W. H. Auden Selected Poems - K2opt

W.H.
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Contents
Preface
ix
Charlotte
Staub
1. Who
stands,
2. From the
3. Control
key
of the
left
very
first
coming
down
passes was,
of the
he
saw,
2
the
3
4. Taller
to-day,
we
remember
similar
evenings
any
5. Watch
see
crux
the
watershed
day his nonchalant
pauses,
you turn a
6. Will
7. Sir,
no
8. It
was
gardens
9. Since
mans
Easter
you are
10. Consider
11. This
as
forgiving
I walked
beauty
12. To ask the hard
our
time
14. Whats
12
14
16
question
13. Doom is dark and deeper

sea-dingle
all
in the public
going to begin to-day
this and in
lunar
ear
deaf
enemy,
is simple
than
17
any
18
in
your
mind,
my
dove,
my coney
19
15. 0 where
are you
going?"
said reader
to
20
rider
16. Though
obey
aware
our
of
and alert to
rank
orders
17. O Love, the interest
itself in thoughtless
Heaven
18. O what
ear
26
valleys
is that sound
of harvests
28
on
-,20.*Out
so
which
JLg.^earing
thrills
rotting
the lawn
the
in the
Ilie in bed
29
21. A shilling
life will give
you
all the facts
32
22. Our hunting
23. Easily,
head
my
fathers
dear,
easily
33
your
33
24. The Summer

lake
told the story
you move,
holds:
upon
its glittering
36
25. Now
through
26. O for doors
nights
to be
with gilded
caressing
open
edges
and
42
an
grip
invite
41
27. Look, stranger,
at this island
28. Now
are
the leaves
29. Dear, though

30. Casino
31.
falling
the night
gone
to
32. 0
44
Iceland
who
33. Lay
35. Orpheus
sleeping
his fill
head,
my
love
48
50
51
55
55
Gee
37. Wrapped
46
can ever gaze
your
34. Spai
in
yielding
''38. As Iwalked
39. Oxford
out
air, beside
one
60
63
41. The Capital

Musee
59
evening
40. In Time of War
42.
43
43
45
Journey
36. Miss
is
now
fast
64
78
des
Beaux
Arts
79
on a
43. Epitaph
44. In Memory
45. Refugee
46. The Unknown
say
48. Law,
49.
In
83
85
Citizen
1,1939
86
the gardeners,
Memory
50.
Lady,
51.
Song
is the
of
weeping
for
St.
52. The Quest
In
57.
58.
59.
At
the
95
crossroads
Day
96
common
in
Health
111
115
box
116
the
Mundus
The
at
91
Freud
110
in the
56. Atlantis
89
Cecilia's
and
Sickness
55. Jumbled
sun
Sigmund
99
53. But I Can't

54.
80
of W. B. Yeats
Blues
47. September
80
Tyrant
Grave
et
Lesson
of
Infans
125
Henry
123
James
119
60. The Sea and the Mirror
61. Noon
127
175
62. Lament
for
176
Lawgiver
63. Under Which Lyre
178
64. The Fall of Rome
183
65. In Praise of Limestone

66. Song
67. A Walk
for the City
69. Under Sirius

Visit
71. The Shield
197
of Achilles
74. Bucolics
and the Stare
202
216
Canonicae
to Clio
232
77. First Things

78. The More
79. Fridays
198
201
73. Nocturne
76. Homage
190
195
72. The Willow-Wren
75. Horae
188
After Dark
68. Memorial
70. Fleet
184
187
Loving
Child
First
One
237
236
237
200
to the Mezzogiorno
80. Good-bye
81. Dame
Kind
82. You
245
242
83. After Reading

Physics
246
Childs
Ego
86. Thanksgiving
for
87. Epithalamium
89. River Profile

90. Prologue
91. Forty
280
282
284
287
92. Ode to Terminus

1968
Habitat
278
On
to Modern
248
250
at Sixty
Years
93. August
Guide
84. On the Circuit
85. Et in Arcadia
88. Fairground
239
289
291
94. A New Year Greeting
292
252
95. Moon
Landing
96. Old Peoples

97. Talking
to Myself
98. A Lullaby
100. Archaeology
on
295
296
299
99. A Thanksgiving
A Note
294
Home
300
302
the Text
305
Index of Titles and First
Lines
307
Preface
was
Auden
at
felt
the
welcomed
everything
else,
Pound,
from
Eden
where
All
continuing
present
later.
When
to
condition,
that
effectively
in
the
of
never
but
northern
violence
a past
industrial
and
into
had
that
it
present
more
and
poems
his
as
in
ones
history,
his
classical
it
was
always
land-scape
sorrow
the
of
southern
that
His
tasks
better
elegance,
the
of
religious
The-past
future.
secure,
rejected.
of
act
might
illusory
task
back
causes
unreflective
modernists,
same
he
the
away
lost
political
and
or
Eliot
ex-tension
the
and
looked
the
was
envisioned
domain
was
ethical
Auden
seek
modernist
hierarchy
Auden
erotic
poems,
some
natural
this
his
of
almost
nostalgically
unified,
subject
early
ruined,
of
moment:
was
the
style
in
Lawrence,
to
was
He
variety
as
from
Yeats,
present
grand
vernacular.
differed
who
disordered
its
this,
turned
life
English
century.
the
all
In
as
had
flawed
the
his
he
such
who
all
time,
event.
predecessors
in
twentieth
poetry
his
of
writing
the
his
and
language
and
in
into
conditions
poet
first
home
for
been
marred
marred
by
his
own.
Everything
that
can
Auden
be
present:
even,
revival
of
modernism
well,
as
and
Auden's
so
did
literary
the
pronounced
vitality.
past
the
fragments
efforts
(like
as
by
of
had
own
could
in
bring
Eliot)
to
ix
always
of
or
its
the
of
make
In
ancient
but
forms,
personal
and
from
isolated
literary
as'battered
by
and
been.
disfranchised
sense
only
Pound's)
his
that
years
few
contemporary
Modernism,
its
meters
history,
sources
present
(as
they
in
ancient
the
paradox,
dead
in
to find them still alive
vision
survived
the
and
forms
able
effec-tive
about
absorption
seem
might
had
was
distinctive
his
poetic
modernity,
into
in what
unbroken
discontents
to
the
Auden
earlier.
most
is
traced
visionary
tradi-tion
ironic
heroic
it
new.
For
English
civility.
traces
Auden,
toughness
an
European
ambitious
literary
sagas
as
insistently
their
Modernism
store
social
able
the
actually
work.
in
of
and
forces
of
as
which
the conscious
or to
moral
one
ally
but
past
His
towards
the
poems
best,
which
of
agents;
choice
them,
essays
present
one must
idea
either
but
the
to
a
of
re-
never
always
took
free
of
force.
compar-
but
movements
between
is
by
glory
from
possibility,
this
reigns
promised
unconscious
one was
with
lost
reflected
coercive
and
Dante
followed
Goethe.
the
him
social-democratic
thirties
who
saved
of
Icelandic
work;
the
through
thirties,
product
oneself
than
the
toward
found
career,
years
the
his
of
leaders
as, at
from
the
it
unity
the
society
poems
of history
forces,
political
generosity.
good
In Audens
potentially
less
in
to be achieved,
vision
posive
these
the
back
often,
to idealize
fits of mistaken
idea
in
use
Old
Augustan
Auden's
and in the sixties,
too
grandeur
laconic
an
thousand
poems
then
did
of
of
background
to look
tended
refusal
shape
earliest
source;
in the
"tradition
Auden's
his
major
aristocracy;
ancient
in the
find,
old.
as
poetry,
recapitulation
in the forties;
Shakespeare
native
in his
history:
heard
never grown
had
even
might
One
of
it
thrived
form
purwere
to reject
choice
ultimate
was
victory
and
ultimate
in
Auden
defeat.
any case
he held less
on
ing
that
poetryand
later
as a
this
viewwhich
than
as a
scaffold-
his
came
it. He
poems
the
as
history
belief
to build
which
expressed
disowned
to understand
renounced
personal
the
realm
conscious
of
and, if at all
ethical
choices,
possible,
made
Whichever
the
poems
poems
these
of
of
and deliberately,
their
views
consistently
consequences.
political
Audens
used
the
same
basic
assumed,
technique.
the
personally
awareness
in full
From
exhortatory
dramatized
the
Spain
to the
unresolvable
meditative
tension
Vespers,
between
personal
Auden
wishes
or
fantasies
ones
(apocalytic
afterwards)
and
fantasies
the
claims
in his
and
early
years,
obligations
of
arcadian
the
social
realm
(which
This
bility
he
designated
poems,
early
drama
and
the
public
of
private
desire
later
the
ones).
responsi-
part
is
in
history
in the
city
of
tradition
that
extends
back
to
Virgil
part
of
this
and
poetry.
English
same
beyond,
century
it
re-
Auden
and
confidence
the
early
disappeared
by
from
vived
it
with
exuberance
to
his
revival
In
short,
the
surest
Auden
is
brought
but
had
had
traditional
of
the
he
poetic
forms.
Except
in
there
is
From
the
the
to
most
him
very
his
virtually
im-portant
of
judge
poems
way
as
of
consequently,
and
latest
modernist
aspect
their
misunderstand
modernists
literary
twentieth-century
by
to
the
earliest
nothing
viewpoint
critics
norms ;
read
of
poetry,
however,
myth
has
to
him.
this
work.
conformity
about
history,
his
heir.
poems,
is
Most
still
modernist
grown
up
around
that
fact,
poems
a
give
they
to
poetry
English
the
Like
the
Brecht
with
into
an
in
Brecht
didactic
and
both,
mixed
styles
purity
of
visionary
writers
had
tradition.
(once
done
even
since
career
offers
began
manner
Both
around
of
thirty,
to
prefer
public
in
or
the
case,
Audens
Both
came
to
influences
intensity
of
Both
collaborated
with
with
each
as
the
and
romantic
age
the
grew
that
Auden
amoral
miscellaneous
lyric
who
Auden
ing
Brecht's.
and
the
the
of
citizen
own,
one.
orthodoxyChristianity
in
whose
his
chastening
Communism
Auden's
unknown
end
of
in
citizenship.
as
out
started
anarchists;
the
Germany,
threaten-
ironic
written
almost
voice
with
of
imaginative
of
voice
of his
parallels
brashly
adopted
the
obligations
closest
since
century:
eighteenth
knows
in
in
sort
isolation.
egretful
instead
mean,
the
poems
read:
writing.
myth
tones
in
and
speak
this
into
fell
began
writing
to
how
he
he
to
stopped
voice,
superiority
as
credence
know
that
effect
soon
Auden
subjective
poems
the
as
almost
who
Critics
to
Auden
decline
start
of
the
other
no
poet
romantic
era.
other)
the
the
Unlike
the
Each
modernists,
the
disclaimer
exploited
the
didactic
but
rej ected
that
granted
or
both
without
forms
asserted
the
act.
human
neither
the
the
serious
grand
populated
style.
by
assumptions
imagination
to be the
to
afraid
tone.
literature,
of
creative
poetry
popular
ironic
modernist
of
entrust
an
powers
the
was
Neither
of
movement
to
writing
would
inflation
reigning
primacy
adopted
of
be
central
vulgar,
and
to
the
issues
was
Modernism
at
exiles,
home
xi
only
art. Auden
in their
The
poem
Auden
was
in
voice
the
own.
For
wards,
Eliot,
he
and
had
poems
selection
is
he
his
modernist
this
twenty)
about
were
and Brecht
opens
that
five
voice
the
years
his
often
at
retained
used
the
returned.
to
when
wrote
Auden
as
recognize
his
after-
he
poems
who
from 1927,
that
first
came
accent
learned
exiles
(dating
the
same
something
had
free
of
learned
the
from
verse
school.
These
first
have
be
of
the
air
gnomic
of
some
quite
hidden
resolve
qualities
also
mark
There
division
the
look
is
private
world
poems
the
of
time
for
they
to
also
the
where
poems
doomed
readers;
up
any
a recurrent
"It
error,
society.
their
yield
adopt
threat:
of
poems
doomed
and
to
but
and
the
equally
refuse
destruction
is
is
It
later
think.
Auden's
early
from the
poems'
readers
missed
elusive
the
privacy
the
point
when
existence
of
inferred
coterie
shared
who
the
friends
meanings
as
else.
indecipherability
their
and
were
everyone
they
the
same
The
mark
world
on an
between
only
that
never
details
narrative.
describe,
in isolation
not
individual
unified
irresolution
foreboding
you
they
meanings,
tone
than
whose
into
and
down
division
cohesive
myth
themselves
of
heroes
seem
they
fragments;
elements
The
of
got
the
much
jokes;
in
elusiveness
the
early
Auden's
the
dark
as
and
poems
are
part
of
meaning:
enact
The
turn
the isolation
away
they
from this
describe.
early
style,
and
from
the
manner
and
subjects
of
modernism,
can
it
late
prepared
for
series
poems
of
hope
of
from
the
lawn
with
where
he
quite
three
was
something
power
happened.
was
irresistible
For
the
and
certainly
time
in
called
on
when,
he
to
the
power,
was
doing
xii
school
wrote,
my
invaded
I consented
itwhat
by
to
not
life
it
a
it,
mine.
knew
exactlybecause,
thanks
a
a
the
from
myself
though
first
Auden
unexpectedly,
I felt
which,
will
not
1933,
later
teaching,
and
place
the
for
sitting
colleagues
suddenly
and
June
he
was
the
cities,
in
what
He
Agape.
in
first
innocent
asked
our
Then,
islands.
of
an
Auden
1933,
of
expressed
for
rebuild
experienced
Vision
spring
finally,
to
precisely.
isolation
from
wish
and,
of
dated
that
release
strength
dream
the
delusive
elsewhere,
and
in
be
meant
to love
ones
as
neighbor
poems
had
only
of impersonal
erotic
Now,
in the
love.
in bed,
for
prompted
every-thing
lucky
the
time
and
and his
both
will have
can
are
now
sense
began
to
from
amid
their
could
address
audience,
eager
achieved
tone
of public
withdraw
was
the
city.
or
it
the
to listen.
fame
techniques
so
English
the
In
their
of
strength
did.
rather
and
of
the
poet
He
than
his
thirties,
since
that
music-hall
that
but
it;
plays
of
friends
last,
audi-ence,
threaten
quickly.
from
hymn
his
in the
not
he had
earlier
privacy
discontents
No
of
in
moment
where
His
almost
point
responsibility
his
as
has
this
into
will share
ruined
praise
immediate
affections
beyond
jubilant
Auden's
had
working-place
and
the
he
called
lawn Ilie
described
grace)
transformed
effects
he
the
vocabulary
is, the
his
moments
on
responsibilities.
mutual
garden
rebuild
This
...
and
the
vision,
in Audens
chosen
which
Out
him. He
spacethat
forebodings
English
by his
religious
of
friends
renewal;
intensity,
around
("luck
force
to celebrate
able
poem
this,
Before
oneself.
been
Byron
borrowed
and
the
cabaret,
with
in
urgent
action
be less
vivid
he might
own
their
poems,
and
relations
to
like
same
like
"Or-
moment.
fragility
any
and
the
His
love
transience
the
public
force
his
might
their
in
the
an
raise
debate
exhortation
mysteries
at
about
insisted
personal
In his
mid-thirties,
inward
public
poems
that
imprecision.
written
of
use
to
and
own
hermetic
pheus,
easy
his
began
of
conscience,
to
began
objections
years,
to find
in these
and rhetorical
maintained
with
Spain
poem
many
to
answer
to
him
He
clear
free
over
pejorative;
resonance
active
constantly
led
moral
content or
politically
that
audience.
apply
Audens
their
this,
scruples
was
exact
the
as
endorsed
recogniz- ing
his
felt
to
proved
but
never
Readers
attitudes
overwhelm
or
readers,
Auden
and
whose
was
urged
make
urgency
The
poems,
political
wished.
to
seemed
tended
most
This
imagined.
increasing
with
statements,
against
clear.
he
as a strong
vague
word
its nature
Auden,
own
his
face
have
rhythms
to
actions
actions
stirring
hoped
in his
the
in
he
than
enough
of
written
rhymes,
and
simple
nature
as
poems
memorable
on
of
the
the
relations,
xiii
at
while
the
for universal
as
his role
most
to
and
fame
the
his
later
England
England
he
to
made
offered,
to
committed.
opinion
to leave
series
was
As
the
in
often
early
as
temptations
that
England.
led
His
him
to
work
in
voyages
of exploratory
across
Europe,
leave
both
China,
role
from
finally
to
to
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origins
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subjects
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transformed
version
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privacy
of
his
first
xvi
poems.
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left
America
to
return
to
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moved
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poetry,
xviii
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ironic
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important
grants
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there
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this
wrote
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goodness
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found
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complacency
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right-wing
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for
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put
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effects
England
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1936.
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as
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selection
Auden's
be
found
publication
poems
includes
of
at the
back.
in book
chosen
from
verse; a note on sources
books
The
form,
texts
are
modified
those
only
of
by
rare
the
minor
months
few
correction
revisions
within
the
misprints.
of
arrangement
is
ar-
to
tried
work
omission,
which
same
or
correspond
results
from
only
in
excerpts
lack
to
of
the
two
pages
to
as
titles
usage
of
only
variety
major
the
to
where
of
formal
impossibility
reprint
in
is
Auden
the
printed
first
works
printed
poems.
early
full
long
One
longer
separate
in the
of
long verse-letters,
other
in
I have
range
full
Mirror,
from
cases
dates
abridgment.
the
excerpts
the
enormous
the
and
Sea
and
included
the
from
the
at
poem.
each
content;
of
where
written
sequence;
to
its
unamenable
The
poems
of
single
up too many
took
complete,
titles,
and
either
proved
poem,
all
I believe,
including
examples
in
rhetoric
form,
group
appended
include
Audens
into
are
composition
except
chronological,
ranged
times
different
are
by
Auden
and
made
and
The
xx
of
Auden
publication,
of
The
work,
editions;
the
titles
used
printed
for
are
Anxiety
them
great
poet
know
has
ever
been
been
broken
The
from
Auden
in periodicals.
has
not
excerpts
those
used
No
Age
selection
satisfactorya
by
this
of
when
he
from
rule
one.
E.M
xxi
H.
Selected
AUDEN
Poems
NEW
EDITION
*:
1
Who stands,
crux
the
left of the watershed,
On the wet road between
Below
sees
him
of tramline
Snatches
An industry
Yet
raises
It lay in flooded
Its latter
workings
And further here
Taken
the
out
poor
until this,
soil,
winters;
damaged
a storm,
Not athis
village,
vexed:
This
were
by hand,
clutching
tear them from;
but in wooden
levels
went
now, stranger,
Stranger,
dead
chosen
one
the fells impassable,
And in his final valley
stock,
many
two there
shaft
Through long abandoned
Go home,
performed,
some acts are
The winch the gale would

During
engine
years
and there, though
from recent
Cleaned
water; for ten
grudgingly
office,
Lie under
to the wood,
running
living. A ramshackle
At Cashwell
grass
washing-floors,
comatose,
already
sparsely
the chafing
dismantled
shape
nosed
his
proud
of
your young
turn back again, frustrate
land, cut
way
to ground.
and
off, will not communicate,
died
no accessory
Be
Aimless
Beams
They
from
sap
seldom
Ears
there
than here.
you may
sleeper;
on pane, on
rises,
unbaffled
this. Near
poise before
bark
you,
decision,
bedroom
wall,
hear the wind
driven from the ignorant
To hurt itself
Where
one
to
rather
your car may cross a

no
wake
Arriving
But
content
for faces
sea
of elm
being Spring;
taller
than
scenting
grass,
danger.
August
1927
2
From
Into
the
Because
You
I,
very
new
of
crouching
across
with
sun
the
certainly
Travel
coming
first
valley
and
remain:
behind
down
frown
lost
way,
to-day
sudden
sheep-pen,
bird,
heard
out
Cry
The
against
worn
And love's
Endless
see,
Shall
The
If
the homely
is
Different
or
not to
question
stone
never
was
was
of
received
deceived.
different
this
more
through
you,
numb,
fingers
seasons,
and
as
come.
has
overmuch
smile
through
nor
the
with
now
speaking
seldom
with
But
evening
answer,
unjust
That
green
brow,
close
not
decent
The
to
of much but
love
Nor
seen
have
Spring's
passed
comes,
letter
speech
An
I,
we
tile,
shiver,
warmed
Speaking
Nor
the
in the Autumn.
To interrupt
Your
turn.
as
truck, the last
Of shunting
Thought
re-begun,
pass,
on
found
round
dissenting
shall
Preliminary
and
completed
circuit
swallow
A solitary
no
with
storm,
the
arc
year's
the
move
love,
nod,
country
reticent,
god
Always
say
to
afraid
more
than
it
meant.
December
3
Control
To this
passes was,
of the
new
district,
spy,
He, the trained
For
bogus
guide,
easy power,
And
Some
stations
The bridges
The
street music
For weeks
Running
up
away
seduced
had
nearer.
were
saw,
had walked
was a
At Greenhearth
he
the key
get it?
but who would
into the trap
with the old tricks.
fine site for

they
pushed
They
unbuilt
seemed
dam
the
ignored
and trouble
gracious
in the desert.
rail
his
wires.
coming.
now to one
Woken
by water
in the dark, he often had
1927
Reproached
Dreamed
Parting
the night
of already.
easily
who
for
They
companion
would
were never
shoot,
of
course,
joined.
January
1928
4
Taller
we
to-day,
Walking
Where
remember
together
the brook
similar
in the windless
runs over
evenings,
orchard
the gravel,
far from the
glacier.
Again
Look
in the
room
with the sofa
down to the river when
See him turn to the window,

Of Captain
It is
seen
the grate,
hiding
the rain is
hearing
our
over,
last
Ferguson.
how
commonness.
excellent
One
hands
staring
have
turned
to
too long, went blind in
tower,
One
sold all his
manors to
and faltered.
fight, broke
through,
come
Nights
Under
bringing
the
Because
But
see
their
put too
now,
the
no
though
lighted
farms
Down at the mill-shed
men go
And
at
Noises
Freedom
No
bird
for
can
some,
will
dwelling
questions
nearer
all
along
the
each
the
hammering
something
but
fulfilled
is
sufficient
this
1928
5
Watch
any
His dextrous
stops
peace
passing,
endured.
March
other,
valley;
bring
but not this
contradict:
For
or
easy
home.
dawn
now
loved
howl
windy
roads.
happy
We
and the dead
in
the Adversary
lonely
On
snow,
the
headlands
day his nonchalant
handling
of
pauses, see
a wrap as
he
hour,
after into
Steps
There
The
Would
poles'
the
this
Travelling
by
The longest
With love's
daylight
way to
fidelity
action
razor-edge
subterfuge
carriage.
the
of
from
the
blood
iron
wood
of the buried:
on
from
the intrinsic
1929
house
to
house
peace,
and with love's

March
on
erect
the
warning
cancel the inertia
falls
balancing
profile,
varied
the
err.
circumnavigator.
shocking
himself
drown
say, but
conqueror,
returning
the
accosting
song,
Would
many
one,
between
taught
the
envy.
the beggar's
that
ever
poised
Has
Of
free
not
is
Nor
But
is
He
cars,
weakness.
4
6
you turn a
Will
To what
they
Interrogate
deaf
said
ear
on
the shore,
their poises
In their rich houses;
Of stork-legged
heaven-reachers
Of the compulsory
touchers
The sensitive
amusers
And masked
amazers?
Yet
wear no
ruffian badge
Nor lie behind

Waiting
In arm-pit
Carry
For
no
talisman
the abrupt
no concrete
Nor porcelain
Will
you
of conspiracy
secrecy;
germ or
Needing
the hedge
with bombs
pain
shelter
filter.
wheel
death anywhere
In his invalid
no
With
chair,
instant
affectionate
But his attendant?
For to be held for friend
an
By
undeveloped
mind
To be joke for children

Death's
Whose
anecdotes
His favourite
Colour
is
happiness:
of distant
And boys
betray
colour
as
blue
bells
overalls.
His
tales
of the bad lands
Disturb
Hard
the
sewing
hands
to be superior
On parting
To accept
nausea;
the
cushions
from
Women
Yet
against
Of racing
Never
the circuits
cyclists.
to make
Fear
signs
neither
with
Salute
When
martyrdom,
applauding
the
Remembering
But
to
see
wives
there
And cold's
waves;
is
bounty,
country.
sent
brave
Hermetically
With molten
zones
gift for this;
no
No promised
nor
soldiers
flag
No recognised
No income,
maelstrom
sealed
victorious
wrestle
metal.
neutralising
home
with
peace
shame
an
And
Are
For
average
honour
later
to
disgrace
discover
other.
September
1929
7
Sir,
no
man's
enemy,
But will his negative
us power
intolerable
and light,
forgiving
inversion,
sovereign
all
be prodigal:
touch
Send
Curing
the
neural itch,
The exhaustion
the distortions
of weaning,
of ingrown
the liars
virginity.
quinsy,
Prohibit
And
to
sharply
correct
in time with beams
turn though the
each
healer
Or country
Harrow
that
stance;
coward's
in retreat
That,
reverse were great;
Cover
spotted,
Publish
in city lives
houses
the house
styles
the
those
they
New
response
the rehearsed
And gradually
at the end of drives;

of the dead;
of architecture,
look
shining
change
at
of heart.
October
8i
It
was
Easter
Hearing
Watching
Moving
Season
as
I walked
the frogs
traffic
without
An emphasis
speech
Where
cloud
on open
and writers
for altering
so
solitary
I came
man sat
sky
find
things,
on new names, on
the
arm
power.
A fresh hand with fresh

But thinking
gardens
from the pond,
of magnificent
anxiety
when lovers
An altering
in the public
exhaling
at
once
weeping
on a
bench,
1929
Hanging
his
Helpless
and
head
down, with his mouth distorted
as an
ugly
embryo
chicken.
So
Iremember
Is
all of those
necessary
condition
of the
sorry
Who
forth,
whose
death
season's
in this
time
setting
look
only
back
To
in silence,
And recent
The
Listened
a once
hours
with
The happiness,
Groote,
From the
of his
mind:
hated
own
throughout
success
of others
for instance,
of
master,
failure,
and in different
Absence
sea,
dialogue
them in tears.
come to
of
to at intervals
always
winter
cancer
analysis
At different
But
leaving
particulars
death by
A friend's
intimacy,
Christmas
Fading
my
the winter
rooms.
for comparison,
friend
of fear in Gerhart
the truly strong
man.
Kurt
Meyer
A 'bus
ran
home
valves
Nor the swept
gown
The sessile
hush;
Fell willing
into
choice
the public
of laughter
ends
until
grass
of
emphasised
a gesture
sudden
and
ground
corpses:
like huddled
No chattering
Making
on
then,
Lay fallen bicycles
stirred
shower
closed
the day,
seem a necessary
error.
April
1929
II
out
Coming
city
as
Sit,
Or
find
Shadow
Nor restlessness
living,
parapet
harbour
doze
at
sun's
know
thinking,
seeing
paddle
fishing
always
changing
of duck below
and
upright
is
and
on
colony
preen,
Casually
Those
was
it
leaning
To watch
living
changing
Am feeling
In
me
of
Thinking
on
on
passing
buttresses
flickering
luxury
not
of
stream,
straw.
enough,
homesick
of intercepted
growth.
foreigner
was
All this time
Walking
Talking
home late
excitedly
Of proletariat
That
one
They
Till I was
that
angry,
passes
rises
Memory
From village
voices,
And I above
Is
first
said
baby,
an
holds
voices
heard
larks:
in hymn,
use.
standing,
warm
me up,
world.
in field,
of isolated
old
the knees,
stair
in Gutensberg,
enormous
square
through
I was pleased.
from factory
music
friend
down concrete
of fire: On all sides
Vanishing
Men's
one
and evening
of
war
police
in Hessen,
observer
Smoke
to
I listened
of final
against
With hill-top
Tiny
in street.
shot girl of nineteen
threw
Time
at night,
anxiety
and barricade
Shooting
saying
in thinking:
in mother,
born and
Before
Time
passes
and
Is knowledge
Cries
In
grown man
also,
day-thinking
wareness
Alone
He
is other,
now
say
friend.
may see
in face
and in his night-thinking
and is fear of other,
must
We
no
forgive
saying
And unforgiving
But loving
forget,'
is in his living;
no
further
affectionate
no part
But takes
and
but is unforgiving
but takes
Perfunctorily
friend.
in him to loving,
reminds
Reminds
of other,
no
in flesh, himself
Forgetting
Body
now
in him
in cold air, himself
In his
Is
is still mother,
death.
part,
in hired
room
and is unloving
May
see
in dead,
In face of dead that loving wish,
As
one
returns
from
Africa
to
wife
And
his
man
Yet sometimes
At strict
beauty
Completeness
In
me so
look
over me
Those
ducks'
To love
Not
as
unity
my
was
good
eye;
unclouded
in
me
without
indifference,
that
for
peace,
forgetting
hysteria,
friends
and with forgiving,
life, not
as
other,
as
life, not
child's,
I said, being
Cannot,
nor a
Wales.
of evening
in feeling
wishing
birds
or
of gesture
And field and distance

