The Arthur Kitching Gallery
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Poems

Poems of the Forties

  • 1945
  • My Shallow Love
  • My Schoolboy Composition
  • Love Is Not Whole And Dies As One
  • I Swore My Love Was Earthbound
  • The Door
  • American Soldiers Driving Trucks In England 1944
  • Calm
  • Totality
  • Love
  • Unrequited Love
  • Upon Waking Suddenly And Going To Work
  • Recollection
  • Each Last Year’s Leaf
  • White Armed, Passionless
  • You Dare Me Love You
  • It Was Summer Time Then
  • Sure There Were Stars
  • On Looking At Photographs Of You Aged 6
  • Childhood
  • All Things
  • My Son
  • On Looking At Photographs Of Your Youth
  • On Leaving A Warm Office On A Winter’s Day

Nine poems of Ilkley and Wharfdale

  • Ilkley Moor
  • Beamsley Beacon
  • Snow in Ilkley 1963
  • The Old Bridge, Ilkley
  • Middleton Woods
  • Wharfedale Boxing Day 1960
  • Bolton Abbey
  • The Manor House, Ilkley
  • Old Man

Other poems

  • [They were happy]
  • The Butterfly
  • The River
  • [Close as the tree’s bark]
  • [This is peace]
  • Skipton
  • [Nothing is changed]
  • [I will line up the words]
  • [Once in Derbyshire]
  • [For three hours seven minutes]
  • [Owning a house]
  • [And even as I said]
  • [Through the purple mini-light]
  • [I hear laughter]
  • [Why it should be necessary]
  • [In between the doing]
  • [Dogs, children, parents, cars]
  • [There are things moving]
  • [I saw unwillingly]
  • [If the eye and the ear]
  • [The words are there]
  • [And it will finally come]
  • The Student Revolt
  • The Old House — ‘Clan-y-Don’

The Arthur Kitching Gallery

A site devoted to the work of Arthur Kitching, Yorkshire artist

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