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Chapters (1520)
- Cover
- The Collected Poems
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- EARLY WORKS
- The Elements
- Estrangement
- The Lucky
- Modern Poet
- Time
- The Clock
- Deception
- Warning
- John the Baptist
- Tuscany
- Cave Dwellers
- COLLECTIONS 1953–2001
- Delay
- Winter Love
- Woman in Love
- Weathercock
- The Substitute
- The Meeting
- The Infatuation
- The Three
- Two Voices
- The Exchange
- Sequence from Childhood
- Adopted Child
- The Alteration
- Reminiscence
- Fantasy
- Jealousy
- Italian Light
- A View of Positano
- A Tuscan Village
- The Place Between
- Afternoon in Florence
- Deepsea Diver
- The Planners
- The Harbour
- The Arrival
- The Stranger
- Identity
- The Geologist
- The Settlers
- The Seer and the Blind
- The Idler
- Bell-Ringer
- The Climbers
- Fishermen
- From the Cliff
- The Island
- A WAY OF LOOKING (1955)
- A Way of Looking
- Reflections on Southern Light
- Florence: Design for a City
- Fiesole: The Search
- A Sense of Place
- The Image and the View
- Not in the Guide-Books
- Fisherman in the Arno
- Children in the Square
- Poem in Winter
- Song at the Beginning of Autumn
- Music and Words
- Astronomer: A Song
- Different Visions
- Kings
- Map-Makers
- The Enemies
- Napoleon
- In This Time
- New Worlds
- The Lost Symbols
- The Nature of Tragedy
- The Rescuer
- The Conqueror
- The Humanists
- Missing the Point
- Beyond Possession
- On Making
- Tribute
- Looking Forward
- For a Child Born Dead
- Communication
- Mirrors
- The Recognition
- The Return
- Escape and Return
- In the Night
- The Acknowledgement
- Recapitulation
- Answers
- A SENSE OF THE WORLD (1958)
- The Child and the Shadow
- Old Woman
- Old Man
- The Child and the Seashell
- The Dandy
- Young Boy
- Taken by Surprise
- The Storm
- Her Garden
- The Bird Catchers
- Five Poems from ‘Sequence in Venice’
- Summer and Time
- At Noon
- Still Life
- The Dancers
- Ghosts
- During the Hungarian Uprising
- Absence
- Disguises
- The Parting
- Resemblances
- A Death
- The Misunderstanding
- The Shot
- Song for a Departure
- Choices
- Telling Stories
- A Fear
- In a Foreign City
- The Roman Forum
- A Conversation in the Gardens of the Villa Celimontana, Rome
- Companions
- A Roman Window
- Strangers
- Fountain
- Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
- San Paolo Fuori Le Mura, Rome
- Letter from Assisi
- The Annunciation
- The Visitation
- Agony in any Garden
- Gift of Tongues
- Statue and Candlelight
- The Virgin at Noon
- Augustine
- Teresa of Avila
- SONG FOR A BIRTH OR A DEATH (1961)
- Song for a Birth or a Death
- Family Affairs
- A Game of Chess
- My Grandmother
- Passage from Childhood
- In Praise of Creation
- World I have Not Made
- Harvest and Consecration
- A World of Light
- Notes for a Book of Hours
- A Confession
- A Requiem
- At a Mass
- John of the Cross
- Catherine of Siena
- The Resurrection
- The Counterpart
- Mantegna’s Agony in the Garden
- The Retreat
- Visit to an Artist
- The Clown
- Lazarus
- The Diamond Cutter
- Stargazers and Others
- To a Friend with a Religious Vocation
- Children and Death
- A Kind of Understanding
- Visit to a Friend in Hospital
- Greek Statues
- The Pride of Life: A Roman Setting
- Men Fishing in the Arno
- An English Summer
- The Room
- Two Deaths
- About These Things
- No Reply
- The Unfulfilled
- No Child
- The Instrument
- Remembering Fireworks
- THE SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (1961)