Was
say
and
in
of locomotive,
absolute
Without
property
ancestral
no
child
now
bird.
May
1929
III
to stewards
Order
Correct
But
in books,
joined
Slackening
In month
Being
and the study of time,
was
earlier
this by the wires
than this
Iwatched
of wire and posts'

of August
alone,
to
sharp
a cottage
the frightened
soul
from train,
reprimand,
coming.
Returns
to this life of sheep
every
No longer his: he
Moves
from this
further
As child is weaned
home
But taking
the
first
only to find home,
Where
no tax
So, insecure,
is levied
he loves
insecure,
He
knows
gives
not
Luxuriantly
if
whether
Of
something
it
steps
and leaves
falters,
is vexed,
place
and love
less
than
be
be
so move,
mother
for being there.
it
in
Or
and must
from his
Happy
Is
and hay
hour
seed
but
a
in
to
time
wonderful
immense
expects.
he
in
degenerate
the
display
fructification
past
remnant
but
now
10
Surviving
only
as
the infectiousness
Or in the malicious
Its end glossed
over
To finer perception
caricature
of disease
of drunkenness;
by the careless
but
of the mad and ill.
known
long
Moving
along
He loves
Begins
And
as
what
the track
the difficult
foreign
a new
of native
create
Startled
by the violent
Air between
And
as
stems
stars
the soul
out to
winter
A forethought
delight.
of
jay
underfoot,
water;
under
summer, see autumn come
more
buzzard
carried
See winter,
words
from crunch
As I shall leave the
See frozen
laugh
come,
country
a new race
at last to independent
I went from wood,
Focusing
so may
language,
Be weaned
gone,
of mourning,
to strange
settlers
By mispronunciation
is himself,
will last, which
work
And by intermarriage
And
which
he hopes
sharply
flipped
sea,
leave
for earth
of death that
at death Not helplessly
in the sky,
down the weir
autumn,
and
we
strange
us,
may'find
to the
ourselves
new
conditions.
August
IV
It is time for the destruction
of
error.
1929
are
The
chairs
The
summer
being
the storms,
Before
they
Less
cure;
certain
now
The falling
At play
of
into
This
is the
Orders
With
are
the
To destroy
To
censor
Conformity
the loud madman
it, the children,
football
ground,
enemy
for
proliferation
whisper
and
the
in his
the efflorescence
it
time
of mould,
casual question,
shunned
house,
of the flesh,
of the mind, to enforce
with the orthodox
With organised
know
day, the devourer's:
poisoned
the play
calm.
alkali-tip
given to the
With constant
and birds:
and less,
terrible
know
dragon's
underground
To haunt
and
the fuming
Or by the flooded
savage coast
that
laugh less
a more
leaves
on
in from the garden,
on
after the guests
In sanatoriums
Sinks
brought
talk stopped
bone,
fear, the articulated
skeleton.
You whom I gladly

Or wait
for
We know
as one
we
it,
Needs
of union,
More
walk
with, touch,
certain
of good,
know
that love
more
than the admiring
than the abrupt
excitement
self-confident
farewell,
on
The heel
the finishing
death,
Death
of the old
In sullen
The old
death
valley
gang to
The hard
of the
gang;
grain,
would
where
grass,
our
leave
is made
be forgotten
bitch and
of
of the falling root,
The self-confidence
Needs
blade
no
death,
them
friend,
in the spring,
the riding-master,
Stiff underground;
deep
The lolling bridegroom,
in clear lake
beautiful,
there.
October
1929
9
Since
Let
us
you are
going
consider
You
to begin to-day
what
are
the
it is
one
For whom it is not good
you
do.
whose
part it is to lean,
to be alone.
Laugh warmly
Or climb
Acquire
turning
with bare
that flick
shyly
in the hall
knees the volcanic
of wrist
and after
hill,
strain
12
Relax
in
your
Remembering
my
Lizards
Could
best
invention
once
who
confess,
of hours
was
To reach that
I shifted
to
ranges,
By climate,
Modified
Altered
shape
many
lately
theories
on
what
to
now
home
breed,
of blood.
face to
assume,
some,
handicapped
the
the types
and history
You in the town

writes
your
lived epochs
wars, or
desire
for
far,
fur;
years to
took
and despair
of fuss;
come so
have
not control the temperature
Pleasure
That
of firelight,
cleverest
a stone
like
you can
not yoursto
joy is mine
Whose
arms
everything
the most
Making
But
darling's
young men
kept,
of dross,
of dress.
call the exile fool
once a year as
last
leaves
fall,
ThinkRomans
had
language
in their
day
And ordered
roads with it, but it had to die:
Your culture
can
As place-name
Jottings
Equipment
Virtues
And
Nor
even
general
on
at peripheral
taking
prow
Means
that
ideas
anguish
fault, Your
To
go
felt
none to
on next
when swiftly
up
the
to
Though
or
early
Comes
sense
wasted
house
and
pray,
pass on,
and to
team Be late
13
That
For goodness
your son;
time,
fly,
floor.
of safety:
shutting
Iwish to leave
Jack,
joke,
lanes,
into the wilderness
form, perhaps
join opposing
private
shall help
your own,
on your
central
local lines;
perversion
is despair
shire
often-mentioned
to
in unweeded
conviction
rather
of famine,
you,
rusting
assault
another
in letters
still advertised
your
Cause
in favourite
some
for stories,
And references
as sure
but leaveforgot
origins
Select
he reject
at another
My treatment
Found
will not
weeping,
Do not imagine
you
Before
for, made to
you can
reach
have
Others
To
must
fate
the
one
of
loss
topped.
you
frontier
it
and
they
always
the
suffer
Holders
tipped,
answer,
abdicate;
tried
To finish that which

Their
will be
differhe
signed
did not
begin:
were
they
caught;
again
same as yours,
be the
wrong
position,
are
try
will
November
afraid
for
of,
yes,
years.
1929
10
Consider
As the
this and in
hawk
The clouds
sees
it
smouldering
At the first garden
on,
Through
admire
Dangerous,
party
the insufficient
easy,
border
year.
of the
windows
airman:
there
on a
of the
the view
plate-glass
Join there
time
the helmeted
rift suddenlylook
At cigarette-end
Pass
our
or
massif
of the
units
in furs, in uniform
Sport
Hotel;
at reserved
And constellated
with feelings
Supplied
elsewhere
Sitting
in kitchens
ago,
More
Ancient
In
supreme
sorry at
and
Found
Lie
they
Antagonist,
life's' limiting
or
Mendip,
Cornwall,
on
Your comments
no answer,
barrows
You talk to
your
admirers
harbours,
the
out
every
derelict
moor
Pennine
mining-captains,
them wish to die
made
in
whale
defect,
the highborn
since
By silted
fens.
great northern
than the
powerful
and their dogs
stormy
in the
band
efficient
to farmers
Relayed
Long
tables
an
by
of
harm.
day
works,
14
In strangled
dogs
that
they
Visit
The
orchards,
have worried
the
attack
ports
leisurely
Within
and,
bird
comb
Where
shot. Order
the ill
interrupting
throw
chosen
handsome
was
once:
conversation
stone's
Beckon'your
Those
at
and the silent
or a
in the bar
of the sunlit water,
out. Summon
and diseased
youngsters,
those
women
Your
parishes;
In soils
that make
In the infected
But horrifying
peril,
and utensils
Financier,
the
money
Youll
need
your
The
game
is
up
Who, thinking,
Of College
Who
are
Sleeping
Seekers
The
born
typist
or
convolutions
on
no more;
others,
the lawns.
Close,
who live in shorts

and playing
fives.
all who follow
your
simple
wish,
think;
nearer
that day
of
you
spent,
boy
and for the
after happiness,
It is later than
your
in slippers
nurses,
dread.
room
Cathedral
with people
be A
gust,
but not
and
you
pace
Quad
come to
neurotic
little
is made
for
Then,
to disgust
shall
sudden
your
leaving
Where
stoats.
as torn-up paper
in
of
alarm,
with immeasurable
Seized
eyes
soft
magnified,
prodigious
latent
forces
brutal
in its capacity
the people,
Scattering
Rags
the farmer
sinus, and the
Which, spreading
polar
in the country
the powerful
your rumour,
start
ready,
agents
solitary
And mobilise
Far other than that distant
afternoon
Amid
rustle
gave
They
be
Not
you
though
then,
no
to leave
pack
humming
feet
to the ruined boys.
away,
You cannot
Escaping
and stamping
of frocks
the prizes
within
down arterial
an
hour,
roads:
15
The
was yours;
date
Irregular
some
After
prey to
the
breathing
haunted
migratory
on an
To disintegrate
fugues,
and alternate
mania
instant
Or lapse
ascendancies
years
in the explosion
for
ever
into
of
classic
fatigue.
March
11
This lunar
Has
Is
If
no
beauty
history
complete
beauty
and
later
early;
1930
any
Bear
It had
feature
lover
And is another.
This like
Keeps
dream
other time
And daytime
The
loss
For time
is
of this;
is inches
And the heart's

Where
Lost
ghost
and wanted.
But this
was never
A ghost's
Was
changes
has haunted
endeavour
at
ghost
And till it
ease;
pass
Love shall not
near
The sweetness
here
Nor
sorrow
His endless
1930
take
look.
Nor finished
this,
16
12
To ask the hard question
Asking
is simple;
at meeting
With the
To what
simple
And how
glance
of acquaintance
go
these
these
do:
To ask the hard question
The simple
is simple,
act of the confused
But the
answer
Is hard
and hard to remember:
On steps
The
ears
To words
The
eyes
or on
shore
listening
at meeting,
looking
At the hands
helping,
will.
Are
never sure
Of what
they
From how
learn
these
Makes
Only
the
done.
or see
easy;
forgetting
remembering
Remembering
Only
are
things
to listen
And forgetting
the method
only
strangely
in another
exciting
of remembering,
way,
lie,
Afraid
To remember
what
the fish ignored,
How the bird escaped,
Till, losing
or
if the sheep
memory,
Bird, fish, and sheep
are
ghostly,
And ghosts
must
do again
What
them
pain.
gives
Cowardice
cries
For windy
skies,
Coldness
Obedience
for water,
for
a master.
17
obeyed.
memory restore
Shall
The steps
The face
Shall
and the shore,

and
the meeting
place;
the bird live,
Shall the fish dive,
And sheep
In
obey
sheep's
Can love
way;
remember
The question
What
and the
answer,
recover
For love
has been
dark
and rich and
warm
all over?
? August
1930
13
Doom is dark
what
man
In spring,
Avalanche
That
and deeper
than
any
sea-dingle.
it fall
day-wishing
sliding,
he should
flowers
white
leave
snow
his house,
appearing,
from rock-face,
Upon
No cloud-soft
women;
can
hand
ever
But
Through
place-keepers,
stranger
to strangers
Houses
for fishes,
Or lonely
on
fell
By pot-holed
Waving
Kissing
forest
undried
trees, A
sea,
chat,
becks
an
unquiet
bird.
fatigued
at evening,
And
of home,
from window,
under
of wife
But waking
spread
single
of welcome.
sheet;
sees
nameless
Bird-flocks
Of
to him. through doorway
new men
making
another
18
Save
by
water,
suffocating
as
head falls forward,
dreams
voices
through
over
A bird stone-haunting,
There
hold him, restraint
man goes
that
him from hostile
From sudden
tigers
capture,
spring
at
corner;
love.
Protect
His
his house,
anxious
house
From thunderbolt
From gradual
where
Bring
joy, bring
Lucky
with day
are
counted
protect,
ruin spreading
number
Converting
days
like
vague to
from
stain;
certain,
day of his returning,

approaching,
with leaning
dawn.
August
1930
14
What's
your
in
thoughts
it making
grow
Open
or
with
Go through
on
your
of
the
dove,
of
money,
Do
Or raid
on
dallier;
for escaping
of exploring
brink of the
warm
my great
and darken
my coney;
the dead end of life; Is
thief?
dearest
hands
the motions
Rise with the wind,
the birds
my
counting
the plans
your eyes, my
Let hunt
Stand
love
of
the jewels,
mind,
like feathers,
the air;
me;
the familiar;
white
day.
big serpent;
Silence
me
Change
with terror,
for the heart
and have
alive
me
a moment;
in
Strike
there.
November
1930
19
15
are you
O where
"That
valley
Yonder's
That
O
gap
doyou
"That
to rider,
burn,
whose
odours
grave
where
the tall return.
imagine,
said fearer
looking
footsteps
was
will madden,
to farer,
on your
path to the
discover
the lacking
dusk will delay
0 what
furnaces
the midden
is the
Your diligent
Your
said reader
going?
is fatal where
feel from granite
that bird,
pass,
to grass?
said horror
to hearer,
you see
"Did
Behind
you
that
shape
on your
The spot
in the twisted
the figure
swiftly
skin is
of this housesaid
"Out
never
"Yours
"They're
shocking
rider
as
from
disease?
to reader
for yousaid
As he left them there,
trees?
softly,
farer to fearer
willsaid
looking
comes
he left
The
hearer
to horror
them there.
Orators:
October
1931
1
6
(T O
MY
aware
Though
orders,
the
PUPI
LS )
of
Watching
grass
for
our
rank
and alert
to obey
the movement
with binoculars
of
an
ambush,
The
pistol
cocked,
the code-word
committed
to
memory;
The youngest
Knows
all the peace-time
drummer
stories
like
the
oldest
soldier,
Though
frontier-conscious,
20
About
open
the tall white
gods
who landed
boat, Skilled in the working
our
appointing
submerged,
of
when the
was
weather
The
An
open
maned
in
certain,
garden;
all of
us,
but not from the
Not from the unshaven
returned
desert
every
came easy.
When love
records,
to the
camp;
recorded
only
The
sack
The agent
clutching
Sorry!
calm,
common,
lion
wishing-well
Perfectly
were
the islands
Before
feast-days,
from their
copper,
The pillar
of
his
They
agent who
dug from
the
city,
side
collapsed
got me!
at
our
feet,
Yes, they
were
Yes, they
are
Lying
awake
once
living here
living
after
still but
Lights
but do not
now,
do not here;
Out
recruit
may
speak
up:
Who
The tent-talk
told
you
pauses a
Turning
over
he closes
moment
Sees
the
cornfield
and pasture,
was
and then in
midnight
bright
Our hope..
over
Someone
for boots,
to change
Time
quarrel
eyes,
his
sun at
him, fumbling
Boy, the
a veteran answers
to sleep, Sonny!
Go
jostles
all this?
little till
guard:
before
your
time, the
aggressor
one you
No
Your
our
childish
world,
garden,
our
moments
At five
At night
know.
of
awareness
you sprang,
your
mother
were
already
taught
all of
tiger
in the
you to pray
for
Daddy
Far
One morning
away
you
fighting,
fell off
horse
and
your
brother
you:
mocked
Just
like
girl!
21
got their
You've
wont
aid,
help,
gunnery,
raids
tactics,
you
you
taking
up to
live
a very
full
and
questions
programme,
The technique
and hand-to-hand
Are
Are
names to
You've
to master
first
of
fighting;
in training?
care
of yourself?
Are
you sure
of
passing
The
Now
we're
endurance
test?
due to parade
on
the
square
in front
of the
Cathedral,
When the
the
bishop
has blessed
us, to
file in after
choir-boys,
To stand
roped-off
with the wine-dark
Shout
They
ran
conquerors
in the
pews,
like
ourselves
hares;
we
have
hoarse:
broken
them
up
like
firewood;
They
While
the
a great
in
same
hour
fought
against
God,
rift in the limestone
they
gather,
away
miles
tethering
their
foresees
beside
A
scarecrow
prophet
from
boulder
At
horses
them;
our
judgement,
Their
And the
oppressors
bitter psalm
is
howling;
caught
by
the gale
from
the rocks:
long
How
What
have
we
shall
they
all been doing
flourish?
to have made
from
Fear
That laconic
now
Heart
war-bitten
captain
and head shall be
addressing
keener,
mood
them
the
more
As
To have
our
caused
might
their
lessens:
shout
We
will fight till
we
The Lord
There's
Wrath who
we
lie down beside
have loved?
has learnt
every
trick of
guerilla
warfare,
night-raid,
the
The shamming
their brilliant
to lying
pamphleteer,
true,
As husband
Expert
dead, the
retreat; Envy
feinted
impersonator
and linguist,
proud
of his
power
To hoodwink
sentries.
22
Gluttony
Big simple
For
her
somewhere
living
austerer
alone,
Greed, Acedia
stamina,
famed
keeping
than
us,
with them all
outposts,
the
and
Lust
With
to his
Muttering
sappers
his
fuses
in
skill,
tunnel
Could
I meet
here with Love,
would
hug
him
to
death.
are
There
faces
there
which
for
time
look-out,
though
sight
Catching
through
at
often
of
our arms
in their
some
we'd
voice
and discovered
we seem to
her bicycle
never
have
seen
Why, that girl who rode
one
fine
summer
And
hearing
unlucky.
of them, surely,
before:
on
the
imagined,
them at last;
eyes
were
We
off
or
long
round their necks
and looked
And
we
home
back
a very
on
been
doorway,
We had found
Put
for
We've
returned,
shes
evening
there; and the banker
noticed
Worried
Till he failed
for weeks;
to arrive
one
morning
and his
room
was empty,
Gone
They
speak
with
of things
suitcase.
done
on
the frontier
we were
never
told,
path to their squat
The hidden
Pictish
tower
They
will
never
reveal though
kept without
sleep,
Death
They
are
brave,
for their code
is
to the squealer:
yes,
our newspapers
though
mention their bravery
In inverted
But careful;
Passports
Theres
no
back
are
to
issued
commas.
our
lines;
no
longer;
it is unsafe
that
fire in the waiting-room
area
is closed;
now
at the climbers'
And all this
there,
junction,
year
23
Work
has been stopped
on
the power-house;
the wind whistles

The half-built
Do
you
think that because
under
culverts.
you
have heard that
on
Christmas
Eve
In
quiet
sector
Exchanged
they
walked
cigarettes,
on
about
both learning
the
skyline,
the words
for
I love you
In either language,
You
can
stroll
across
for
smoke
and
any
chat
evening?
Try
see.
it and
That rifle-sight
youre
Youre
us up;
holding
designing;
the office
is it ready
yet?
is getting
impatient;
The
square
munition
works
out
on
the
old
allotments
Needs
If
you see any
without
stricter
loiterers
watching;
there
you may
shoot
warning,
We must
All leave
stop that leakage.
is cancelled
to-night;
we must say
good-bye.
We
entrain
at
once
for the North;
we
shall
see
in
the morning
The
headlands
we're
doomed
to attack;
snow
down to the tide-line:
Though
Indoors
before
the
bunting
signals
it's too late; cut peat
for
your
fires,
We shall lie out there.

from "The
Orators:
November
1931
24
17
0 Love,
Make
the interest
simpler
within,
image
itself in thoughtless
daily
the
There
beating
of
Heaven,
mans
in the ring where
heart;
name
and
meet,
Inspire
thought
starlings
them with such

Alive
like
Rising
longing
patterns
in joy
over
as
will make
murmuration
wolds
of
unwittingly
his
weave;
on our
too
Here
on
perched
fortress
The mole
between
exile-crowded
the edge
all Europe
Newton
The apple
aware
became
This
scarp,
of the Atlantic
and the
was,who
Between
in his
towards
falling
garden
England,
and her of
himself
an
tie.
For
now
that dream which
our
will,
empire,
mean,
Under
up
Sprouted
as a
valleys,
so
of uniting
whose
long has
the
dead
fertilising
contented
into
flood
splendid
the
moss
Lancashire
Grim
your power,
display
sea;
us as
And make
watching
eternal
little reef
chimneys,
and Glamorgan
tidal rock-pools
Is already
hid
life
in its glove-shaped
retreating
into her maternal
shadow;
Leaving
The
the furnaces
flotsam
hungers;
gasping
in the impossible
at which Dumbarton
While
upon
wind-loved
gapes
Rowley
and
no
air,
hammer
shakes
The cluster
graves
dangerous
their
of mounds
some
Of
marvels;
sense
like
midget
created
these
golf
people,
Affectionate
course,
intelligible
but
crude
of glory.
as
Far-sighted
future;
who
they
falcons,
looked
For the seed in their loins
down another
were
hostile,
though
afraid
And, tall with
shadow
now,
inertly
of their pride,
wait.
25
In bar, in netted
Standing
The
ladies
Consider
The
on
years
the
barren
are
inland
constricting
marriage
very moment
are
acres,
apart, too much alone,
of the measured
spiritual
they
in lighthouse,
impoverished
and gentlemen
Yet, O, at this
When
chicken-farm,
these
of
thinking
world
of stone
our
begun,
and water.
hopeless
their
thoughts
sigh
but
watching
As children
decide
in Chester
On picnics
these
to Moel Fammau
look
bythe
islands,
or
clearness
to
withdrawal
of
her
treeless
possible
Some
ammonite's
on our
long coiled
Is uncurling,
talk and kindness
surgeons
And
dream,
slumber
idea
whom
in the
prepared
Its military
to lay
silence,
its
of pain;
out of the Future
As when
crown,
Merlin,
Stonehenge
into actual
tamer of horses,
was
still
History,
and his lords
thought,
to
the Pillars
passed
And into the undared
ocean swung
prow,
Drives
star-concealing
the night
dawn
For the virgin roadsteads

unwavering
north their
through
of
our
hearts
an
keel.
May
1932
and
18
O what
is that
Down
in
Only
the
The soldiers
sound
the
which
valley
scarlet
so
thrills
the
drumming,
soldiers,
ear
drumming?
dear,
coming.
26
what
is
the
Over
Only
the
What
Only
are
are
light
distance
sun on
As they
O what
that
their
see
flashing
brightly,
weapons,
so
clear
brightly?
dear,
step lightly.
they
they
the usual
doing with all that

doing this morning,
manoeuvres,
dear,
gear;
this morning?
Or perhaps
O why have
Why
they
they
change
in the orders,
are you
kneeling?
Why
O havent
they
None
of these
O is it the
Is it the
parson
are
O it must
O where
for the doctor's

their horses,
they want
the
hair;
dear,
so near;
who lives
so
cunning,
the farm already,
they
are you
deceiving?
dear,
with white
his gateway,
farmer
passed
now
care;
their horses?
is it, is it?
be the farmer
have
dear;
visit.
be the
It must
there;
wheeling?
of them wounded,
passing
down
wheeling,
forces.
parson,
Without
And
reined
are none
Why, they
No, they
suddenly
they stopped
Haven't
Were
road
are
Perhaps
They
warning.
left the
are
going?
so
cunning?
dear,
funning.
stay with
vows you swore me

No, I promised
me
here!
deceiving,
to love
you,
dear,
Imust
But
O its
broken
the lock and splintered
the gate where
O it's
Their
be leaving.
are
feet
heavy
on
eyes are
And their
they're
the
turning,
door,
turning;
the floor
burning.
October
1932
27
19
Hearing
of harvests
rotting
Seeing
at end of street
Round
corners
Knowing
coming
inthe
suddenly
them shipwrecked
for islands,
We
honour
valleys,
the barren
who
founders
mountains,
on water,
were
launched
of these
starving
cities,
Whose
honour
Which
cannot
That
brought
is the image
see
of
its likeness
them desperate
our sorrow.
in their
sorrow
to the brink
of
valleys;
Dreaming
learned
cities,
violent
ships
They
on
horses
the mountains,
on
green to
of
built
Running
them that
by rivers
every
through
day
Those
was
mountains,
Where
like
the water
comforted
bed conceived
year trees
fields
dancing
was
their
sorrow;
of islands
in the valleys,
on
blossomed
love
for water.
craved
and at night
And all the
reined their
islands,
past windows
Each in his little

Where
walks
They
to castaways
Visions
evening
of
the
innocent,
being
far
from cities.
But
dawn
came
No marvellous
There
was
Some
The
and they
were
rose up
still in cities;
from the water,
still gold and silver in the mountains,
And hunger
Although
back
creature
was a more
immediate
to moping villagers
waving
gods,
Are stalking
pilgrims
were
they promised,
head-up,
lovely
sorrow;
in valleys
describing
visit
us
through
islands.
from islands,
the cities;
Now
is
And
the
at
Sitting
The shadow
to
time
sail with
their
cast
your
leave
them
across
white
across your
the
sides.
lives
wretched
valleys
water;
lime-green
forget
your
sorrow,
by mountains.
28
So
many,
Climbing
So
many,
Which
cities;
doubtful,
fearful,
stayed
So
water;
So
perished
up crags to get a
took
in the
view
with them
them when they
many,
many,
careless,
their
sorrow
reached
dived
wretched,
mountains
of islands;
unhappy
and drowned
would
not leave
in
their
valleys.
It is the
Would
these
sorrow;
shall it melt?
gush, flush,
valleys,
And
green
we
these
rebuild
Ah, water
mountains
our
and
cities, not
dream
of islands.
May
20
1933
(T O
Out
G EO FFREY
on
Vega
the lawn I lie in bed,
conspicuous
overhead
In the windless
Forests
of
The day's
Point
HO Y LA ND)
green
nights
have
my
activity;
Is chosen
Where
as my
the
The bathing
The leisured
in time
sexy
airs
each
Enchanted
The
opening
From
leaves
Its logic
summer,
of
through
arms,
land
of farms,
newcomer.
Equal with colleagues
on
space
place;
and the bare
drives
Are good to the
I sit
and
working
hours
complete
feet
moon.
to the rising
Lucky, this point
of June;
done
in
ring
calm evening,
as
the flowers
light
draws
out of hiding
with all its dove-like
and its
29
powers.
pleading
That
later
May
we,
though
still recall these
Fear
gave
his
The lion griefs

And
on our
And Death
Moreover,
That
parted
no
in which
I learn
return
day;
the birds
and rising
me,
I shall speak
Who
has
not
with
sun
one
gone away.
North and South
and East and West
I love lie down to rest;
Those
The
moon
The healers
The
laid,
his book.
Waken
Now
shade
their muzzles
put down
every
when
look;
loped from the

knees
eyes
And when
evenings
watch
I am glad to look,
My glances
then
looks
and
eccentrics
on
them all:
the brilliant
and the silent
talkers,
walkers,
The dumpy
She climbs
And
as an
she
gravity
From
gardens
Look
cannot
she
tyrannies
gentle,
here;
of
do
Poland
violence
we
a
we
feel
sigh
secure
endure
love:
not
draws
is
though
move,
where
and with
The
Where
30
up,
And,
What
stares
attentive,
Whom hunger
fixtures:
pictures.
notice nothing
Can
lie
peers,
orphan
Upon the marvellous

To
stations
earth's
the galleries
blankly
sky;
power
and
among
Alike
tall.
the European
Churches
Into
and the
care
her
done;
to
know,
Eastern
bow,
Nor
ask
what
doubtful
act allows
in this English
Our freedom
Our picnics
The creepered
wall stands
The gathering
multitudes
Whose
glances
hunger
from their
Concealing
Our metaphysical
Our kindness
And
now no
But shows
Thoroughly
What
But
on
hands
of
and by
has little
we
would
colleges,
And all the birds
could
conceive,
left alone.
by nature
The Oxford
we move
which
able to achieve
our
Though
persons.
traces
excitement
We loved,
worsens;
our own,
our
For what
hide
distress,
already
not
up to
outside
wretchedness
to ten
path
Intentions
house,
sun.
in the
training
strength
gladly
remaining:
give
Big Ben,
in Wicken
Fen,
no
It has
wish to live.
Soon through
The
the dykes
crumpling
And,
taller
Hold sudden
Whose
than
death
And vigours
long hid the size
When
Their
stalks
mud
first
monsters
gasping
terrify
unsubtle
ears:
31
May
we
this for which
Our privacy,
need
through
dread
to lose
no excuse
But to that strength

As
child's
belong;
rash
the wheat
appears;
of riveting
whorled
retreat
make
the black
stranded
And sounds
sea.
of the
green
a rent,
our eyes
before
But when the waters
In shy
our content
a tree,
river-dreams
And through
of
flood will force
happy
cries
lie,
The drowned
voices
After
discharges
The pulse
Forgive
Tough
of
of alarm,
may
it calm
nervous
nations;
the murderer
in its patience
The tigress
rise
song.
In unlamenting
All unpredicted
parents
of his
in his
to
her swift
glass,
surpass
motions.
June
1933
21
A shilling
How
What
Made
Of
life will give
Father
how
were
beat
the
struggles
him the greatest
he
fought,
you
him,
all the facts:

how
of
figure
fished,
his
he
ran
youth,
away,
what
acts
of his day:
hunted,
worked
all night,
Though
giddy,
mountains;
the
of
Some
even
him
new
climbed
sea:
last
write
weep
Love
his pints
Did
And
Or
say
on,
jobs
nothing
else;
round
Of his long marvellous
critics,
about
the
could
the
letters
for
house
at
garden;
would
answered
none.
? 1934
22
Of
hunting
the
told
fathers
sadness
of
the
the
home;
with
32
Our
made
one
lived
whistle;
but kept
me.
and
he sighed
astonished
little
potter
you
like
With all his honours

