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

A138 COLLECTED POEMS 1975 1975

a. First edition:

ROBERT GRAVES | [two words in open letters:] COLLECTED POEMS | 1975 | CASSELL ∙ LONDON

Collation: [1] – [19]16 [20]8, 312 leaves.

pp.[i]–[ii] blank; p.[iii] COLLECTED POEMS | 1975; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] publisher’s, copyright, edition, ISBN and printer’s notices; p.[vii] FOREWORD; p.[viii] blank; p.[ix]–[xxxi] CONTENTS; p.[xxxii] blank; p.[1] section head; p.[2] blank; pp.3–551 text, with pp.[25, 51, 67, 105, 119, 141, 155, 163, 185, 199, 215, 223, 241, 253, 267, 285, 299, 325, 335, 355, 373, 383, 395, 417, 437, 453, 483, 509, 521, 537] being section headings and pp.[26, 52, 68, 106, 120, 142, 156, 164, 186, 200, 216, 224, 242, 254, 268, 286, 300, 326, 336, 356, 374, 384, 396, 418, 438, 454, 484, 510, 522, 538] being blank; p.[552] blank; p.[553] INDEX OF TITLES; p.[554] blank; pp.555–572 index; p.[573] INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS; p.[574] blank; pp.575–592 index.

Price: £8.50. Number of copies: unknown. Published September 1975 in white dust-jacket printed in green and gold.

