A166 THE COMPLETE POEMS IN ONE VOLUME [2000]:

[seven lines within a swelled rule cartouche:] Robert | Graves | THE COMPLETE POEMS | IN ONE VOLUME | [rule] | Edited by Beryl Graves and | Dunstan Ward | CARCANET

Collation: 472 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | THE COMPLETE POEMS | IN ONE VOLUME; p. [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, BL cataloguing, Arts Council of England assistance and printer’s notices; pp. [v] – xxxv CONTENTS; p. [xxxvi] blank; pp. [xxxvii] – xxxviii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; pp. [xxxix] – xlv INTRODUCTION; p. [xlvi] blank; p. [1] section head; p. [2] blank; pp.[3] 4-837 text, with pp. [22, 29, 56, 61, 101, 119, 162, 174, 217, 251, 267, 285, 287, 314, 323, 327, 337, 387, 390, 399, 414, 428, 445, 461, 466, 470, 480, 485 487, 494, 496, 512, 513, 515, 523, 559, 561, 578, 581, 587, 599, 601, 617, 635, 636] being unnumbered and of which pp. [285] and [485] are section heads and pp. [284, 286, 486] being blank; p. [838] blank; pp. [839] – 868 INDEX OF TITLES; pp. [869] 870 – 896 INDEX OF FIRST LINES; p. [897] blank; p. [898] A limited edition of 500 copies of this book were printed, | of which 400 were numbered. | This copy is number | [number stamped in] | The text is based on Carcanet’s original three-volume edition | (published in 1995, 1997, and 1999) and reset in Monotype Baskerville.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 6.6/ 7.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [upright:] THE COMPLETE | POEMS IN | ONE VOLUME | Edited by | Beryl Graves & | Dunstan Ward | CARCANET

Price: £50.00. Number of copies: 500 of which 400 are numbered. Published 14 December 2000 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in brick red, grey and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Contents: Acknowledgements – Introduction - SECTION I: OVER THE BRAZIER: The Poet in the Nursery – 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 – 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 – It’s a Queer Time – 1915 – Over the Brazier – GOLIATH AND DAVID: 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: 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: Morning Phoenix – Catherine Drury – The Treasure Box – The Kiss – Lost Love – Fox’s Dingle – Mirror, Mirror! – COUNTRY SENTIMENT: 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 Jenny – 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 – 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: 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: 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 Sampson [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 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: The Witches’ Cauldron [Prologue] – The Feather Bed – I Am the Star of Morning [Epilogue] – MOCK BEGGAR HALL: 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: 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 – Till 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 – MARMOSITE’S MISCELLANY: To M. in India – The Marmosite’s Miscellany – The Moment of Weakness – From POEMS (1914-26): The Country Dance – The Rose and the Lily – An Occasion – A Dedication of Three Hats – Ancestors – The Corner Knot – Virgil the Sorcerer- 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 – SECTION II: From POEMS (1914-27): The Progress – Hell – The Furious Voyage [The Dead Ship; Ship Master] – O Jorrocks, I Have Promised – Lost Acres – Gardener [The Awkward Gardener] – To a Change of Didacticism – The Philatelist-Royal – Song: To Be Less Philosophical – POEMS 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] – Natures 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: 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 – Song: Lift-Boy [Tail Piece: A Song to Make You and Me Laugh] – From POEMS 1926-1930: Brother – Bay Of Naples – Flying Crooked – Reassurance to the Satyr – Synthetic Such – Dragons – The Next Time – TO WHOM ELSE?: Largess 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: 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 Lover – 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: The Glutton [The Beast] – A Love Story – The Thieves – Tom Sleep – From WORK IN HAND: 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: The Beach – The Villages and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – To Lucia at Birth – Death by Drums – She Tell 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 – 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): 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 – 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 Tetragrammation – Nuns and Fish – The Destroyer – Return to the Goddess – From POEMS AND SATIRES 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 – 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 Atrá!’ – To A Poet in Trouble – From POEMS 1953: Lovers in Winter – Esau and Judith – The Mark – Within the Gift of a Ring – Liadan and Curithir – The Sea Horse – The Devil at Berry Pomeroy – Reproach to Julia – Dethronement – Cat-Godesses – 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: Penthesileia – Poets’ Corner – Coronation Address – Beauty in Trouble – A Lost Jewel – The Window Sill – Spoils – From THE CROWNING PRIVILEGE: The Clearing – The Three Pebbles – Possibility [The Question] – End of the World – To a Pebble in My Shoe – The Tenants – My Moral Forces – Interview – From 5 PENS IN HAND: 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: 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 – SECTION III: From FOOD FOR CENTAURS: Twice 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: 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: Ruby and Amethyst – From THE MORE DESERVING CASES: The Miller’s Man – July 24th – Safe Receipt of a Censored Letter – From NEW POEMS 1962: [Privacy] – 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: 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 – Song: A Phoenix Flame [Morning Phoenix] – 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: Ann at Highwood Hall – St Valentine’s Day – I Have a Little Cough, Sir – Joseph and Jesus – LOVE RESPELT: 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: 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’: 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’: 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: Hide and Seek – The Hero – At Seventy-Two – From POEMS 1965-1968: 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-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 – 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: 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 – Semi-Detached – Iago – Against Witchcraft – Troublesome Fame – Tolling Bell – 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: If and When – From POEMS 1968-1970: 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 – 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: The Hoopoe Tells Us How [Dedicatory] – 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 – 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 Loves – Problems of Gender – Confess, Marpessa – Jus Primae Noctis – Work Drafts – From POEMS 1970-1972: Her Beauty – Always – Desert Fringe – Death 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 Anthony 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: The Promised Ballad – The Impossible Day – The Poet’s Curse – Seven Years [Where Is The Truth?] – Love as Lovelessness – The Scared Child – 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: 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 Otherwise or Nowhere – Name – Two Discipliners – The Ugly Secret – Three Years Waiting – From COLLECTED POEMS 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 – ʼAm 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 Jorrock’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 Tale – The Intruders – Teiresias – Song: The Smile of Eve – [Verse Composed over the Telephone] – [Fir and Yew] – Song: Gardens Close at Dusk – Matador Gored – Confiteor Ut 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: [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 in March – The Undying Worm – Song: Though Time Conceals Much – Always and for Ever – ACROSS THE GULF: 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 – Peisinoë – Across the Gulf – To His Temperate Mistress – Foot-Holder-Royal – The Pressure Gauge – Index of Titles – Index of First Lines.

Note: Penguin Books published a reprint of A166 in paper covers on 24 April 2003.