Index of titles

• A Ballad—from the Greek
• A Dream
• A Hot Bath at Bedtime—The Necessity of Purgatory
• A poem you may like to see
• A Prayer
• A Window
• A Wreck
• Accidie (Two Glimpses from Dante’s Hell)
• Advent
• Aeschylus’ Epitaph
• Afternoon (Two Summer Songs)
• Again
• Against Anorexia:  For Cathy
• Against Deterrents
• Against Pedestals—for Jody
• Age
• [Age’s bony knuckle]
• Albatross
• Aldeburgh (For Cecil)
• And Then
• Anniversaries
• Anniversary
• Another Spring
• Another Summer
• Athens, Hill of the Muses; Evening
• Autumn and Winter (Dance of the Seasons)
• Back Room, 1944
• Ballad
• [Bare trees black]
• Beauty
• Becoming
• Beethoven
• Beyond Measure
• Black
• Blind
• Block 21
• Brunetto Latini under the Fire-Rain (Two Glimpses from Dante’s Hell)
• Bury My Heart
• Cambridge (For Cecil)
• Cassandra’s Song
• Catharsis
• Causes
• Cedar
• Change
• Change Places…
• Chrysalis
• Climacteric by the Sea
• Cosmology
• Country and Town
• Curvature of Space
• Dance of the Seasons
• Dark Age
• Death
• Delos in Spring—for Lucy
• Dialogue
• Die Weisse Rose—Munich, 1942–3
• Dinner
• Distance (Two Poems from a New Life)
• Divinity
• Dr Faustus
• Drought
• Early Train
• Ecology
• Elegy for the Dead at Sharpeville
• End of Fairy-Story
• Epithalamium—Stephen and Judith
• Eugénie de Guérin
• Exchange—after a Japanese manner
• Fair Exchange
• Fairy Story
• [Fall rainbows the forest-acred mountains]
• [Feelings of guilt]
• Finis
• Five Poems for Roni
• For Cecil
• For Cecil—Tankas and haikus
• For Rachel
• Fossils
• Freedom
• From a Train
• Full Circle
• “Gale is Dead”
• George Jackson
• [Golden, red, brown]
• Gratitude
• Greece
• Greek Folk Song
• Gunnar of Lithend
• Happiness
• Headline
• Hebona
• [High boughs arch over the half-dry creek]
• Holes in Space
• Homage
• Hymn—for the wedding of Dominick and Jo
• Hymn—for the wedding of Lucy and Garth
• [I have (what seemingly you do not see)]
• [I have you always in my mind]
• I, Who Know My Inner Man
• In the Audience
• Inscription for a Convent
• Interrogation
• Joan of Arc
• John Ruskin’s Wedding Night
• Joy
• La Fontaine et le Déluge
• Label
• Lady into Fox—Sally Gilmour dancing
• Lamps
• [Late October hedges]
• Late Spring
• Law Report
• Leap Year
• Letters
• Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
• “Life is sweet, brother”
• [Living alone is lonely]
• Lopped
• Los Altos Hills
• Lost
• Love Scene—from the Greek of Archilochus
• Love’s Eyes and Hands
• Machismo
• Macrocosm
• Man in Nature—for Judith Wright
• Man’s Seasons
• Mariana in Miniature
• Masque
• May Day
• May Day, 1986
• Meeting
• Merrie England
• Moment and Memory
• Morning (Two Summer Songs)
• [Most of us, somewhere along the road]
• Mother’s Malison
• Music is Landscape
• [My grandchildren are stamping the ice-puddles]
• Naples
• New Year
• News of a Death
• Night
• Nijinsky
• No Complex
• [Noon.  But the sun is low]
• Odysseus
• On the Border
• On the Towpath
• Orders (Two Poems in Memory of Anne Frank)
• Original Sin
• Other World
• [Our lives are in other hands]
• Out from the Cliff
• Haiku:  Paedophilia
• Parenthood
• Parted
• Patience
• Pelopia and Thyestes
• Pietà
• Poetry
• Prayer
• Prayer to Time
• Prayer to Truth
• Presage
• Problem
• Progress
• Question
• Quo Vadis
• Recessional
• Reflection
• Relax
• [Released from cloud the low sun at my back]
• Responsibility
• Revisited
• Röslein auf der Heiden (Two Poems in Memory of Anne Frank)
• Scheme
• Scorched Earth
• Sea Cliff
• Seasons
• Separation
• Shadow and Substance
• Shelved
• Shepherd’s Song—from a poem attributed to Theocritus
• Shipwreck
• Sibling
• Song—for Thomas
• Spells and Love—(Theocritus’s second Idyll)
• Spring and Summer (Dance of the Seasons)
• Spring Morning
• Stones
• Stray Thoughts at a Wedding
• Summer
• Summer Vision
• Sur le Pont d’Avignon
• Survival
• Swallows
• Teach Us…
• “Tell Lady Byron…”
• Ten Seconds on a Tube Platform
• That Way Madness Lies
• [The bare, beautiful borders]
• The Betrayal
• The Black-out
• [The clouds that pressed the air]
• The Embankment
• The Fall
• The Game
• [The grass in the next field]
• The Grass Road
• The Green Children of Woolpit
• The Last Oracle
• The Lilies of the Field
• [The municipal building stood square in my dream]
• The North (For Cecil)
• The Party
• The Reckoning
• The Rift—for Matthew
• The Sea—for Lucy, by request
• The Shepherdess of Cahuzac—from Eugénie de Guérin’s Journal
• The Sirens
• The Sleeping Beauty’s Prince
• [The track up the wild stream]
• The Twenties
• The Two Ways
• The Wave
• The West of Ireland
• Through the Looking-Glass
• Time (Two Poems from a New Life)
• [Time is a child]
• Time’s Reach
• [Today we feel behind us]
• Tristi Fummo
• Two Glimpses from Dante’s Hell
• Two Poems from a New Life
• Two Poems in Memory of Anne Frank
• Two Songs of a Mercenary—from Archilochus
• Two Summer Songs
• Uncertain
• Varangian in Mickelgard
• Vignette
• Villon’s Epitaph
• Virgil’s Farewell to Dante
• Vision Between Waking and Sleep
• Waiting
• War-time Anecdote
• Water in a Wood
• [We lived and sang, my brother]
• Wedding Night
• What Do They Feel?
• What Hope?
• Where?
• [White foam sweeps]
• Whom the Gods Love
• [Why do I dream this pause]
• Wind
• [Wind is chilly on shoulders]
• Winter Solstice
• Woodpeckers
• Words from a Dream
• Yeats and Water-Birds
• [Yes, you’re right]