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The Map and the Clock

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by Carol Ann Duffy


  In our primary school 575

  In our town, people live in rows 351

  In Parenthesis 403

  In Praise of a Girl 155

  In the bleak mid-winter 278

  In the mustardseed sun 437

  In the season of summer with the sun at its highest 47

  Incantata 598

  Infelice 453

  Inglan is a Bitch 614

  Innocent England 395

  Insensibility 364

  Interrogation, The 401

  Inviting a Friend to Supper 106

  Irish Airman Foresees his Death, An 326

  Is this a holy thing to see 208

  It reeled across the North, to the extent 645

  It’s all the same to morning what it dawns on 619

  It’s difficult with the weight of the rifle 403

  It’s little more than a bump in the land, a footnote 30

  It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet 531

  It was a yellow voice, a high, shrill treble in the nursery 533

  It was the garden of the golden apples 454

  Jane, Jane 404

  Jesus and the Sparrows 4

  Jubilate Agno 185

  Julia in Silks 128

  Just for the sake of recovering 495

  Keen for the Coins, A 554

  King John 98

  King of Connacht, The 15

  King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone 547

  King Richard II 103

  Known throughout Britain this noble city 26

  Lady Greensleeves 119

  Lady Poverty, The 307

  Lament for Culloden 216

  Land o’ the Leal, The 220

  Last night I did not fight for sleep 425

  Last night in Scotland Street I met a man 464

  Last night we started with some dry vermouth 339

  Late summer, and at midnight 553

  Late Wasp, The 402

  Laughter, with us, is no great undertaking 350

  Lessons of the War 422

  Let in the wind 459

  Let us go then, you and I 369

  let’s put aside 578

  Liberty, The 168

  Life and Death 136

  Like as the armed knight 76

  ‘Like as the damask rose you see’ 134

  Like as the damask rose you see 134

  Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey 229

  Lion and Albert, The 346

  Listen Mr Oxford Don 593

  Listening to Collared Doves 457

  Litany for Doneraile, The 202

  Liverpool Blues 662

  Lo thus in brief (most sacred Majesty) 80

  Loch Thom 495

  London Eye, The 658

  London Snow 303

  London. The grimy lilac softness 542

  Long Garden, The 454

  Lord Walter’s Wife 259

  Lost Woman, The 529

  Love 129

  Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back 129

  Love is like a dizziness 221

  ‘Love like a juggler comes to play his prize’ 122

  Love like a juggler comes to play his prize 122

  Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The 369

  Love’s Labour’s Lost 100

  Lovely daughter of Conn O’Neill 164

  Lovers are Separate 447

  Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter 469

  Lunch Hour 357

  Mabinogi: Rhiannon, The 30

  Maggie Lauder 143

  Manly Sports 306

  Mappamundi 642

  Mark but this flea, and mark in this 115

  Marriage of the Dwarfs 141

  Mars is braw in crammasy 386

  Mary Morison 212

  Mary’s Song 388

  May Poem 66

  Me not no Oxford don 593

  Meditation at Kew 351

  Meeting at Night 271

  Men went to Catraeth, keen their war-band 9

  Men went to Catraeth. The luxury liner 545

  Mercian Hymns 547

  Midge 510

  Midnight. The wind yawing nor-east 521

  Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead 647

  Mrs Evans fach, you want butter again 392

  Mrs Reece Laughs 350

  Money 522

  Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe 130

  Month of plants and of honey 178

  Moon in Lleyn, The 500

  Moors, The 244

  Mother’s Lament for Her Child, The 181

  Motor Bus, The 312

  Mountain over Aberdare, The 428

  Mower to the Glow-Worms, The 148

  Music of a thrush, clearbright 45

  My dearest, you may pray now it is Lent 149

  My Grandmother 532

  My grandmother came down the steps into the garden 448

  My hope and my love 35

  My life is my own bible 629

  My luve is like a red, red rose 213

  My mother went with no more warning 529

  My mother’s old leather handbag 561

  My passion is as mustard strong 174