- I On Dante Alighieri
- II On Dante Alighieri
- III To Pope Julius II
- IV On Rome in the Pontificate of Julius II
- V To Giovanni da Pistoja on the Painting of the Sistine Chapel
- VI Invective against the People of Pistoja
- VII To Luigi del Riccio
- VIII To Liugi del Riccio After the Death of Cecchino Bracci
- IX
- X To Gandolfo Porrino on his Mistress Faustina Mancina
- XI To Giorgio Vasari on The Lives of the Painters
- XII To Vittoria Colonna
- XIII To the Same
- XIV (i) To the Same
- XIV (ii)
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX To Tommaso de’ Cavalieri
- XXXI To Tommaso de’ Cavalieri
- XXXII
- XXXIII (i)
- XXXIII (ii)
- XXXIV
- XXXV
- XXXVI
- XXXVII
- XXXVIII
- XXXIX
- XL (i)
- XL (ii)
- XLI
- XLII
- XLIII
- XLIV
- XLV
- XLVI
- XLVII
- XLVIII
- XLIX
- L
- LI (i)
- LI (ii)
- LII
- LIII
- LIV
- LV
- LVI (i)
- LVI (ii)
- LVII (i)
- LVII (ii)
- LVIII
- LIX
- LX (i)
- LX (ii)
- LXI On the Death of Vittoria Colonna
- LXII On the Death of the Same
- LXIII On the Death of the Same
- LXIV On the Death of the Same
- LXV To Giorgio Vasari
- LXVI
- LXVII
- LXVIII To Monsignor Lodovico Beccadelli
- LXIX
- LXX
- LXXI
- LXXII
- LXXIII
- LXXIV (i)
- LXXIV (ii)
- LXXV
- LXXVI
- LXXVII
- LXXVIII
- RECOVERIES (1964)
- Sequence in Hospital
- Nerves
- Old Man Asleep
- Works of Art
- Man in a Park
- Still Life and Observer
- Father to Son
- For a Visionary Poet
- Domestic Dramas
- Exodus
- Retort to the Anti-Abstractionists
- The Confidence
- Warning to Parents
- Happy Families
- Darkness
- Mah Jong
- Not at Home
- The Storm House
- Problems of Viewing
- Admonition
- The Nightmare
- Parts of a Zodiac
- The Young Ones
- Bewilderment
- Planck’s Theory of Chance
- The Sumach Tree
- ‘Wedding Rites at Tipasa’
- For Albert Camus
- A Picture
- The Shells
- Eighty-one Years Old
- A Thought from Aquinas
- The Destroyers
- Pigeons
- A Game of Cards
- A New Pain
- THE MIND HAS MOUNTAINS (1966)
- In a Mental Hospital Sitting-room
- Diagnosis and Protest
- Madness
- Reflections on a Mental Hospital
- The Interrogator
- Van Gogh
- The Jump
- Attempted Suicides
- Lisa
- Questions
- Night Sister
- The Illusion
- Hysteria
- Words From Traherne
- A Nurse Gone Sick
- Final Considerations
- Samuel Palmer and Chagall
- On a Friend’s Relapse and Return to a Mental Clinic
- Old Age
- Night Garden of the Asylum
- A Baby Born in Hospital
- Personal Easter
- A Depression
- Grove House, Iffley
- Suicides
- Caravaggio’s Narcissus in Rome
- Chinese Art
- Late Child
- Love Poem
- One Flesh
- Thinking of Love
- Van Gogh Again
- A Birthday in Hospital
- New Poem Simply
- Blue Candles
- My Room
- Trees
- Just Another Poem
- Unkind Poem about People who are Mildly Deranged
- A Limerick and So On
- Poem about the Breakdown of a Breakdown
- Sea
- THE SECRET BROTHER AND OTHER POEMS FOR CHILDREN (1966)
- The Secret Brother
- Thomas the Ginger Cat
- Holidays at Home
- Kites
- A Sort of Chinese Poem
- The Ginger Cat
- The Hamster
- My Animals
- The Ugly Child
- Chop-Suey
- The Radio Men
- The Ark
- Tiffany: a Burmese Kitten
- London
- Friends
- At Night
- Rhyme for Children
- Mirrors
- Old People
- Chocolate Adam and Eve
- Love Poem
- Clothes
- Mary
- The Dead Bird
- Christmas
- Lullaby
- New poems from COLLECTED POEMS (1967)
- For Love
- The Circle
- The Shaking World
- A Dream of Birth
- The Boy
- The Operation
- The Novice
- Shock
- The Bonfire
- Volcano and Iceberg
- Gale
- THE ANIMALS’ ARRIVAL (1969)
- The Animals’ Arrival
- The Day
- Sculptor
- A Pattern