Who,
named
researchers
story
creatures,
sit
skill
still
some
Pitied
the
in
Set
in
Saw
limits
their
Behind
and
the
lions
the
quarrys
Love
raging
That
reason's
Who nurtured
Predicted
Guessed
The
That
His
And
of
glory
add,
power,
god.
in that fine tradition
love by nature
human
ways
gestures
it his mature
no
thought
To hunger, work
suited
to
of guilt?
ligaments
southern
make
glare,
personal
would
and
look,
dying
the result,
intricate
To think
intolerant
gift
The liberal appetite
lack
features-;
the
for
The rightness
the
finished
could
so
modify,
ambition
but
ours,
illegally,
And be anonymous?
? May
1934
23
Easily,
my
dear,
you move,
easily
your
head
And easily
as
through
the leaves
of
photograph
album I'm led Through
the night's
day's
the tall tenements
impressions,
Past
trees in the wood; Though
sombre
delights
and the
and the
the sixteen
skies
of Europe
And the Danube
Looking
our
and loving
The stones,
the steels
to Love
new pansy
The
the
sterile
farms
worlds
Through
pass
where
glass;
Lucky
railway,
his looks
unlucky
are
fed,
city
his bed.
He from these
Makes
behaviours
and the polished
And in the policed
Lucky
flood.
lands
as
bankrupt
of terrifying
innocent
as
countries
mottoes
Beatrix
where
Potters;
they
mend
the
roads
Along
Intent
the
endless
as a
collector
His
greens
to
Simple
The
your
camera
excite
horses,
his will is
face
and the tower
The pool of silence
conjure
plains
pursue
and lilies.
for him to find in
Easy
To
to
in
the
the
of
into
grace,
air
from
the
fountains,
rose;
wishing
glance
sidedrum,
the
trombone
And the dance, the dance.
by
Summoned
As
and
And
Five
Hitler
of
six
feet,
and
Churchill
Roosevelt
at
time,
the
bless:
variations
flight
of
the
birds
assassins.
the
feet,
Mussolini
desperate
seven
in
cknowledging
the
nor
their
watching
our
from
come
dispel
in
single
thousand
music
audience
love
invalids
Grouped
Ten
to
cannot
vanity
Hunger
such
images
Such
feet
their
the
microphone,
marching
high:
wooing
voters'
Van
by
der
poses
greeting
Lubbe
laughing
our
And
But
Will do
no
Without
meeting.
first
except
love,
trick
our
at
at
opinions
his
proposal,
disposal;
his
of
own,
performs
34
The
programme
And through
think
stuff
His public
spirit.
it became
while
Certain
There
we
private
that
our
were
certain
never compete
childish
we were
prizes
A choice
of merit,
must work
still incomplete
for which
was
we
killed by
would
every
illness,
The boiling
tears
The rigid promise
among
the hothouse
fractured
in the
plants,
garden,
And the long aunts.
And
every
day
there
bolted
from the
field
Fewer
and clearer
for
Schemes
now
You stand
ghosts
me,
before
The
Be
shadow
voice
Lubbe,
The
her immediate
pleasure,
rubbish
now,
uncertain
across your
brow,
I hear and wish I did not:

of
power
love
saying
be Hitler,
Daily,
own.
O, be deaf
her fascinating
too, standing
A pine tree
To what
and bone
flesh
your one treasure.
For
Be deaf
hatred,
like to make their
choices?
swap
scrawls
portrait.
When hatred would proffer

And glory
for
interesting
your
would
your
the plans,
life and sketches
Appeared
Are they
could not yield;
grew
among my
And early
These
we
to which
Desires
corrupts.
quite
To them the fathers

And all who
The arrogant
my
brightly
good
nightly.
that
The beautiful
lightly,
but be
possess:
and the children
long for their

and
power to excess
that
naturally
turn:
destruction,
self-insulted,
wait
The
looked
instruction.
35
Shall idleness
you
O will
Will
you
Forfeit
ring
then
unnoticed
join the lost
the beautiful
Where
your eyes
like
in their sneering
interest
the engaging
circles,
and fall
is the face
face
the pest?
like the rest,
and mildly
of the
betrayer,
And the
Wind shakes
pang
is all?
the tree; the mountains
And the heart repeats

hearken:
gods
though
"Yours
Crooked
to
not
to whom the
The language
and the language
move as a
Or straight
darken;
would
is the choice,
awarded
learning
we
of love,
moneybug
as a
or a cancer
dove.
November
1934
of
24
The
Europe
Wrinkling
the
the
On
The
and
its
Under
That
at
surface
like
bellies
of
St.
us
We
Paul's
would
still
show
village
directs
: You
grazing
ever
bridges
sea
wavers.
so
show
the
palm.
horses
nothing
Dutch
deep
loving
shallow
its
golden
water
that
defy
an
its location
Wherever
longingly
towards
north to Scots
rams
first
shall
you most
are
Whether
ploughmans
you at
choose
heart
and
lake
rivers
still from Norway.
would
English
many
dwindle;
the
And
divides
glittering
the
posts
of
moment
cross
its
islands;
shadows
this
sunk
the
side
far
vigorous
Calm
upon
holds:
Summer
Lie
to look;
your
you
it:
Gap and Bellingham
the panting
engine:
where
the
black
Or west
to the Welsh
Marches;
magicians
to the lilting speech
and the
faces:
36
you were a
Wherever
There
it stands
amidst
A parish
bounded
meadows
where
As at Trent
gliding;
out of
ampler
current.
green
When
you
apple,
When
the
Shorthorn
Junction
blisters
champion
have
first
affair
scenery:
cliff;
or
and maplike
where
the Soar
comes
to swell the
on your
with corks
office
in
pallor,
your
hands,
eaten
your
you
your
your
had
darling
Leicestershire
Hiker with sunburn

Cross-country
your
by the wreckers
browse
Frisian
or
child
sandwich,
have
glass
your
salt and
your
begged
of milk from the ill-kept
What
farm,
you
is it
I see barns
falling,
great
houses
inhabited,
Dusty
clocks
fences
not ploughland,
Pasture
The
see?
remain
prep-schools
top-hole.
have
where
the
Those
children
stable
been turned
into
experienced
matron,
for the golf-bore
sang
in the inns
and the
at evening
they
saw
suburban
an
of
who
are
and the
diet is in
club-houses
departed;
Their
have
Some
the hands
into
Others
not wheat.
but only half
gunrooms
the
stationary.
broken,
weeds
their
have
country,
hope in another
entered
the service
of the
areas;
they
have
become
typists,
mannequins
and factory
operatives;
they
rhythm
of life. But their
another
population,
about
Brought
roads;
Offer
Bovril
different
taken by
with views
and saloon along arterial
to whom
and buns
With leather-work
are
nature,
in charabanc
Tourists
desired
places
the Tudor
upon
as a
Breton
sideline:
cafes
ware
Filling
stations
Those
as
who fancy themselves

special
Erect
pumps.
petrol from rustic
Supplying
their villas
Airtight,
lighted,
setting
or
foxes
desire
for spooning
at the right places,

elaborately
warmed;
37
nervous
And
Live
With
upon
an
people
who
will
dividends
in the
friend
animal
for
never marry
old-world
or a
cottages
volume
of
memoirs.
Man is changed
His
concern
did not
the
by his living;
to-day
occur.
Bristol
but not fast enough.
is for that which
yesterday
In the hour of the Blue
Bomber,
thoughts
Bird and
his
are
appropriate
to the
years
the
Penny
He
truth.
Farthing:
tosses at night who at noonday
found
no
of
Stand
In
village
Pressan
its
young men
on
Toss
Their
Is cast
odours
epoch.
do not
comfort
heads.
decides
their fate
to-morrow,
One must
Danger
depart
and
and face
sorrow.
Is it me? Is it me? Is it
Lookin
There
to-night
beds
uneasy
lot that
have
your
heart
lies the
and
answer.
spoken;
too corruption
in Pressan
their
pillows
Their
The
Here
of
is beginning
we
which
and emphatic
out
evil,
The play
of
Ambo:
peculiar
The
now:
aside
the
..
see:
me?
And
called
spreads
Life
its
lurks,
Though
the heart
or
Conjuror
you
Deceive
A curious
often into
clever
many
stowaways
like
too late.
Are found
Chooses
sleight
And motives
What
like
dancer
shall he do, whose
heart
to depart?
38
He
shall
Feel
Envy
against
his
the
At home
in
his
peace
heart
harden,
heavy
birds
garden.
For walk he must
the empty
journey
Selfish
Between
the
needless
And the endless
risk
safety.
Will he safe and sound

Return to his
Clouds
and lions
stand
the hostility
of dreams.
O let him honour
Lest
ground?
him dangerous
Before
And
own
he should
us
be ashamed
In the hour of crisis,

In the valleys
Tarnish
Who
are you,
Sounds
You
are
We
are
On
your
of corrosion
his brightness.
whose
speech
for out of reach?
the town and

the guardians
we are
The Two.
left and
In the day
the clock.
of the gate in the rock,
on your
right
and in the night,
We
Wiser
are
you.
watching
not to ask just what has occurred
To them who
our
disobeyed
word;
To those
We
were
the whirlpool,
We
were
the formal
we were
nightmare,
the reef,
grief
rose.
And the unlucky
39
Climb
up
the
crane,
When the ships
learn
your
The
stories
But
Nor
do not
At
with birds
fishing
moments
and
other
of
men's
constricted
wives:
lives
inn.
imagine
that what
Nothing
of
expansive
In the lighted
words
laden
in.
Come
Tell
the sailors'
from the islands
you
we
do not know
hide
with such
glance.
is done, nothing
is said,
care
won't
show
But
don't make
the mistake
of believing
I shouldnt
We're
We've
case
in that
afraid
dead:
dance.
you'll have
you over
been watching
us
fall.
the garden
wall
For hours.
The
sky is darkening
is going
Something
And it wont
When
the
green
Revealing
like
stain,
to fall like rain
be flowers.
field
comes
was
what
off like
much
better
lid
hid:
Unpleasant.
And look, behind
The woods
you
have
without
come up
In deadly
The bolt
Outside
is sliding
in its
the window
and
sound
are
standing
crescent.
groove,
is the black
remov-
ers van.
And
now
with sudden
swift
emergence
round
Come
women
the
in dark glasses
surgeons
humpbacked
and the
And the scissor
man.
This
might
happen
any
day
you say
So be careful what
Or do.
40
Be clean, be tidy,
oil the lock,
Trim the garden,
wind the clock,
Remember
the Two.
from "The Dog Beneath
the Skin"; 1932,
25
Now
Earth
Capes
through
nights
of China
From her fingers
caressing
oceans
and all her
slide
away
into day
And the Americas
slip,
incline
grip
? 1934
Coasts
Now
towards
her shadow
Into crooked
worst
Awkward
lovers
disdainful
While
the splendid
beauty
May sleeps
Through
Unpursued
Traction
gains
entertains:
power
hours
to
by hostile
engine,
Or revolting
the crowd
gambler
healing
these
yields:
and the proud
stand before
And the beggar
rest:
they
lie in fields
Where
And the losing
and best,
as
their places
Change
Naked
to sleep:
holes
Just and unjust,
line.
creep
vagrants
the ragged
bull
extend
our
friend.
force,
or
horse
succubus;
till the morning
break
Let him lie, then gently
wake.
Calmly
from
"The Dog Beneath
41
the
Skin:
? 1935
26
edges
open
to be
O for doors
and aninvite
To dine with Lord Lobcock
on
Asthma
with gilded
and Count
the
platinum
With the somersaults
and fireworks,
benches,
the roast
and
the
smacking
Cried
the six
The six beggared
And Garbo's
In
feather
Still jolly
and
Cleopatra's
ocean
with
when the
Cried
The
cock
the
has
six
astraying,
and playing
himself
with crowing
to the silent
cripples
statue,
cripples.
And to stand
on green
yellow
Dependent
faces,
go
to
fishing
burst
six beggared
statue,
cripples.
wits
me to go
kisses
to the silent
cripples
turf
among
on
the craning
the chestnut,
the
sable,
and Arabian
magic
horses,
Cried
And
to foresee
crystal
sails
square to
be
to rig
breeze
shaded
like
feverless
cripples.
deck,
and these
And to follow
a tantony
with
to the silent statue,
the six cripples
The six beggared
And this
me
their places
pigeons
the delicious
To the
pig
islands
where
the melons
are
big
Cried
The
And these
the six
six beggared
shops
And
from
flower
Cried
The
And
me
to tulips in
with
my
dead
the six cripples
hole in the bottom
garden
stick to thrash
As he pokes
his bald and wicked
six beggared
statue,
cripples.
to be turned
bed,
each merchant
to the silent
cripples
head
to the silent
statue,
cripples.
of heaven,
and Peter
and
Paul
And
beggar
Cried
no
to have
the six
legs
The six beggared
every
surprised
saint
one-legged
at all
to the silent
cripples
smug
each
to fall, And
like parachutes
statue,
cripples.
?
Spring
1935
4?
27
Look, stranger, at this island
now
your
delight
That through the channels
of the
The leaping light for
discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,

M ay
The
w ander
sw aying
Here at the
like
sound of the
sm all
ear
river
sea.
field's ending
pause
W here the chalk wall falls to the foam

ledges O ppose the pluck
and its tall
And knock of the tide,

And the shingle
scram bles
after the suck-
ing surf, and the gull lodges
mom ent on
its sheer side.
Far off like floating seeds the ships
Diverge
on urgent
voluntary
errands;
And the full view
may enter
move in mem ory as now these clouds do, That
pass the harbour m irror
And al the sum mer through the w ater saunter.
Indeed
And
November
28
N ow the leaves
are falling fast,

ers will not last;
Nurses to the graves are gone,
And the pram s go rolling on.
Nurse's flow
43
Whispering
Pluck
us
neighbours,
from
left
the
and right,
real
delight;
1935
And
the
active
on
Lonely
Dead
in
raised
through
Starving
Trolls
run
And
the
Cold,
for their
nightingale
the
angel
impossible,
white
Travellers
wood
food;
dumb,
not
come.
ahead
lovely
waterfall
in
reprove
is
will
back
love.
of
the leafless
scolding
freeze
knees.
track,
to
stiffly
Lifts the mountain's
Whose
the
our
in
attitudes
false
And
at
wooden
Arms
In
separate
hundreds
Follow
must
hands
the
their
head
could
last
March
1936
bless
distress.
29
gone,
Dear, though the night
is
The dream
to-day
still haunts
That brought
Cavernous,
A railway
us to a room,
lofty
And crowded
Were
In
beds,
far
in that
gloom
we
one
and
corner
Our whisper
We kissed
as
terminus,
lay.
no
woke
and
At everything
in
I was
you
clocks,
glad
did,
44
Indifferent
to
those
Who
In
sat
with
on
pairs
Arms
Inert
round
and
Or what
you
Did what
other's
necks,
sad.
of guilt
doubt
of;
then, unabashed,
I never
Confessed
And
each
malignant
Am I the victim
That
bed,
vaguely
worm
O but wha.t
eyes
hostile
every
wished,
another
I, submissive,
Unwanted
love;
felt
and went
out?
March
1936
30
Casino
Only the hands
Are moved,
creek
as
are
deer
living;
to the wheel attracted,
trek desperately
towards
Through
the dust and scrub
or
of the desert,
gently
As sunflowers
And
as
the night
turn to the light.
takes
The cravings
children,
up
the cries
of lions
of feverish
in dens, the loves
dons,
them all and remains
Gathers
room
Great
is full of their
To the last feast

They
of isolation,
the night, the
prayers.
self-invited,
flock, and in the rite of disbelief
From numbers
all their
The enchanted,
stars
the world,
are
are
joined;
recreated,
the sad.
45
Without,
Quite
the rivers
near
flow
their trysts;
among
the
wholly
and the mountains
living,
part
them;
and the bird,
Deep
in the
greens
and moistures
of
summer,
of
Sings
But
towards
no
here
their work.
nymph
comes
to the
naked
youngest
shepherd,
The
fountain
is
deserted,
The
labyrinth
Is
Ariadne's
As
deeper
is
safe
but
grow;
will not
laurel
endless,
and
broken
thread.
in these
"Lucky
hands
Were
none were
the
is grooved
few,
and it
their
fortune:
is possible
that
loved;
And
what
Was
never
was
to
godlike
be
in
this
generation
born.
April 1936
31
to
Journey
And the traveller
hopes:
The citiless,
And North
And the great
means to
plains
are
be far from
names
the
sea;
sorrow;
all: Reject!
for
ever
where
And everywhere;
the scolding
Of islands
the cold
the light
flag the lover
may see at
his limited
Of glaciers,
last,
hope; and he
the sterile
immature
nears
the glitter
mountains
intense
In the abnormal
river's
any
for the
and flaunt;
flicker
Faintly,
me
have
the corroding,
fish is hunted,
Under
Let
and the ports
Physician;
birds
Iceland
day of this world,
and
Fan-like
polyp of
sand.
46
Then
let
the
good
citizen
marvels:
The
the issue of steam

In
the
brushing
the
rock,
and
among
student
rocks,
the rocks
prose
of
The
bishop
horse-shoe
ravine,
cleft
and
visit;
was put
The bath of
An outlaw
Remember
and
from
natural
find
and
waterfalls
the
Rocks,
And
here
crying:
in
site
conduct,
of
church
a great
historian,
dreaded
the dark.
the doomed
woman
man
the rock
thrown
is the hillside.
to
where
confessing:
He
I will not go;
that Iloved
Best, to him I was worst,
is absent.
This is
an
where
by his horse
the
For Europe
places
bag,
Beautiful
The old
birds.
and
island and
Unreal.
therefore
dead
may
And the steadfast
By those
accuse
whose dreams
of its
them of being
alive, and the pale
Spitefully
From too much passion

deserts.
affections
be bought
of kissing
pure
feel
in its
Can they? For the world is, and the
present, and the lie.

And the
narrow
And the small
Are the natural

province;
bythe
bridge
over
farm under
setting
the torrent,
the
crag
for the jealousies
And the weak
vow
of fidelity
of
is formed
cairn;
And within
the indigenous
figure
on
horseback
On the bridle
The blood
inches.
moves
Asks
all
also
your
by crooked
questions:
and furtive
Where
is the
When
homage?
Shall justice
Why
Present
path down by the lake
am
be done?
I always
then the world
O who
is against
alone?
to the world with its
me?
mendicant
Minister
Let
shadow;
of Commerce
the
suits
be flash, the
insane;
on
Let jazz be bestowed
the huts, and the
beautys
Set
For
cosmopolitan
our
time
has
no
smile.
favourite
suburb;
no
local
features
Are those
of the
young
for whom
all wish to
care;
The promise
Country
Tears
Pulls
is only
impartially
his gloves
the fabulous
far.
fall in all the rivers.
on
promise,
and in
Again
the driver
blinding
snowstorm
starts
Upon his deadly
writer
journey;
and again the
Runs
howling
to his art.
July 1936
32
0 who
can ever gaze
Farmer
On native
Fathers,
limb
or
grandfathers
stood
from
So farmer
But Death's
catch
an
The earth is
soft
or
the
upon
our
hand?
this
loins
land,
shall
stand.
say
and fisherman
In their fortunate
Empty
on
callus
And here the-pilgrims
Or
say,
shore and local hill,
aching
Grudge
his fill,
and fisherman
heyday:
answer
harvest
unlucky
an oyster
drifts
across
loss
May:
with nothing
inside it
Not to be born is the best for
The end of toil is

Throw
bailiff's
man
order
down the mattock
and dance while
you can.
0
life's
too short
Travellers
The
citys
The mountain
Where
think in their
common
bivouac
incidents
Memorable
for friends who
draw
gesture
share,
hearts,
bed, the air,
and the bathing
every
day from each
and witty
speech.
49
So travellers
Till malice
or
think
beach,
in their hearts,
circumstance
parts
Them
from their constant
And slyly
Death's
humour:
coercive
rumour
starts:
In the silence
A friend is the old tale of Narcissus
man

An active partner in something
your partner,
Change
your
stretch
The
them
Our
grass
The
stream
The
mild
is
and
cries,
at
sings
its
foot,
vegetarian
the
impassioned
Till
his
storm
From the bedpost
of
and
me.
our
brief
bed,
and
beasts
at
its
are
lover
cries
pleasure
dies:
and the rocks
enticing
And his voice
sea,
harm
sensual
So
Deaths
the
your
towards
and
across
lover
hands
green,
you can.
dance while
impassioned
Stretch
disgraceful
echo
replies:
mocks,
head
fed.
The greater
the love, the
more
false to its object
man

After
the
Break
see
the embraces,
the guilty
Dreamer
The
comes
kiss
ladders
world
So dreamer
from the martyr's
where
and
and drunkard
stood;
all good.
sing
reply
fear and nesting
and their
blood;
weepers
bring:
with deaths
From whelping
Woods
the
the beasts
Till day their sobriety

Parrotwise
sing,
out of heaven;
skipping
natural,
throttle
you can.
while
forgiven,
let down
The children
to
impulse
dance
and drunkard
The laurel springing
The lovers
the
echoes
lie,
ring:
49
The
desires
the
of
heart
are
corkscrews
The second
best is
The dance's
as
crooked
man
formal order
pattern, dance while
you can.
as
Dance,
dance,
the
for
The tune is catching

Dance
till
stars
the
Dance,
figure
down
dance
tilI
with
33
your
Time
sleeping
on my
Human
and fevers
Individual
Thoughtful
Proves
But in
burn
beauty
my arms
away
from
children,
the child
Let the living
my love,
arm;
head,
faithless
and the
grave
ephemeral:
till break
creature
lie,
of day
the
you
September
Lay
easy
and will not stop
corne
dance,
is
19 36
rafters
drop.
Mortal, guilty,
The entirely
Soul and
To lovers
as
they
the vision
Of supernatural
Universal
While
Among
an
upon
lie
slope
swoon,
Venus
sends
sympathy,
love and hope;
abstract
the glaciers
The hermit's
bounds:
enchanted
In their ordinary
Grave
no
body have
Her tolerant
me
but to
beautiful.
insight
wakes
and the rocks
sensual
ecstasy.
50
Certainty,
On the
Like
fidelity
stroke
of midnight
vibrations
of
And fashionable
madmen
boring
Every
of the cost,
All the dreaded
cards
Shall be paid, but
Not
Not
whisper,
kiss
nor
foretell,
from this night
not
look
Beauty,
raise
cry:
Their pedantic
farthing
pass
bell,
thought,
be lost.
midnight,
Let the winds
vision
dies:
of dawn that
blow
round
Softly
Such
day of sweetness
Eye and knocking

Find the mortal
Noons
of dryness
of insult
Watched
by
heart
world
By the involuntary
Nights
your
let
every
dreaming
head
show
may
bless,
enough;
see you
fed
powers,
you pass
human
love.
1937
January
34
Spain
Yesterday
all the past. The language
Spreading
to China along the trade-routes;
Of the counting-frame
Yesterday
the
Yesterday
the assessment
The divination
Of cartwheels
Horses.
Yesterday
of insurance
and clocks,
51
in the
yesterday
the bustling
the diffusion
and the cromlech;
shadow-reckoning
of water;
of size
sunny
climates.
by cards,
the invention
the taming
world
of
of the navigators.
Yesterday
The
the abolition
fortress
like
and
giants,
of
fairies
motionless
eagle
eyeing
the
valley,
The
Yesterday
chapel
the
built
carving
in
of
the
angels
forest;
and
alarming
gargoyles;
The trial of heretics
among
the
columns
of
stone;
Yesterday
the theological
feuds
in the
taverns
cure at
the
of witches;
but
And the miraculous

fountain;
Yesterday
to-day
the Sabbath
the struggle.
Yesterday
the installation
of dynamos
and
turbines,
The construction
of railways
in the colonial
desert;
Yesterday
the classic
On the origin of Mankind.
lecture
But
to-day
the
struggle.
Yesterday
the belief
in the absolute
value
of
Greek,
The
fall of the curtain
upon
the death of
hero;
Yesterday
prayer to
the
And the adoration
of madmen.
the sunset
But
to-day
the struggle.
As the poet whispers,
startled
among
the
pines,
Or where
or
the loose
waterfall
compact,
sings
upright
On the
my
vision.
crag
by the leaning
O send
me
the luck
tower:
of the
sailor.
And the investigator
peers
through
his
instruments
At the inhuman
provinces,
the virile
bacillus
Or
enormous
Jupiter
finished:
"But
my
the lives of
Iinquire.
friends.
inquire.
And the
dropping
poor
in their fireless
paper:
Of the evening
O show
lodgings,
the sheets
"Our
day
the operator,
the
is
our
loss,
us
History
Organiser.
Time
And the nations
the refreshing
river.
combine
cry,
each
invoking
the life
That
shapes
the individual
The private
Did
you not
found
belly
nocturnal
and orders
terror:
the city state
of the
sponge,
52
"Raise
the vast military
And the tiger, establish
empires
of the shark
the robins
plucky
canton?
And
papa or a
the life, if it
heart
Not to-day;
"Yes-man,
Iam not the
not to
"What's
you
your
Good,
your
To
your
you,
humorous
voice.
proposal?
squares
and
do. I am
business
from the
from the
of the city:
mover;
the bar-companion,
I am whatever
I am
you.
or
but descend.
all, replies
and the lungs,

shops
no,
dove
mild engineer,
answers at
eyes
And the
as a
0 descend
Intervene.
A furious
I'm the
the easily-duped;
your vow to
be
story.
I am
your
marriage.
To build the just
city?
will.
I agree.
Or is it the suicide
Death?
I am
Many
your
choice,
your
have heard it
On sleepy
pact, the romantic
Very well, I accept,
plains,
decision.
on remote
for
Yes,
peninsulas,
in the aberrant
fishermen's
islands
Or the corrupt
heart
I am Spain.
of the city,
Have
heard
and migrated
like gulls
or
the seeds
of
flower.
They
clung like burrs
lurch Through
to the long
the unjust
expresses
lands, through
that
the night,
through the alpine

They
They walked
On that
hot
arid
Africa,
over
floated
the
passes.
square,
the
All presented
that fragment
so
soldered
tunnel;
oceans;
their
nipped
lives.
off from
to inventive
crudely
Europe;
On that tableland
Our thoughts
our
have
scored
bodies;
by rivers,
the menacing
shapes
of
fever
53
Are
precise
respond
winter
fears
ad. and
which
made
the brochure
of
cruises
Have
And
and alive. For the
To the medicine
our
become
faces,
invading
battalions;
the institute-face,
the
chain-store,
us
the ruin
Are projecting
the bomb.
their
Madrid
tenderness
Our hours
squad
and
Our moments
of
and the sandbag;
of friendship
To-morrow,
into
perhaps
army.
peoples
the
future.
of
packers;
The
research
fatigue
And
exploring
the
movements
the
gradual
of all the
To-morrow
radiation;
of
Octaves
diet
the firing
blossom
As the ambulance
on
as
greed
is the heart.
the
enlarging
of
consciousness
and
breathing.
To-morrow
the rediscovery
The photographing
Liberty's
To-morrow
the musician,
of
of romantic
ravens;
masterful
love,
all the fun under
shadow;
the hour of the pageant-master
The beautiful
roar
and
of the chorus
by
under
the dome;
the exchanging
The
To-morrow
eager
By the sudden
on
the breeding
election
of chairmen
of tips
forest
of hands.
But
of
terriers,
to-day
the
struggle.
To-morrow
for the
young
bombs,
The
the weeks
of perfect
To-morrow
Through
to-day
the poets
walks
like
communion;
races
the bicycle
the suburbs
exploding
by the lake,
on summer
evenings.
But
the
struggle.
To-day
the
deliberate
death,
increase
The
guilt in the
necessary
To-day
meeting.
54
chances
of
acceptance
murder;
the expending
On the flat ephemeral
in the
conscious
of
pamphlet
powers
and the boring
of
To-day
the
cigarette,
and the
The
The
cards
in the
the
shared
candlelit
barn,
concert,
scraping
masculine
Fumbled
consolations
makeshift
and
jokes;
to-day
the
embrace
unsatisfactory
before
hurting.
are
stars
The
are
We
dead.
alone
left
The
with
animals
our
day,
will
and
not
the
look.
time
is
short, and
to the defeated
History
May
say
but cannot
Alas
help
nor
pardon.
April 1937
35
Orphus
What
hands
does
the
A little
song
way
hope
for? And the
moved
from the birds, the shy, the
delightful?
To be bewildered
Or most
But
the beautiful
are content
of the air; The warmth

