An oratorio

Would be just the thing for you:

Energy, balance, outbreak

At play for their own sake

But for now we foot it lightly

In time, and silently.

18 August 2013

Index

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• Alphabets
• Anahorish
• Anahorish 1944
• Anything Can Happen
• At Banagher
• At the Wellhead

• Blackberry-Picking
• Blackbird of Glanmore, The
• Bogland
• Broagh

• Call, A
• Casualty
• Chanson d’Aventure
• Clearances (from)
• Clothes Shrine, The
• Constable Calls, A
• Conway Stewart, The
• Crossings (from)
• Cure at Troy, The (from)

• Death of a Naturalist
• Digging
• District and Circle
• Diviner, The
• Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also, A
• ‘Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea’
• Drink of Water, A

• Elegy
• ‘Everything flows. Even a solid man’
• Exposure

• Field of Vision
• Follower
• Forge, The
• Fosterling
• From the Republic of Conscience
• Funeral Rites

• Given Note, The
• Glanmore Revisited (from)
• Glanmore Sonnets (from)
• Grauballe Man, The
• Gravel Walks, The

• ‘Had I not been awake’
• Harvest Bow, The
• Haw Lantern, The
• Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann, A
• Helmet
• Höfn
• Human Chain

• ‘I had come to the edge of the water’
• In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
• In the Attic
• ‘In the last minutes he said more to her’
• In Time
• Into Arcadia

• Keeping Going
• Kite for Aibhín, A
• Kite for Michael and Christopher, A

• Lift, The
• Lightenings (from)
• ‘Like a convalescent, I took the hand’

• Markings
• Mid-Term Break
• Midnight Anvil
• Ministry of Fear, The
• Miracle
• Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication

• Night Drive

• 1. I. 87
• Other Side, The
• Otter, The
• Out of the Bag (from)
• Oysters

• Peninsula, The
• Personal Helicon
• Pillowed Head, A
• Postscript
• Punishment

• Railway Children, The
• Rain Stick, The
• Requiem for the Croppies
• Route 110 (from)

• St Kevin and the Blackbird
• Scaffolding
• Seed Cutters, The
• Seeing Things
• ‘Sensings, mountings from the hiding places’
• Singer’s House, The
• Singing School (from)
• Skunk, The
• Skylight, The
• Sofa in the Forties, A
• Song
• Sonnets from Hellas (from)
• Station Island (from)
• Stone Verdict, The
• Strand at Lough Beg, The
• Summer 1969
• Sunlight

• Tate’s Avenue
• ‘The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise’
• ‘The door was open and the house was dark’
• Tollund Man, The
• Twice Shy
• Two Lorries

• Underground, The

• Wedding Day
• Westering
• Whatever You Say Say Nothing (from)
• ‘When all the others were away at Mass’
• Wishing Tree, The

Also by Seamus Heaney

ALSO BY SEAMUS HEANEY

POETRY

Death of a Naturalist

Door into the Dark

Wintering Out

North

Field Work

Selected Poems 1965–1975

Station Island

Sweeney Astray

Sweeney’s Flight (with photographs by Rachel Giese)

The Haw Lantern

New Selected Poems 1966–1987

Seeing Things

Laments by Jan Kochanowski (translated with Stanisław Barańczak)

The Spirit Level

Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996

Beowulf

Electric Light

District and Circle

The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

Human Chain

Selected Poems 1966–1987

Selected Poems 1988–2013

Aeneid Book VI

AS EDITOR

The Rattle Bag (with Ted Hughes)