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Introduction

Poems 1956-1963

1956

  1  Conversation Among the Ruins

  2  Winter Landscape, with Rooks

  3  Pursuit

  4  Bucolics

  5  Tale of a Tub

  6  Southern Sunrise

  7  Channel Crossing

  8  Prospect

  9  The Queen’s Complaint

10  Ode for Ted

11  Firesong

12  Song for a Summer’s Day

13  Two Sisters of Persephone

14  Vanity Fair

15  Strumpet Song

16  Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives

17  Faun

18  Street Song

19  Letter to a Purist

20  Soliloquy of the Solipsist

21  Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest

22  The Glutton

23  Monologue at 3 a. m.

24  Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper

25  Recantation

26  The Shrike

27  Alicante Lullaby

28  Dream with Clam-Diggers

29  Wreath for a Bridal

30  Epitaph for Fire and Flower

31  Fiesta Melons

32  The Goring

33  The Beggars

34  Spider

35  Spinster

36  Rhyme

37  Departure

38  Maudlin

39  Resolve

40  Landowners

41  Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats

42  Crystal Gazer

43  November Graveyard

44  Black Rook in Rainy Weather

1957

45  The Snowman on the Moor

46  Mayflower

47  Sow

48  The Everlasting Monday

49  Hardcastle Crags

50  The Thin People

51  On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad

52  On the Plethora of Dryads

53  The Other Two

54  The Lady and the Earthenware Head

55  All the Dead Dears

56  Natural History

57  Two Views of Withens

58  The Great Carbuncle

59  Words for a Nursery

60  The Disquieting Muses

61  Night Shift

62  Ouija

63  On the Decline of Oracles

64  Snakecharmer

65  A Lesson in Vengeance

1958

66  Virgin in a Tree

67  Perseus: The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering

68  Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer

69  Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies

70  A Winter’s Tale

71  Above the Oxbow

72  Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker

73  The Ghost’s Leavetaking

74  Sculptor

75  Full Fathom Five

76  Lorelei

77  Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor

78  Moonrise

79  Frog Autumn

80  In Midas’ Country

81  Incommunicado

82  Child’s Park Stones

83  Owl

84  Whiteness I Remember

85  Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers

86  The Death of Myth-Making

87  Green Rock, Winthrop Bay

88  The Companionable Ills

89  I Want, I Want

90  Poems, Potatoes

91  The Times Are Tidy

1959

92  The Bull of Bendylaw

93  The Eye-mote

94  Point Shirley

95  Goatsucker

96  Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows

97  A Winter Ship

98  Aftermath

99  Two Views of a Cadaver Room

100  Suicide off Egg Rock

101  The Ravaged Face

102  Metaphors

103  Electra on Azalea Path

104  The Beekeeper’s Daughter

105  The Hermit at Outermost House

106  Man in Black

107  Old Ladies’ Home

108  The Net-Menders

109  Magnolia Shoals

110  The Sleepers

111  Yaddo: The Grand Manor

112  Medallion

113  The Manor Garden

114  Blue Moles

115  Dark Wood, Dark Water

116  Polly’s Tree

117  The Colossus

118  Private Ground

119  Poem for a Birthday

1 Who

2 Dark House

3 Maenad

4 The Beast

5 Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond

6 Witch Burning

7 The Stones

120 The Burnt-out Spa

121 Mushrooms

1960

122 You’re

123 The Hanging Man

124 Stillborn

125 On Deck

126 Sleep in the Mojave Desert

127 Two Campers in Cloud Country

128 Leaving Early

129 Love Letter

130 Magi

131 Candles

132 A Life

133 Waking in Winter

1961

134 Parliament Hill Fields

135 Whitsun