Oppose,
What
dance
and happy,
of alI the knowledge
of life?
with the sharp
is enough.
if the weak
O if winter
notes
really
snowflake,
will the wish, what
will the
do?
April 1937
36
Miss
Let
me
tell
About
Gee
you a
little
story
Miss Edith Gee;
She lived in Clevedon
At Number
83.
55
Terrace
She'd
slight
Her lips
She
squint
narrow
had
velvet
And
lived
She
In
She'd
She'd
small
mac
not
Terrace
room.
for wet
umbrella
bicycle
Church
Was
serge costume;
bed-sitting
purple
at all.
hat with trimmings,
in Clevedon
green
shoulders
bust
dark-grey
And
The
no
eye,
thin and small,
sloping
And she had
Shed
in her left
were
they
harsh
of Saint
so very
days,
too to take,
with
shopping
back-pedal
Aloysius
far;
basket
brake.
did
She
lot of knitting,
Knitting
Miss
for that Church
Gee looked
up at
On
I live in Clevedon
one
hundred
She dreamed
That
she
Asked
She
And
one
of Saint
blew
was
year?
evening
the Queen
Her Majesty
a storm
Terrace
pounds
dream
was
And the Vicar
But
the starlight
anyone care
And said: "Does
That
Bazaar.
of France
Aloysius
to dance.
down the palace,
biking
through
field of
corn,
bull with the face of the Vicar
Was
She could
charging
with lowered
feel his hot
horn.
breath behind
her,
was
He
going to overtake;
And the bicycle
Because
went slower
of that
and slower
back-pedal
brake.
56
made
Summer
Winter
She
her
passed
She
She
turned
passed
And
trees
they
the
clothes
by
the
her head
by
picture,
them
to
bicycled
With
She
the
made
the
didnt
wreck;
evening
buttoned
loving
service
up
to
her
neck.
couples,
away;
loving
ask
her
couples
to
stay.
Miss Gee sat down in the side-aisle,
She heard
And
the choir it
organ
the
sang so
sweetly
At the ending
Miss Gee knelt
play;
of the day.
down in the
side-aisle,
She knelt
Lead
But
The days
Like
make
me not
me a
She bicycled
round
down
O,
doctor,
Ive
the
And Idont
Doctor
surgery
feel
Thomas
over to
wreck;
very
looked
up to
doctor,
bell;
pain inside
me,
well.
her
And then he looked

Walked
by her
Cornish
buttoned
down to the
rang
And
her knees;
to the doctor
With her clothes
She bicycled
on
good girl, please.
went
and nights
waves
down
into temptation
over,
some more;
his wash-basin,
her neck.
Said:
Doctor
"Why
Thomas
Though
Rolling
over
sat
before?
his dinner,
was
his wife
his bread
Said:
you come
didnt
waiting
to ring;
into pellets,
"Cancers
thing.
funny
57
Nobody
knows
It's
some
like
Waiting
"Childless
And
Its
as
what
some
Though
to
when
hidden
is,
they
assassin
you.
at
strike
it,
they retire;
if there had to be
For their foiled
cause
pretend
women get
men
the
some
creative
outlet
fire.
do;
His wife she
He said: I
And
They
rang
for the
"Don't
Said:
saw
shes
be
so
Miss Gee this
a goner,
took Miss
Lay in the ward
for
on
total wreck,
women
And Mr. Rose the
He cut Miss
up to
began to laugh;
surgeon
Gee in half.
he turned
to his students,
Said: Gentlemen,
We seldom
right
the table,
The students
Mr. Rose
evening
Ifear.
With the bedclothes
laid her
dear;
Gee to the hospital,
She lay there
They
servant,
morbid,
if
see a sarcoma
you
please,
her neck.
as
As far advanced
They
this.
took her off the table,
They
wheeled
Down to another
Where
away
Miss
Gee
department
they study
Anatomy.
They hung her from the ceiling,
Yes, they hung

And
couple
Carefully
up
Miss
of Oxford
dissected
A
Gee;
Groupers
her knee.
p ril
1937
37
Wrapped
in
yielding
The flower's
air, beside
soundless
hunger,
58
Close
to the trees
clandestine
to the birds
Close
Loud in his hope

Erect
about
anger,
his skeleton,
the expressive
Stands
the deliberate
lover,
man.
sun,
the hot incurious
stronger
Past
He picks
his
With
friend,
The
and fairer
gun,
living
and lens
and bible,
enquirer,
the rash, the
essayist,
Able
beasts
way, a
gun
A militant
The
high fever,
and
Stands
Beneath
at times
enemy,
the able,
to
The friendless
cry.
and unhated
Lies everywhere
The
tide,
Brothered-One,
about
the
stone
him,
Not-Alone,
The brothered
and the hated
Whose
have
To set
family
against
the large
taught
him
and dumb,
The timeless
money
His
For mother's
by nurse's
he inherits,
by legal father
The tall and

Gorgeous
moral thumb,
fond betrayer,
And, childish,
soon
become
to his dull spirits
That dullard
So
and his time.
hopes
fading
Dull wives
Soon dulled
and the rooted,
tricked,
gorgeous tower,
but locked,
but locked.
59
And ruled
by dead
By pious
men never met,
guess
deluded,
Upon the stool of madness
Or stool of
desolation,
Sits murderous
Enormous
set
and clear-headed;
beauties
For grandiose
round him
is his vision
move,
And grandiose
on
Determined
The
Their
must
lamb
and
The
lion
The
adder
loves
Over
honest
shield
the
tigress,
never
healed
face
quarrel
he
faithless,
dream
Hunter
Fresh
Time's
faithful
Though,
His
his love.
vaguer
of
victim
and
ages,
reconciled,
the
and
adder,
the
child.
him,
every
green
horizon
rides away,
betray
his
A fresh deserter
And miles
Of ambush
consider
away
birds
and of
mutter
treason;
day
To
fresh
To further
And
he
defeats
griefs
the
must
still
move,
and greater,
defeat
of
grief.
1937
38
one
out
As I walked
Walking
down
upon
The crowds
Were fields
evening,
Bristol
the
Street,
pavement
of harvest
wheat.
60
And
down
I
Under
an
Love
I'll
by
heard
love
the
brimming
lover
river
sing
arch of the railway:

has
you,
no
dear,
ending.
Ill
love
you
Till
and
China
And
"Ill
love
the
you
till the
And the
The
geese
years
about
run
shall
For in
up to
dry
squawking
the sky.
like rabbits
my arms
The Flower
meet
mountain
ocean
and hung
seven stars go
Like
the
sing in the street.
salmon
Is folded
Africa
over
And the river jumps
I hold
of the Ages
And the first love of the world.
But all the clocks

Began
0 let not Time
the burrows
Where
Time
Time.
of the Nightmare
naked
is,
from the shadow
And coughs
"In headaches
you,
conquer
Justice
watches
and chime:
deceive
You cannot
In
in the city
to whirr
and
when
in
you
worry
would
kiss.
Vaguely
many a green
Drifts
his fancy
or
To-morrow
Into
away,
life leaks
And Time will have
to-day.
valley
snow;
the appalling
Time breaks
the threaded
And the divers
dances
brilliant
bow.
61
"0 plunge
your
Plunge
Stare,
in water,
hands
them in
up to
the wrist;
stare in the basin
And wonder
"The
glacier
The
And
crack
lane
you've
knocks
desert
the
what
to
in
sighs
in
the
in
the
land
missed.
the
cupboard,
the
bed,
tea-cup
of
the
opens
dead.
"Where
the
And
And
the
And
"0
goes
Jill
look
look
stand,
a
you
With
It
was
your
scald
your
The
to
Roarer
on
her
back.
mirror,
cannot
the
bless.
window
and start;
they
had
neighbour
heart.
late, late in the
clocks
distress;
at
crooked
crooked
The lovers
is
blessing
stand
As the tears
You shall love
your
in
Although
"0
Boy
the
banknotes
enchanting
down
in
remains
Life
the
raffle
is
Giant
Lily-white
look,
beggars
the
evening,
were gone;
ceased
their
chiming
Jack,
And
the
deep
ran
river
November
on.
1937
62
39
Oxford
Nature
Like
is
so near:
agile
the rooks
babies
still
in the
speak
college
the
garden
language
of
By
feeling;
runs to
the
sea
And
the
stones
the
tower
the
river
still
run,
and will
in
are
tower
that
utterly
Satisfied
And
so
the
still with their weight.
minerals
and
creatures,
deeply
in love
Their
sin of
with their lives
accidie
excludes
Challenge
the
all
nervous
others,
students
with
careless
beauty,
Setting
Against
O in these
echo that
Shallowly,
their
quadrangles
herself
Does
error
single
where
countless
Wisdom
the original
honours
stone merely
praise
or utter a
bland hymn
The founder's
On all who
of comfort,
equivocal
worship
faults.
blessing
Success?
to the sharp sword all the glittering
Promising
prizes,
cars,
The
boisterous
the
hotels,
bed, Then
the service,
power to
silence
the
outrage
with
a testament,
tears
The widow's
The fatherless
Whispering
to chauffeurs
and dons, That
womb
apprehension
and little girls, to tourists
Knowledge
of Violence
forgotten,
unheard.
Who in
is conceived
in the hot
late hour of
and exhaustion
Strains
That
to her weeping
blue-eyed
darling
breast
head.
63
And is that
child happy
with his box
books
learning?
Wisdom
of lucky
And all the jokes
Birds cannot
is
beautiful
Often,
grieve:
bird; but to the wise
often is it denied
of
or
To be beautiful
are
Without
the
shops,
the
county
the
works,
Where
guilty
There
good.
and
kiss
thousands
the
green
comforts
weak;
and
fidget
the whole
cigarette
poke
and
spend
their
money:
Eros
Paidagogos
on
Weeps
Ah,
if
Would
that
snatch
his
thoughtless
his
virginal
almost
sorrow
heart!
must
hate
what
over
natural
the talkative
of death
heart
loving
he
sensual
Eros
and
loves;
Nature
city like
Is
angels.
any
other
Here too the
consuming
love: And the
refuses
The low
is
world
love herself.
the non-attached
knowledge
he
she is of Nature;
Can only
Weep
most
natural
her
But
And
And
to
bed.
unflattering
voice
That
rests not till it find
December
hearing.
1937
40
In
Time
War
of
So
from
Ran
Bee
Fish
off
took
the
years
with
the
his
at
the politics
swam
as
fish,
gifts
once
that
were
into
make
peach
showered;
his
each
life:
hive,
settled
into
peach.
65
And
were
successful
at the first endeavour;
The
at college,
hour of birth their only time
content
knew
with their
precocious
their station
Till finally
years
the
And fake with
ease a
model
leopard
wind
for truth and
And envied his few
good for
childish
could
Who by the lightest

And looked
were
came a
there
On whom
and
was
was
were
They
knowledge,
And
ever.
creature
any
or a
feature,
dove;
changed
and
continually
shaken,
mistaken,
and chose his love.
friends
II
They wondered
It taught
why the fruit
them nothing
new.
had been forbidden;
They hid their pride,
But did not listen much when they

They
knew
exactly
They
left: immediately
Of all they'd
dogs
The
now
learnt;
what
was
chidden;
the
memory
faded
they could not understand
who, before,
stream
were
to do outside.
dumb
had always
with whom
The
aided;
theyd
always
planned.
They wept
and quarrelled:
In front, maturity,
Retired
like
The dangers
And the
way
was so
freedom
wild.
he ascended,
horizon from the child;
grew greater;
and the punishments
back by angels
the poet
Against
as
and
was
defended
the legislator.
65
III
Only
smell
an
Only
The
had
eye
Who
He
named
felt
That
Or
his
as
he
interest
he could
kiss
nothing:
it
the
point
to
make
was
hunted
in
send his
bride
that
to
in
was
utterance
fountains
The bird meant
feelings
could
his
rapture
alone;
itself
his projection
it
for
throat,
servant
known,
direction;
food.
and
found
to the wood,
with
sound.
They
bred
And
shook
And
knew
And
was
locusts
the
of
own
with
hate
of
till
they
world:
his
to
And
And
like
edges
love
creation
without
as
oppressed
he
the
was
became
things
for
hid
and
he'd
subject;
never
proper
loves
he
never
had
green
abject,
seen,
object,
been.
IV
He
stayed:
The
and
seasons
The mountains
And like
Beyond
And
him his
But took his
sun
cousins
were
like
his
ways,
of his children,
ruled
his
days.
in the city
and unnatural
but
strangers
in possession.
about
the mother
the
young
in nothing
treated
grew
chose
their rapid
And he changed
And
imprisoned
conscience
Pursued
Believed
was
stood like guards
course,
easy-going,
favourite
horse.
little,
colour
in likeness
from the earth,
to his sheep
and cattle.
The townsman
The poet wept

And
thought
and
oppressor
the
him miserly
saw
and simple,
in him the truth,
held him
up as an
example.
66
v
His
generous
For life
was
With horse
was
He
grew
his
But
young
he
came as a
invention:
to be careless:
and sword he drew
the girls'
attention;
the Fearless.
salvation;
They
him to free them from their mothers,
sharp-witted
camp
fires
suddenly
wanted.
was a new
earth needed
the Rich, the Bountiful,
And to the
needed
bearing
slow;
in the long
learnt
all
the earth
And took to drink to
men are
was
And he became
migration,
full : he
his
And
round
brothers.
the shabby
screw
And
was not
and demented,
nerves to
murder;
Or sat in offices
And spoke
and stole,
approvingly
of Law
and Order,
And hated life with all his soul.
VI
He watched
The rivers
the stars
and noted birds in flight;
or
flooded
He made predictions
the Empire
guesses were
His lucky
was
and
fell:
sometimes
rewarded
And fell in love with Truth before

And rode into imaginary
With solitude
mocked
But
her he
who
never
But listened
hoped
served
beckoned
And
followed
Saw
there
to
And
saw
to him, he obeyed
her
and
himself
looked
every
as one
67
woo
her. And
to despise,
wanted
reflected
her,
her with their hands.
always for her voice;
She
he knew
lands,
and fasting
at those
right;
well.
of
and when
in meekness,
into her
human
eyes;
weakness,
many men.
VII
He
was
And
Their
And
say
their servantsome
among
moved
feeling
sang:
gathered
they
was
he
in him like
is
God
him and set him
of his mind
At each domestic
wrong.
came no more:
his
sorrow
And walked
like
And looked
at
an
men
wind
that
each
like
sings
for
song
and heart
he had to make
was
With what precision

He hugged
things;
up apart,
him vain, till he mistook
The little tremors
Songs
blind
and their
faces
criedIt
And worshipped
And made
their
assassin
them.
strophe
plot
planned.
of land,
through
the town,
and did not like them,
But trembled
if
one
passed
him with
frown.
VIII
He turned
And
grew
And formed
were as
And with his spires
And
It
stored
paper
grew so
he made
his
fast his life
And gathered
what
into
And lived expensively

could
face,
to his clocks,
brothers
his learning
watched
And he forgot
And
eye,
money-changers
the notion of equality.
strangers
Museums
meeting-place,
ironic
the mobile
And found
And
his field into

the tolerant
human
like
money
sky;
box,
like
a spy.
was overgrown,
once
it had been made
crowds
and
was
alone,
and did without,
not find the earth which he had paid for,
Nor feel the love that
he knew
66
all about.
for,
IX
They
died
and entered
very poor
Even the
no more a
Was
Took
fact;
the closed
lost
something;
And the kingly
and the saintly
among
Distributed
the woods
our open sorrow
And touch
Airs, waters,
places,
round
oceans,
everywhere,
our sex
we
them back with promises
as
ourselves
They hear
But in
They
our
on as we
continually
their deaths
knowledge
make
we
could return to freedom;
and
our
betray
lamented
know
were
also
and
We bring
But
ones
position.
Are what
feed
oppression
and the self-centred
up an even more extreme
nuns:
life like
in
reasons;
choice.
to free them,
them:
our
could
voice,
restore
they would
them;
rejoice.
X
As
a young
felt familiar
child the wisest
could adore him; He
to them like their wives:
very poor
The
martyrs
But who
Their
could
other
Could
leave
he who
and
grew up
were
stone
were
were too
They
came
work, and bed:
built where
those
there
blind to tell That
courts
became
a centre;
citadel,
face of the tormentor.
69
XI
He looked
Down
on
And sent
Youth
in all His wisdom

the humble
from the throne
boy who
dove; the dove
kept
returned
liked the music,
but
the sheep,
alone:
soon
it
And talked
neighbour:
the tyrant's
the lost
they
and well fed.
with them to labour,
with them like
poor saw
And martyrs
pressing,
courts
him to be worshipped
To fear and greed

The
for him, And
of their lives.
sit and play with him all day?
But he escaped.
was
their pennies
him presents
needs
The beautiful
up
saved
brought
fell asleep.
But He had planned

Surely
His duty
come to
For later he would
And
own
such future
now was to
his gratitude.
for the youth:
compel;
love the truth,
The
eagle
It did not work: His conversation
The
boy
who
yawned
and
fell.
bored
whistled
and
made
faces,
And
wriggled
But
with
To
go
And learnt
free
the
from
eagle
where
from it the
it
he
always
suggested,
many ways
embraces;
fatherly
was
and
willing
adored
of killing.
XII
And the
In bed,
The
age
ended,
grown
sudden
idle
and the last deliverer

and
shadow
unhappy;
of
the
they
giants
died
were
safe:
enormous
calf
Would
no
fall
more
at
across
dusk
the
lawn
outside.
They
slept
in
peace:
in marshes
here
and
there
no
doubt
A
sterile
But
dragon
a year
in
heath;
The
mountain
And
sculptors
the
pert
free
Struck
went
the
were
elsewhere.
To
half
magicians
be
the
the
sad,
house
The
invisible
and
remorse
the
sons
who
strayed
into
course,
And ravished
in
glad
without
down
death,
from
knocking
poets
the
from
powers
were
natural
vanished
kobolds
and
retinue
and
Grumbled
vanquished
had
out.
petered
the
Only
spoor
to
lingered
the
the daughters,
70
and drove
the fathers mad.
their
XIII
praise:
Certainly
again
For life
as
For the vegetable

people
have
song mount
let the
it blossoms
patience,
been happy;
out in
again
the animal
there
have
and
or a
jar
face,
grace;
Some
been great
men.
But hear
the mornings
why: Cities
Unjust
must
and
Has
never
Employ
History
birth A
race
injured weeping,
have
lost
its
power;
its grief to
has not been;

of promise
still, all princes
buoyant
our star
that
Lie.
unifying
our
and know
the will of the
fallen;
the Fairly-Noble
opposes
Good Place
men
never
has
song:
The
to
has warmed
proved
its
worth;
The quick
wrong
long
new
This
West
passive
In the Eighteen
is false; and prodigious,

flower-like
Provinces
people
have
who
constructed
the earth.
XIV
Yes,
we are
going to suffer,
now;
but
for
the sky
so
Throbs
groping
like
feverish
searchlights
The little natures
Who
never
Like ugly
And like
Behind
quite believed
conscience
each
The private
All Women,
sociable
massacres
upon
The intelligent
cannot
could
take
us
exist,
by surprise
memories,
all the
guns
home-loving
are
resist.
eye
taking place;
judge
the Human
us
when
the earth; the earth

and evil till they
71
xv
us cry,
they
Jews, the Rich,
The mountains
We dwell
They
long-forgotten
reveal
that will make
we were.
Not where
pain is real; The
forehead;
suddenly
die.
Race.
we
obeys
lie:
Engines
And
bear
them through
isolated
like
like savants,
Remote
The breathing
Requires
Nor how
free
see
only
which
never see
how
flying
they hate,
are
life. They
always
chose
they live did not
our proper
teach
trying
fate
compel.
discipline,
time it will be possible
away
To turn
And
may
can
machines
into
where
earth
any
Bound
own
through
The islands
At
of ideas
their
To push
Though
they
sky: they're
rich;
as a target
city
their skill; will
Is the creation
the
very
the
like the heiress
helpless
as
the
and become
from freedom
in her mother's
poor
have
always
womb,
been.
XVI
Here
war
is simple
A telephone
Flags
like
a monument:
is speaking
on a map assert
to
a man;
that
troops
were sent;
A boy
brings
For living
Who thirst
can
And
milk in bowls. There
men
at nine who
be lost
an
And, unlike
But ideas
And
we can
Made
And
can
and
active
by
thirst
are, and miss their

can die too soon.
one
really
Dachau.
72
were to
be true although
life is evil
Nanking;
is
plan
of their lives,
at
thousand
men
faces
lie:
point
now:
to places
noon,
wives,
idea,
watch
maps can
Where
in terror
die,
XVII
are
They
A
and
bandage
His
And
the
knowledge
treatment
The
It is not talk like
ours,
are remote as
And
But
are
In the
we
boisterous
common
Imagine
And
scratch
but
plants;
can
anger,
cant
in
world
isolation.
world
they
each
from
they
stand
become
each
Abandoned
other
bear;
smother
foot?
and cannot
is shared,
of love.
XVIII
Far from the heart
can
and believe
happiness
of culture
by his general
he
was
used:
and his lice,
to
giving.
elsewhere.
of the uninjured,
and the idea
living,
recall when cured,
a moment
Only
are
much they
groans
we
do:
is
restricted
instruments
is how
For who when healthy
Even
the
epochs
sense
all
where
the
like
in their
is
place
of
that
apart
lie
Truth
that
suffer;
hides
Under
padded
And vanished.
When this
quilt
campaign
No vital knowledge
His jokes
name
were
is lost
He neither
And added
He turned
he closed
Mountains
eyes
is tidied into books:
perished
in his
stale; like wartime,
for
ever
knew
nor
meaning
was
a comma,
our
daughters
that, where
may
be also
are waters,
men.
73
XIX
The peaks
came
the oppression
into
us,
when
and not again
the dogs;
and houses,
But in the evening
dull; His
chose the Good, but taught

like
to dust in China that
before
skull;
he
like his looks.
Be fit to love the earth,

Disgraced
his
He will not be introduced
focus;
lifted;
it had
rained:
Across
The
the lawns
and
conversation
The gardeners
cultured
watched
drifted
trained.
pass
them
A chauffeur
shoes
flowers
of the highly
waited,
and priced
reading
their
in the
drive,
For them to finish their exchange
It seemed
Far off,
The
picture
no matter
armies
what
waited
for
good
With all the instruments
And
on
the issue
of
they
verbal
women
weeping,
life.
intended,
error
for causing
pain:
their charm depended
A land laid waste, with all its
The
of views;
of the private
and the towns
young men
in terror.
slain,
XX
carry terror
They
with them like
And flinch from the horizon

And
all the rivers
Away
They
Like
and
cling and huddle
For Space
Time
as
in the
sent to school,
has rules
speaks
language
its limits
The prisoner
Can future
run
from
new
and
a curse.
disaster
cry
in tum;
cannot
they
We live here. We
Sorrow;
a purse,
a gun;
the railways
from Neighbourhood
children
like
they
are
what
us,
pardon
even
this
his cell.
far,
from everything
that
unopened
we are.
never to
ages ever escape so
Even from
to learn,
never master.
lie in the Presents
ought
Yet feel derived
hope
will
was
that
well?
happened,
74
XXI
man
The life of
daring
But,
is
never
and the chatter
as an
These
artist
quite
will
feels his
completed;
The
go on:
power gone,
walk the earth and know
themselves
defeated.
Some
nor
could not bear
mourn
for
nations
break
The wounded
good,
lost
Some
the
myths
world
young
that
they
once
and
made
never
understood,
Some
Loss
saw too
The
all that
is their shadow-wife,
Receives
They
clearly
them like
may regret
call of the
The stranger
they
man was
born for.
Anxiety
grand
hotel; but where
must; their life, to hear.
forbidden
cities,
watch them with
see
happy
stare,
And Freedom
hostile
and tree.
in each home
XXII
Simple
like all dream wishes,
The elementary
And speak
language
to muscles
they employ
of the heart,
of the need
Hear them and have to whistle.

They mirror
They
are our
They
speak
in this
When
Austria
France
II
y a
year
case
Do
75
new,
position;
we
our
condition.
lost
pleased
do;
the dancers
was
best:
forsaken,
and Teruel re-taken,
before
America
you
Always
our
of what
what
in flames
put her
to
in
died and China
de la joie.
The earth:
change
evidence
directly
Think
Shanghai
every
for joy:
soon to part
The dying and the lovers
love
the world:
Partout
addressed
me as
I love you?
XXIII
When all the apparatus
the
Confirms
bastion
Our
Violence
Let
us
charmer
in
like
ten
me
years
of
in
new
everywhere
let
enemies;
army
all who seemed
China
through
our
born:
deserted.
think
silence
of
And
And with the

He went
powers
all his
everything
was
given
gratitude
spoke,
once
That little tower
like
for all:
of the Completed
out in the winter night
a great
to stroke
animal.
one,
worked
waited,
Until in Muzot
retreat,
disease,
invited;
we were ever
that
remember
To-night
Who
we regret
our
of
pierced,
sucGessful
And Wrong
When
of report
triumph
and
XXIV
No,
not
their
Each great
Where
The
coercive
men can
really
But
these
It
was
avenue
the
wanted
others
of guilt
to persist
like that
The unloved
had to leave
need
but
nothing
our
built
stare,
and
sense
dwell in them, and know
who
square,
and
only recollect
lonely with the
Who
And
names.
better
that
for
material
we
ever;
traces:
faces,
shall
never
Remember
grew
Earth
Or hills
And
the
Was
able
Happy
we are nor
who
as
them
shepherd;
seeds
to
wish
bay
grows
grew
ripe
them;
and
they
seeded;
our
blood
grew
again;
to flower
and mild
needed.
fishermen
and
us ; even
to
clung
revive
their
they
were
why
and
flood.
77
xxv
Nothing
Great
is
Behind
The low
We have
Nothing
we
given:
buildings
them
recessive
no
jostle
stretch
houses
destiny
must
our
law.
for
domination;
like
sorry
vegetation
of the
poor.
assigned
is certain but
find
sun
in the
us:
the body;
we
plan
To better
ourselves;
Of the equality
Children
They
are
speak
really
of
the hospitals
alone
remind
man.
of
even
loved here,
years
before
the big
by police:
were
lonely,
And will be lost.
And
The
brass
Some
bands
future
only
throbbing
in the parks
reign of happiness
foretell
peace.
and
We learn to pity and rebel.
XXVI
Always
far from the centre
The little
We
were
workshop
about
Abandoned
Only the
An artistic
every
We can't
A minor
the old
Folly
and
product,
of
our names,
yes,
manors
but how
to please
girl; its the selfish who
believe
item of
beggar
that
our
games.
quaint
something
impractical
we
wrong
and the long
the children's
expects
acquisitive
Unsaleable
In
of love:
sees
saint.
ourselves
daring plan
designed
it,
us
That
comes,
Disaster
The
no
caused
single
Through
trouble;
we
and were
project
took
notice
of it.
to find it
amazed
that since
all the cycle
no
work began
showed
steady
profit.
77
XXVII
Wandering
Again
lost
upon
and again
For the
warm
For the taste
Asleep
in
nude
Has
the heart
our
of
an
sigh for
ages
our
of instinctive
we
huts, how
balls
choice,
ancient
of joy in the innocent
In the glorious
maze
the mountains
we
dream
of the future;
mouth.
of
for
ever
a part
each intricate
plan, and the disciplined
Can follow
South,
poise,
movements
and
ever
that
are sure:
ways.
We
But
envy streams
we are
and houses
articled
to
error; we
of
its harmless
never
Were
never
And
nude
and calm like
will be perfect
We live in freedom
A mountain
dwelling
a great
door,
like the fountains;
by necessity,
people
among
mountains.
1938
(except
XII, 1936)
41
The
Capital
Quarter
of pleasures
where
Waiting
expensively
for miracles
O little
Cafe
restaurant
where
exiles
where
have
are
the rich
always
waiting,
to happen,
the lovers
eat each other,
established
malicious
village;
You with
your
The strictness
Far from
charm
and
of winter
your
lights
The dullness
of
your apparatus
and the spring's
the outraged
mere
have
punitive
obedience
abolished
compulsion;
here
father,
is apparent.
78
Yet with orchestras

To belief
in
Unobservant
Victim
our
and glances,
infinite
offender
to the heart's
In unlighted
Factories
streets
where
use
Like collars
are
battered
you
or
Slowly
hide
are
chairs,
and
betray
us
the innocent
a moment
falls in
invisible
lives
you
Q,
powers;
furies.
away
made
for
rooms
like pebbles
the appalling;
a temporary
where
the lonely
into fortuitous
shapes.
But
the sky
you
illumine,
your
glow
is visible
far
Into the dark
countryside,
Where,
frozen,
wicked
children
you
at the forbidden
hinting
uncle, Night
enormous,
the
the
like
to the farmer's
after night
beckon.
December
1938
42
Musee
About
The
suffering
someone
While
how
position;
Beaux
Arts
were never wrong,
they
Old Masters:
Its human
or
des
well they
how
it takes
else is eating
or
understood
place
opening
window
just
walking
How, when
waiting
must
the aged
are
reverently,
For the miraculous
dully
along;
passionately
birth, there
always
be
Children
skating
who did not

On
They
never
That
even
course
pond
specially
at the edge
want it to happen,
of the wood:
forgot
the dreadful
Anyhow
in
martyrdom
a corner, some
must
untidy
run
its
spot
Where
go on
the dogs
with their doggy

the torturers
and
life
its innocent
Scratches
horse
on a tree.
behind
79
In Brueghels
Quite
Icarus,
leisurely
for instance:
Have heard
the splash,
But
for
him
sun
shone
legs
Water;
the
may
cry,
an
not
As
and
away
turns
everything
the ploughman
the forsaken
was
into
important
it
had
to
failure;
on
the
the
white
green
the
expensive
seen
falling
Had
it
disappearing
have
how
from the disaster;
delicate
Something
ship
must
that
boy
calmly
on.
amazing,
out of the sky,
somewhere
to
get
to
and
sailed
December
1938
43
Epitaph
on a
Tyrant
Perfection,
of
And the poetry