- First Man
- A Simple Sickness
- The Plough
- Fire
- Of Languages
- The Soldiers
- The Unknown Child
- Never to See
- Resolve
- Birth
- Hospital Garden
- Interviews
- The Source
- The Broken Minds
- Cold Winter
- Loving
- Hunting
- Ago
- Waking
- Bonnard
- Matador
- Sand
- This Summer
- The Sea
- Demands
- Lodgings
- The Nightmares
- Outside
- Silence of Winter
- Transfigurations
- A Letter to Peter Levi
- These Silences
- Congo Nun Raped
- Motor-Racer
- Mediterranean
- Any Poet’s Epitaph
- LUCIDITIES (1970)
- Light
- For My Dead Father
- Considerations
- Literary Fashions
- Port Meadow, Oxford
- For George Seferis, Greek Poet
- Moving In
- Revival
- Forebodings
- Weeping
- Harsh Words
- In Retrospect and Hope
- A Decision
- Revelation
- An Experience
- Evening Prayer, by Rimbaud
- The Sly One, by Rimbaud
- Sensation, from Rimbaud
- First Evening, by Rimbaud
- My Bohemian Life, after Rimbaud
- The Rooks, by Rimbaud
- Bedsitters
- Mrs Porter
- To One Who Read My Rejected Autobiography
- Vocations
- Analysis of a Situation
- This World
- Rouault
- The Future
- This Darkness
- Doubts
- Rain
- Stillness
- Passions
- I Am Myself
- Longings
- The Children
- Misfits
- Journey through Warwickshire to Oxford
- RELATIONSHIPS (1972)
- Relationships
- Friendship
- Upon a Thread
- A Sonnet
- Let Things Alone
- Narcissus
- For Emily Dickinson
- The Sea
- A Wonder
- In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me
- Water
- All Quarrels
- Making a Silence
- Sympathy
- A Very Young Mother
- Hurt
- Rembrandt
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- A Dream Undreamt
- Sea Love
- Fear
- Of Love
- Skies
- From the Heights
- Missing a Mirage
- Italian Memories
- Happiness in Rome
- Quiet Wars
- Kinds of Tears
- Blame Yourself
- Tears
- Not Counting Time
- The Drunk
- Craftsmanship with Fish
- Almost Falling Asleep
- The Climb
- The Wood
- The Caves
- Sheer Rage
- The Roses
- A Paradox
- GROWING POINTS (1975)
- Beech
- Growing
- Transformation
- To the Core
- A Quartet
- Rhetoric
- Trance
- In a Garden
- Grapes
- Among Strangers
- The Quality of Goodness
- No Rest
- For the Mind Explorers
- Thunder and a Boy
- Freshness
- A Quiet Enemy
- I Feel
- Bird Study
- Towards a Religious Poem
- After a Time
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Meditation on the Nativity
- Christ on the Cross
- Lent Beginning 1974
- Easter Duties
- Whitsun Sacrament
- Out of the Heights
- The Nature of Prayer
- Thomas Aquinas
- Open to the Public
- In a Picture Gallery
- Mondrian
- Rembrandt’s Late Self-Portraits
- Mozart’s Horn Concertos
- A Scholar Emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- Wonder
- A Chinese Sage
- Elegy for W.H. Auden
- Prospero
- Hopkins in Wales
- Performer
- A Play at Avignon
- Opera
- After a Play
- Creators in Vienna
- Orpheus
- Persephone
- Snake Charmer
- The Minotaur
- Not Abstract
- Little Peace
- Spy
- Prisoner
- Behind All Iron Curtains
- Happenings
- Not for Use
- Wishes
- Ends
- Particular
- Childhood in Lincolnshire
- Losing and Finding
- An Event
- Usage
- A Third
- Need
- Accepted
- An Abandoned Palace
- Rather like a Peacock
- Given Notice
- Leaving a Room
- Deaf
- Night Worker by Nature
- An Attempt to Charm Sleep
- The Poem at Times
- Box-Room
- Cancer
- Observing
- Celebration of Winter
- To Go with a Present
- A Little More
- Comfort
- This is
- Never Going
- A Gentle Command
- In Itself
- Gained
- CONSEQUENTLY I REJOICE (1977)
- Lighting a Candle
- Restlessness
- Almost Drowning
