SECTION A: Books written, co-written or translated by Robert Graves

A60 COLLECTED POEMS (1914–1947) [1948]

First edition:

Collation: π8 A/A* –G/G*8/8 H8, 128 leaves.

4 pp. blank, as front endpapers; p.[i] COLLECTED POEMS; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publication and printer’s notices; pp.v–x CONTENTS; p.xi–xii FOREWORD; pp.[1] 2–239 [240] text, with pp.[1, 37, 71, 95, 151, 169, 207] being section headings and pp.[2, 36, 38, 72, 96, 152, 170, 208] being blank.

Price: 12s.6d. Number of copies: 2,962. Published in April 1948 in cream dust-jacket printed in red and black.

Contents: Foreword – I: In the Wilderness – The Haunted House – Reproach – The Finding of Love – ‘The General Elliott’ – Rocky Acres – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Unicorn and the White Doe – Henry and Mary – Love Without Hope – What Did I Dream? – The Country Dance – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Hills of May – Lost Love – Vain and Careless – An English Wood – The Bedpost – The Pier-Glass – Apples and Water – Angry Samson – Down – Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend – II: In Procession – Warning to Children – Alice – Richard Roe and John Doe – The Witches’ Cauldron – Ancestors – Children of Darkness – The Cool Web – Love in Barrenness – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – Lust in Song – Nobody – Without Pause – Full Moon – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – It Was All Very Tidy – III: Callow Captain – Thief – Saint – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift-Boy – The Next Time – Ulysses – The Succubus – Trudge, Body – The Clock Man – The Reader over My Shoulder – Green Loving – The Legs – Gardener – Front Door – Soliloquy – In Broken Images – On Rising Early – Flying Crooked – Largesse to the Poor – Fragment of a Lost Poem – IV: Galatea and Pygmalion – The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sea Side – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident – Vision in the Repair-Shop – Interruption – Act V, Scene 5 – Midway – Hell – Leda – Synthetic Such – The Florist Rose – Lost Acres – At First Sight – Recalling War – Down, Wanton, Down! – A Former Attachment – Nature’s Lineaments – Time – The Philosopher – On Dwelling – Parent to Children – Ogres and Pygmies – History of the Word – Single Fare – ToWalk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – The Poets – Defeat of the Rebels – Never Such Love – The Fallen Signpost – The China Plate – Certain Mercies – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – The Laureate – A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Halls of Bedlam – Or to Perish before Day – A Country Mansion – The Eremites – The Advocates – Self-Praise – V: On Portents – The Terraced Valley – The Challenge – To the Sovereign Muse – The Ages of Oath – New Legends – Like Snow – The Climate of Thought – End of Play – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – VI: A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Worms of History – The Beast – A Withering Herb – The Shot – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – 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 – The Beach – The Villagers and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – Lucia at Birth – Death by Drums – She Tells Her Love while Half Asleep – Theseus and Ariadne – The Twelve Days of Christmas – Three Short Poems: Cold Weather Proverb – To Poets under Pisces – June – 1805 – At the Savoy Chapel – The Last Day of Leave (1916) – To be Named a Bear – VII: Satires and Grotesques: Dream of a Climber – The Persian Version – The Weather of Olympus – Apollo of the Physiologists – The Oldest Soldier – Grotesques i, ii, iii, iv, v – The Eugenist – A Civil Servant – Gulls and Men – Magical Poems: To Juan at the Winter Solstice – The Allansford Pursuit – The Alphabet Calendar of Amergin – The Siren’s Welcome to Cronos – Dichetal do Chennaib – The Battle of the Trees – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Intercession in Late October – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Lament for Pasiphaë – The Tetragrammaton – Nuns and Fish – The Destroyer – Return of the Goddess. [The final three poems are separated in the table of contents from the ‘Magical Poems.’]

Note: The geometric design in red on the front panel of the dust-jacket is by Eric Ravilious (Curwen Press Stock Block no. 984).

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