  Na, na, I wunna pairt wi’ that 250

  Nation, The 560

  Nature and Time are against us now 461

  Nature’s Cook 158

  Neutral Tones 296

  New Song of New Similes, A 174

  New Year Behind the Asylum 581

  Night Mail 411

  Nightingale Near the House, The 344

  No 336

  No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain 352

  No Second Troy 323

  No, this is not my life, thank God 477

  Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries 476

  ‘Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds’ 187

  Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds 187

  Northumbrian Sequence: IV 459

  November ’63: eight months in London 564

  Now as Heaven is my Lot, they’re the Pests of the Nation 235

  Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs 435

  Now let me turn again to tell my tale 43

  Now mirk December’s dowie face 199

  Now we must praise to the skies, the Keeper of the heavenly kingdom 3

  ‘Now winter nights enlarge’ 104

  Now winter nights enlarge 104

  Now, disbelieving, I will go 616

  Numties, The 637

  Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The 43

  Nymph, nymph, what are your beads 345

  O Cambridge, attend 184

  O henny penny! Oh horsed half-crown 554

  O, I have been wounded 132

  O Jean, my Jean, when the bell ca’s the congregation 315

  O, love, love, love 221

  O lusty May, with Flora queen 66

  O Mary, at thy window be 212

  O pleasant exercise of hope and joy 227

  O Robertson of Inverawe 159

  O what can you give me 391

  O why do you walk through the fields in gloves 399

  O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being 240

  O women of the Merrie England Coffee Houses, Huddersfield 651

  oa! hoy! awe! ba! mey 513

  Ode on Solitude 177

  Ode to the West Wind 240

  Of a’ the waters that can hobble 196

  Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize 310

  Oh, to be in England 270

  Oh what a pity, Oh! don’t you agree 395

  Old Peter Grimes made Fishing his employ 205

  Old Woman Speaks of the Moon, An 445

  On a Dead Child 304

  On ear and ear two noises too old to end 301

  On hot summer mornings my aunt set glasses 517

  On Inclosures 180

  On the civic amenity landfill site 647

  On the grass when I arrive 554

  On the Grasshopper and
the Cricket 255

  On the New Laureate 186

  On the Road to the Sea 329

  On the Roof of the World 628

  Once I loved a woman 638

  Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more 101

  One duck stood on my toes 497

  One thing I know for certain: that she 52

  Oor Location 248

  Oot behind a lorry 471

  Orchids at Cwm y Gaer, The 616

  Our town in England with the whole of India sundering 660

  Our Town with the Whole of India! 660

  Out of us all 341

  Overheard on a Saltmarsh 345

  Owl and Mouse 535

  Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The 285

  Paradise Lost 142

  Parliament of Fowls, The 41

  Passionate Shepherd to his Love, The 96

  Pearl 52

  Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee 304

  Peter Grimes 205

  Phrase Book 621

  Piano 394

  Piers Plowman 47

  Pleasant Sounds 244

  Poem 468

  Poem From Llanybri 466

  Poem on His Birthday 437

  Poet to Blacksmith 195

  Poetry is a loose term and only 537

  Poly-Olbion 94

  Ponnage Pool, The 400

  Poor Snow 593

  Porphyria’s Lover 272

  Post-Boy, The 188

  Praises of God, The 23

  Prayer 131

  Prayer the Church’s banquet, Angels’ age 131

  Prelude, The 227

  Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan 624

  Pride 639

  Private Bottling, A 654

  Prologue, The 54

  Proud Songsters 294

  Punishment 550

  Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me 522

  Queen of Hearts, The 280

  Question Answered, A 209

  Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, The 281

  Red, Red Rose, A 213

  Refugee Blues 409

  Riddle, A 211

  River & Fountain 565

  River God of the River Mimram in Hertfordshire, The 452

  Rolling English Road, The 338

  Rooms 333

  Sally is gone that was so kindly 335

  Satire upon the Heads; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring 184