- Invocation and Incantation
- Inevitable
- Fragment for the Dark
- Tempered
- Morning Decision
- Better than a Protest
- Drama
- My Seasons
- Winter Night Wish
- Meditation in Winter
- Bird Sunrise in Winter
- Let There Be
- Song for the Swifts
- Song
- For Their Own Sake
- Hatching
- Much to be Said
- Instinct for Seasons
- The Sleep of Birds
- Star Midnight
- Decision on a July Night
- July Island
- Sonnet for Late Summer
- Towards Migration
- To the Ground
- November Sun
- Ways of Dying
- Winter Testimony
- Associations
- Old People’s Nursing Home
- To My Mother At 73
- Elegy for My Father
- Death of an Old Lady
- Her Hands
- For an Old Lady of 96
- A Disabled Countryman
- Military Service
- The Hoarder
- Ballad
- War
- Childbirth
- A Child in the Night
- Cradle Catholic
- A Reflection from Pascal
- Meditation on the Fall
- A Magnificat
- Mary the Huntress
- Mary Speaks
- Mary’s Magnificat
- Christmas Request
- Words for the Magi
- Our Lady’s Lullaby
- Christ Recalls ‘The Massacre of the Innocents’
- Christ on His Loneliness
- The Holy Fool
- One Who Was Healed
- Christ’s Final Temptation
- Christ’s Agony in the Garden
- In Christ’s Place
- Prayer to Christ Suffering
- Christ Surprised
- Christ Seen by Flemish Painters
- Christmas Poem 1974
- One Creed and Many
- Michelangelo’s First Pietà
- Sufism
- A Meditation on D.H. Lawrence
- Tolstoy
- Elegy for Aldous Huxley
- Change of Plan
- In a Violent Time
- For Edward Thomas
- Questions to Other Artists
- Reflections on a Still Life
- Klee’s Last Years
- Portrait Painting
- Cézanne
- For Virginia Woolf
- A Painter’s Wife
- Spring
- Chinese Poem
- Night Concert at Taormina
- Ariel’s Song
- The Aegean
- Poems for a New Greek Anthology
- AFTER THE ARK (1978)
- The Animals’ Chorus
- The Fish’s Warning
- The Ladybird’s Story
- The Cabbage White Butterfly
- The Moth’s Plea
- The Spider’s Confession
- Wasp in a Room
- The Snake’s Warning
- The Earthworm’s Monologue
- The Frogs’ History
- The Bats’ Plea
- The Swallows’ Speech
- Gull Thought
- The Rooks’ Chorus
- The Robin’s Song
- The Sparrows’ Chorus
- The Thrush Confides
- The Owl’s Request
- The Cuckoo’s Speech
- The Cockerel Proclaims
- The Fieldmouse’s Monologue
- The Hedgehog’s Explanation
- The Rabbit’s Advice
- The Sheep’s Confession
- The Deers’ Request
- The Riding School
- The Black Cat’s Conversation
- The Lion Cub
- Finale for the Animals
- MOMENTS OF GRACE (1979)
- Into the Hour
- An Answer to Odd Advice
- A Meditation in March 1979
- The Sermon of Appearances
- Among Farm Workers
- To be a Sunflower
- Cypresses
- Outside Greece
- The Whole Bestiary
- Flies
- Goldfinch
- Friesian Cows
- Rook
- Cat in Winter
- The Shoot
- A Beseeching
- Watcher
- A Christmas Carol for 1978
- Forgiveness
- Never Such Peace
- The Way of it
- Channel Port Night
- A Weather Spell
- Thought and Feeling
- I Count the Moments
- Love Needs an Elegy
- On its Own
- Death
- An Elusive One
- Haunted House
- Spirits
- The Dangerous Ones
- Spell of the Elements
- A Chorus of Creation
- A Chorus
- An Education
- A New Patience
- Euthanasia
- The Wrong Subject
- Some Never Forgotten Words of My Mother’s
- The Gardens Stretch
- Summer Scene
- Sea Song
- Sea-Drunk
- Spring Twilight
- Night Moment
- Night Power
- The Apt Phrase
- A Proustian Moment
- A Chinese Poem
- Braque’s Dream
- Christmas Suite in Five Movements
- WINTER WIND (1979)
- Near the End
- A Happy End
- The Deepest Love
- Winter Wind
- A Widow
- Van Gogh
- The Only Child
- The Rake