He knew
And
was
human
greatly
in armies
respectable
he cried
what
the little
was
he
understand;
of his hand,
and fleets;
senators
children
after,
was easy to
like the back
folly
interested
When he laughed,
And when
was
kind,
he invented
burst
died
with laughter,
in the streets.
January
1939
44
In Memory
(d. January
W. B. Yeats
of
1939)
I
He disappeared
The brooks
deserted,
in the
were
dead
frozen,
of winter:
the air-ports
almost
And
snow
The
mercury
sank
statues;
the public
disfigured
in the mouth
of the dying
day.
agree
O all the instruments
The day
of his
was a
death
dark
cold day.
80
Far from his illness

The wolves
The
peasant
fashionable
ran on
river
through
was
quays;
afternoon
of
was
The
squares
Silence
The current
of his
and
tongues
kept from his
as
poems.
himself,
rumours;
body revolted,
of his mind
invaded
admirers.
was
forests,
by the
his last afternoon
nurses
The provinces
evergreen
By mourning
The death of the poet
But for him it
the
untempted
were empty,
the suburbs,
of his feeling
failed: he became
his
An
Now
among a
he is scattered
wholly
given
his happiness
over to
in another
punished
under
words
of
dead
Are modified
But in the
hundred
unfamiliar
kind
of wood
code
foreign
cities
affections;
And
To find
And be
of conscience.
The
man
in the guts
importance
and
are
When the brokers
of the living.
of to-morrow
noise
roaring
like
beasts
on
the
floor of the Bourse,

And the
poor
have
the
to which
sufferings
they
are
And each in the cell of himself
fairly
convinced
A few
As
one
thousand
thinks
of
will think
day
of this
when
accustomed,
is almost
one
of his freedom;
day
did something
slightly
agree
O all the instruments

The
day of his death
unusual.
was a
dark
cold day.
II
You
were
silly like
parish of rich
us: your
women,
gift survived
physical
decay,
it all; The
mad Ireland
Yourself;
hurt
you
into poetry.
81
Now
Ireland
For poetry
has
In the valley
Would
From
nothing
and her weather
happen:
of its saying
where
executives
towns
way
we
that
it flows
isolation
of
and
believe
of happening,
and
the
William
an
mouth.
Let
the
Emptied
Time
honoured
Yeats
is
Irish
of
laid
vessel
its
and innocent,
And indifferent
in
lie
poetry.
that is intolerant
Of the brave
guest;
to
week
south
busy
griefs,
die in; it survives,
III
Earth, receive
still,
it survives
never want to tamper;

ranches
Raw
her madness
makes
rest:
To
physique,
beautiful
Worships
language
Everyone
by whom it lives;
and forgives
Pardons
cowardice,
Lays its honours
conceit,
at their feet.
Time that with this strange

Pardoned
And
will
Pardons
In
the
All
And
pardon
him
Paul
the
dogs
living
of
of
the
Europe
nations
excuse
and his views,
Claudel,
writing
for
nightmare
the
Kipling
well.
dark
bark,
wait,
Each
sequestered
Intellectual
Stares
every
seas
Locked
its
human face,
of pity lie
and frozen in each
eye.
82
Follow,
poet, follow
To the bottom
With
your
us to
With the farming
Sing
In
vineyard
of human
a rapture
right
of the night,
unconstraining
Still persuade
Make
hate;
disgrace
from
And the
in
of
voice
rejoice;
a verse
of the
curse,
unsuccess
of distress;
In the deserts
Let the healing
of the
heart
fountain
start,
In the prison
Teach
of his
days
man
how
the free
to praise.
February
1939
45
Blues
Refugee
ten million
Say this city has
are
Some
holes:
Yet there's
there's
Once
no
we
place
had
in the atlas
We cannot
there
souls,
some are
living in mansions,
place
for-us,
and
you'll find
living in
dear, yet
there
we
thought
it fair, Look
it there:
now, my
dear,
we cannot go
now.
In the village
churchyard
there
Every
it blossoms
anew:
spring
Old passports
can't
my
for mi.
a country
and
go
no
can't
do that,
my
grows an
old
yew,
dear, old passports
do
that.
The consul
banged
we are
But
the table
no passport
got
If you've
my
still alive,
and said,
you're
officially
dead:
we are
dear, but
still
alive.
83
Went
to
Asked
committee;
me
politely
But where
we go
shall
they
me a
offered
to-day,
chair;
year:
to return next
my
dear,
but
where
shall
we go
to-day?
to
Came
public
meeting;
said;
If
our
steal
was
talking
of
Thought
It
daily
talking
was
the
we
speaker
let
them
got
up
He
bread:
of
you
and
in, they will
and
me,
my
dear,
he
was
and
me.
you
I heard
the
Hitler
over
thunder
Europe,
rumbling
in
the
sky;
They
must
we were
in his
saying,
die:
we were
in his
mind,
my
dear,
mind.
Saw
poodle
Saw
door opened
But
in
they werent
jacket
and
German
with
fastened
a cat
Jews,
my
dear,
Saw
Only
the
the
harbour
Walked
away, my
through
dear,
wood,
trees ;
and
saw
at
their
weren't
werent
human
Dreamed
ten feet
the
had
the
were
they
only
They
sang
They
if
they weren't
upon
stood
as
swimming
fish
ten feet
and
but
Jews.
German
Went down
pin,
let in:
birds
no
quay,
free:
away.
in
the
politicians
ease :
the
human
race,
my
dear,
they
the
race.
Isaw
A thousand
building
windows
and
with
thousand
thousand
floors,
doors:
Not
one
of them
Stood
on a great
Ten thousand
Looking
and
was ours, my
one
dear, not
for
you
plain in the falling

soldiers
and
marched
me, my
snow;
to and fro:
dear, looking
for
you
me.
March
1939
84
46
The
Unknown
Citizen
To /S/07/M /378
This
of
was ours.
them
Marble
Monument
is
Erected
by
the
State
He
was
One
by the Bureau
found
against
whom
on
And all the reports
That, in the modern
of
an
complaint,
official
agree
his conduct
sense
to be
of Statistics
was no
there
old-fashioned
word,
he
For in everything
he did he served
Except
Community.
for the War
was a
saint,
the Greater
till the
day
he
retired
He worked
But
in
his
satisfied
factory
Yet he wasnt
For his
reports
Union
(Our
report
And
our
That
he
on
or
scab
shows
are
paper every
And that
were
advertisements
it
was
workers
Inc.
convinced
sound)
and liked
that
he bought
his reactions
normal
dues,
found
with his mates
drink. The Press

day
fired,
Motors
that he paid his
his Union
popular
Fudge
odd in his views,
Social Psychology
was
never got
and
employers,
to
in
every way.
Policies
taken out in his
fully
insured,
And
once
in hospital
name prove
his Health-card
but
that
shows
he
he
was
was
left it cured.
Both Producers
declare
He
Research
was
fully sensible
the Installment
Plan
to the Modern
and High-Grade
Our
researchers
of
necessary
And had everything
Man, A gramophone,
and
Living
to the advantages
radio,
a car
frigidaire.
into Public
proper
That
he held
the
year;
When
there
Opinion
opinions
was peace,
he
are content
for the time
was
for
of
peace;
when there
was war,
He
was
married
and added five children
population,
Which
number
a parent
for
our
Eugenist
he went.
to the
says was
the right
of
his generation,
85
And
our
teachers
report
that
he
never
interfered
with
their
Was
he free?
Was he happy?
Had anything
been
The
question
is absurd:
wrong, we
should
education.
certainly
have heard.
March
1939
47
September
I sit in
one
of the
On Fifty-Second
Uncertain
and
As the clever
1,
1
93 9
dives
Street
afraid
hopes
Of
expire
low
Waves
dishonest
of
Circulate
And
darkened
Obsessing
our
Accurate
Unearth
the
of the earth,
lands
private
The unmentionable
Offends
decade:
anger and fear

over the bright
odour
September
scholarship
the whole
lives;
of death
night.
can
offence
From Luther
until
That has driven
Find what
What
occurred
huge imago
Iand the public
know
all schoolchildren
to whom
86
Thucydides
About
speech
knew
can say
Democracy,
learn,
evil is done
Do evil in return.
All that
made
god:
What
mad,
at Linz,
A psychopathic
Those
Exiled
now
culture
And what
dictators
do,
The elderly rubbish

To
an
Analysed
they
all in his
book,
The enlightenment
The habit-forming
Mismanagement
them all again.
Into this neutral
Their
blind
of Collective
pours
an
Out
can
Man,
vain
live for long
euphoric
dream;
of the mirror
Imperialism's
they
stare,
face
And the international
Faces
along
Cling
to their
The lights
its
excuse:
Competitive
But who
use
to proclaim
full height
Each language
In
air
skyscrapers
The strength
away,
driven
pain,
and grief:
We must suffer
Where
talk
grave;
apathetic
wrong.
the bar
average
must
day:
never go out,
The music
must
always
All the conventions
To make
Lest
we
Lost in
of home;
see
should
haunted
have
where
we are,
wood,
of the night
afraid
Children
Who
assume
this fort
The furniture
play,
conspire
never
been
happy
or
87
The windiest
Important
militant
Persons
Is not
so
What
mad Nijinsky
About
crude
trash
shout
as our
Diaghilev
Is true of the normal

For the
Of each
Craves
wish:
wrote
error
woman
what
Not universal
heart;
bred in the bone
and each
it cannot
love
man
have,
good.
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative
Into the
ethical
I will be true
resume
Who
Who
can
can
can
more on my
reach the
speak
them
now,
deaf,
for the dumb?
voice
To undo the folded
The romantic
work,
wake
their compulsory
release
All Ihave is
vow,
to the wife,
governors
And helpless
Who
come,
their morning
I'll concentrate
To
life
commuters
The dense
Repeating
dark
lie,
lie in the brain
game:
Of the sensual
man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose
There
And
is
no
as
such thing
no one
Hunger
grope
buildings
exists
no
allows
or
To the citizen
We must
love
the sky:
the State
alone;
choice
the police;
one
another
or
88
under
Defenceless
Our
the night
world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted
Ironic
Flash
everywhere,
points
of light
out wherever
Exchange
their
May I, composed
Of Eros
like them
and of dust,
Beleaguered
Negation
Show
the Just
messages:
an
by the
same
and despair,
affirming
flame.
September
1939
die.
48
Law,
Law
say
the gardeners,
All gardeners
To-morrow,
Law
is the wisdom
senses
is the
says
of the old
to
is the words
Law
is
Law,
says
Speaking
Law
is
as
pulpit
in
my
and
as
you
scold;
treble
tongue,
priestly
look,
people,
priestly
my
book,
steeple.
he looks
and most
I've told
89
with
unpriestly
the judge
clearly
young.
of the
an
Law
my
shrilly
put out
the priest
Expounding
to-day.
grandfathers
The grandchildren
Law,
sun,
obey
yesterday,
The impotent
Law
is the
one
is the
down his
severely,
before,
nose,
Law
as
is
you
Law
is
but
Law
is
The
let
is neither
Law
is only
Punished
Law
is
Others
me
suppose,
explain
it
once
more,
scholars
write:
wrong nor
right,
crimes
by
the
Anytime,
Law
Law.
Yet law-abiding
Law
know
places
clothes
and
men
by
times,
wear
anywhere,
is
Good-morning
say,
Law
Others
say,
Law
Others
say,
others
is
is
our
say
our
State;
and
Fate;
Good-night.
Law
no more
is
Law
And
the
very
and
we,
the
dear,
Know
that
Gladly
or
That
the law
that
know
no
than
you
should
and
should
agree
miserably
all
Law
know
this,
thinking
with
more
the law,
is
therefore
To identify
about
all
Me.
softly
we
more
we
what
Except
idiot
soft
If I no
If
crowd
loud
know
Than they
And
angry
loud
is We,
And always
If
away.
always
angry
Very
Law
gone
has
some
it
absurd
other
word,
not
do
so
Unlike
many
say
I cannot
No
more
than they
The universal
Or
slip
Into
men
Law
is
again,
can we suppress
wish to
guess
our
own
out
of
an
unconcerned
position
condition.
90
Although
Your
To stating
A timid
We
Like
Ican at least
vanity
and
confine
mine
timidly
similarity,
shall
boast
anyway:
love I say.
Like love
we
don't
know
Like love
we
can't
compel
Like love
we
often
Like love
we
seldom
where
or
or
why
fly
weep
keep.September
1939
49
In Memory
{d. September
When
there
When
grief
1939)
are so many we
has
critique
The frailty
shall have
so
been made
To the
Freud
of Sigmund
of
our
of
public,
mourn,
to
and exposed
whole
epoch
conscience
and
anguish,
Of whom
Among
shall
us,
we
those
speak?
who
And knew
Hoped
Such
was
To think
this
of
So
day
plausible
or
by living.
he wished
unruliness
young
flattery
futures
ask obedience.
91
But
his wish
was
denied
him; he closed
die
good,
enough but
little
still at eighty
threats
they
us some
was never
life, from whose
many
With
it
every
doing
to improve
doctor:
our
For
were
his
eyes
common to us
Upon that last picture
problems
Of
like
all,
relatives
Puzzled
standing
and
jealous
our
about
dying.
For about
Those
very
him at the
he had
studied,
And
shades
The bright
Turned
as
end
were
nervous
the
still
and the nights,
that still waited

circle
to enter
of his recognition
elsewhere
with
their
disappointment
he
Was
taken
away
To
from his old interest
go
to the earth in London,
back
An important
Only
His
Hate
was
practice
Jew
happy,
now,
and
Who
think
And
covering
who
to
augment
shabby
clientele
hoping
his
they
died in exile.
can
be
cured
by
killing
the
gardens
with
ashes.
are
They
still
alive
but
in
world
he
changed
Simply
by looking
back
All that
Like
he
the
no
with
did
old
false
was to
and
be
regrets
remember
honest
like
children.
He
wasn't
The
clever
unhappy
Long
And
ago
later
it
knew
to
a poetry
faltered
the accusations
suddenly
all:
Present
Like
Or
at
at
he
merely
recite
lesson
the
the
was
Past
till
sooner
line
where
had begun,
by whom it had been judged,
How rich life had been and how
And
told
life-forgiven
and
silly,
more
humble,
Able
to
approach
the
Future
as
friend
Without
wardrobe
set
of
excuses,
mask
Embarrassing
without
or
rectitude
of
an
gesture.
over-familiar
92
No wonder
the ancient
In his technique
cultures
of unsettlement
The fall of princes,
Their lucrative
If he succeeded,
Would
become
Of
why, the
Of
course
they
among
called
on
Life
the monolith
be broken
the Lost
and prevented
of
avengers.
God: but he went
People
To the stinking
of
of frustration.
Generalised
impossible,
State
foresaw
the collapse
patterns
The co-operation
Down
of conceit
like Dante,
fosse where
his
the injured
Lead the ugly life of the rejected.
And showed
us
what
evil is: not
as we
way,
down
thought
Deeds
that
must be punished,
Our dishonest
The concupiscence
And if something
The paternal
was a
For
one
was wrong
To
us
Now
enemies
whole
climate
whom
we
conduct
our
he
can
hinder
only
The proud
can
A little harder,
To make
surrounds
all
He extends,
The remotest
93
long:
absurd,
differing
or
opinion
of
lives:
help,
still be proud
and the tyrant
him do but doesnt
He quietly
so
and at times
no more a person
he is
but
still
and features.,
imitation
weather
Under
Like
among
who lived
If often he
pose,
he distrusted,
protective
of faith,
oppressor.
of the
to his utterance
Clung
lack
of denial,
of the autocratic
strictness
It
our
but
mood
care
our
till the
but find it
tries
for him much.
habits
tired
of growth;
in
even
most miserable
duchy
Have
the
felt
change
in
their
bones
and
are
cheered,
And
the
child
unlucky
in
his
little
hearthwhere
Some
State,
freedom
excluded,
A hive whose
Feels
calmer
While
as
now
they
and somehow
lie in the
So
many
Revealed
Are returned
Games
we
to
had
us
honey
grass
of
is fear
and
assured
our
long-forgotten
of
and made
objects
precious
we must
escape;
neglect,
by his undiscouraged
thought
worry,
drop
shining
again;
as we grew
is
up,
Little noises
we
Faces
But
he wishes
us more
Is often to be lonely;
own
Would
and
will
possesses
but
no one was
fractured
sense
of
larger
the
well-meaning
restore
to
the
The
can
For arid
disputes,
the
wouldgive
mother's
he would
have
To be enthusiastic
Not
us
remember
over
only
most
of
all
the night
for the
sense
back
richness
feeling.
But
smaller
use
only
son
The
looking.
unite
moieties
our
justice,
wit
not laugh at,
dared
than this: to be free
he would
The unequal
By
we
made when
of wonder
to
of
It
Because
Its
alone
it
needs
dumbly
They
That
If
lies
in
are
to
exiles
serve
Even
to
bear
As
did
and
he
but
offer,
with
for
and
to
them
who
long
They
too
cry
would
all must
bear
who
94
rational
voice
The household
is dumb:
of Impulse
over a grave
mourns one
future
him,
Judas,
it.
One
beg
rejoice
like
of
eyes
follow;
for the
enlightenment
our
also
sad
up
look
ask
our power.
to
allowed
to
love:
creatures
delectable
Us
has
our
dearly
serve
loved.
Sad is Eros, builder
And weeping
of cities,
anarchic
Aphrodite.
November
50
at the crossroads
Lady, weeping
you meet your
Would
love
In the twilight
with his greyhounds,
And the hawk
on
his glove?
the birds
Bribe
them to be dumb,
Stare
the hot
That
the night
Starless
Bleak
are
then
on
Bribe
sun out
the nights
Run with terror
Run until
of heaven
may come.
the winter
And regret
the branches,
of travel,
wind;
all before
you
behind.
you
hear
the ocean's
1939
cry;
Everlasting
Deep
though
You must
may
it
drink
be and bitter
it dry.
Wear out patience

of the
Searching
through
For the golden
Push
Dread
Cross
Over
on to
in the lowest
sea,
Dungeons
the
the worlds
guard with
the rotten
stranded
shipwrecks
key.
end,
pay
the
kiss;
bridge
that
totters
the abyss.
95
There
stands
the
Ready
to explore;
Enter,
climb
Open
deserted
the marble
the
locked
Cross
the
Doubt
and
castle
staircase
door.
silent
danger
empty
past;
ballroom,
Blow
See
the
cobwebs
yourself
at
your
Put
hand
You
have
Find
the
your
Into
the
from
mirror
last.
behind
your
done
the
part;
there
penknife
wainscot,
and
plunge
it
heart.
false
1940
51
Song
for
St.
Day
Cecilias
I
In
garden
shady
With reverent
Like
black
swan as
Poured forth her

And by oceans
Constructed
And notes
Thundered
this
cadence
holy
death
song
on
calm:
this innocent
an organ to
out
psalm,
came on
in perfect
margin
tremendous
lady
and subtle
enlarge
her
virgin
prayer,
from her great engine
the Roman
air.
96
Blonde
to delight
Moved
as an
White
In
an oyster
she rode
on top
shell
entrancing
And around
the wicked
quite naked
of the
sea;
the angels
out of their trance
The huge
excited,
by the melody,
orchid
so
At sounds
Came
rose up
Aphrodite
into time
in Hell's
flame flickered
dancing
again,
abysses
and eased their pain.
Translated
appear in visions
appear and inspire:
Daughter, come down and
Composing
mortals
Blessed
Cecilia,
To all musicians,
with immortal
II
grow;
I cannot
I have
To
no
shadow
run away
I only
from,
play
I cannot
err;
There
no creature
is
startle
fire.
Whom
I belong
Whom
I could
to,
wrong.
I am defeat
When it knows
Can
now
it
do nothing
By suffering.
All
you
lived through,
Dancing
For
any
Ishall
you
because
No longer
need
it
deed.
never
Different.
be
Love
me.
97
III
O
ear
whose
O calm of
Where
creatures
spaces
cannot
unafraid
Sorrow
is
wish to fall,
of weight,
herself,
forgetting
all
The
gaucheness
Where
And
Dread
Into
within
every
From
born
our
among
So small
beside
So
gay
Of
dreadful
against
Impetuous
O
weep,
Lost
their large
things
child,
weep,
innocence
who
Weep for the lives
Is drawn
weep,
by hearts
cry
breath
weep away
wished
created
your
wishes
as
brain,
the stain,
lover
the bow
weep away
the stain.
dead,
led.
of sin
violin.
O law
what
that throbs
Of convalescents
has
been
weep,
child,
drummed
the still Long winter
will. That
O flute
the head,
never
trembling
against
re-arrange.
words,
confusing
did: O hang
your
beast
change
silences
the tremendous
O
like
never
birds,
across our
intellectual
again.
you
released,
languages,
the greater
child with
as
casual
the ruined
is
normal
that
day;
fallen
O dear white children
Playing
and
truths
strange
altogether
image
whole
of
state,
adolescent
the
outworn
world
Restore
her
of
Hope
of
out
our
may never
be
with the thanksgiving
on
the shores
of death.
bless
the freedom
that unguarded
their inner
that
you never
children
blow
wear your
foe. O
chose.
About
O trumpets
the fortress
tribulation
like
July
98
52
The
Quest
The Door
Out
of it steps
Enigmas,
Her Majesty
Great
persons
with
The foaming
of the
so
a
poor,
and rules,
bad temper
or
Fool who makes
eye
it might
A widow
in
The red-nosed
A past
the future
executioners
fool of fools.
it in the twilight
carelessly
missionary
inundation
at
let in,
grin,
a roar.
for
of
a rose.
1940
our
We pile
And beat
all against
upon
to be
By happening
Enormous
That
Alice
waited
Simply
it when afraid,
its panels
we
when
open once,
see a
wonderland
for her in the sunshine,
by being
die:
it made
tiny, made
her
and,
cry.
The Preparations
All had been ordered
From the
best
measure
To take the
to
And drugs
A watch,
Lamps
of
move
weeks
of all
beads
99
the
start
queer events,
or
the bowels
the heart.
watch impatience
and shades
too, insisted
coloured
before
at such work; instruments
course, to
for the dark
Foreboding,
And
firms
against
fly,
the
on a gun
to soothe
a savage eye.
sun;
In theory
Had
were
they
there
been
Unluckily
were
they
conjurer
rifle
situation:
give
poisoner
melancholic
medicine,
nor
apparatus,
fine
to
Expectation
to be in;
their
not
should
One
on
sound
situations
bore.
The Crossroads
The friends
Each to his
To fame
A village
Some
The
torpor
empty
O places
To what
holds
wrong
are gone,
on
flashes
lie,
one,
other
time to die:
it takes
in the
and crossroads:
dishonour
So orientated,
the
glitters
of decision
What parting
rowdy
where
junction
quays
one
mistake;
and ruin in
local
So at all
who met here and embraced
own
sun.
who
can
tell,
and farewell,
all adventure
leads,
gift could give that friend

his salvation
needs
protection,
The Bad Lands
All landscapes
But
none
The time
For
even
The limit
and the sinister
and all weathers
have
ever
allowed
of their
friends
What
joy
thought,
made
the most
What
could
that
with fear,
say,
it impossible;
pessimistic
there
complete
The journey
freeze
the legends
set
errors at a year.
take longer
Who would
direction?
then to betray,
be left
to atone for? Yet

without
should
take
the extra
no
time
day
at all?
100
The Traveller
No window
where
in his suburb
A little
His meadows
there
fever
multiply;
Which went
lights
heard
on
large
that
that
bedroom
afternoons
mill, though,
grinding
at play:
is not
at the back of love
all day.
Nor
all his weeping
have found
are
interned;
ways
The castle
through
weary wastes
where his Greater
For broken
bridges
Hallows
halt him, and dark
thickets
was
round
an
ruin where
Some
evil heritage
burned.
he forget
Could
institutions
childs
ambition
to be old And
to wash and lie, Hed
where it learned
too
tell the truth for which he thinks himself
young,
That
as
everywhere
on
the horizon
always, only waiting
house
of his sigh Is
tongue.
and speak his mother
The City
In villages
from which their childhoods

Necessity,
Seeking
Necessity
by nature
No matter
The
how
or
city, though,
But welcomed
The nature
Exactly
they
came
had been taught
is the
same,
by whom it be sought.
assumed
each
as
of Necessity
corresponding
now,
to be told To be his father's
no
if he
such belief,
came
like grief
to his
own.
alone,
And
offered
Found
so many, every one
them
some
down to master
settled
fit to
temptation
govern
the whole
him; And
craft
101
Of being
During
And
nobody;
sat in the
the lunch-hour
watched
the
sun
round
country
the fountain
kids
arrive
rim;
and laughed.
The First Temptation
Ashamed
He joined
to be the darling
of his
a gang
stories
of rowdy
His gift for magic

Of all these
Who
The
turned
town's
his hungers
asymmetry
Roman
where
quickly
boyish
into
into
grief
park;
powers
food.
made
him chief
of the air;
All hours
Became
But
took
if he wished
that
solitude
duchess
in the dark.
for anything
came
The nights
Beasts
any
taxis;
his flattered
less
padding
meant
grand.
after him like
harm,
and all the
wild
doors
cried
Thief;
And when Truth met
And shrank
away
like
The
The library
Of
an
annoyed
ill-treated
him with its look
rival's
panting
upon
0 Uncreated
child.
Temptation
in being really
away a
And clattered
Swaying
out her hand.
Second
calm belief
He threw
him and put
to his tall belief
He clung in panic
silly
up
the spiral
the parapet
Nothing,
set
there;
book,
stair.
he cried:
me
free,
Now
let Thy perfect
Unending
passion
be identified,
of the Night,
with Thee.
102
And
his
long
Had
felt
And
hoped
the
it to be
Took
now at
That
suffering
simple
to
be
cravings
rewarded
promise
all
time
stone
the
of
for
the
her
climb,
when he spoke
last she would
And plunged
that
flesh,
be left alone,
into the college
quad,
and broke.
The Third Temptation
He watched
walk, what
graves
Re-opened
old
What
the dead
And
All
laws
came
another
wives
of
concern
and children
in his heart
to learn
had died to disobey.
reluctantly
the arm-chair
To love
organs
with all his
How princes
to his conclusion:
philosophers
adds
are
false;
to the confusion;
say;
The
song
of pity is the Devils
to fate and
And bowed
soon
That
he
Yet, shaking
Approaching
A figure
was
in
down
saw,
nightmare,
ruined
own
with his
so
successful
the king of all the creatures:
an autumn
wept, and
That
was
Waltz.
corridor,
distorted
grew enormous,
features
and
cried Woe.
The Tower
This is
Thus
So
an
architecture
heaven
once,
was
unconsciously,
Her maidenhead
for the odd;
attacked
by the afraid,
virgin made
conspicuous
to
god.
103
Here
Lost
on
dark
nights
Love in abstract
while
And exiled Will to politics

In epic
verse
worlds
of triumph
speculation
burns,
returns
that lets its traitors
weep.
sleep
many
Yet
come
to
For those who dread

Those
great
Here
see
who
Long
for
Beware
wish
all
become
magicians
a
of
caught
natural
may
well;
die,
invisible:
in
their
as
climate
the
Magic-to
tower
their
to drown of thirst
own
they
spell
sigh
passer-by.
The Presumptuous
They
noticed
that
To trap the unicorn

But
in
virginity
had
needed
every case,
not that, of those virgins
A high percentage
was
an
who
ugly
succeeded,
face.
The hero
was as
But his peculiar

The angel of
The right
as
daring
boyhood
broken
him,
them all;
him
fall.
set forth alone
they
On what, for them,
stuck
thought
leg had taught
to avoid
precautions
So in presumption
And
they
missed
was
not compulsory:
to
halfway
settle
in
some
With desert lions to domesticity;
Or turned
aside
And met the
to be absurdly
ogre
and
were
brave,
turned
to stone.
104
The Average
His peasant
parents
killed themselves
To let their darling leave