  Saturday in the ’20s, A 385

  Satyr upon Sir Niel Laing 77

  Say this city has ten million souls 409

  Scherzo (a Shy Person’s Wishes), A 283

  School Boy, The 207

  Scotland 531

  Sea and the Skylark, The 301

  Seafarer, The 20

  Seagull, The 44

  Seamus, make me a side-arm to take on the earth 195

  See, I was raised on the wild side, border country 586

  Seed 626

  Seven Times One: Exultation 284

  Shakespeare at School 588

  Shall I be one of those obsequious fools 168

  Shall I have the girl I love 59

  She came up the hill carrying water 584

  She kept an antique shop – or it kept her 532

  ‘She walks in beauty, like the night’ 238

  She walks in beauty, like the night 238

  ‘She was poor, but she was honest’ 308

  She was poor, but she was honest 308

  She was skilled in music and the dance 389

  She was urgent to speak of the moon: she offered delight 445

  She was wearing coral taffeta trousers 378

  Shirt of a Lad 63

  Sholto Peach Harrison you are no son of mine 452

  Silent is the house: all are laid asleep 269

  Silent One, The 358

  ‘silver swan, who living had no note, The’ 64

  Sin 446

  Singer, The 627

  Singing, today I married my white girl 528

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 50

  Sir James Murray 511

  Slip of loveliness, slim, seemly 155

  Smooth gull on the sea’s lagoon 44

  Snow 420

  So forth issued the Seasons of the year 84

  So the morning dawns when man remembers 50

  ‘So, we’ll go no more a roving’ 239

  So, we’ll go no more a roving 239

  So when the Queen of Love rose from the seas 173

  Soaking, The 359

  Soap Suds 419

  Sofas, Fogs and Cinemas, The 478

  Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me 394

  Soliloquy of a Maiden Aunt 313

  Soliloquy of the full Moon, She being in a Mad Passion –, A 235

  Some Poetry 537

  Son-days 150

  Song about Myself, A 251

  Song of a Wire Fence 638

  Song of Sorrow, A 159

  Song of Summer 178

  Song of Wandering Aengus, The 322

  Song to a Child 3

  Song To Celia 111

  Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad-House 310

  Sound of the Wind that is Blowing, The 450

  Spotted cow that’s light and freckled 309

  Still Falls the Rain 405

  Still falls the Rain 405

  Stop looking like a purse. How could a purse 498

  Stop, stop and listen for the bough top 64

  Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks 592

  Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise 301

  Summer Evening 247

  Sun Rising, The 116

  Sunday, skilled in zealous verse I praise the Lord 527

  Sunset and evening star 268

  Survivors 352

  Sweeney Astray 28

  Sweet is the breath of Morn; her rising sweet 142

  ‘Sweet kiss, thy sweets I fain would sweetly indite’ 93

  Sweet kiss, thy sweets I fain would sweetly indite 93

  Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes 61

  Swineherd 578

  Symphony in Yellow 311

  Take off the business suit, the old-school tie 446

  Taliesin. I sing perfect metre 34

  Tall Nettles 344

  Tall nettles cover up, as they have done 344

  Tam i’ the Kirk 315

  Tempest, The 97

  10th February: Queen 665

  Tents, marquees, and baggage-waggons 209

  That my old bitter heart was pierced in this black doom 170

  The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne 99

  The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne 374

  The child came to the dark library 385

  The crags crash to the tarn; slow 503

  The darkness crumbles away 356

  The dirty licht that through the winnock seeps 387

  The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy 78

  The evening is perfect, my sisters 510

  The fables told by poets in old times 54

  The first warm day of spring 626

  The five old bells 397

  The frog, half fearful, jumps across the path 247

  The Frost performs its secret ministry 232

  The girls are quiet now in the house upstairs 568

  The green warl’s awa, but the white ane can charm them 237

  The grey sea and the long black land 271

  The ladies bow, and partners set 313

  The Lady Poverty was fair 307

  The land of Y Llain was on the high marsh 450

  The last quarter of the moon 500

  The little lad, five years of age 4

  The loch looks away, up at the crags 667

  The lovely lass o’ Inverness 216

  The men of my people will hunt him as game 16

  The moon is sixpence 636

  The morning they set out from home 526

  The Mournes are cold tonight 28

 
The Muses are turned gossips; they have lost 189

  The national day 560

  The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea 285

  The owl wafts home with a mouse in its beak 535

  The parsnip Numties: I was a teenager then 637

  The poetry of earth is never dead 255

  The Queen has lately lost a part 167

  The rain has come, and the earth must be very glad 359

  The rain set early in to-night 272

  The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was 420

  The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under hedges 244

  The sea is calm to-night 277

  The silver swan, who living had no note 64

  The skyline in the moonlight, the river running thin 662

  The snows of February had buried Christmas 444

  The sun was shining on the sea 290

  The thrushes sing as the sun is going 294

  The time is come, I must depart 81

  The trees are in their autumn beauty 321

  The violet 593

  The way to get on with a girl 27

  The world is charged with the grandeur of God 300

  ‘There is a garden in her face’ 105

  There is a garden in her face 105

  There is death enough in Europe without these 472

  There was a naughty boy 251

  There was the noise like when the men in droves 581

  There’s a famous seaside place called Blackpool 346

  ‘There’s a lady in these parts’ 22

  There’s a lady in these parts 22

  There’s Nae Luck about the House 181

  There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover 284

  There’s something dreadful about ghosts in new houses 420

  These were hard times, heart-breaking 6

  They are all gone into the world of light 153

  They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens 332

  They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock 505

  They drove to the Market with ringing pockets 519

  ‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’ 75

  They flee from me that sometime did me seek 75

  They sent me a salwar kameez 624

  They shut the road through the woods 316

  This ae Night 36

  This ae night, this ae night 36

  This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big 419

  This house has been far out at sea all night 541

  This is the farmer sowing his corn 74

  This is the House That Jack Built 74

  This is the Night Mail crossing the Border 411

  this is thi 587

 

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