- Eurydice
- A DREAM OF SPRING (1980)
- Winter Argument
- The Snow
- A Dream of Spring
- Instead of an Elegy
- More Than Spring
- A Moment of Childhood
- From Light to Dark
- Lent and Spring
- A Difficulty
- Turn
- Horse
- Spring’s Annunciation
- Into Spring
- Sermon of the Clouds
- One Man, One Voice
- English Wild Flowers
- A Way to a Creed
- CELEBRATIONS AND ELEGIES (1982)
- Goings
- Autumn
- Sermon of the Hills
- The Heart of Night
- Arrival in Bibbiena, Tuscany
- Remembering Bibbiena in Tuscany
- A Kind of Catalogue
- Sparrow
- Field-Mouse
- Blackbird Singing
- Not Mine
- Over and Over
- Rescued
- An Elegy before Death
- Children at Play
- Landscapes and Figures
- Heyday
- Leaves in the Wind
- Afterwards
- Images of Love
- First Admirers
- The Near Perfection
- Given an Apple
- A Place to Walk In
- Song of Love and Peace
- Land of Plenty
- What we Remember
- Peace
- An Unnerving Lesson
- Imperfection
- A Dark Passion
- Recovering from a Death
- Words about Grief
- For a Gentle Friend
- A Hand Lifting
- Is it Dual-Natured?
- Painter from Life
- Words for Music
- A Kind of Magic
- The One Drawback
- I Came Once
- As the Rooks Are
- Sources of Light
- EXTENDING THE TERRITORY (1985)
- The Child’s Story
- The Features of a House
- A Bird in the House
- Green World
- An Absolute
- Family History
- For My Sister
- The Circuses
- A Serious Game
- A Sky in Childhood
- Love-Story
- The Last
- Over and Over Again
- A Class-Room
- A Time Ago
- Passed
- Partly Tamed
- The Inheritors
- Elegy in Spring
- Friday
- The Advance of Spring
- In April
- Spell for Spring
- A Supposition
- Worth
- A Forgetting
- Let Summer Thrive
- A Kind of Magnet
- Falling
- Sundowning
- Into the Clouds
- Endings
- Betrayal
- Ballad of War
- Clarify
- A Condition
- Seasonal Reverie
- Nothing
- Confession
- Ariel
- Caught
- As We Wish
- The Great Mover
- Missed Chances
- Two by the Sea
- Remembering
- Years Ago
- Tell Me
- Love in Three Movements
- Ways
- Certain Lessons
- Anger
- A Death Alive
- Eye to Eye
- Bitter Fruit
- Pain
- The Alteration
- Lovesick
- Growing Ahead
- Shall All the Loves
- I Climbed a Ladder
- Our Neighbour
- Mother and Daughter
- Ages
- Awake in the Siesta
- Rome – A Quarter of a Century Ago
- Particular Music
- Memories of Rome
- The Way of Words and Language
- A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon
- Song of Time
- Dawn Not Yet
- Frail Bone
- Dust
- Enough
- By the Sea
- Song
- Water Music
- Imagination
- From the Coast
- Precursors
- TRIBUTES (1989)
- A Letter of Thanks
- Tributes
- For George Herbert
- Notes to The Winter’s Tale
- For Charles Causley
- For Philip Larkin
- Tribute to Turner
- Caravaggio
- Goya
- Chardin
- After a Painting is Finished
- Tate Gallery
- The Arts
- A Roman Trio
- Spain
- Once in Greece
- Anzio
- The Gulf of Salerno
- Some Words of My Mother’s in Childhood
- Fairground
- Psalm of Childhood
- Psalm of Discrepancies
- By Themselves
- Spring and a Blackbird
- True Spring
- Dusk
- Cloudscape
- Moon in December
- Newcomer
- Aubade
- A Music Sought
- Arrival and Preparation
- Enough
- Two Together
- At the Source
- Always
- Presences
- Friendship
- Total
- Landscape and Wild Gardens
- Winter Piece
- In Such Slow Sweetness
- For Melody
- Two Musics
- All that Departing
- A Living Death
- Time for the Elegy
- Gone
- The Spirit Lifts
- One Minute
- Young Love
- The Feel of Things
- Some Solitude
- Fifteen Years After a Death
- Legacies and Language
- The House of Words
- The Early Work
