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Elizabeth Jennings

The Collected Poems

Edited by Emma Mason

Dedication

with love

Elizabeth Jennings, c. 1950

CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Preface

EARLY WORKS

The Elements

Estrangement

The Lucky

Modern Poet

Time

The Clock

Deception

Warning

John the Baptist

Tuscany

Cave Dwellers

COLLECTIONS 1953–2001 POEMS (1953)

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 (‘Your gifts – the sugar, candles and the mule’)

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) (‘If noble concepts have a birth divine’)

XV (‘The marble not yet carved can hold the form’)

XVI (‘Just as in pen and ink, the high and low’)

XVII (‘Lady, how can it be that what is shown’)

XVIII (‘With heart of sulphur and with flesh of tow’)

XIX (‘More precious am I to myself than ever’)

XX (‘How much a garland pleases when it lies’)

XXI (‘To others merciful and only to’)

XXII (‘If in the face, if in the gazing eyes’)

XXIII (‘Both near and far my eyes can see your face’)

XXIV (‘Well-born spirit, in whom we see reflected’)

XXV (‘“Tell me, I beg, Love, if my eyes indeed’)

XXVI (‘Grace, Lady, equally with sorrow may’)

XXVII (‘I cannot shape an image or acquire’)

XXVIII (‘The living portion of my love is not’)

XXIX (‘The first day I beheld so much unique’)

XXX To Tommaso de’ Cavalieri

XXXI To Tommaso de’ Cavalieri

XXXII (‘If love is chaste, if pity comes from heaven’)

XXXIII (i) (‘So that your beauty may not lose its power’)

XXXIII (ii) (‘In order that your beauties may endure’)

XXXIV (‘Eternal fire is kindly to cold stone’)

XXXV (‘This fire, which burns me fiercely and consumes’)

XXXVI (‘If the immortal longing which inspires’)

XXXVII (‘If someone has been favoured with a great’)

XXXVIII (‘Give to my eyes a natural stream or spring’)

XXXIX (‘Reason is sympathetic when I claim’)

XL (i) (‘I know not if it is the longed-for night’)

XL (ii) (‘I know not if it is imagination’)

XLI (‘He who from nothing made all things ordained’)

XLII (‘Each shuttered room and every covered place’)

XLIII (‘Since Phoebus does not stretch his shining hands’)

XLIV (‘Oh night, oh sweetest time although obscure’)

XLV (‘When a lord thrusts his servant into prison’)

XLVI (‘If a small, steady flame can quickly dry’)

XLVII (‘If any fire could equal that great light’)

XLVIII (‘Though long delay breeds greater tenderness’)

XLIX (‘From gloomy laughter and delicious tears’)

L (‘Too late I realised that from your soul’)

LI (i) (‘Now give me back that time when love was held’)

LI (ii) (‘Now give me back that time which held my passion’)

LII (‘I do not need to look on outward forms’)

LIII (‘An ardent love of a great beauty is’)

LIV (‘I see in your fair face, my dearest Lord’)

LV (‘My Lord, you know that I know that you know’)

LVI (i) (‘When you came back into this earthly prison’)

LVI (ii) (‘I know not whence it came and yet it surely’)

LVII (i) (‘It passes from the eyes into the heart’)

LVII (ii) (‘It passes from the eyes into the heart’)

LVIII (‘When to my inward eyes, both weak and strong’)

LIX (‘Only through fire can the smith pull and stretch’)

LX (i) (‘Sometimes hope rises strongly with desire’)

LX (ii) (‘At times, pure love may justly be equated’)

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 (‘By the world’s vanities I’ve been distracted’)

LXVII (‘There is no lower thing on earth than I’)

LXVIII To Monsignor Lodovico Beccadelli

LXIX (‘My death is certain but the hour unsure’)

LXX (‘Loaded with years and full of all my sins’)

LXXI (‘Now that I need men’s pity and compassion’)

LXXII (‘Then let me see you everywhere I go’)

LXXIII (‘Unburdened by the body’s fierce demands’)

LXXIV (i) (‘Simply the longing for more years to live’)

LXXIV (ii) (‘Often, I think, a great desire may’)

LXXV (‘I wish, God, for some end I do not will’)

LXXVI (‘Those souls for whom you died were sad as well’)

LXXVII (‘Although it saddens me and causes pain’)

LXXVIII (‘Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone’)

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

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