wedlock The Discarded Love Poem Earlier Lovers Fast Bound Together £. s. d. Three Words Only True Magic The Tower of Love The Love Letter Song: Seven Fresh Years As a Less Than Robber Singleness in Love Love Charms At the Gate The Moon’s Tear Song: From Otherwhere or Nowhere Name Two Disciplines The Ugly Secret Three Years Waiting

From Collected Poems 1975 (1975)

The Crystal A Charm for Sound Sleeping The New Eternity History of the Fall Elsewhere What Can We Not Ask? Two Crucial Generations To Come of Age September Landscape Crucibles of Love Woman Poet and Man Poet The Field-Postcard If No Cuckoo Sings Mountain Lovers Three Times In Love The Sentence Spring 1974 Advent of Summer The Unpenned Poem The Green Woods of Unrest

Uncollected Poems

Juvenilia: 1910–1914 A Pot of White Heather The Mountain Side at Evening The Will o’ the Wisp The King’s Son The Miser of Shenham Heath Rondeau ’Am and Advance: A Cockney Study Peeping Tom The Ballad of the White Monster The Future Alcaics Addressed to My Study Fauna The Cyclone The Ape God Lament in December Merlin and the Child A Day in February The Wasp Five Rhymes

My Hazel-Twig After the Rain Envy The King’s Highway The Glorious Harshness of the Parrot’s Voice

Two Moods The Briar Burners The Tyranny of Books The Exhaust-Pipe The Organ Grinder 1918–1927 The Two Brothers Peace Bazentin, 1916 The Dancing Green The Personal Touch Song: The Ring and Chain The Oxford English School The Stepmother and the Princess Cynics and Romantics Records for Wonder Old Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire Misgivings, on Reading a Popular ‘Outline of Science’ The Toads A History Four Children The Bargain In the Beginning Was a Word The Bait An Independent [The Untidy Man] 1934–1939 Midsummer Duet Majorcan Letter, 1935 Assumption Day The Moon Ends in Nightmare 1952–1959 The Housing Project Advice to Colonel Valentine Hippopotamus’s Address to the Freudians Twin to Twin Considine The Juggler The Young Witch Birth of a Great Man To Magdalena Mulet, Margita Mora & Lucia Graves The Pumpkin Max Beerbohm at Rapallo The Grandfather’s Complaint Song: A Beach in Spain Bathunts at Bathurst To a Caricaturist, Who Got Me Wrong In Jorrocks’s Warehouse A Fever Augeias and I Is It Peace? Fingers in the Nesting Box Barabbas’s Summer List Stable Door Flight Report School Hymn for St Trinian’s 1960–1974 A Piebald’s Tail The Intruders Teiresias Song: The Smile of Eve [Verse Composed over the Telephone] [Fir and Yew] Song: Gardens Close at Dusk [Privacy] Matador Gored ConfiteorUt Fas New Moon Through Glass Dynamite Barbee When a Necklace Breaks A Queen If Love Becomes a Game Queen Silver and King Gold Learn That By Heart Song: One in Many A Late Daffodil for the Prince of Gwynedd 1999 Angry Gardener Song: Weather Fiery Orchard Defeat of Time Six Blankets The Note The Hedgepig When He Sat Writing Four Poems from Deya A: Portfolio (1972)

[Ours has no bearing on quotidian love] [Love makes poor sense in either speech or letters] [Is there another man?] [Confess, sweetheart, confess]

The Noose The Moral Law Bodies Entranced Who Must It Be? This Is the Season Unco

Unpublished and Posthumously Published Poems Juvenilia: 1910–1914

The First Poem Nightmare The Dragon-Fly Boy-Morality The Coracle 1915–1919 The Last Drop Trench Life Through the Periscope Machine Gun Fire: Cambrin The Fusilier O To My Unborn Son Return The Savage Story of Cardonette Died of Wounds Six Poems from ‘The Patchwork Flag’ (1918)

Foreword Letter to S.S. from Bryn-y-pin Night March Poetic Injustice The Survivor Comes Home The Pudding

Mother’s Song in Winter To Jean and John 1920s–1930s From an Upper Window Drink and Fever Vestry The End The Sand Glass This What-I-Mean The Fingerhold Then What? Historical Particulars Address to Self Prosperity of Poets 1940s–1950s Diotima Dead The Hearth In the Lion House An Appeal A Ghost from Arakan 1960s–1970s Robin and Marian Never Yet Tanka House on Fire The Lilac Frock Departure North Side A Song: John Truelove Requirements for a Poem The Atom The Cupid Olives of March The Undying Worm Song: Though Time Conceals Much Always and For Ever Across the Gulf (1992)

The Snapped Rope The Goldsmiths Adam in Hell The Cards Are Wild Unless The Poised Pen [Fragment] [How Is It a Man Dies?] Green Flash Peisinoe Across the Gulf To His Temperate Mistress Foot-Holder-Royal The Pressure Gauge

Acknowledgements Follow Penguin Copyright Page Footnotes

Whipperginny Mock Beggar Hall Welchman’s Hose From Poems 1938–1945 From Poems 1965–1968 Beyond Giving From Poems 1968-1970 Uncollected Poems

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