- Think Of
- Art and Time
- Pigeons Suddenly
- The Luck of It
- The Start of a Story
- Against the Dark
- The Sea as Metaphor
- I Heard a Voice
- Parts
- Let It Be
- Waiting
- The Prodigal Son
- The Hours
- Saint Augustine
- For Easter 1986
- Easter Vigil and Mass
- Gloria
- In Good Time
- A Reproach
- Moving Together
- Only
- Snooker
- Group Life
- First Six Years
- A Childhood Religion
- The Essential
- Talking of Hume
- Thinking of Descartes
- The Force of Time
- Of Time
- Distractions
- There is Time
- Passion
- Mastery
- Energy
- Turning Inland
- Resolve
- On the Edge of My Mind
- Justice
- Question
- Nocturne
- A Happy Death
- Beginning
- TIMES AND SEASONS (1992)
- Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- For My Mother
- The Smell of Chrysanthemums
- On the Tongue
- Protest after a Written Interview
- A Christmas Sequence
- In Green Times
- A Child Destroyed
- Shapes and Surfaces
- A Litany for Contrition
- My Ships
- Springtime and Easter
- An Easter Sequence
- For Restraint
- A Childhood Horror
- Beyond the Horoscope
- For Louise and Timothy
- Romantic Love
- The Word
- Meditation
- An Age of Doubt
- First Love
- For the Young
- The Start of the Universe: April 1992
- Inner and Outer
- Curtains Undrawn
- Time in Summer
- First Confession
- Green
- Think Of
- Spell for a Dead Baby
- Cold Words
- Ordination
- Star-Gazing
- Light Between Leaves
- A Question of Form
- Song
- Death
- In the Beginning
- In Praise of Giotto
- For the Times
- The Way They Live Now
- The Poem in Itself
- Parents
- Innocence
- Two Sonnets of Art and Age
- Two Sonnets for a Czech Friend
- Poetry Sometimes …
- November Sonnet
- Water and Air
- Beyond
- In the Nursery
- Out of Time and Season
- Time and Love
- Subject and Object
- Left in Charge
- Trees
- August Heat
- Living by Love
- An Old Story
- When I Was Young
- Movement and Meaning
- Leavings
- Witchery
- A Father after his Daughter’s Wedding
- The Happy Regrets
- FAMILIAR SPIRITS (1994)
- The World We Made
- The First Music
- An Uncle and Godfather
- Our Maids
- Slow Movement: Autumn
- A Cliff Walk in North Devon when I was Twelve
- Sky in Childhood
- Camp
- First Love
- A Way to Imagine
- My Father’s Father
- Blood Bonds, Family Feelings
- Cousins, Aunts, Uncles
- Old Friends
- A Realisation
- A Coffee House
- Bicycles in Summer
- Sea Music
- Among the Stars
- It is not True?
- Cities: Their Beginning
- Unto the Hills
- Love Whispered
- Almost
- Squares and Circles
- Genes, Likenesses
- After a Film called The Bridge
- September
- Still Life
- The Roots
- Overture to Spring
- Steps Towards Poems
- Passed Down
- Unsaid
- Katie: A Portrait
- In Praise of Anonymity
- ‘Music of the Spheres’
- Two Sonnets on Love and Lust
- For Louise Aged 12, My Great-Niece
- My Sister
- Death of a Father who was a Poet
- A Very Great Friend and Influence
- Fables, Lessons
- The Modes of Love
- IN THE MEANTIME (1996)
- The Right Givers
- Prawning
- Wisdom of the Fields
- Spring Love
- The Liberation
- Dream
- Their First Snow
- A House in Nottingham
- For Charlotte
- Children in Summer
- Child of Seven Questions
- The Need to Praise
- Oxford, Heatwave, Tourists
- Somerset
- Among Late-Teenagers
- Welcoming Spring
- The Great Spirits
- Story Tellers
- Seers and Makers
- Hermits and Poets
- The Sitter
- Act of the Imagination
- For Paul Klee
- Order
- Sonnets to Narcissus
- Having it Both Ways
- Touch
- Telling the Time
- Two Sonnets
- A World of Love
- Loss of Loss
- At Mass (I)
- Which is Which?