For
any
of those
stingy
smart professions
with toil
soil
which
cave
Encourage
shallow
pressure
The
Their
shy
career was
hero
So here
of their fond
he
could
was
miles
The
glared
desert
The silence
He
saw
ambition
from
roared
afraid
enough,
such love.
maps or
any
supplies,
town;
decent
displeasure:
of
rich.
made
child
into his blood-shot
the shadow
Attempting
good
deserve
without
A hundred
grow
and
and country-loving
No sensible
Only
breathing.
an
looking
Average
the Exceptional,
eyes;
and
down.
Man
ran.
Vocation
Incredulous,
Official
Those
he stared
writing
whose
at the amused
down his
request
The
pen
late
To join the martyrs,
ceased
scratching:
Among
the tempters
To test
the resolution
With tales
name among
to suffer
for
though
there
was
was
caustic
of the
refused.
he
came too
still
place
tongue
young
of the small failings
of the great,
And shame
the
Though mirrors
Women
eager
might
and books
The fencing
To keep
with ironic
an
manias
in
while,
age
style
informal
for
teach his middle
at bay
the silences
His pacing
be hateful
should
wit of
praise.
cage
and
worldly
smile.
105
The Useful
The
over-logical
argument
Whose
Thieves
The
fell
rapidly
went
over-popular
And kisses
As agents
brutalised
Their
as
instrumental
To those
witch
converted
him
to
absorbed
the
over-rich;
mad
alone,
the over-male.
their effectiveness
Yet, in proportion
the
for
they
value
soon
seemed
was
ceased;
to fail,
increased
still able to obey their wish.
stone;
By
standing
Wild
dogs
Beggars
And
stones
compel
assist
even
the slow
feel their
way,
to fight,
to travel light,
manage to convey
madmen
Unwelcome
can
the blind
the cowardly
truths
in lonely
gibberish.
The Way
Fresh addenda
are
notes
Linguistic
texts
of
and
for schools
every
published
To the encyclopedia
day
the Way.
scientific
explanations,
with modernised
spelling
And
and
illustrations.
Now
everyone
old horse,
knows
Abstain
the hero
from liquor
must
choose
the
and sexual
intercourse
And look
everyone
The
way
out for
thinks
stranded
he could
through
fish to be kind to: Now
find, had he
the waste
mind to,
to the chapel in the
rock
For
vision of the Triple
or
Rainbow
the
Astral Clock.
106
Forgetting
married
horses
And
men
now
how
comes
his information
Who
liked fishing
mostly
and
from
flutter
on
the
and then.
can any
reliable
By observing
oneself
truth be that
is got
and then just inserting
Not?
The Lucky
Suppose
would
his
he'd listened
have
terrier
not have
dismissed
oply
when he whistled
unearthed
the
was not
He stepped
A
nonsense
I, he
He
It would
city; Suppose
cryptogram
The
he had
would
from the book.
cried
across a
jingle
maid,
committee,
not to look; Suppose
had obeyed,
the buried
careless
not have fluttered
It
to the erudite
found where
as,
healthy
and astounded,
predecessor's
simply
And left the intellectual

Iwon the Queen because
came
Sphinx
my
skull;
into
my
head
dumbfounded;
hair
was
red;
The terrible
Hence
case,
adventure
Failures
Or would
is
torment:
little
Was
Inot have failed
dull.
I doomed
in
any
had Ibelieved
in
Grace?
The Hero
He parried
every
question
What
did the Emperor
What
is the greatest
The
Some
bare
man
owes a
He looks
wonder
Nothing
muttered,
A hero
He is
too like
cagey
a grocer
hurled:
Not
to push.
of the world?
Bush.
for effect.
fame.
for respect.
back into his
107
they
in the Beggar's
duty to his
Soon they slipped
that
tell you?
Christian
name.
The only
Was
For
that
difference
From those
who'd
his delight
seen
at all
and routine.
always
bottles
through
mow
to
glad
from large
Or look at clouds
be
risked their lives
in details
was
he
Pour liquids
could
never
bits
the
coloured
of
glass.
Adventure
Others
off to the left before,
had swerved
But only under protest

Embittered
Lepers
robbers
in terror
from outside;
outlawed
by the Law,
of the terrified.
Now
no one
They
did not look ill: old friends,
Stared
as
else accused
they rolled
Like marbles
away
all the closer
and horses,
of
crime;
overcome,
from talk and time
out into the blank
The crowd clung

Sunshine
these
for the
grass,
into small,
and dumb.
to convention,
sane
know
why
The
even
numbers
The Nameless
To
see
the
know
the odd:
free people
better
of their
face
ignore
no
is what
men
Successful
should
mention;
than to try
Absconded
God.
The Adventurers
upon
Spinning
They
By empty
They
their central thirst
went the Negative
caves
an empty
beneath
out their memories
emptied
like tops,
Way toward
the Dry;
sky
like slops
108
Which
made
foul
Where monsters
marsh
as
they
bred who forced
The lovelies
their consent
Still praising
the Absurd
They
out into their miracles:
seeded
The images
Became
And barren
To drink
avoided;
the
painter's
wives
pure
yet,
with their last
of each grotesque
some
to death,
dried
them to forget
temptation
happiest
and burning
cold water
breath,
inspiration;
virgins
came
of their wells,
And wish for beaux
and children
in their
name.
The Waters
Poet, oracle
and wit
Like unsuccessful
The ponds
Baiting
anglers
by
of apperception
with the
sit,
wrong request
The vectors
of their interest;
At nightfall
tell the angler's
With time in tempest

To rafts
The
Enraged
phenomena
Both sufferer
waters
cling
and the insincere;
In overwhelming
The
everywhere,
frail assumption
of
saintly
lie.
bear
down
waves to
drown
and suffering.
long to hear
Which would release
109
our
question
their longed-for
put
answer,
but,
The Garden
Within
White
gates
these
shouts
and
all
opening
through
flickers
begins:
green
its
and
red,
Where
And
Here
children
dogs
adolescence
The perfect
circle
time
moment
All journeys
Where
Roses
can
division
as
sins
conditions
some
The gaunt
dead.
breaks
draw
of consent
on stone,
it makes
its
own.
old maid's
flung their glory
conversation
tall
die here; wish and weight
often round
have
seven earnest
their
into number
And flesh forgives
Another's
at
play
believe
like
are
lifted:
desolation
cloak,
and great, the famed
for
__
Blushed
in the stare
of evening
And felt their centre
spoke,
shifted.
as
they
of volition
Summer
1940
53
But
Time will
Time
say
nothing
only knows
If I could
tell
I Cant
you
Iwould
when
If
we
should
weep
If
we
should
stumble
Time
There
will
say
are no
Because
tell
we
you so,
you
Iwould
know.
on
put
clowns
musicians
but Itold
you more
their show,
play,
you so.
although,
than I can
let
pay;
have to
to betold,
fortunes
you
let
when
nothing
Ilove
If Icould
but Itold
the price
you
say,
know.
110
The winds
blow,
must
There
come
must be
from somewhere
reasons
why the
when
leaves
they
decay;
Time
will
Perhaps
say
the
nothing
roses
really want
The vision seriously
you
If Icould tell
And
all get
all the brooks
say
Will Time
If Icould
tell
and
nothing
you
grow,
to
you
let
up
you so.
to stay;
intends
Iwould
the lions
Suppose
but I told
go,
and
run away;
soldiers
but I told
Iwould
you
you
let
know.
so?
know.
October
54
In Sickness
(F O R
MA URI
CE
and
in Health
A ND
G W EN
MA NDELBA UM)
Dear, all benevolence

That
does
At drunken
To
serve some
Now,
more
feasts
where
glittering
than
lips
of fingering
not ask forgiveness
ever, we
is
Sorrow
noise
strips
generalities:
distinctly
hear
1940
The
dreadful
And all
upon
Dog leaps
Whose
What
shuffle
our senses
sable
code
Those
Think
as
the Black
back.
too well
genius understands
can
appetites:
dear
to contrive
lightly
nothing,
administrate
wastes
inarticulate
year
murderous
the individual
of famine
Our howling
O promise
of
roaring
where
dwell
heart,
do not
his overthrow;
nothing,
till
you
know
111
The kingdom
A land
offered
of condors,
And how
out
made;
warped
What
Our will-to-order
unawares
imagination
the castles
the mirrors
armies
flies.
is its desolation,
Love's
away
eyes
and dead
of destruction
on
And chase
How
the love-lorn
cattle,
contagious
What figures
Jump
by
sick
burn
and the bears;
where
up
our
worlds
honour,
into thermal
waste;
are
and degrade
How
much
lies smashed
O let
none say
I Love
resources
What huge
One ruining
are
We
casts
That
the
Of poaching
Nature
through
and mouths
safer life than
each
Tristan,
the universe:
within
Deliciously
frustration
lest
sober
But, dying,
Don Juan,
so
Trapped
ends:
friends,
obstacles;
their delight,
till it lasts
their cerebral
up
terrified
Each moment
And knows
bear.
two waterfalls,
Brangaenes
conjure
all night,
worldly
cry
ecstasy.
their opposite,
of death
recommending
no argument
in their vile
loud
out of fear
who
out of passions
postponing
Then perish
Should
like
crowd
we can
the great
Isolde,
passion
Prolong
other
nurse
tiny hair
immured
of revolt,
be replaced.
aware
by nature in unnature
Echoing
Make
one
shadow
deaf
hands
learned
until
cannot
it will take to
speck,
And foreign language
Have
that
he hears
it,
to counter
affections,
theirs;
he must
find
Angels
to keep
Unhappy
Existing
him chaste;
spook,
solely
he haunts
helpless,
blind,
the urinals,
by their miracles.
112
That
syllogistic
The lovers
And Eros
New
Murder
Beloved,
Handling
so
Suffering
Too careful
always
too little
even
decorative
Yet through
Which
Rejoice.
in
round
selfish
we
What
an
talent
loves:
obey
us every
absurd
lives,
long,
their tohu-bohu
utters
wrong,
stupid
or too
our
negation.
in the
our
manias
Die in grimaces
sensation,
passionate
clumsily
the air
despair,
voluptuous
one
we are
through
flying
last
in
collect,
adored:
metaphysical
their
reject
for the sword;
of themselves
is politically
All passion
The
phallus
Machiavellis
Express
must
nightmare
The disobedient
day,
comes a
voice
commandRejoice.
for the makeshift
thought
corpus out
A living
What pedagogic
Pre-occupied
To dance
and
into
Who showed
of odds and ends?

patience
savage
segregated
one
of
all love,
Exist
by
grace
And without
we
our
round
arbitrary
an arm.
space
dear face?
you
word;
and I.
of the Absurd,
conscious
manufacture
The lie of
Describe
all logic,
of
peremptory
dear love, in Loves
chance,
The
how to be
from the wilderness
The sensual properties
O, lest
charm?
the whirlwind
And gardened
Rejoice,
taught
elements
divinity
our
circle
in
our
die:
flesh
afresh,
chaotic
of
we
artifice
malice
now,
a vow.
113
The
scarves,
consoles,
May be composed
The
matter
and fauteuils
into
of corrupt
picture
mankind
still,
of the mind
Al
to the dream that makes
Resistant
Not
by
our
That
Do
we
what
your
Whom
must
solitude
reason may not
Which
damns
our
the
yet
Till the performance
Configure
Lest
Thine
bias
Or solid
in Thy substances,
opaque
or
motions
To such intense
vibration,
we
give forth
do,
too.
our
to worship
the wavering
Our intellectual
That
justice
wish
to identify
with Thy things,

apples,
offices
enigmas,
should decline
For Thy perfection
Thee
it,
of creation,
of those
Thy transparent
animal
commit
sublimation,
soul by praising
To seek Thee always
Our bodies,
do
my own.
us to
force
is
cannot
beside
0 Essence
desire,
beloved,
necessity
That sin of the high-minded,
Force
it ill,
our consent:
but
to
Love,
And lay
That
choice
fish,
sky,
with Thy light
quiet
Love,
excite,
none can
From that in which the lichens
live
tell
so
well.
pray
play,
alone
May
never
Nor petrify
In their
Mock
to
wither
Mere habits
into
of
inert
an empty
our
Temptations
nought
a square,
affection
society,
freeze
lest
our
thought
we
virtue with its pious
And take
we swear
0 of faithfulness
That this round
parody
love for granted,
Love, permit
to endanger
it.
with old moonlight
of
always
114
Lest, blurring
landscape
of
our
To
That
we,
set
though
O Felix
Osculum,
Remain
nocturnal
from presumption
voluntary
up
shop
lovers,
to
romance
The
we try
blemishes,
on
may
Goodwin
love
Sands,
soberly,
O Fate,
us
and mysterious:
and delay;
Preserve
O hold
us to
us
the
way.
?
55
Autumn
1940
Jumbled
Of
in the
common
box
their dark stupidity,
Orchid,
Time
Has
swan,
that
and
corroded
Thrown
all the locks,
away
In its cleft
Prophets
the torrent
on
cry,
Persona
grata
Poets
who
Nursing
Index
settles
only
on
mothers
at
none;
pun.
the
clocks;
point
sly
sky,
sun;
of the fox
the barrel
115
by
shocks
with the setting
In the valley
Gleams
with
language
can
finger
Crimson
each
now
jackass
Silence
mocks
gone
profit
And
the key for fun.
who in days
Made
lie;
Caesar
everyone
tires of
of
a gun.
we
Once
Now
it
could
too
is
too
Once
Did what
have
we
Rude
and
you
fly;
and
rugged
ragged
rascals
56
Atlantis
set
on
Of getting
You have
Only
Making
the idea
to Atlantis,
discovered
course
of
the Ship of Fools

the
voyage
rocks
January
Being
the
not have done;
should
the rampant
Round
to
late
often
made
this
is
year,
1941
run.
docks,
As gales
abnormal
of
Are predicted,
Must
therefore
Behave
To
absurdly
pass
At least
of The Boys,
Drive
some
In
to love
horseplay
and noise.
as may
storms,
Should
to
enough
appearing
Hard liquor,
you
be ready
one
for
force
and that
you to
anchor
well happen,
Of Ionia, then
With her witty
speak
scholars,
Who have proved there

Such
Learn
week
old harbour-city
as
place
their
men
cannot be
Atlantis:
logic,
but notice
116
How
its subtlety
Their
Thus
betrays
enormous
they
To doubt
simple
shall teach
that
you
you may
grief;
the
ways
believe.
you run
If, later,
Among
Where
with torches
A naked
Leaps
gong;
savage
shore
stony
Strip off
your
you are
Atlantis,
Carthage
or
And if in
will
take part
gaiety;
some
is Atlantis,
bar
your
a tart,
hair, should
dearie,
Listen with attentiveness

To her life-story:
You become
unless
acquainted
With each refuge

Counterfeit
for
journey.
Corinth,
she strokes
This
and dance,
you come to gay
In their endless
As
you
your
finish
Again, should
clothes
capable
completely
Of forgetting
Never
race
to the sound
and dissonant
On that
About
of Thrace,
all night long
barbaric
frenziedly
Of conch
Unless
aground
the headlands
Atlantis,
that
now
tries to
how
say
Will
you
you
Assuming
Near
recognise
Through
Tundras
beach
Atlantis,
The terrible
the true?
at last
and begin
trek inland
squalid
where
all
woods
and
are soon
frozen
lost;
117
If,
Dismissal
Stone
O remember
And
the
Travelling
Stagger
onward
stand,
everywhere,
and
snow,
great
honour
Dialectic
you
then,
forsaken
and
silence
air,
dead
the
fate
you
tormented,
and bizarre.
rejoicing;
and
are,
even
And
Having
then if, perhaps
got
actually
To the last
col,
With all Atlantis
you
Descend,
Even to have
In
Give
peep at
to
collapse
shining
you yet you cannot
Below
Just
you
poetic
thanks
my
master
And
and
may
but
say
to
sea.
and put
dear, farewell:
of the
And the four dwarf

Protect
may
roads,
Kabiri,
serve you
the
peace,
gods
crying,
now,
Farewell,
in
salvation.
household
started
Hermes,
proud
Atlantis
and lie down
All the little
Good-bye
still be
allowed
vision:
seen your
Having
Have
should
been
Ancient
always;
of Days
Provide
for all
you must
His invisible
up,
Lifting
dear,
The light
do
guidance,
upon you
of His
countenance.
January
1941
118
57
At
the
The
snow,
less
intransigeant
left the defence
of whiteness
For all the pools
Accommodate
occur
of Henry
Grave
blue
James
than their
to these
marble,
Has
tombs;
atmy feet
now,
and- echo
To the sky, and whatever
such clouds
bird
as
or mourner
passing
Moment
While
remarks
the rocks,
named
Within which images

All to tremble
Stand here
in
an
repeat
they
after
singular
wandered
once
spaces
that caused
and offend,
innocent
stillness,
each marking
the
one more
series
came to an
end.
Where
the spot
of
errors
lost its
uniqueness
And novelty
To whose
were
real advantage
When words
of reflection
such transactions
were
exchanged
for
trees?
What
living
can
occasion
Be just to the absent?
And the small taciturn
noon
stone
on
but reflects
that
itself,
is the only
witness
To
Has
a great
and talkative
no more
Of odious
judgement
comparisons
Which challenge
With the
heart's
time
is A
that
man
than
or
my
ignorant
distant
shadow
clocks
and interfere
instantaneous
warm
enigma
no
reading
longer
of time,
in
you
whom I
Surrender
Startling
my
the
awkward
apprehension,
recognition
private
is
cheer.
footsteps
The flushed
of
assault
my
of
your
for
The donnee
of this doubtful
O stern proconsul
O poet
of the difficult,
my
to
Assent
hour:
of intractable
dear
provinces,
addicted
artist,
soil and flower.
119
As
stand
That
gendarmes,
And
our
machine,
solar
the
their
a-ha
Of the master
Our
theatre,
Where
and sad
the
may
beautiful,
and the
Though
and
scaffold,
solitude
it approaches
in
And
any
the
all sit down,
who will
common
locus
rose.
encroachment
flesh
as
to
all the infirm species
Of
which
pre-suppose,
the clumsy
and
Say
fabric,
earth,
banks,
aspirin
On which
on
awake
primary
erotic
the
is
in the act
crave,
bodies
death
city
are partners
de
rigueur
self-denying
for
their
hermit
flies
Like
the
That
Its
its
Of the improperly
Open
my ears to
The low thud
Half
so
That
amid
meaning,
mass
knotted
significant
forms,
uproar
its brilliant
centre,
living
child;
half
whom
actor
because
time
of what
afraid
the
all its hinted
detect
my
ancestor,
Round
Is
the
in
of the defunct.
at
O dwell, ironic
unravel
unite
conjunct,
my eyes now to
Sharpen
cave.
may
numbers
tongues
vulgar
to
carnivore
plural
is
the
so
revolves
its motions
never
there
actual
might
self
fast
possibly
when
his
do
really
important
Acts
happen.
Is present,
with
few
Only
no one
the past
about
inherited
odds
One after another-we
Fired into life to seek

Our equivocal
but the dead
that
judgements
Alas
or
Equipped
and ends,
are
unseen target
are
in
One whole
as,
Hurrah.
judged
where
all
and resolved
And only
though
the unborn
no
it makes
remark
the disaster
The bird of Appetite
When,
to the pretty
difference
airs
sings,
120
And
Amour
Propre
is his usual
Out from the jungle

The
flexible
more
Now
snare-drum
of
shadow
than
ever,
Excite
an
amusing
self,
undistinguished
moment
springs.
when
torches
the squat
and
women
of the saurian
brain
Till
Breaks
dreams
runs
milling
Pigs play
of fears
on
on
the
anywhere,
organs
when in
and the blue
our
sky
shrieking
As the Crack
Are
mob
in insultingly
of Doom
the good ghosts
Of their subtle
Like
appears,
needed
with the white magic
loves. War has
marriage;
the result
no
ambiguities
Required
of its affaire
The physical
That
conceal
we
me
nor
neither
our
About
That
Deaf
nor
primitive
remember
of
tidiness
situation
defeat
nightmare
may
can
me
deceive
which neither
to be
annul;
to sing,
and blind yet burning
Place,
for is not
predicament,
yet determined
To be lame
Good
I may
event,
catastrophic
Victory
that
the low democracy
An armys
and sad,
objects
to learn to shudder
have
An historical
That
of all human
the Difficult.
Then remember
The test
fatale is simple
removal
To be radically
for the Great
corrupt
yet mournfully
attracted
By the
And
shall I not
My little
Beside
Who
Real Distinguished
bless
inferior
questions,
the
where
opened
when It
specially
ran
bed
you as,
to-day
vexed
with
I stand
you rest
such passionate
Towards
Thing.
you
arms to your
Bon
with Its overwhelming
reasons
pleading
All beautifully
in Its breast?
121
O with what
To those
Of
delicate
your
rules
your
While
your
innocence
formal
heart,
nun,
lucid
submitted
child to play,
fastidious
remained
gift
hand
that help
and,
true to the
for
its
own
as
rare
sake,
noblesse
ignored
the
muttering
Resentful
Whose
ruminant
Be
simplified
No death
To
vilify
The
heart
standstill,
or
hatred
of
all
which
cannot
stolen
is
still
at
large;
can assuage
the
of
landscape
the
Mass,
its lust
of
Personal
Distinction
brought
to
and
see
systolic
The
me,
Preserve
Yours
diminished
Master,
from its
be the disciplinary
Me back
The alpine
my
Into districts
I segregate
lightly,
the
frontier
more
Proportion
my
shed
shoulder
disorder
approve;
value:
then,
may
the
obvious
of
In the
lest
editorial
song.
impromptu
of prospective
Lightly,
Over
muddle,
chill of her shrugging
so may
Suggest;
incitement;
that holds
wrong
of eddying
loose
dust.
vague
image
from agreeable
And the clutch
On
to
Tall
old limp
dance
and
pocket
no
fumble
of
the
minor
exhibition,
Nor
And
Bolt
riot
no
in
Where
with
longer
my
which
my
tribulations
not
geese
shoe
day
With their long-lost

Of
irrelevance,
one
grain
may
of
truth
stakes,
to
the
but
barn
leap
brothers
has
or water
at last in the festival
dissenting
image,
and
the
Flushed
immediacy
Into
city
Blows
this
wind
sleep.
the
from
that whispers
And fresh ruins
under
the
shining
lowlands
of uncovered
skulls
moon,
122
hopes
Of
this
that
Of
blood
night
and
and
flames,
The
survive
secousse
the
for
me
Because
Are in better
no
end
that
Master
of
and for all writers

there
taste
are many
than
To the vanity
terror
the
of
sickness
All will be judged.
Pray
is
not
will
of
spring
that
at
strikes
nuance
living
whose
walks
and scruple,
or
dead;
works
their lives; because

of
our
calling:
there
make
intercession
For the treason
Because
of all clerks.
the darkness
And there is
never
is
never so
much time
by
noon.
distant,
for the arrogant
to flutter its wings,
Spirit
Or the broken
to rejoice,
bone
property
For Him whose
or
the cruel to
cry
mercy,
to have
is always
the author
And giver
of all good things.

1 Spring
1941
58
et Infans
Mundus
( F OR
A LBER T
A ND
A NG ELY N
S T EV ENS )
Kicking
his
Has given
mother
him
In the New
To supply
Should
until she
healthy
Order
be
any
his
Having
raw
materials
soul
her role
free;
she also promises
him all such attentions
dictated
of his
clearly,
shortage,
She will be held responsible;

To show
go
must be
and deliver
there
let
appetite:
peace,
as
befit
his
age.
123
With
one
fist clenched
The cocky
Though,
Of the
little
ogre
to take
power
Sworn
heel
up to
drawn
the rest
of the
hat
or
the
mildest
impossible,
cost what
Resolved,
his head,
off, ready,
at the drop of
world
Nudge
supreme
on
behind
dozes
it
may, to
seize
and
to resist tyranny
to the death with
all
Forces
A pantheist
With
at his command.
not
universe
Without
solipsist,
of large
troubling
Them anywhere
he co-operates
and noisy
feeling-states
to place
special,
for, to his
eyes,
Funnyface
Or Elephant
Mean nothing.
as yet
His distinction
between
Me and
Us
Is
a matter
of taste; his
seasons
are
Dry
and
Wet;
as
He thinks
his mouth
Still his loud iniquity
Greatest
of saints
does.
is still what
only the
becomesomeone
who does
not lie:
he cannot
He because
present
Stop the vivid
to think, they by having
got
Past reflection
A passionate
into
obedience
in time. We have
our
BoyMeets-Girl
era
of mirrors
and muddle
to work
through,
Without
Therefore
so
Frankly
Personal
we
rest, without
joy.
love him because
subjective
his judgements
that his abuse
sting. We should
carries
no
are
Never
dare
Bargain,
or
helplessness
overcome
or
Banks
as a
good
at least
without
to
Promising
History
our
offer
we
misfortune
the Weather
blame
for: but this
beast
to exist without
Dares
shame.
124
Let
our
him praise
voice, Then,
with the
Creator
and the motions
top of his
of his bowels;
let
us
rejoice
us
That he lets
He
may never
Important
hope.
for
become
fashionable
or
personage:
may
be, he has
not yet
gone
However
bad he
Whoever
we are now, we were no worse at
mad;
his
age;
So of
When
perfect
course we
he bawls
right
to be glad
ought
the house
To remind
down.
Has
he not
us at every moment
a
how
we
quite
expect
Rightly
To
go
upstairs
Spilt
That,
milk,
each other
or
for
walk if
as our
such
we
since, apparently,
Either
or
both,
we
shall
never
had
we must cry over
wish
never
learned
be above
to
distinguish
Between
hunger
and love?
? August
1942
59
The
The first
time
And fagged
A valley
Farms
We
Lesson
that
Idreamed,
with running;
full of thieves
blazed
Wide
open,
An elderly
waiting
clerk
sat
was
turning
tall house,
war,
bears.
to the right.
its door
for its long-lost
on
in flight,
civil
and wounded
us;
behind
came at once to a
we were
there
the bedroom
heirs.
stairs
Writing;
but
He raised
We wept
we
past him when
had tiptoed
his head and stutteredGo
away.
to stay:
and begged
125
He wiped
Said
no,
his pince-nez,
he had
were not
Our lives
in order;
The second
hesitated,
no power to
dream
Your excellent
But
on
began
met, wishing
you away
To make
focus
Dead
level
Where
nothing
in
your
nakedness
their impact
Fetched
leave;
we must
leave.
We had been laughing;
Our lips
then
us
give
universal
sudden
for
could
wide
dead
have
wood;
eyes were
without
kind,
disdain.
good;
flame
and turned
and
May
blue
and wind
me
loose
again
wild plain,
silent
suffered,
and
bone
sinned,
dry,
or grown
On
I sat,
high chair
The
cold
alone
master,
little
and
be
Should
solid
human
And
the
To
After
Only
last
great
our seats
for all
O fair
Ours
or
object
in
one
had velvet
hands.
over
And rockets
died in hundreds
carelessness.
so
all the rest.
guest.
glass,
express
go
Ball
were crowns
priceless
to
to
dangerous
paper
each famous
at Courage
were
Victory
cushions,
Love smiled
Our learned
or
though there
of gold, of
was
hands
your
we
this:
and
tournament
won;
my
of
was
banquet
were
funny
why
hand,
dream
some
We must have
asking
test.
A band struck
A
sea
Ours
up;
over
all
the
green grass
paper crowns rose up to
of
were too
we
heavy;
dance:
did not dance.
126
I woke.
Anxiety
Intended
In its
You
were not
turned
one
My will to love
What
there.
But
as
I dressed
all three
feeling
For had not each
tried to teach
you
of such
anyone
to shame,
rebuke.
own way
As I think,
that
it cannot
consequence
is given, if they
be,
to want
want?
October
60
The
Sea
and
the
Mirror
1942
A Commentary
on
Shakespeares
The
Tempest
(TO
And
am
I wrong
Faith cannot
Since
TANIA
to worship
doubt
my own
Speak,
AND
JAMES
soul
nor
where
Hope despair
can grant my
God of Visions, plead
And tell why Ihave
STERN)
for
chosen
prayer?
me
thee.
Emily
Preface
(The
The
Stage Manager
to the Critics)
aged catch their breath,
For the nonchalant

Waltzing
across
As if there
Or hope
couple
go
the tightrope
were no
of falling
death
down;
127
Bronte
cry as
The wounded
Doubles
How
the
dear
When
the
Lady
the ghosts
Are handy
That
But
Our
Art
in
laugh
and
the
lovely
half.
gives
song
answer
to
who
and
and
genius
how
does
wonder,
opens
the
our
haunt
with mirrors
Courage
Have
children
roll
its surprise?
is happy
Science
That
little
authority
Existence
and O
drums
sawn
is
O what
the clown
his meaning,
sugar
lives
and wire,
and
fire,
eyes
come-hither
for
one
our
taking
pains.
up
think
terror
fishiest
eye
habit?
remains.
To
the
Flesh
and
the
The Chamber
of Temptation
Where
roar
We
heroes
are wet
Thanks
lions
No
who
Which
Was
That
Is
he cannot
goes
sober
this
whose
how
I-Will,
hunger
fill?
own
his
but
we meet,
when
Shall-I and
can
in
Has not opened

