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From the Book - 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed
Poems 1956-1963 --
Conversation among the ruins --
Winter landscape, with rooks --
Pursuit --
Bucolics --
Tale of a tub --
Southern sunrise --
Channel crossing --
Prospect --
The Queen's complaint --
Ode for Ted --
Firesong --
Song for a summer's day --
Two sisters of Persephone --
Vanity Fair --
Strumpet song --
Tinker Jack and the tidy wives --
Faun --
Street song --
Letter to a purist --
Soliloquy of the solipsist --
Dialogue between ghost and priest --
The GLutton --
Monolgue at 3 a.m. --
Miss Drake proceeds to supper --
Recantation --
The Shrike --
Alicante lullaby --
Dream with clam-diggers --
Wreath for a bridal --
Epitaph for fire and flower --
Fiesta melons --
The Goring --
The Beggars --
Spider --
Spinster --
Rhyme --
Departure --
Maudlin --
Resolve --
Landowners --
Ella Mason and her eleven cats --
Crystal gazer --
November graveyard --
Black rook in rainy weather
1959 --
The Bull of Benylaw --
The Eye-mote --
Point Shirley --
Goatsucker --
Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows --
A Winter ship --
Aftermath --
Two views of a cadaver room --
Suicide off Egg Rock --
The Ravaged face --
Metaphors --
Electra on Azalea path --
The Beekeeper's daughter --
The Hermit at Outermost House --
Man in black --
Old ladies' home --
The Net-menders --
Magnolia shoals --
The Sleepers --
Yaddo: the grand manor --
Medallion --
The Manor garden --
Blue moles --
Dark wood, dark water --
Polly's tree --
The Colossus --
Private ground --
Poem for a birthday --
Who --
Dark house --
Maenad --
The Beast --
Flute notes from a reedy pond --
Witch burning --
The Stones --
The Burnt-out spa --
Mushrooms --
1960 --
You're --
The Hanging man --
Stillborn --
On deck --
Sleep in the Mojave Desert --
Two campers in Cloud country --
Leaving early --
Love letter --
Magi --
Candles --
A Life --
Waking in winter --
1961 --
Parliament Hill fields --
Whitsun --
Zoo keeper's wife --
Face lift --
Morning song --
Barren woman --
Heavy women --
In plaster --
Tulips --
I am vertical --
Insomniac --
Widow --
Stars over the Dordogne --
The Rival --
Wuthering Heights --
Blackberrying --
Finisterre --
The Surgeon at 2 a.m. --
Last words --
The Moon and the yew tree --
Mirror --
The Babysitters
1962 --
New year on Dartmoor --
Three women: a poem for three voices --
Little fugue --
An Appearance --
Crossing the water --
Among the Narcissi --
Pheasant --
Elm --
The Rabbit catcher --
Event --
Apprehensions --
Berck-plage --
The Other --
Words heard, by accident, over the phone --
Poppies in July --
Burning the letters --
For a fatherless son --
A Birthday present --
The Detective --
The Courage of shutting-up --
The Bee meeting --
The Arrival of the bee box --
Stings --
The Swarm --
Wintering --
A Secret --
The Applicant --
Daddy --
Medusa --
The Jailer --
Lesbos --
Stopped dead --
Fever 103° --
Amnesiac --
Lyonnesse --
Cut --
By candlelight --
The Tour --
Ariel --
Poppies in October --
Nick and the candlestick --
Purdah --
Lady Lazarus --
The Couriers --
Getting there --
The Night dances --
Gulliver --
Thalidomide --
Letter in November --
Death & Co. --
Years --
The fearful --
Mary's song --
Winter trees --
Brasilia --
Childless woman --
Eavesdropper --
Sheep in fog --
The Munich mannequins --
Totem --
Child --
Paralytic --
Gigolo --
Mystic --
Kindness --
Words --
Contusion --
Balloons --
Edge --
Notes on poems 1956-1963 --
The 'Ariel' poems --
Translation --
A Concordance with published volumes
Juvenilia --
A Selection of fifty early poems --
Bitter strawberries --
Family reunion --
Female author --
April 18 --
Gold mouths cry --
Dirge for a joker --
To Eva descending the stair --
Cinderella --
Jilted --
Sonnet; to Eva --
Bluebeard --
Aquatic nocturne --
Notes to a neocturne --
Metamorphoses of the moon --
Dialogue en route --
To a jilted lover --
The Dream --
Sonnet: to time --
The Trial of man --
April aubade --
Go get the goodly squab --
Trio of love songs --
Lament --
Doomsday --
Moonsong at morning --
Doom of exiles --
The Dispossessed --
Admonitions --
Never try to trick me with a kiss --
The Dead --
Danse macabre --
Circus in three rings --
Prologue to spring --
Song for a revolutionary love --
Sonnet to Satan --
A Sorcerer bids farewell to Seem --
Midsummer mobile --
On looking into the eyes of a demon lover --
Insolent storm strikes at the skull --
Denouement --
Two lovers and a beachcomber by the Real Sea --
Black pine tree in an orange light --
Terminal --
Love is a parallax --
Aerialist --
Morning in the hospital solarium --
The Princess and the goblins --
Touch-and-go --
Temper of time --
Epitaph in three parts --
Uncollected juvenilia: a complete list of poems composed before 1956
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