Contents: Foreword – I: In the Wilderness – The Haunted House – Reproach – The Finding of Love – Rocky Acres – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Henry and Mary – Love Without Hope – What Did I Dream? – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Hills of May – Lost Love – Vain and Careless – The Pier-Glass – Apples and Water – Angry Samson – Down – II: In Procession –Warning to Children – Alice – Richard Roe and John Doe – I’d Die for You – Ancestors – The Coronation Murder – Children of Darkness – The Cool Web – Love in Barrenness – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – The Bards – Nobody – The Progress – Full Moon – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – It Was All Very Tidy – III: Thief – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift-Boy – The Next Time – Ulysses – The Succubus – The Reader over My Shoulder – The Legs – Gardener – Front Door Soliloquy – In Broken Images – Trudge, Body! – The Christmas Robin – On Rising Early – Flying Crooked – Fragment of a Lost Poem – Brother – IV: The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sea Side – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident – Interruption – Hell – Leda – Synthetic Such – The Florist Rose – Lost Acres – At First Sight – Down, Wanton, Down! – A Former Attachment – Nature’s Lineaments – Time – The Philosopher – On Dwelling – Ogres and Pygmies – Single Fare – To Walk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – Any Honest Housewife – Never Such Love – Certain Mercies – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – The Laureate – A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Foreboding – With Her Lips Only – The Halls of Bedlam – Or to Perish before Day – A Country Mansion – Lovers in Winter – Advocates – V: On Portents – The Terraced Valley – The Chink – The Ages of Oath – New Legends – Like Snow – End of Play – The Climate of Thought – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – VI: A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Shot – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – The Oath – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – 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 – Theseus and Ariadne – Penthesileia – The Death Room – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – To Be Called a Bear – VII: My Name and I – 1805 – The Persian Version – The Weather of Olympus – Apollo of the Physiologists – The Oldest Soldier – Grotesques i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi – Beauty in Trouble – Sirocco at Deyá – From the Embassy – VIII: The White Goddess – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Lament for Pasiphaë – Return of the Goddess – IX: Counting the Beats – The Young Cordwainer – Your Private Way – The Survivor – Questions in a Wood – Darien – The Portrait – Prometheus – The Straw – Cry Faugh! – Hercules at Nemea – Dialogue on the Headland – Liadan and Curithir – The Sea Horse – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – A Lost Jewel – The Window Sill – Spoils – Rhea – X: The Face in the Mirror – Gratitude for a Nightmare – Friday Night – The Naked and the Nude – Woman and Tree – Forbidden Words – A Slice of Wedding Cake – A Plea to Boys and Girls – Nothing – Call It a Good Marriage – The Second-Fated – The Twin of Sleep – Around the Mountain – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – XI: 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 – Patience – The Cure – Hag-Ridden – Turn of the Moon – The Secret Land – Seldom, Yet Now – XII: A Lost World – The Dangerous Gift – Twice of the Same Fever – Surgical Ward: Men – The Two Witches – The Quiet Glades of Eden – Joan and Darby – Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday! – XIII: Ruby and Amethyst – Recognition – Variables of Green – 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 – A Restless Ghost – Between Moon and Moon – XIV: Beware, Madam! – The Cliff Edge – The Miller’s Man – 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 – XV: 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 – XVI: Bird of Paradise – The Metaphor – Song: A Phoenix Flame – 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 – Consortium of Stones – The Black Goddess – XVII: 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 – All I Tell You From My Heart – The Undead – 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 – XVIII: The Red Shower – Above the Edge of Doom – Wild Cyclamen – Gift of Sight – Batxóca – The Snap-Comb Wilderness – A Shift of Scene – Change – A Court of Love – Black – Between Hyssop and Axe – Son Altesse – Gold and Malachite – Ambience – The Vow – The Frog and the Golden Ball – Those Who Came Short – Whole Love – This Holy Month – The Impossible – The Fetter – Iron Palace – True Joy – Tomorrow’s Envy of Today – The Hidden Garden – The Wedding – Everywhere is Here – What Will Be, Is – Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – Deliverance – Conjunction – Nothing Now Astonishes – XIX: 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 Snapped Thread – Fortunate Child – Loving True, Flying Blind – The Near Eclipse – Dancing Flame – Birth of Angels – On Giving – XX: P’eng that was a K’un – Like Owls – In Perspective – The Utter Rim – Unicorn and the White Doe – 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 – Spite of Mirrors – Pride of Love – Hooded Flame – Injuries – Her Brief Withdrawal – The Crane – Strangeness – XXI: Song: How Can I Care? – Song: Though Once True Lovers – Song: Cherries or Lilies – Song: Crown of Stars – Song: The Palm Tree – Song: Fig Tree in Leaf – Song: Dewdrop and Diamond – Song: Sullen Moods – Song: Just Friends – Song: Of Course – Song: Three Rings for Her – Sincèrement – Dans un Seul Lit – Possibly – Is Now the Time? – Twins – Sail and Oar – Gooseflesh Abbey – The Home-coming – 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 – XXII: 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 – XXIII: Song: Dream Warning – Song: Beyond Giving – Song: The Sigil – Song: Basket of Blossom– Song: Yesterday Only – Song: Twinned Heart – Song: Olive Tree – Song: Once More – Song: The Promise – Song: Victims of Calumny – Song: To a Rose – Song: The Clocks of Time – Song: Wherever We May Be – XXIV: Gold Cloud – Compact – Trial of Innocence – Love Gifts – Mankind and Ocean – Poisoned Day – Virgin Mirror – What Is Love? – Secret Theatre – How It Started – Brief Reunion – The Judges – Love and Night – Child with Veteran – Superstition – Purification – Powers Unconfessed – Pandora – Solomon’s Seal – To Put It Simply – In the Name of Virtue – To Tell and Be Told – The Theme of Death – At the Well – XXV: Logic – Robbers’ Den – The Accomplice – First Love – Through a Dark Wood – In the Vestry – When Love Is Not – The Reiteration – Semi-Detached – Iago – Against Witchcraft – Man of Evil – The Raft – Tolling Bell – The Hero – Blanket Charge – The Uncut Diamond – The Strayed Message – The Risk – Something to Say – Troublesome Fame – OCCASIONALIA: The Imminent Seventies – Carol of Patience – H – Invitation to Bristol – The Primrose Bed – Poem: A Reminder – The Strangling in Merrion Square – Song: The Sundial’s Lament – Antorcha y Corona, 1968: Torch and Crown, 1968 – The Awakening – Armistice Day, 1918 – XXVI: The Hoopoe Tells Us How – 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 Rose – Testament – The Crab-Tree – Three Locked Hoops – Cliff and Wave – 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) – XXVII: Birth of a Goddess – Beatrice and Dante – The Dilemma – The Gentleman – 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 – Research and Development: Classified – Fools – Those Blind From Birth – The Gateway – Advice from a Mother – A Reduced Sentence – Absent Crusader –Complaint and Reply – My Ghost – Song: Reconciliation – Knobs and Levers – The Virus – Druid Love – Problems of Gender – Jus Primae Noctis – Confess, Marpessa – Dream Recalled on Waking – Work Drafts – Colophon – XXVIII: The Promised Ballad – The Impossible Day – The Poet’s Curse – Seven Years – 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 – XXIX: Ours Is No Wedlock – The Crystal – The Discarded Love Poem – A Charm for Sound Sleeping – Earlier Lovers – Fast Bound Together – The New Eternity – History of the Fall – £.s.d. – Three Words Only – True Magic – The Tower of Love – The Love Letter – Song: Seven Fresh Years – Love Charms – Elsewhere – As a Less Than Robber – What Can We Not Ask? – Two Crucial Generations – To Come of Age – XXX: Singleness in Love – September Landscape – Crucibles of Love – At the Gate – Woman Poet and Man Poet – The Field-Postcard – If No Cuckoo Sings – The Moon’s Tear – Song: From Otherwhere or Nowhere – Name – Two Disciplines – The Ugly Secret – Mountain Lovers – Three Times in Love – Three Years Waiting – The Sentence – Spring 1974 – Advent of Summer – The Unpenned Poem – The Green Woods of Unrest – Index of Titles – Index of First Lines.

