Sackville-West, Vita (1892–1962) 378
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967) 352, 353, 354
Scovell, E. J. (1907–99) 457
Seager, Jane (fl.1589) 80
Sempill, Francis (c.1616–82) 143
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103
Shapcott, Jo (b.1954) 621
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) 239, 240
Sidney, Philip (1554–86) 90, 93
Singer, Elizabeth (1674–1737) 173
Sitwell, Edith (1887–1964) 404, 405
Smart, Christopher (1722–71) 185
Smith, Charlotte (1749–1806) 195
Smith, Stevie (1902–71) 452, 453
Spenser, Edmund (c.1552–99) 84
Stevenson, Anne (b.1933) 562
Stuart, Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–87) 82
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745) 167
Taliesin (fl.6th c.) 11
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–92) 263, 266, 268
Thomas, Dylan (1914–53) 435, 437, 441
Thomas, Edward (1878–1917) 340, 341, 343, 344
Thomas, R. S. (1913–2000) 500, 502
Thomson, Derick (1921–2012) 178
Tobin, Barry 398
Tonks, Rosemary (1928–2014) 477, 478
Townsend Warner, Sylvia (1893–1978) 442
Vaughan, Henry (1621–95) 150, 151, 153
Waller, Edmund (1606–84) 141
Wedderburn, James (d.1553), John (d.1554) and Robert (d.1557) 83
Whitney, Isabella (1553–1603) 81
Wickham, Anna (1884–1947) 351
Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900) 311
Williams, Gwyn (1904–90) 155
Williams, Hugo (b.1944) 579
Williams, Rowan (b.1950) 446
Williams, Waldo (1904–71) 456
Williams Parry, Robert (1884–1956) 398
Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771–1855) 231
Wordsworth, William (1770–1850) 227, 229
Wright, Kit (b.1944) 586
Wright, Mehetabel (1697–1750) 179
Wroth, Lady Mary (1586–c.1652) 122, 123
Wyatt, Thomas (1503–42) 75
Yeats, W. B. (1869–1939) 321, 322, 323, 324, 326
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
A— B— on the learned Bartholo Sylva 78
A child at Brighton has been left to drown 334
A drear, wind-weary afternoon 336
A hundred yards from the peak, while the bells 398
A hunner funnels bleezin’, reekin’ 248
A single thought which benefits and harms me 82
A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow 408
A sweet disorder in the dress 127
A wall of forest looms above 29
A weekday haar 627
According to Dineen, a Gael unsurpassed 620
Achill Woman, The 584
Addiction to an Old Mattress 477
Adlestrop 340
Advice to Lovers 27
Ae Fond Kiss 213
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever 213
Æthelstan, the King, ruler of earls 13
After a Journey 294
After the dread tales and red yarns of the Line 359
Ah, he was a grand man 583
Akond of Swat, The 287
Alas! for all the pretty women who marry dull men 351
Alas! how dismal is my Tale 202
Alas, my love, they knocked you down 73
Alas! Poor Queen 389
Alien 595
All Day it has Rained … 426
All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors 426
All night I clatter upon my creed 67
Already someone’s set their dogs among the swans 667
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king 239
An omnibus across the bridge 311
And are ye sure the news is true 181
And now they turn poor poetry outdoors 421
And so, strangely enough, to Florida 663
And They Call It Lovely Derry 663
Angry Summer, The 392
Anne Donne 442
Another Westminster Bridge 661
Answer to another persuading a Lady to Marriage, An 160
Anthem for Doomed Youth 360
Antony and Cleopatra 99
Are you to say goodnight 491
Argument of His Book, The 124
As for you loud Greenock long ropeworking 494
As I did the washing one day 63
As I was walking all alane 140
As the poor end of each dead day drew near 422
As you plaited the harvest bow 552
At the top of a low hill 538
Aubade (‘It’s all the same to morning what it dawns on’) 619
Aubade (‘Jane, Jane’) 404
August 1914 355
Auld Mither Scotlan’ 250
Avarice 130
Back Bedroom 387
Back in the same room that an hour ago 654
Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990 589
Ballad of Persse O’Reilly, The 378
Ballad which Anne Askew Made and Sang when She was in Newgate, The 76
Ballade of Genuine Concern 334
Ballade of Liquid Refreshment 339
Barn Owl 515
Battle of Brunanburh, The 13
Battle of Inverlochy, The 132
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay 281
Because I turned up from Bombay 622
Because they would not let you ford the river Jordan 633
Bede’s Death Song 11
Bee Meeting, The 473
Before the journey that awaits us all 11
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode 338
Begin 564
Begin again to the summoning birds 564
Belfast Confetti 592
Bells of Rhymney, The 391
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks 363
Beowulf 6
