CONTENTS

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Preface 5
NATURE POEMS
PRAYERS:  I. 11
         ”         II. 12
         ”        III. 13
         ”        IV. 14
THE HOLLOW LAND 15
ON BIRDLIP 16
OUT OF THE CITY 17
A SONG 18
MAY-FLOOD 18
BIG THINGS AND SMALL 19
AFTER LONG WANDERING 20
THE MOON 22
THE WIND’S GRIEF 23
A WINDY NIGHT 24
RIDDLE CUM RUDDLE 25
GLOUCESTERSHIRE FROM THE TRAIN 26
LASSINGTON 27
JEALOUSY 28
ELVERS 29
JOHN HELPS 32
LOVE POEMS
THE GOLDEN SNAKE 33
IN A CATHEDRAL 34
THE LANTHORN 35
SONNET: “MY NATIVE LAND IS ONLY WHERE YOU ARE” 36
SINCE I HAVE LOVED 37
SAFETY 38
HAPPY SINGING 39
SONG 40
IDENTITY 41
JUNE 42
SONNET: “THAT DEATH SHALL TAKE AND SLAY ME MATTERS NOT” 43
SONNET: “BUT NOW SINCE DEATH HATH CERTAIN DATE” 44
“LOCAL FATALITIES ARE REPORTED” 45
MY JOY 46
THE WATCHING MOON 46
HARVEST HOME 47
POEMS OF REFLECTION
EXPERIMENTS IN VERS LIBRE 48
THE PHILOSOPHER VISITS THE NIGHT CLUB 50
MISERERE DOMINE 52
NOW, IF I WERE RICH 53
THE RABBLE FATES—TO HELL WITH THEM! 54
THE LAUGHTER OF LITTLE BABIES 55
PETITION TO THE ALMIGHTY 56
LAST WORD 57
VANITY OF VANITIES 58
TRIOLET: “FLESH TRIUMPHS AWHILE” 61
FIRE (REVISED VERSION) 62
THE LIFE THAT’S UNDER THE GROUND 66
EPITAPH 67
INVOCATION—AND REPLY 68
MADNESS 70
GLOUCESTERSHIRE MEN 71
BALLADE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE TOWNS 72
LUCKY 74
CAROL 75
GOD’S BEAUTY IN THE SKY 76
THE LOST WORLD 77
PROSE POEMS
DAWN 78
THE VISIBLE WORLD 78
FUEL 78
BLOW, INVISIBLE MOUTHS! 78
ANGRY LOVER 79
HOME 79
LOVE SONG 79
THE WINDOW 80
BROTHERS 80
HOLY BROTHERHOOD 80