Notes: There is a cancel title-page in some copies of this edition.

Copies are seen with and without a small blind-stamped ‘C’ at the spine-edge at the bottom of the back cover.

I have examined a copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket to which is affixed a white price-change label printed in black: C.C.M.P., Ltd. | £9.50 NET

Impressions: 2nd, February 1978; 3rd, October 1985; 4th, March 1987; 5th, 1991 (paper covers, with the title simply, ‘Collected Poems’); 6th, 1993 (covers and title as the preceeding). Guild Publishing/ Book Club Assocaites, London, issued a hardcover impression in 1986. Oxford University Press published an American photographic impression on 3 March 1988; hardcover in dust-jacket bearing the price $27.50.

A138b. First American edition (1977):

Collation: [1] – [20]12, 240 leaves.

p.[i] NEW | COLLECTED | POEMS; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] LC card, copyright, rights reservation, printing and edition notices; p.[v] FOREWORD; p.[vi] blank; pp. vii–xix CONTENTS; p.[xx] blank; pp.xxi–xxxi INTRODUCTION; p.[xxxii] blank; p.[xxxiii] NEW | COLLECTED | POEMS; p.[xxxiv] blank; p.1–403 text, with two leaves of photographic plates inserted between pp.62/63, 158/159, 254/255, 350/351; p.[404] blank; p.[405] INDEX OF TITLES; p.[406] blank; pp.407–423 index; p.[424] blank; p.[425] INDEX TO FIRST LINES OF POEMS ; p.[426] blank; pp.427–442 index; pp. [443] – [446] blank.

20.8×13.8 cm. Bulk: 3.3/3.8 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges only trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey-blue paper boards with black cloth spine. Front and back blank; spine printed in silver, down spine, in two parallel lines: ROBERT GRAVES NEW | COLLECTED POEMS | [upright at foot:] DOUBLEDAY.

Price: $10.00. Number of copies undetermined. Published 7 January 1977.

Contents: As A138a except for the Introduction by McKinley.

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