The collected poems of vernon watkins

The Collier — Sonnet: Pit-boy — Elegy On The Heroine Of Childhood — Prime Colours — Griefs Of The Sea — Old Triton Time — From My Loitering — Empty Hands — Indolence — The Turning Of The Leaves — The Sunbather — Sycamore — The Room Of Pity — Yeats’ Tower — After Sunset — The Fountain — The Age-changers — Two Decisions — Portrait Of A Friend — A Prayer Against Time — The Dead Words — The Keen Shy Flame — The Mummy — Mana — Earth-dress — Thames Forest — Spring Song — Autumn Song — The Shooting Of Werfel — Stone Footing — Atlas On Grass — Sonnet: Infant Noah — A Lover’s Words — Epitaph: The Miser — Epitaph: The Touch-typist — Epitaph: In Memory Of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats — The Safe Soul — The Eastern Window — The Mother And Child — Discoveries — Ballad Of The Mari Lwyd — Yeats In Dublin — Sea-music For My Sister Travelling — The Broken Sea — Music Of Colours: White Blossom — First Joy — Returning To Goleufryn — Money For The Market –^ Llewelyn’s Chariot — A Child’s Birthday — The Fire In The Snow — The Coots — The Peacocks — Birthday Sleep — Sardine-fishers At Daybreak — Swallows Over The Weser — Ophelia — Song — Fidelity To The Dead — Fidelity Of The Living — The Return Of Spring — Foal — Rhossili — The Feather — The Spoils Of War — Unveiling The Statue: 1. Grief At Mechanical Death — Unveiling The Statue: 2. Prayer For A Real Death — Unveiling The Statue: 3. The Threefold Shield — Unveiling The Statue: 4. Tears — Unveiling The Statue: 5. The Urn — Four Sonnets Of Resurrection — The Dove And The Gargoyle — Westminster Bridge — Crowds — Reprisals Of Calm — Lover And Girl — Green Names, Green Moss — The Conception — The Burial — The Betrothal — Gravestones — Birds Of Joy And Care — The Healing Of The Leper — Arakhova And The Daemon — Lace-maker — The Butterflies — The Sinner — A Necklace Of Stones — A Christening Remembered — Blake — The Listening Days –^ Zacchaeus In The Leaves — The Song Of The Good Samaritan — The Cave-drawing — The Yew-tree — The Lady With The Unicorn — The Strangled Prayer — Time’s Deathbed — Pledge To Darkness: 1. Nefertiti — Pledge To Darkness: 2. Egyptian Burial-resurrection In Wales — The Turning Of The Stars — Music Of Colours: The Blossom Scattered — Testimony — Niobe — Climbing Above The Cave — A Prayer — The Caryatids — The Dead Shag — The Heron — Woodpecker And Lyre-bird — A Book From Venice — Epithalamion — The Shell — Art And The Ravens — Taliesin In Gower — Cantata For The Walking Of Lazarus — Ballad Of The Rough Sea — Ballad Of The Equinox — Ballad Of Crawley Woods — Ballad Of The Three Coins — Ballad Of Hunt’s Bay — Ballad Of Culver’s Hole — Ballad Of The Trial Of Sodom — Ballad Of The Two Tapsters — The Death Bell — Ode — Dust In The Balance — Pegasus And The Child — Loiterers — Three Harps — Poets, In Whom Truth Lives — Taliesin And The Spring Of Vision –^ A Man With A Field — The Mare — The Scythe — Call It All Names, But Do Not Call It Rest — The Spring — Peace In The Welsh Hills — Hunt’s Bay — A Wreath For Alun Lewis — Poet And Goldsmith — The Sloe — Trust Darkness — The Return — The Exacting Ghost — Serena — Before A Birth — Birth And Morning — The Immortal In Nature — The Curlew — Kestrel — Christ And Charon — Angel And Man — Swedenborg’s Skull — Hunter — Erinna And The Waters — Camelot — The Forge Of The Solstice — The Tributary Seasons — Moonrise — The Mask Of Winter — Touch With Your Fingers — Bread And The Stars — Buried Light — For A Christening — The Replica — Ruth’s Lament For Naomi — I, Centurion — In The Protestant Cemetery, Rome — Ode At The Spring Equinox — Good Friday — Great Nights Returning — Waterfalls — The Precision Of The Wheel — The Interval — Rewards Of The Fountain — Ironies Of The Self — Vine — Affinities — Demands Of The Poet — Demands Of The Muse –^ Sonnet: To Certain Ancient Anonymous Poets — Muse, Poet And Fountain — The Crane — Ode To Swansea — A True Picture Restored — Ode To Nijinsky — A Bell Unrung — Three Sonnets For Charles Williams — Ode: To T. S. Eliot — Zennor Cottages — The Ballad Of The Mermaid Of Zennor — Heloise — To Holderlin — To Heinrich Heine — Wordsworth — The Death Of Keats — Browning In Venice — The Childhood Of Holderlin — Angelo’s Adam — The Fossil — Expectation Of Life — The Smoke Of Cities Passed — Bishopston Stream — The Present — Taliesin’s Voyage — Taliesin And The Mockers — Words To Artemis — Music Of Colours: Dragonfoil And The Furnace Of Colours — ‘quem Quaeritis?’ — Five Poems Of Magdalenian Darkness — Revisited Waters — Returning From Harvest — Two Sources Of Life — Earth And Fire — The Sibyl — The Parthenon — Phaedra — Semele — Eyes Of An Eagle — Falaise — Poem For Conrad — The Guest — The Razor Shell — The Crinoid — Fisherman — Fingernail Sunrise –^ Hurdy-gurdy Man In Winter — The Sure Aimer — Taliesin At Pwlldu — Sea Chant — Dialogue — The Life Thread — Swan Narcissus — The Compost Heap — For A Wine Festival — Cornfields — Movement Of Autumn — Exegesis — Englyn — A Neglected Grave — Trees In A Town — Sonnet: The Prose Purveyors Of Doubt — Rebirth — The Stubborn And The Ornate — She That Is Memory’s Daughter — The Snow Curlew — Means Of Protection — Vultures — The Stayers — Swallows — Against Controversy — The Colosseum — The Catacombs — Stone Circle — Resting Places — Strictness Of Speech — Postscript — Unity Of The Stream — Fidelities — Deposition — Belief And Praise — Injustice And Praise — At Cwmrhydyceirw Quarry — To A Shell — Cwmrhydyceirw Elegiacs — Digging The Past — The Red Lady — Napkin And Stone — Orbits — The Measure Moves — The Beaver — The Bloodhound — Triads — Air — Second Air — The Sea Wake — Why Do Words In My Ears — Tradition — Lightning And The City –^ Roots — Ode At The Autumn Equinox — Resisting The East Wind — The Coin — Excess Luggage — The Revolutionary — Blossom Of The Apple — Apple-tree — Mozart At Zell-am-see — Sonnet: Lay The True Charge — Hymn — The Instant — Restitution — Candle Constant — The Debt — The Prairies — First Sight Of The North-west — The Pledge — Secrecy — Matrix Of Morning — The Dancer In The Leaves — Sonnet: Muscular Man Shall Guard — The Fountain Of Apollo — True And False Art — Adam — Sonnet: On The Death Of Alun Lewis — A Dry Prophet — Butterfly And Man — Late — Logos — The Salmon — The Still Garden — Fragment — Come, Come, More Loved — The Many-peopled Night — Fragment From Poems For A Child — The Pulse And The Shade — Elegiac Sonnet — Dusk Tide — Night And The Swan — Sonnet: The Expectation — Ode On Justice — Rhadamanthus And The Sufferings Of Europe — Rhadamanthus And The New Soul — The Ballad Of The Outer Dark — Affirmation — Tempters — Corrupt Birth –^ I Have No Name — The Field — A Point Of Light — The Second Fire — The Path Of Light — The Dove — The Silence Of Love — My You Love Leaves — For A First Birthday — Child Of The Fountain — I Do Not Ask A Gentle Way — Why, Then, Complain — That I May Love You Right — Villanelle — Separations — The Muse Of Homer — Though To Please Man — The Choice — Prometheus — Samson — The Death Mask — The Last Poems Of Yeats — One Theme — The Cave — The Breaking Of The Wave. Vernon Watkins.. Includes Index. Reprinted With Corrections–t.p. Verso.