- After Dark
- At Mass (II)
- Bread
- Consecration (I)
- Consecration (II)
- Ash Wednesday 1995
- A Touch of Existentialism
- Holy Communion
- The Spirit’s Power
- Rome
- Time’s Element
- Calvary
- The Assumption of Our Lady 15th August
- Flesh and Spirit
- Spirit and Flesh
- Lazarus
- Good Friday
- Age of Doubt
- With the Migrants
- In the Meantime
- PRAISES (1998)
- For my Sister, now a Widow
- A View of Lazarus
- Walking in the Dark
- In and Out of Time
- The Words are Pouring
- Rapture of Spring
- A Unique Gift
- An Apple Tree
- A Full Moon
- Song Just Before Autumn
- Harvest Home
- Alone Over Christmas
- No Visions or Prayers
- Apology to a Friend
- Round and Round
- Famous Parents
- Childhood Christmas Parties
- Ballad of a Thinker
- Teenagers
- Boston
- Theatre
- Praises
- Reasons for Not Returning
- Carol for 1997
- Makings
- Two Sonnets on Words and Music
- Mid-May Meditation
- Small Hours
- Myths Within Us
- Song of Welcome
- A Metaphysical Point About Poetry
- Pain
- Prayer for Holy Week
- Love’s Struggle
- ‘Hours’ and Words
- Song
- Craftsmen
- For Seamus Heaney
- The Book of Love
- In a Bar
- The First Time
- The Limits of Love
- After an Elegy
- A Gift of Gratitude
- At Our Best
- The Largest Question
- Concerning History
- TIMELY ISSUES (2001)
- Regions of Memory
- A Company of Friends
- Dance
- Mozart in the Middle of the Night
- Dream: A Ballad
- The Story
- Country Sounds
- Out in the Country in 2000
- Caring
- Well-Being
- Vigour
- Lullaby for the Old
- Rage of the Moon
- October 2000
- The Thinker
- For Any Newish Poet
- Prayer: Homage to George Herbert
- Homage to Thomas Traherne
- Homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins:After Receiving Communion in Hospital
- Homage to Robert Graves
- Reflection
- Looking at Pictures
- Concerning Imagination (I)
- Concerning Imagination (II)
- Concerning Imagination (III)
- Diagnosis
- An Awareness
- Some Months After Anaesthetics
- Tenderness
- Lost Time
- After Four Months of Illness
- One More Place of Memory
- Assurance
- Advice
- The Hours
- Prophets
- Girl at Prayer
- Advent
- At Mass
- All Saints 2000
- All Souls
- Song in November 2000
- Carol for 2000
- New Year Song
- Epiphany 2001
- Night Song
- Whitsun
- Hope
- Eden
- Perfection
- Assurance Beyond Midnight
- UNPUBLISHED POETRY
- Wings of the War
- The Friend
- A Snail Universe
- The Cuckoo
- To Our Lady
- A Thought
- The Call of the Sea
- Moonlight on the Oxus
- 1957–1966
- Roman Noon
- The Adversaries
- Elegy
- Towards Contemplation
- Adolescence
- ‘No Worse, There is None’
- Acceptance (Perversity)
- As I See It
- Before the Interview (Surprise)
- Breakfast in a Mental Hospital
- The Dead Selves
- Discharge from Hospital
- Divers Gifts
- Duty Doctor
- A Father
- Hospital
- Heat Wave: Melons
- Imagined Honeymoon
- Incompatibilities
- A Lesson
- A Memory
- The Mind Has Wounds
- Miro
- The Mountain
- Naming the Stars
- On the Telephone
- Order
- Philosophy in Springtime
- Revaluation
- Spaceman
- Suicide
- The Treatment
- Two Ways
- A Year Later
- A Recollection
- Homage to Jung and Freud
- Making in a Mental Clinic
- After a Catastrophe
- For Jung
- Despair in a State of Nerves
- Nativity
- The Question
- Security
- The Builders
- Prayer
- A Surprise in a Mental Hospital