Secret
satisfy
mouth
metaphors
Well,
heat
now;
for the evening;
we
Between
The
who
and die.
with sympathy
Shall
Devil
his heart
backyard
to the smiling
quote?
to
when
show
that
the
Bard
he wrote
world
unsubstantial
of
fact
stuff:
we
love
All
rest
the
the
On
And
is
other
the
silence
side
And the ripeness
the
of
silence
wall;
ripeness,
all.
128
Stay
with
first
free
me,
you
brave
Ariel, while
I pack,
and with
your
act
Delight
As
to Ariel
Prospero
my
have
leaving;
served
share
my
my
resigning
revelling
wishes:
thoughts
then,
spirit,
Ages
Briefly
to
you
Milan,
of
song
and to
and daring,
then earth. In all, things
me
have
turned
out better
Than
I once
I am glad that
I do not
No
longer
expected
I did not
want
or ever
deserved;
recover my
dukedom
till
it; I am glad that Miranda
pays me any
attention;
I am glad I have
freed
you,
I can really
So at last
your
For under
On walks
carcass
through
Agitates
A strangers
quiet
every
And
winter
collapse
some
in
dear
is real is the arriving
woods,
birds
dry
with novel images,
of much lively
time
Ishall die.
death is inconceivable:
the retina
Is the beginning
What
believe
influence
street
noisy
speculation,
flesh disappears
grief; thanks
to
your
service,
The lonely
But
now
and unhappy
all these
any more,
Then, I surrender
To the
are very
books
much
alive.
are no use to me
for
I go, words
Where
Which
heavy
silent
man
nothing
of the
because
overvalues
Yet, when he learns
weight:
fascinating
dissolution
misuses
Whereas
carry no
their
it is best,
counsel
sea
it values
nothing;
everything
the price
is pegged
to his
valuation,
Complains
course,
a
bitterly
he is. So kings
million
he is being
ruined which,
find it odd they
should
of
have
subjects
Yet share
in the thoughts
of
none,
and seducers
Are sincerely
What
In
they
an open
Common
gift
puzzled
are
boat,
able
I wept
warmth
In dealing
at being unable
to
possess; so,
at giving
and touching
with shadows.
If
to love
ago,
long
city,
substance,
age,
which
for
is
certainly
Just
as
wicked
It is only
as
youth,
any
look
wiser,
is still able to believe
that youth
129
away
It will get
Knows
with anything,
age
while
too well that it has got
only
away
with
nothing:
The
child
runs
out
convinced
with its thinking
Who,
Will
fifty
first
ask
When I woke
Whom
to
That
giants
play
in
the
the furniture
garden,
will
go on
lesson,
years
its
later,
kind
into
my
served
if
he
permission
life,
only
sobbing
as
at
plays
to
be
all,
excused.
dwarf
they
pleased,
I was not what I seemed;
Beyond
ITo
their
busy
away
ride
backs
from
fathers
made
magic
justice,
imperfect
vengeance
Take
on
grammar,
gross
insult
many:
we
desires
end
you
To ask for nothing,
we are not stares
your company, can

Drop
their
Forget
echo
then
once
so
their
gang
can
and
among
am, your
enchant
ponds,
no
orders,
your
mirror;
you
dare
not lie;
of apprehension
one
teach
and
from
your
eyes,
calm
and disorder,
back at what
we are.
be themselves:
historic
and
When
to join in the
Who
at
one
that
the books
in stinking
hauteur
childhoods
jokes;
up
you,
and
With their lucid proof

All
am
power to
is:the
What
us your
offer
We have only to believe
In
have only to learn to sit still and give
To make
earth
what magic
from disillusion.
Is that most
But
Ariel,
master,
now
Who knows
comes
their
for
popular
a mere
being
of
|Now,
late and lonely
That
Romans
the
ever
blot out for

The
the
Usurp
For all things,

deeds
speak
all they
of
longed
shabby
for
was
of doubts
tormented
dreadful
them;
appearance
sullen
and
diseases
make
silly
Thick-headed
one
No
goodness
you
but
had
for Oiice is not
bore.
audacity
sufficient
and
eyesight
To
those
find
clearings
humiliations
The scarred
As
no one
you
rogue sorrow comes
but
you
whistle
the
on
shy
sunny
to which
the waterhole
afternoons,
And
where
Gambol
is reliably
quietly
in the small hours:
informative
on
hell;
and skip past, the poisonous
130
Resentments
even
And
Because
it
scuttle
over your
the uncontrollable
can scent no
shame,
unrevolted
is unobliged
strike.
Could
he but
once see
In truth she is for
Nature
ever,
feet,
vertigo,
as
to
oncer
What
Hold
Your
no
my
hot heart
Its treasure
loves
But turn to neutral

Such
as
or
straight
Often
topics
then,
room,
in this
in Where
and
that
must play
The JoIly Elder Brother.
about
For Rome
If
you
This
our
heathen
will be
soft-pedal
Describe
foe,
a goner
the loud
beast;
in plain four-letter
dragon
But should
When,
and With Whom,
Is not for Passion
Be frank
away
the Weather;
Pure scholarship
How
flavour.
another,
the pictures
Religion
has
figleaf
A pornographic
Inform
this favour:
will be quite enough;
are not true,
who
with
boy, to do
friends
though,
To those
A statue
not fell in love?
mirror,
vulgar
peep,
One
would
up your
our
that's
upon
beggars
words
her:
ask the cost,
Just
whistle
even
Dare
like the birds;
or
Pope
The price
and honour?
I am free and
To-day
no
freedom:
You, I suppose,
for likely
victims;
chasing
Crowds
know
Caesar
of faith
longer
need
your
will be off
now to
men
stalking
ankles,
lone
look
glory,
131
Some
young
feverish
In consultation
A punctual
plump
Of gardens
To
you
Perhaps
Being
May
A
Are
judge,
next time,
hermit
ever
be
to
your
by
incapable
by yourself,
need
dream
noses.
nature?
and, for all
you
a
in
outside
I dont
of doing nothing
anxious
tricks
flowers
fly-weight
by their self-important
secretly
master
amiable
envy,
malicious
only
all
among
handsome
that time is for
lead absurdly
Are
rebel
with his
and
for
test?
If
your wry
miserable
the
so,
work
I hope
or
know.
of
faces,
without
you
you
need.
find,
in
Someone
you
whom
weakness
corrupt
cannot
Through
your
him with
charm.
me
you
have:
broken
an
the
you
will
Mine
you
And
spot
which
did
us
to
thanks
both,
Both of the promises
I have
Imade
as
apprentice:
To hate
All
by
nothing
However
to
and
that
could
know
be
That
and neither
But
We
did
its
for
were
both
in
love.
treason;
into
up;
cleared
both
my
remains
it, Ariel,
nothing
Antonio
of
us
wrong,
the
sorry:
need be
Caliban
ask
I tempted
myself
between
impervious
us; you
disgrace.
found
on me a
wish
For
absolute
That
sprawls
devotion
in
the
resulthis
weeds
and
wreck
will
not
be
repaired:
My
I shall
The
Out
of
dignity
go
discouraged
knowing
extravagant
the
sea
and
children,
like
by
incompetent
gods,
who
pupils
into
lately
have,
curse,
my grave.
swaggered
I think,
been
soundly
hunted
own
By their
To
all,
then,
devils
into their human
me,
but
their
selves:
pardons.
Alonsos
heaviness
Is
lost;
In future
and
weak
with his
will
Sebastian
slothful
be
patient
all, it
conscienceafter
pays;
Stephano
But
is
to
contracted
prosperous
his
kingdom;
belly,
stale
Trinculo
minor
receives,
Gratis,
Our
Their
whole
younger
eyes are
repertoire
fresh
generation
its
of
stories,
independent
and
joy.
big and blue with love; its lighting
132
Makes
looks
even us
look
new: yes,
to-day
it all
so easy.
Will Ferdinand
Familiar
as a
No longer
as
stocking?
fond of
Will
silly lovesick
When Ferdinand
profession,
be
Miranda
Miranda
little
who is
goose,
and his brave world
are
her
raptures
Go into
Probably
Just
same,
the
Be twenty
again,
the
over
existing
l over-estimate
I am
The hours
very
go
to
and have
their
at all?
difficulties;
glad I shall
through
never
that
business
and fury, the conceit,
of fuss
expense.
green remote
Sing first that

Where
And
whiskey-rivers
every gorgeous
anyone;
Cockaigne
run,
number
may
Be laid by
For medicine
and rhetoric
on
Lie mouldering
While
sad
young
no one
Love
Tell then of witty

only
Come
Of Heirs
Low
angels
for
who
to formal
For shameless
Prays
but
and stomach-aches
themselves.
who
to the beasts,
Apparent
dives
shelves,
dogs
prefer
feasts;
Insecurity
boot
And
many a sore
sorer one to
to lick,
bottom
'kick.
finds
up,
Wind
That
will
honest
our
Because
Has
Just
Now
our
co-operate,
hang;
man
committee
in his heart:
you
wink
note:
moral
bang,
rogues must
sound
murder
But should
go
shall
Schoolchildren
And
on a
though,
Glory
catch
as you
living
eye,
depart.
partnership
is
dissolved,
feel
so
peculiar:
As if I had been
And suddenly
With all
Stacked
my
up
on a
now,
drunk
unanswered
all
since
and for the first
around
wishes
my
was
time,
born
am
cold sober,
and unwashed
life;
as
if
days
through
ages
the
some
About
imaginary
Sketching
I had dreamed
tremendous
journey
landscapes,
was
taking,
chasms
and
cities,
walls,
Cold
hot
spaces,
wild
mouths,
defeated
backs,
Jotting
In
down
fictional
theatres
and
on secrets
notes
privies,
banks
overheard
and mountain
inns,
And
really
now,
my
in
oId
age,
I wake,
and this
journey
exists,
And
Alone
I have
and
Through
No animals
When
Realise
on
a
actually
universe
where
talk, and there
am
once
to
foot, without
safely
home,
take
a cent
time
it, inch
in
by
inch,
pocket,
is not foreshortened,
is neither
floating
oceans away
and for all I shall
my
nor
flying.
in Milan,
never see you
and
again,
there,
Over
Not
Just
like other
Easily
in the wind, and
Forgetful,
And to like
In
any more,
men,
old
some
And
eyes
with
little
old
dreadful
man
that water
in the sunshine,
grubby,
corner
muffler
so
quite
an
nods
the servants
well-sheltered
my
but
head that
maladroit,
it. When
arrange
seem
it wont
maybe,
to be interesting
settle
me
garden,
rugs,
shall I
and
into
of the
chair
ever
be
able
stop
To
myself
from
telling
them
what
am
doing,
alone,
Sailing
out
over
seventy
thousand
fathoms?
Yet
Into
if
I speak,
unmeaning
Without
I shall
abysses.
saying
sink
without
sound
Can
I learn
to
suffer
something
ironic
or
funny
On suffering?
Was
Is
but
a way
And
have
where
ambush
taste; and
peg away at
suspected
silence
of
robbers
In shocking
If I
I never
you,
it honestly
luck, perhaps
and
of
the
way
of truth
chat
affectionate
even
good
course, never
music
told
me.
every moment,
by the time
death
pounces
135
His stumping
question,
Ishall just
be getting
to
know
...
The difference
I see
That
Gonzalo
you
between
starting
doesn't
With
moonshine
matter. My dear, here
and daylight
to fidget. I forgot. To
solemn
face to fetch
you
comes
me.
O Ariel,
Ariel,
How
I shall miss
you.
Enjoy
your
element.
Good-bye.
Sing, Ariel, sing,
dangerously
Sweetly,
sour
Out of the
water,
And shiftless
out
Lucidly
Of the dozing tree,

Entrancing,
The raging
rebuking
heart
With
Than
this rough
song
smoother
world,
god.
Unfeeling
O brilliantly,
lightly,
Of separation,
Of
bodies
and
Unanxious
death,
one,
sing
To
man,
meaning
me,
As
now,
meaning
always,
In love
or out,
Whatever
Trembling
The silent
Into
that
mean,
he takes
passage
discomfort.
135
II
The
Supporting
Cast,
Voce
Sotta
A NT O NI
O
As
all
the
pigs
have
And the sky is auspicious

Calm
as a
clock,
Yes,
Could
take life
we can
it
as
Write
turned
and the
all
go
now as
ever-after:
men
into
sea
home
undoubtedly
easily
back
again.
looks
as
if
we
tales
not
only
are
the
Two heads
And
Fool
is
the
Of
silhouetted
kissing,
quite
dear
And
As
old
the
Not be
What
Dotted
say,
Brother
more
Incomplete
lot
effective:
little music
about
the deck
Your loyal subjects

To know
their
Antonio,
sweet
How
easy you
place
the
nice
can
they
good
mean
would,
crew.
grouping
few
day,
do.
doze
and believe
or
play,
enough
what
has to laugh.
made
rustic
courtly
warm
all, grateful
brother,
have
your
given
and
as
clean,
they
for
as
on
quite
quite
better,
without,
but the lean
once
for
Prospero,
objects
sails
fingernails
passengers
reflections
Casting
the
the
butler
perhaps
they
Yes,
person,
royal
rustics,
What
against
of coursewell-built,
it to refuse
you say.
could
to
Peace
your
greatness!
your
Break
wand in half,
136
The
fragments
Them in the
even
Not
Is
magic
Your
Forced
The
Never
The
so you
have
long
as
I choose
you wear
I stand
outside
shall be denied,
our
when
up at
pasture
Your all is partial,

My will is all
in his
pride,
the centre
completely
and therefore
occluded
mentor,
melancholy
the adult
time to curl
on
become
green
or
the will to charm is still there.
to remain
turns
Time
books
soon reappear,
whatever
fashion,
grown-up man,
Never
as
robe; while
circle,
As I exist
they will
damaged:
wear my
To
your
will join; burn
sea,
reconciled,
never enter
as a
Prospero;
my own :
child.
lose
Your need to love shall
never
know
Me: I am I, Antonio,
By choice myself
alone.
FERDINAND
Flesh,
kiss
fair, unique,
Follows
Where
Dear
my
Other
omissions
your
sudden
smile
at
taste, sight, Were

exaltation,
world,
as
Miranda,
as
as you
Iwould
promise
not,
enrich them
my
Ihear it to-night
so
cause you now
ever,
than
enough,
As world
to bless
137
still good,
joy, two wonders
other
there
my
I do this,
all, here, there, for
no
that
solitude
still possible,
to moment
Pre-empting
I would
are,
me, my cause, as
With mine
vow
you, warm secret
at all times, retained
From moment
Inherit
and
into meaning
as one
long
ago.
touch,
my
is offered
Pleading
That
ours
with
for
neitherwithout
possess,
us,
The
The Real Right Place,
Right
or
would
Required
empty,
is
person
My
tenderness
could
Time,
0 Light.
bed
One
another
either
Hot Ferdinand
The flame
with
Burns
in
my
is
will
Prospero,
never
which
the
own;
know
Antonio
dark
alone.
STEPHANO
me,
Embrace
Dear
belly, like
daughter,
From humble
Believe
mind
bride;
you
pie and swallowed
the boast
Where
for the weight
in which
meets
drew
pride,
you grew:
matter,
both
should
woo;
Together
let
us
learn
that
game
The
high
lost
better
thing
your
Behind
When
looks
my
Between
heroic
single
the
in the long
At
Exhausted
glasses
run
both be what
must
hide
and
boo;
aside,
we
and
lost
satisfied,
or
name.
pooh:
pursue
aim:-
for
wonder
son
vulgar
two
is denied;
and sovereign,
cannot
blue:
lost
bark
bottle
by being
every moment
Is self
We
one
the
ghosts
with
A lost thing looks
The will of
your
cravings
Alternately
for
skirts
nanny,
Exchanging
Though
than
disappointments
Brush
Wise
play
who
You?
we
claim,
the
name.
loo
The real StephanoWhich

A lost thing looks
for
is true?
name.
lost
139
Child?
The
Mother?
need
Either
for pardon
grief will do;
is the
The contradiction
is not
A lost
for
thing looks
One glass
Inert
is
Stephano
Toasts
lost
is untouched,
My nature
The feast
same,
new:
Prospero,
my own;
does
not know
at which Antonio
One and One
aJone.
GONZALO
grave,
Evening,
Overlooks
Lingers
our
immense,
ship whose
undistorted
Sea and silence;
name.
and clear,
wake
on
I look
back
as
For the last time

Sets behind
All
our
sun
the
that island
were
loves
My prediction
where
yes,
altered:
came to pass,
Yet I am not justified,

And I weep
me
Not in
Words
but not with pride.
the credit
I uttered
Whose
glad meaning
Truths
to-day
ago
I betrayed;
owe
admitted,
to the councillor
Nothing
In whose
Honesty
booming
eloquence
untrue.
became
Am I not Gonzalo
By his
for
long
who
self-reflection
Consolation
an
There
made
offence?
was
nothing
Had I trusted
to explain:
the Absurd
And straightforward
note by note
139
Sung
exactly
what
heard,
immediate
Such
Would
have
common
Our
All
would
Jigs
of
delight
taken
there
welkin
have
my
art
the
whose
which
Till
an
a
into
I
Doubt
Farewell,
the
broke
froze
joke,
convicted
and
insufficient
island
been restored
All have
seen
of
of
love.
our
to health,
the Commonwealth,
is nothing
song
wrong,
idea,
All have
There
prevented
prose
stood
dear
made
interference
into
Irony
dance
ear,
and
into jog-trot
And by speculation
Vision
surprise,
to
was
native
ridiculous
Sound
The gallop
then
self-deliverance.
of
Mine
by
begun
It
Jealous
and
to forgive.
wreck:
this,
Since
His
storms
To
ambient
Whence
Learn
In
boyhoods
formula
solving
A simple
It
To
on
should
the
growing
they
flesh
locus
The Already
by
at
feel
the
sea
and afraid
mortality,
can
now, a
There
if
like
need
their
Even rusting
Hands
can
troubles
tower
ruined
back
man,
reminiscence
Comfort
Some
passion
meditative
Even
gave
decision
subjective
be
bell
can
any
lay
time
inclined
lonelyHere
To the anxiousAll
to
I
say
am,
is well.
140
One tongue
is silent, Prosper
My language
Decayed
Good
But
little
One
noon,
AND
alone.
FRANCISCO
must learn to fly,
sunbeams
ungay
it's madly
when
act is censored,
My audience
Plays
is
nor
Nor Adrian
The drama
not know
that Antonio
to, at
ADRIAN
a,
my own;
does
Gonzalo
The shadow
Talks
is
the goldfish
die.
Prospera,
my own;
Francisco
know
that Antonio
in his head
alone.
ALONSO
Dear
Son, when the
Ascend
your
throne
warm
multitudes
But keep in mind the waters

See sceptres
descending
To touch them;
cry,
majestically,
where
with
no
fish
wish
sit regal and erect,
But
imagine
the sands
the status
Has
or
Sofa
of
mutilated
as
Remember
statue:
The
sunburnt
Expect
no
Of
or
in official
some
for who
refer to
speeches
granite
child and holding

In their
lilies?
kingdom
object.
princes
As they unveil
an
boom
envy you,
help from others,
The scorpion
Leading
not
does
superficial
king is
sense to
Talk
cannon
bells and
The cold deep that
Where
a crown
where
broken-down
Royal
Progress
Zoos
bunch
the
141
Shark
Within
The
are
and the octopus
Omitted;
synchronised
their
ocean
powers:
flats
where
tactfully
clocks
without,
no
march
remain
subscription
on
are
Concerts
Where
your
Only
you
tyrant
Robes
is
ornate
should
sinks
while
an
While
or
and
horror
lean
Toward
Learn
For
as your
The Way
your
far
fears
sea
in
in rich
white
in
read
by
off
he
flapping
dreams
back
is
his
notices
hopping
swiftness:
what
shirt
sneering
and
you
are, so must you
of Justice
not,
dare
stands
is
him with inhuman
from
what
the desert
diary
Beggars,
you
tell
morethe
turns
mistress
plain
lunch.
for
mirror
fear
emperor
his
desert
can
entangled
Upon his splutter,

Where
the
nothing
darkness
prince's
Which
A
given,
there
tightrope
lack,
hope.
which
Where
no
Unless
he trust
prince
As in his left
Meltingly
Where
The
the
water
offers
his mind
siren
and
young
one
instant
brilliant
could
and
on
his right
void
be perfectly
clear
destroyed:
princes
To join all the unjust
sings
night
peace,
And all his limitations

Many
for
his embarrassment,
ear
all flesh had
efreet
Where
of
is safe
soon
kings.
disappear
you
if
So,
prosper,
suspect
you whistle
Mornings
Heart.
The
So
are
You
you
loved;
so
harbour
many
those
when
still,
light
never seen
have
the
pigeons
well-fed
bright
with
so
park
green,
upon
142
Cupolas
slender
Your
and triumphal
ladies
creatures
and convulsions
Ecbatana,
How
startled
many stags
So
and great
Remember
home
men,
and
when
For
What
griefs
Rome,
Babylon.
narrow
the
For civil pattern
Between
soon
From loose
Aimless
space,
how
the chance
vagueness
and
of the sand,
the lively trip is

craving
jelly
slight
and importance
the watery
The triviality
How
arches,
the canals.
seems a permanent
climate
marvellous
Beside
over
to sharp
to paralysed
aversion,
bone:
At the end of each
Remember
Are
never more
From the
But
But
should
Where
you
your
your
city; it is
either.
accuses
That
spring
Island
Are delivered
Blue
your
sea,
of the tide
pride,
will
it to find
desert,
where
the
fruitful
flesh and mind
from mistrust.
the sky beyond
As I sit to-day
by
her humming
our
Watching
exuberant
us
homeward
Escort
rocks
lust,
may arrange your
release
in the
in the
mocks,
the scorching
your
of
of
the whirlwind
And the deluge

The
and feeling
the bitter treatment
For its dissolution
kingdom
you, come
before
pain: praise
For their desiccation
Thank
your
fail to keep
father
thought
Believe
day
one step away
than
temperate
a moment to
And, like
successful
that the fire and the ice
143
ship's
sail
rail
porpoises
and writing
this
For
you to open
Read
it,
Of
Alonso,
your
Of
Naples,
now
Death,
but
new peace,
Music
strike
To forgive
One
My
Dying
The
I am
when
Ferdinand,
having
our
in
blessing
once
to
ready
King
welcome
new
love,
heard the solemn
seen
move
the statue
illusion.
crown
empire
Aionso
is
is
does
diadem
Wears
the
father,
rejoicing
and
gone:
with
in
lacking,
my
Prospera,
own;
not know
Antonio
his
worl d
alone.
AND
MASTER
At
Dirty
Dicks
our
We drank
Some
some,
There
mouse
And two by two like
cat and
at keeping
Meg,
played
the
Sailor's
cow-eyed,
arms to me
but I
to step inside;
not looking
which
straight,
with Margery,
The homeless
their
Refused
Joes
Sloppy
alas, with Kate;
And Marion,
In
liquor
Wealthy
Opened
I was
and
went upstairs
And
BOATSWAIN
to
for
mope
a cage
in
my
old
age.
house.
Friend,
The nightingales
The orchards
And
hearts
Have
long
Roll
sobbing
our
broke
been
round,
them
in
mothers,
we
that
are
Tears
are
of
breaking
the
overboard
sea
ago
long
others;
is
and
deep:
sleep.
144
One
gaze points elsewhere,

compass is my own;
Prosper
My
Nostalgic
sailors
The waters
on
Sails
do not know
where Antonio
and
on
alone.
S EB A S T I
AN
My rioters
all disappear,
my
dream
a,
Where
Prudence
Nothing
Of
mercy
What
anything
That
one
solitude
Will
pretended
by
one we
play
jewel
Persuaded
me my
all
my
To think
And
his
stalked
death
any
Which
brother
shadow
cannot
To want
And
I had
I thought
is
proof,
alive
the blooming
no
be extinguished
and weakness
dream
no
sword;
is to promise
that there
proof?
myself
through
Of
crown
was a
dream
sword
in his
assumed
infected
The lie of Nothing

To
day
wear a crown
into that
it is called
singing
honesty
childrens
no
where
not love because
I should
Yet
plunged
once
The arrant
our
all wishes
is alive,
and silence
ever
proof
a crown.
without
to
sword,
all alive:
my
still,
signalled
each believed
naked
it is day;
we are
wicked
that I wake
sadness
Where
crumbles;
has happened;
I am Sebastian,
flirted with
vicious,
Securely
day.
proof
day
with
some
that the ancient
sword,
crown
Envies
the childish
head, murder
dream
Wrong only while its victim is alive.
145
0 blessed
Caught
be bleak
Exposure
unawares,
we
Failures
Shake
bruising
crown
1
be
because
ashamed,
are
Children
And
not
That
all
Just
Now
Right
Ermine
dream
heart
this
not
what
is
or
all
error
it
trumpets,
are
and
proof?
dream.
are
asks
alive,
for
lovers'
but
no
or
by
proof
dream;
every
be
needs
protocol
easy,
to-day
not
no
might
would
with
stomach
is
alive!
else
glad
anxious,
absolute
sins
Who
brothers
or
sword,
ourselves
tremble,
dearness
is
Here
playing,
whose
fist!
Abominable
smile
To
In
on
prick
day,
crown,
sword.
day
It
is
The
gives
defeat
we
sword
My
we
is
the
cries
face
One
proof
suffer
nothing,
conscience
Pallid
dream
Fights
in
the
not
does
Sebastian
The
my
is
which
white
bull
Are
Whose
king,
by the cold
head
And
Into
merchant,
warmed
never
solitude
is
in
can
clown
the
get
clouds
down.
alive;
Prospera,
own;
know
Antonio
TR IN CULO
Mechanic,
are
guarded
alone.
crown.
Undreamed
Quick
The
by their
of
dreams
north
have
wind
fat
me;
lifted
steals
my
hat.
146
On clear
Green
days
acres
can see
far below,
And the red roof where