Between now and then, I will offer you 466
Between plunging valleys, on a bareback of hill 540
Bird in the House, A 533
‘Birdsong from a willow tree’ 12
Birdsong from a willow tree 12
Birthnight, The 337
Black Friday 471
Blackberrying 476
Blackbird of Derrycairn, The 64
Blackbird of Glanmore, The 554
Blackwater 648
Blue Jacket, The 388
Blue Song 144
Boasts of Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, The 527
Bonnie Broukit Bairn, The 386
Bonnie Charlie’s now awa 219
Brag, sweet tenor bull 483
Breach in the Wall, The 73
Break of Day in the Trenches 356
Briggflatts 483
Bright Field, The 500
Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss 150
‘Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art’ 256
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art 256
Brightening brightness, alone on the road, she appears 171
Bring Us in Good Ale 68
Bring us in good ale, and bring us in good ale 68
Brither Worm 463
Brothers 138
Busy old fool, unruly sun 116
‘But why do you go?’ said the lady, while both sate under the yew 259
Butter 519
By this title, the book declares itself, and the amount of riches that it conceals 78
Caedmon’s Hymn 3
Caller Oysters 196
Camp, The 209
Canedolia 513
Canker’d, cursed creature, crabbed, corbit kittle 77
Canoe 432
Carrickfergus 417
Cascando 393
Cauld are the ghaisties in yon kirkyaird 465
Celia, Celia 483
Charge of the Light Brigade, The 266
Childhoo
d 399
Child’s Story, The 531
Christmas Carol, A 278
Christmas Robin, The 444
Cock Robbin 192
Cold, cold, chill tonight is wide Moylurg 25
‘Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best’ 123
Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best 123
‘Come into the garden, Maud’ 263
Come into the garden, Maud 263
Come live with me, and be my love 96
Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy 117
Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will, A 81
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 227
Convergence of the Twain, The 297
Corinna’s Going a-Maying 124
Correspondence between Mr Harrison in Newcastle and Mr Sholto Peach Harrison in Hull 452
Cousin Coat 618
Crossing the Bar 268
Daft-Days, The 199
Dead ponies 472
‘Dear, if you change, I’ll never choose again’ 65
Dear, if you change, I’ll never choose again 65
Dearest, it was a night 337
Death is the cook of nature, and we find 158
Death Song for Owain ab Urien 11
Deceptions? 499
Delight in Disorder 127
‘Derry I cherish ever’ 33
Derry I cherish ever 33
Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer, The 93
Design or Chance makes others wive 141
Desire in Spring 407
Dinogad’s smock is pied, pied 3
Disabled 361
Do you hear the bells 447
Doubt of Future Foes, The 78
Dover Beach 277
Downfall of Charing Cross, The 161
Dreams of a Summer Night 568
Drink to me, only, with thine eyes 111
Driving the perfect length of Ireland 596
Drowned Blackbird, The 164
Ducks 382
Dulce et Decorum Est 363
Dulled by the slow glare of the yellow bulb 429
Durham 26
D’ye ken the big village of Balmaquhapple 222
Earth has not anything to show more fair 227
Easter, 1916 324
Echo 90
Eden Rock 505
Eh’ve wurkt oot a poetic map o thi warld 642
Electric Poly-Olbion, The 658
Elegy for the Welsh Dead, in the Falkland Islands, 1982 545
Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed 117
Elevation 643
Elm Decline, The 503
End of Clonmacnois, The 24
Ends Meet 448
Englan Voice 559
England in 1819 239
Epic 456
Epiphany 542
Epithalamion 528
Ernie Morgan found him, a small 515
Everyone Sang 353
Everyone suddenly burst out singing 353
Exile 20
Extra Helpings 575
Faerie Queene, The 84
Fair rocks, goodly rivers, sweet woods, when shall I see peace? Peace 90
Falling Asleep 354
Far spread the moory ground, a level scene 244
Farmer’s Bride, The 327
Father in the Railway Buffet 539
Feeding Ducks 497
Felix Randal 299
Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? my duty all ended 299
Fern Hill 435
Fired Pot, The 351
First Time In 359
Five years have past; five summers, with the length 229
Flea, The 115
Floating Island 231
Flood Before and After 645
Flying over Wales, suspended 643
Football at Slack 540
For a Child Expected 469
For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent 185
Forbear, bold youth, all’s Heaven here 160
Forty boys on benches with their quills 588
Fox, The 398
Friends Departed 153
From Dublin to Ramallah 633
From the Irish 620
From this high quarried ledge I see 428
From troubles of the world 382
Frost at Midnight 232
Full Moon 378
gaelic is alive 578
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may 128
General Prologue, The 42
General, The 353
Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn 124
Ghaisties 465
Ghosts in New Houses 420
Girl’s Hair, A 59
Glamoured, The 171
Glance, The 131
go and glimpse the lovely inattentive water 661
God send euerie Preist ane wyfe 83
God send euerie Preist ane wyfe 83
God, consider the soul’s need 11
God’s Grandeur 300
Gododdin, The 9
Godspeed our flashy myths that last five minutes 658
Going, Going 523
Gone are the drab monosyllabic days 443
‘Good-morning; good-morning!’ the General said 353
Green Grow the Rashes 215
Green grow the rashes, O 215
Green Man’s Last Will and Testament, The 506
Greenock at Night I Find You 494
Greensleeves was all my joy 119
Grey Eye Weeping, A 170
Grief 257
Grief fills the room up of my absent child 98
Guttural Muse, The 553
Had we but world enough, and time, 146
Haddock Fishermen 521
Half a league, half a league 266
Hamnavoe Market 519
Hampstead: the Horse Chestnut Trees 538
Handbag 561
Hannaker Mill 335
Happy are men who yet before they are killed 364
Happy the man, whose wish and care 177
Hark! ’tis the twanging horn o’er yonder bridge 188
Harmonious powers with nature work 231
Harvest Bow, The 552
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty 378
Have you seen Hugh 15
Hay Making 217
He disappeared in the dead of winter 414
He Liked the Dead 422
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark 361
Heart of the Wood, The 35
Henry V 101
‘Here dead lie we because we did not choose’ 315
Here dead lie we because we did not choose 315
Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn 344
Here the seagulls stay in off the Lough all day 666
Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost 294
‘Hey Jude’ was the longest single, up to that time 628
His stature was not very tall 93
Hóireann o 144
Holy Thursday 208
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 270
How brave is the hunter who nobly will dare 306
How comes it, Flora, that, whenever we 280
‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’ 258
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 258
How foolish the man 23
‘How like a winter hath my absence been’ 99
How like a winter hath my absence been 99
How the Wild South East was Lost 586
Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore 195
Hurrahing in Harvest 301
I am homesick now for middle age, as then 457
I am Taliesin 34
I am walking backwards into the future like a Greek 565
I can feel the tug 550
I have lived in important places, times 456
I have lived it, and lived it 478
I have met them at close of day 324
I have never returned 595
I have seen the sun
break through 500
I keep the queen, she is long in my hand 665
I know that I shall meet my fate 326
I lay in in London 442
I love the cradle songs the mothers sing 407
I love to rise in a summer morn 207
I may be smelly and I may be old 452
I mind o’ the Ponnage Pule 400
I pick a daimen icker from the thrave 511
I prepare – an prepare well – fe Englan 559
I remember rooms that have had their part 333
I saw a garden, full of blossoming trees 41
I saw a lang worm snoove throu the space atween twa stanes 463
‘I saw eternity the other night’ 150
I saw eternity the other night 150
I Shall Vote Labour 480
I shall vote Labour because 480
I sing my own true story, tell my travels 20
‘I sing of a maiden’ 62
I sing of a maiden beyond compare 62
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers 124
I sing this poem full of grief 17
I swear 622
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless 257
I think someone might write an elegy 597
I think someone might write an elegy 597
I thought it would last my time 523
I thought of you tonight, a leanbh, lying there in your long barrow 598
I used to think that grown-up people chose 399
I wad ha’e gi’en him my lips tae kiss 388
‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’ 302
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day 302
I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries 417
I Was Not There 526
I went down to the railway 562
I went out to the hazel wood 322
I wish, O son of the Living God, ancient eternal King 22
‘If all the world were paper’ 162
If all the world were paper 162
If I were called in 523
If you ask me, us takes in undulations 668
I’m Neutral 464
I’m standing here inside my skin 621
I’m wearin’ awa’, John 220
Immigrant 564
In a ragged spinney (scheduled 506
In a solitude of the sea 297
In Belfast 666
In Defence of Women 49
In Hospital: Poona (I) 425
In Memory of W. B. Yeats 414
In merry old England, it once was a rule 186
In my Craft or Sullen Art 441
In my craft or sullen art 441
The Map and the Clock Page 48