- A Haunting
- A Mood of Near-Despair
- Dependence
- Words
- A Kind of Villanelle
- I am afraid …
- Rilke
- Old Inhabitant
- Bon Voyage
- Thinking of My Father’s Future Death
- Anomalies in Love
- Adumbrations
- Admissions
- To My Father
- Love and the Looking-Glass World
- Tapestry
- An Evening in the South
- Ambiguities
- Episode
- A Briefness
- September
- The Aquarium
- The Wedding Cake
- October
- Words
- Waking in Tears
- 1972–1987
- Suddenly
- Fever
- Rubinstein Playing Brahms’s Intermezzo
- Christ Speaks to the Other Persons of the Trinity
- Thinking of Ireland in January, 1976
- Artur Rubinstein Playing in Old Age
- Skier
- Bach
- Francis Bacon’s Paintings
- Christ Speaks to his Father of Homesickness
- End of Winter
- Ten Years After My Father’s Death
- A Hidden King
- Give Me Colours
- Losing
- The Drift
- For My Father Again
- Ashore
- Music for Italy
- A Prepared Elegy
- A Special Sound
- Changings
- A Song and a Question
- The Mother of a Hunger-Striker who Died inIreland on May 4th, 1981
- Words in the Small Hours
- Wordsmiths
- A Smile and a Country
- Unity
- Night Song
- On My Sixtieth Birthday
- Patience
- Near Despair
- An Elegy After Twenty Years
- Elegy for Myself
- C.S. Lewis Lecturing in Magdalen Hall in 1946
- Sleep Shanty
- 1992–2000
- In a Taxi
- A Fleck, a Breath
- Reading Poetry at a School
- Two Griefs
- [Untitled]
- Romanticism
- Skyscrapers
- A Realisation
- Two Sonnets on Death
- Love and Friendship
- Boston, Lincolnshire Childhood
- Last Night
- A Litany
- A Trance of Spring
- Banish
- Blaming
- Being
- The Sea
- Inheritance
- Dawn
- Abuse of a Sacrament
- English Lesson
- The Vocation
- After the Fall
- An Impertinent Interviewer
- Child in a Café
- Clocks Back
- Afterword
- Assisi after the Earthquake
- The Farmer’s Lot
- Three Attempts at an Aesthetic
- A Mood for Painting
- The Perky Flowers
- Betrayer
- The Receivers
- Early Rituals
- Pietà
- Rilke’s Angels
- Friendship
- Prose
- Picture Galleries
- Homage to Wallace Stevens
- Homage to W.B. Yeats
- Hope
- Homage to Chaucer
- Homage to Henry Vaughan
- Homage to Robert Browning
- Homage to W.H. Auden
- Homage to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- With My Hands
- UNDATED POEMS
- Actors
- The City
- Contemplation
- Meaning
- Thoughts on Dying
- A Vision
- The Wood
- For a Painter
- ‘Easter in us’
- For Russian Poets in Prison
- For Seamus Heaney
- Going Back
- Only in Fragments
- Psalm on Contemporary Philosophers
- Remembering Plato’s Symposium
- Where Words Fail
- It’s Magic
- After Thirty Years
- Schizophrenia
- On the Edge of Sleep
- Waking to the Sea
- Abstraction
- Act of Unreason
- Apology to a Psychotherapist
- Approaches to Fear
- Bells
- The Big City After a Year
- A Bowl of Stocks
- A Boy Dying
- By the Fire
- Case-books
- Crucifixions
- A Cure
- Day Patient
- For Sylvia Plath
- For Van Gogh
- Haiku
- In the South
- Jargon
- Love Song
- My Friend
- On a Text by Sartre
- Roman Wine
- The Silenced
- Sonnet at Nightfall
- Thoughts from Abroad
- Transitional Poem
- The Weapons
- The Tormentors
- AFTERWORD
- SOURCES
- INDEX OF TITLES
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES
- About the Author
- Also by Elizabeth Jennings from Carcanet Press
- Copyright