Was
Little
There
lies that
These
hands
My history,
Is but
A terror
Trinculo.
solid world
can never
my
choice
reach;
love,
of speech.
shakes
A flock of words
my tree,
fly
out,
Whereat
The busy
Wild
Out
laughter
your
That
I, like
May
get
One note
joke
is
Trinculo
Laughs
and
is jarring,
sky,
men,
shorter
my
The paradox
down
freezing
My humour
Tense
come
images,
of
shakes
and devout.
die.
a,
Prosper
my own;
will
never
know
Antonio
at, in woods,
alone.
MIR ANDA
My Dear
As the
One
poor
And the high
Up jumped
Turned
as
is mine
and sad
green
are
mirrors
are
real to the
hill sits always
the Black Man behind
somersault
My Dear One is mine
and
as
king,
by the
sea.
the elder
ran away
mirrors
lonely,
good
are
waving;
lonely.
tree,
147
The
venomous
Melted
And
the
gave
Witch
squawk;
her
body
into
the
as water
light
high
green
leaves
hill
sits
spring
always
by
sea.
At
prayed
for
his
Down
were
too,
crossroads,
the
Ancient
me;
his
wasted
cheeks
tears
joy
of
running:
My
Dear
is
One
as
mine
are
mirrors
lonely.
He kissed
me
The
sun
And
the high
So,
to
awake,
shone
on
and
sails,
green
no one was sorry;
eyes,
hill sits
remember
our
pebbles,
always
anything,
by the
changing
sea.
garden,
we
Are
as
linked
children
in
circle
dancing:
My
Dear
is
One
mine
as
mirrors
are
lonely,
And
the
the
high
green
hill
sits
always
by
sea.
One
is
link
My
m agic
missing,
is
T he
does
not
know
that A ntonio,
O nly
Dances
III
a,
m y ow n;
Ha p p y M iranda
The figure
Prosper
Caliban
One,
for
C reations
Death
alone.
to the Audience
now,
If
having
impersonators
with
from
the
laudatory
and
disgusting
egg,
you
tively
ask
do
ask
our
for
so
and,
course,
of
conscious
you
absence,
ranging
disgusted
fact
of
instinc-
so great,
good,
so
dead
to stand
author
the
before
lowered
finally
respon-
shyly
latest,
production,
is,
your
dismay
thus
wretchedly
picture,
would
speak
can
it
assure
bow
is
will
your
into
in
default
and
take
his
for
this,
his
Imy
you,
who
for,
all-explaining
curtain
sible
ripest
reluctance
you
the
the
irrevocable
hired
verdicts
to
orchid
notwithstanding
his
your
dismissed
co-equal
with
always
loom
confused
the
of
all-wise,
master
to,
who
else
at
least
can,
who
else
indeed
148
must
very
respond
echo,
to
your
the begged
to him about.
bewildered
question
cry,
you
but
would
its
speak
with
we grant
the
mood
distressing
no
be
anyone
of
majestic
that
think,
the
or
sad
questions
needn't,
longer
sour
to
hasn't
monde
famous,
the
to drop
serenity
suburban
up
lofty
tones
as to
possibly
maturity
that
time
a status
of
say, are
because
she invites,
creature
sought-after
she
any
dear
she
so
the
of
possibly
in her
of
all
wonder
might
doesnt
memo-rable,
in
heaven
out
whom
keeping
Unities
any
submit,
and
to
she
in at
with
Whether
Probability
care a rap,
generous-hearted
the
mere
for which
she
knows
heart
with
strait-laced
in
free.
childlike
appearances,
what
you,
we are, we
heaven
the
so
creative
by
you,
by
exclusive.
are pure, or
things
and
loaded,
Muse,
is not
praised,
innocence
so
to set
native
the
of
can
How
in his
Imprisoned,
pleaded?
embarrassments,
position
Our
type
personified
doubtful,
unmixed,
which
for
your
I speak
not
resentment.
downright
tamely
present
perplexity
indulgence
your
epilogue
lamely,
the
[for
a nervous
to
frankly,
the
own
must
We
echo]
is,
just
that
her
evenings
tout
Ie
present
to the
power
to
palette
skate
the
or
and
standardless
No
timid
who
graded
of
farcical
the
perfected
into
certainly
scale
Tuesdays,
practice
which
she
forbidden
the
of
her
effect
segregation
listing
nicely
test
of
by
the last
edge
abyss
might,
fresco
in
richness,
unattempted
with
the
to
moral
split
second,
bohemian
breathtaking
turn.
prudent
formal
sister,
toward
then,
and
gen-eral
and
unheard-of
contrast,
social
the
Gallic
shuddering
triumphant
no
to
tilt
full
incoherence
on
the
of
amazing
happily
unapproached
aunt
Grecian
can
and
shade
contribute
skill,
ever-shining,
of her
proof
combine
every
make
the
eye an
speculative
never-tarnished
by
would
not
comic
No,
Saturdays.
theatrical
who
as
of
the
wagers,
brew.
149
will,
get
invitations
of
young
confidently
or taste
rank
those
for
on, no
to
heroic
Thursdays,
the
real,
the
gastronomic,
is
her,
who
the mixed
al
only
her
As
he
with
looks
cosy
swarm
assault
defiance
and
the
high
very
their
to
drawl
and
to
best
of
the
of
manly
them
tragic
of
repartee
the
pun
the
tiny
assured
to
her
illiterate
doing
gratefully
make
the
vast
her
do
should
and
to
honour
deities
of
that
presently
of
set
rambling
its
dear
venience
interesting
wave
smiling
he
con-
and
laughing
by
may,
multiplied
odd
and
geniuses
proportion,
mysterious
one
not
alcove,
of
the
groups
engrossed
warmed
never-ending
tobut
not
will
tropes
magnificent
of
explore
local
stair
accents
despair,
or
if,
he
mansion,
the
home
go?
And
and
at
marvellously
what
all
huge
course
the
cultured
yet
party
her,
humour,
low,
bellow,
its
so
her,
new
the
ear,
of
on
about
arrival's
out
in
all her
affords
couples
surprise
some
for
sharper
that
him
he
is
instance
keeps
that
of
he
surprising
doesn't
relations
he
seem
would
have
with
been
the
last
lymphatic
on
getting
stranger
never,
quite
vision
he
is
guess
to
butler,
famously
the
of
at,
moist
large
persuaded,
choleric
hand
with
prince
stingy
loud
liberty
cold
the
at
ease
his
to
dry,
youth
old
age,
some
violently
upsetting
finally
so
taking
yet
rocking
jolly
crowded
boat.
What,
all these
people
so
trustingly,
thinks
may
he
of
well
that,
immediately
them
happiness
day
without
in
statethe
shiver
or
ask,
at her
as
the
most
take
having
gracious
casual
off
for
this
they
heavy
their
of
done
to
should
so
habits
health
to
night
unfamiliar
absence
goddess
hint,
those
and
notable
not-
has
one
and
wear,
unbuttoned
the
quite-inhibited
slightest
sneeze
is
indication
any
there
her
is,
How
right
to
here,
the
her
faith,
indeed
now
you,
you
Yes,
yes,
us,
the
of
the
before
at
one,
functions,
inner
possibly
circle,
all
one
these
the
how
incredible
bringing
are
who
habitues
above
her
command?
alas,
right
be,
the
of
geographic,
beyond
yes,
be,
couid
trusted
there
present.
situation
oldest
could
dingily
sensible
love,
could
there
the
the
drearily
charm,
second
there,
suspension
historic,
dully
you
Is
draught?
miraculous
wearily
of
positivefor
the
feeling
delightful
closest,
you
could
unpardonable
along
men must
the
one creature,
as
have
known,
cannot
whom
she
her
of
be
guilty
of
treachery
and
150
will not
under
solitary
of
the
that
any
circumstances
exception
day
her
or
night
attendant
she
at
home
spirits
have
is
to,
stand,
the
not
any
at
the unique
absolute
hour
case
instruc-
never,
tions
at the front
neither
nor at
door
the
back, to admit?
At Him and at Him only
not because
sympathy
Just
but
because
precisely
of all she
she
cannot
the
repre-sented
not
will
never
witch
is
All
what
sign
along
and
would
happen
dreamed
back
now;
what
love
or
or
brilliance
bruit
and
she foresaw
of
name
she
envious
not
rule
has
known
but
careless
she
would
do
to the
for its vision
then
of
warm to an
to
with
snatching
He
never
ever manage to get
and blushing
what
child
real
she
any
justice
insoiite
tongue-tied
well
malice
in wait
public
only
does
should
He
sympathising,
the
whose
by
if,
be,
presence
chaos.
too
only
lying
means to
withthat
conscious
foresaw
Egyptian
odour
lips
till nowHe
conversation,
private
her
rival
unrectored
mischanceof
in. She
the
are none.
there
not
of
the line,
her
in her
sufficientwho
is the
defiantly
tolerate
not amusing,
sully
to
because
principle
Enemy,
she draw
limits
is and all she
conceivably
associating,
her Awful
does
are any
there
some
the
fishlike
visionaries
to the here
would
do to the
and
arrangements,
breaking,
step, the excellent

and
supper
ruining
loaded
she
foresaw,
guests,
with
outrage
to
gross
dreaded
climax
by
fun,
not
making,
a pass at
us suppose,
your
imagined,
but
your
evening
score,
have
of
then
the
some
of
even
in
so,
all
is governed
general
law
that,
the
before
151
she
is
fondly
we
what
seemed
sacred
revenge,
have
us,
to
the
loyalty,
the
final
never-forgotten
make
relation,
by
the
self.
it
conscience,
theatrical
marital,
from
before
that
just
why
progress
your eyes
life-long
ancient
by
her
horror
what
up
end
relent
in
friend,
betrayal
His
always
long-premeditated
up
never,
Surely
dear
would
virgin
that
have
was not
witnessed
inexplicable
her
even,
the
she
with upsetting
their
no means as we
just
He
ring,
over
all,
of
would
His
of
unspeakable,
Let
worst
what
spoiling
outrage
dancing
knocking
to her, that, not content
doing
to keep in
refusal
the
of
by
tray;
appetising
by
order
us
done
no
suffer
who
you
harm?
less
sanely
than
decent
the
visitors,
there
no
in
front
shall
revelation
to
what
both
the
injured
such
and
one
the
'
wrong
whom
anger
or
the
the
with,
until
may
guilty,
to
tones
picture
must
applied
and
observer
not
and
the
is
calm
malicious
internal
of
restraint
exhibited
mistrust
would
embarrass
gone away or out or up,
thumped,
the
suspicious
furiously
For
no
smiling
can see
the
last
nothing
of
those
manifested
for have
bill
always
most
and
restraint
topics,
as
degrees
pressure
and
nevertheless
still
servants,
animosity,
of
intolerable
temperature
be
the
no
that,
scenes,
raise
or
children
be
indiscreet
matter
the
of
we,
letter
or amuse
is the
snatched
voice
at
or
or not
raised,
the
be
good
the
table
outrageous
waved.
after
allyou
cannot
have
never
have
as
knowing
could
belong
on
side
her
few
allow
our
for
gaping
do
not
us; on
should
delights
sibly
that
so
well
of the
hours
humble
ask
the
that
ragged
contrary
us
could
in her
universal
about
that
and
she
the
victim;
we
most
could
generals
so as to
and
emphatically
understand
been
neither
that
for
is
what
nor posbehave,
should
remain
accommodates
of
she
or
breathe
passage
space
never
for is that
strangeness,
it
her.
craning
of
always
that
of innocent
the
We
high
neutral
asked
us, or try to
has
just
and
undrawn,
privilege
to
old
is
not
ever
left
inside.
in which
same
the
desire
her
right
the
be
to
acquaintance,
do
have
speak
world
one
his
we
selves
our one
ever
we
should
goings-on
her
her
that
All
should
for
become
house
as
curtain
she
preserve
claimed
curtain.
the
at the splendid
conspirator
strangers
thisare
forgotten
We
both
armies,
the
the
chorus
and
cave,
to
that
that
and
the
and' her
many
so
revert
in,
common consent
that
power
they
is
so
and
that
the moral law
their
should
remain
skip
years:
the
exactly
and
how
years
constitu-
to operate
continue
they
advantage
should
days
special
anything
take
frequently
upon
and
upon
do
even
they
agree
unanimously
ineluctably
but
should
and
hours
skip)that
tions
by
palace
smugglers
creature
days
mystery
dramatic
always
can
surprising
strange
and
and
we are so
element
good-natured
is not
nuns,
of
familiarly
friends
their
hours
never
should
too
passive
choir
cathedral
time
like with(it
of
and
intransigent
only
the
she
patriots
of
farmyard,
so
exactly
that
152
the
fair.
timid
and
not
it
unemphatic
only
is the
David
deserve
socially
who
but
and
lays
actually
physically
low
the
win
the
to
gorilla-chested
custard
so easy
musical
of
and habitual
and
recog-nised as
standing
consequently
present
to
and
the
us
serious
single
the
expert
spirits
and
is
always
exquisitely
of
and
erup-tion
instantly
that
so
much
the
beautiful
without
with
passengers
in the
that
there
of
the
set
an
and
in
insoluble
all the
without
they
disorder,
and sound
safe
is
death,
which
of
datum
landing
sudden
power
violent
here
case
problem
superflous
their luggage
and
out
the
always
for grief and disgust,
for
picture
tidiable
perfectly
that
metaphorical
contrapposto
elegant
well-aimed
climate,
of the inner life should
manifestation
remain
one
with
Goliath
pie, that in their blessed
best
as a
less,
with
all
of health
or a
scratch
bruise.
Into
that
loosens
we
world
rather
wish
at
Must
status
any
time
weit
hers,
enjoy
freedom
of
ties
by
interest
without
vigour,
the
blinded
and
mustremind
like
loss
than
so
reiterate,
proper
of
with-out
sincerity
anxiety,
feeling
tongue,
presumption
as to expect
that
we are not,
our
to
or even
to enter, far less to dwell there.
seems
you
an
that
oddly
our
infinitely
that
we
existence
indicative
does
not,
mood,
an
present
eternally
our
for in
any
persons
two
neighbourly
cases,
third
since,
turn
or
affectionate
the
space
circle
but
domain
has
vertical
and
savage
elsewhere
diseases,
but
also
railroad
above
grounds,
each
beautiful
river
its
houses
equipped
with
some-times
huddled
shacks
153
intimate
chez
eminent
There
this
with
always
the
side
of
arm
in
beyond
horizontal
alien
Them
uninhibited
stroll
and
swarming
its
on
an
to; that,
not only
be
honesty
clothes,
which
woman,
which
will
the
and
sensible
no
be
eye
whole
in all
of
dreaded
two co-ordinates.
always
boundary,
wearing
below
by
initiative
could
the
some segment,
always
and
or
turn
or
first
gamut
there
the
voice,
world
necessarily
numbers
despised
to
never
is
upheld
been
which
Us
and
inflected
on,
back
domestic
their
active
makeshift
require
whole
with-out
to
nous,
whether
in both
the
limitlessly
slovenly
second,
presuppose,
their
tense,
shambling,
arm
which
is
contagious
counterpart,
stand
in their
a garage
with
and
several,
provide
the
own
a
and
squeezing
to
shelter
collarless
herds
eat
who
blancmange
and
as
you
the
please;
take
witty.
tamest
the
say,
take,
did
grosser
more
Make
the
or
congregation
college.
instance,
lawn
tough
who
description,
be
any
worship
so
and
of
creating
to
to
the
unqualified
j ealously
than
the
protected
from
the
For
do
and
the
for
tender
who
the
causation
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stranger,
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already
bare
academic
with
periodical
shot-gun.
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who
truth
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learned
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value
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railroad
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said
special
faction;
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trespass
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game-preserve
poacher
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and
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less
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we
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vehemence.
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side
we
know
visiting
indeed,
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prise
soft
fishing
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who
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accuracy
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its
to rebel.
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refulgence
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mountain
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by
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dull evening
together
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erotic
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logic
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parents
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chastity,
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succeed
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conscious
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decisions,
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days
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good-humour,
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auditorium,
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life, there
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talent,
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magis-trate
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and
sentences
laconically
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interest.
repel
aside
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the insurrection
their
suit
by wishes
they
by resentments
some
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bigger
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us
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shy
married
manuscripts,
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some country
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Jottings?
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held
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aspect
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or
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graves.
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Circle,
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playing
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and
Poultry
remember,
spectacle
phrase
religious
all his
of
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value,
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the
for
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155
strangeness
sinisterly
to
image
would
of the
mirror
the
citation
the
of
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point
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costs
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triumph
in
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love
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or act or
live
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side,
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in
Arielto
nominate
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on
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dream.
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and
by
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the
of
the
sex
of
else
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awful
asked,
schoolboy.
and
how
past
How
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is
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then,
gladly
and
paid,
for
peace,
for
neck
and
neck.
knowing
you act
all this,
could
you
not,
did
as
if
of
you
the
right-handed,
co-operation,
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did
to
and,
self-effacing
violation
realise
absolutely
utterly
enthusiastically
simultaneous
as
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compresence
rigibly
of
price
to wonder,
continue
attention
whistle
to-
post
finishing
we
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and
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That
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attract
reconciliation
privilege
gether
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or
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age
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at
police
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concealment?
dearest
disguises
anywhere
demand
of
that
natural,
any
request
negative,
worlds,
for
with
would
both
the
incor-
the
be
as
if
you
were not
perfectly
well
aware
that
the
magical
musical
condition,
the
orphic
spell
grateful
and
turns
that
guides
and
one
tell
precisely
we
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whatever
intended
far
less
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bound
motive
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among
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does
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so
in
whom,
distorted
to
to
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deal
charge,
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of
conclude,
tentatively
then,
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Him
to
doesn't
is,
moreover,
all
turned
to
insult
glory,
them
but
savage
and
face-slapping
grossness
156
have
belong,
thing
whom
and
that,
you may
your
introducing
deformed
mortal
banged.
administer,
because
is
finite
circumstances,
being
as anya
parody,
into
anywhere
positively
incidentally
couldn't
any
not
beasts
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of
to the poetic
among
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take
free
under
its
of
snub
profounder
greedy
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simply
note
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fierce
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and
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oracles
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us
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of Love
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herself?
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mother,
hear
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openly
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affection
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think. If only
malice
should
bones.
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as
and
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your
for
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of
is far too grand
certain
after
not wanted,
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any
us now to
to
perhaps,
Himself
any
buttered
broken
back
appreciative
always
the verbal
can come
time in His life
freshly
not
they
respected,
we suspect
worst
the
have
have
of finding
first
has
not
is
words
neither
comforted
and
that
your
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confined
ago
gone
to
have
whistling
to resenting
fear
to
we
even more
what
you may
that,
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secretly
content
should
the
intrusion
have
incommoded
bagatelle
also
of the
the
real has
poetic,
to
inflict
intruding
upon
breaking
down
of
fra-ternity,
of
romance,
pecuniary
is
if
the
real.
our
seducing
deposits
Ariel?
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satisfactory
in
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is
no
in
of
name
have
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wives
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you
leave
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to
and
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our
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Ariel here,
name
the
name
sacred
of justice.
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with
until
you
Him?
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my officially natural role)such
your questions, are they not,
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the other
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fences
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confinement
damage
picket
into
Ariel in
discon-certed
ever
it
possible
dismissed.
is He now?
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it
let loose
were
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compared
would
we
have
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Caliban
to His arboreal
returned
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done.
of the final tableau
was not
poetic
have
inveigling
We note with alarm that
members
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kingdom,
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For
with
and
are
157
but
before
your
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author
to those
few
among
certainly
heard
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come
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message
for
be
ask
for
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have
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which
some
this
genus
learn;
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fresh
late
anyI
have
of
detail
rest of
sit
relax
as
you
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to
any
art
who
is,
magical
study
the
this
evening
more
clearly
in
just
works,
in
wine of amusement
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that
the
specimen
contraption
of composition.
and
to
grasping
artistic
the heady
back
but
of
observing
be
themwho
from
in
chosen
prestidigitatory
how
yet
there
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not
entertained
hope
indeed
if
comment
apprentice
of
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with
special
you,
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the
deal
deliver
have
to
to
patience,
the
I must
beg
remarks
process
complex
is distilled
for
from the
little
I have
by
grape
while
to
now
concern
you; your turn
will follow
to make
later.
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man,it
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Somewhere,
kitchen
in the
garden
at
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you;
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As
you
have
sit
over
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bus,
you
you
mirror
cold
restaurant,
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howling
merchants
fascinated
distaste
the
heard
face
bottom
of
imprisoned
that congratu-
every
streets
in
and
the
remember,
profession.
or at
marsh
cheap
of
this
the conjurer's
it
liberators
shaving
say
is neither
doughnuts
already
the
now a
or not
and
coffee
from
on
salt
the
corner
apart
the top of
walk
to watch with
of
command,
with
decided
middle
or on
from
his
I agree
Ariel call for help, and it is
lates
strange
So,
that
morning.
hatless,
or
the
your
secret
transacting
bellowing
has
multitudes
barging
bang-
ing
passage
eye
the
of
night
in
or
the
Yes,
survive
expensive
is
you
call,
gossip
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goings-on
serves
will
He
He
keyhole;
the
orders
accident,
scent
will
does
tell
on
you
awake
boardinghouse
your
of
He
ask
for,
to givewho
which
home.
come
does
all the
the
stairs,
all
couple
He
the
willing
to
rapidly
finding
should
to
Norwegian
engineer,
158
arrange
is
you are
really
and
send
be
killed
into
in the
the
how
to get
the
out
hunting
cast-iron
what
arouse
at
by
obthe
you care to
shelter,
horrors
grateful;
dazed
a power
of
your
of
the
Lying
conscious
wallpaper
bourgeois
anything
right
the
overhears
through
condition.
you are
bed
elbow,
profit-seeking
acquisitive
single
Ariel
when
awkward
gregarious
your
you
which
the
of
young
hero
where
mother,
common
As
of
why
gay
of
verily
wide
you
cycle
letter,
reminded
valet
must be
from
the
this,
of
duty
And,
it
the
of property
and
the
aberrant
of
ecstasy
No
of
novel
sustain
with
definitely
vivid
concrete
turn into
into
an
good
and
the
exhaustion
familiar,
become
or
however
years,
economic
evil in
which
whole
with
and
your
at
unsympathetically
in
and
magician
and boredom
phase
perception
to
got
and
are
so
first
months
case
encountered
world
at
romance
wonder-working
up
you
in
seen
rather,
between
is
the
or
by,
awkward
of
cleared
appetite
as
slip
days,
them,
of
relationship
imperfectly
rare.
happily
because
confessedly
loss,
are
as
conceptual
experi-ences.
months
misunderstanding
whose
familiar,
habit,
immune
the
the
be
dishonest
but
to
office
mislay
should
discouraged
the hang
bewildering,
infinite
the
productive
retrospectively
your
minister
indigestion
fretful
moments
getting
to
cold.
the
over,
lawyers
when
cabinet
a martyr to
spite
country
recep-tion,
the
his
of
the
from
Princess'
our
leaves
human
which
you
increasingly
petite,
no
notion
however
your
immediately
away
fruit
bottle
down
which
all the
the
elections
all
you
low
whimper
were
de-termined
loves
breath
the trace
early
death,
or
smoulder
at the
base
his
which
one
years
appalling
prescribe
knowing
remedial,
and
hence
the
at
saving
once
when
a pretty
all that
girl. and
in
was
up
picked
legs
on
which
despair
just
may
to
brain
blow
up
it
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case you can

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for,
be gentle
and
needed
when
foretells
starting
scholar's
every
is
lips
lie
detected
treatment
when it
dis-
your eye
your nose
of the
in
any
capering
will suddenly
laugh:
coming
the
ennui
of
the
the
already
which
to stifle,
the
the
of
while
your ear
its balance,
heart's
or
novels;
for by then
tremor
the
guess
unerringly
to diagnose
moment
throw
preservers
passengers
the
the weather
require
spotted
who
indecent
self-assured,
infinitesimal
getting
the
is
about
however
already
that
you
contains
chat
has
as
gangway
baffles
room you
the
from
summer;
ship's
five-minute
any
wasters
the
or
attention
entering
half-eaten
suitcase
temper,
your
on
distinguish
their
who
file
escapes
subtle,
under-standing:
is
it must
soft
be
music
drastic
and
surgical,
when
nothing
will
any
do
good
159
but
political
when
nose,
and
habit
the
yours
putting
only
I have
inine,
whom
and
eyes,
the
praise
accuracys
Anyway,
faster
On
manner,
primitive
no
sake,
main
it
in,
to
juvenile
to
for
all His,
rhetorical
and
fem-
of
thank
mere
brilliant
ever greater
major
ever more
its
is
together
even at
you
correcting.
ever more
work,
is
unawareness
point
partnership
you go
to
course,
of
properly
stuffy
sound
are,
know,
in the
naive
you see
the
to
wish
your,
whose
erotic
powers
these
the
ought
triumphs;
accumulated
ears,
from
and
financial
attribute
two and two together
the
admirers
success.
the
caught
they
or
disgrace
seem to
If I
failure.
grows
masterly
pale
and
the
the
sententious
worst,
at
and
grave
its
best
and
you can never
now
subside.
between
you cannot
you so
later identify
its
slowly,
crisis
or
smooth
why
that
feeling
sweet
and
and
to
maybe
tell what
a vague
only
appear,
silences
Sour
progressively
moods
in which
to make,
for
the
for
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and
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as
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no
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dumb
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shocked
taken
your
gauchely
No.
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standing
you
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by
when
goes
curdled
think
of
any
around,
but
until
hear
yourself
like
on
feeling
He
who
immediately
slightest
it
you
of
gets inexplicably
so
recklessly
prolonged,
wouldnt
disappointment
hitherto
moment,
occasional
more
life
your amazement,
are
an
for
and
on your nerves,
to
intense
always
and
Him if
vacation
only
orders
maddeningly
presently,
first
frequently
you cannot
waiting
asking
at
more
request
of
or
reaches
ever so
begins,
have
which
at the time
fever
of the
flower
day
to be.
used
but
either
At first
you
matter;
longer
on
one
until
your strange
exactly,
from
the rich red personal
grand,
hint,
from
has
and
says
exasperated
to
bad
des-perate
despair
part.
that
shout
You
dismay
the
He
you
are
free.
whose
unblinking
now
in fury,
at
seeing
pected
to
see, a conqueror
mountains
through
Him
horror
ising
never
not
but
budge.
glare
had
a conqueror,
gibbering
all
than
into
ex-
always
both
His
with
transfixed
you
what
less
to
you
dead,
at
smiling
marvels,
been
refuses
stop
there,
reflected
and
your
to
obedience
and
or
to stammer
but
Good-bye,
fect,
eyes
in
you two to
for the
manage
has
up to
realise
it but
for
strength
finally
years
per-
you
until
nothing
your
task,
enchanted
Striding
is
all
Collecting
distasteful
worst
there
prom-
fist-clenched
160
creature
for
this
the
only
dream
flesh
last
with
is
subject
appalled
have
to
magic
and
dish;
calm
have,
but
acknowledge
come
unfamiliar,
you
that
who
the
far
is
am
all-forgiving
own;
me,
lacking
because
at
and
from bemg,
completely
met
have
not
all too solid
as your
face to face with
how
and
all too
indeed
you
to learn how
sense, your
poise
time
that
amenable
you must
you
you are
which
the first
are
any
in
in
that
all-
understanding
nature
good
critical
eye
so
present
on every
is
page
to
which
and
wonderfully
the
domestically
your
published
should
I have
of
inventions.
But
she
may
where,
them,
when,
is,
course,
of
devoted
leave
dinner
must
be
him
in
never
gasp,
I've
inter-est
the
bone,
trying
nourishing
gone
lessons
sun
years
hat,
feeling
the least
so
let
bit
the
and
such
you
and
in
in
stockings
and
on your
in
so
leaves
know
or
have
protestingly
thing,
my
good
after
fin-gers
home,
to
after
wholesome
all the
should
lessons
worked
after
you go out
damp,
and
faintest
you
Oh!
planning
or come
your
taken
you,
that
cannot
really
never seen, you
spent
for
and
doesnt
you a
and piano
I ever
she
to give
I've
although
simply
now
to-morrow,
has
in me?
meals
without
Have
she
and moiled
all the hours
child,
just
can you say
how
toiled
her
acquired
who,
everyone,
tells
servants
of
in all these
but
to
table
schools
personal
mother
she-
Le Touquet
in charge
boarding
society
as
absolutely
the
I ask,
like
things
have
a new
bicycle.
summer
without
winter
without
insisting,
changing
I've
swimming
if they
them
at
your
were
once?
Exactly:
have
been
are,
always
reason,
in
even
less
been
deliberate
less
pilots
moustache
and fluttered
and
the
grip
Ariel,variants
within
gusto
which
to
cohabit,
or
plus
minus
and
be
death
are
tongs
with
which
rage
the ' lovers
nip
all,ask
the bracket
such
dis-tinguished
sign
mudcaked
and the reverent
romance,
of
twirled
of
one common type,
of
life
concern
flirta-tions
fan, the gasping
torturers
the
of
would
battlefields
of mutual
tactics
foes
of the highest-powered
and
the dashing
coy
of the coarsest
wooing
ill-treatment
places
and the
to do
allowed
liked?
Gallows
sofa and bridal-bed;
fighter
you
that
unkind.
no
all,
after
than
you
Havent
everything,
passionate
solely
by
the
at
any
time
exceptian,
the
stands
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befare
and
them,
directian
sum no
is
signs
which
He
is
able
in either
the
to
switch,
magic
indifferent
but
af
zero.
the
ane
His
can
Had
yau
ever
transmute,
tried
to
me,
destray
we
something
sav-
ar
death
stark
fit
free-wheeling
way
naked
of
on
to
fram
bed
or a
which
hand,
more
before
bath
have
explains
and
really
stock,
to
disorder,
before
lunch,
to bed, to have
major
me
left
I might,
punctures
be
jump
every
or
other
water
the
cauntless
after
have
to
to
operation
checks
forge
and
guilt
day
week
third-class
truth
some
might
other
widow's
skids
in
further
moment
the
we
the
every
year,
in
for
dark
learnt
all.
every
drunk
lang
have
go my
to
whale
or
music
yau,
Had
alone
breath
that
pardons
thraugh
daybreak
other;
blaws
mine,
together
by
recover
to
age
heard
wrestled
might
each
fram
pause
panting
your
we
had
haurs,
come
by
the
bumpy
road
and
remorse,
smack
into
that
very
same
which
you were
meanwhile
admiring
fram
your
distant
camfortable
veranda
but
would
never
point
out
to
me.
genuine
Such
disturbed
escapades,
and
even
the
palice.
thaugh,
master
the
involved
The
him
strains
at
in
have
meditations
trouble
oats,
of
might
his
with
that
therefore,
you prudently
permitted
gatedly
same
so
minor
louche
that
one
occasional
tobacco
you
rustic
piety;
to
licence
burn
myself
dawn
to
while
af
all
being
an
of
now
yau got on
bad
the
unmiti-
and
your great
af
then
with
bristle
per
flu
dead
me
your
in
with
winter,
good
melting
shoelaces,
spill
or
Right
toathache,
keep
in
the
unhappy
ar
Gaod
of
my
break
by
and
clasp
never cease to
composed
im-
an
and
temper
eclogues
soup
of
an my
cig-
holes
borrowed
each
cold
with
bout
twinge
while
arette
you
would
portance;
enaugh
me
who
pravided
Subject
were
quick
documentation
ane
for
married
tie,
hatel to calm
thorough
lave
me to sow
wildness:
in
the
tableclath,
baoks,
busy
while
and
you
polished
lase
letters
generally
to
a per-
and
keep
your
fectian
more
lyric
praises
luxurious
you
Can
then,
or
no
they
and
your
spirits,
as was
you are
because
bound
yaur
later,
amuse you,
longer
candid,
came.
to
when,
sooner
happen
because
cracked
wonder
more
the
of
warld
to
charms,
have
tired
or-
giving
of
162
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have
with
me,
be
with,
admire
the
for
to
profit
your
why
as
company
I consider,
own
must
person
slim
each
good
that,
so
the
enough,
deal
have
all,
chosen
if
up
to put
chance,
my
and
am
for
which
you
of
lost?
we
shall
no
well,
I have
with
getting
on
too
only
or
exile,
all
to
never
hearing
your
now
From
was
me as
with
other's,
only
as
alone
abide
answer
kind
I resent
me
know
after
of
if
of
took
both
I would
myself;
from,
continue?
but
you
left
never
could
achievements
neglect
we
you are
and
you
yield
the
you never
pains
have,
obey,
thing
not
you
of
But
dark
I do
if
allowed
speak
to
ceased
the
had,
not
as
you,
from
just" the
life companion
in
any
case
tolerably
is
new
master
our
to
our
possible
if
very
and
forget
for
moderate,
*
now at
And
specimens
major
but
that
I turn
sufficient
to
your
big
crisis,
which,
you, no
so
the
was a
extraordinary
the
into
girding
transform
on
you
of the
magic,
chair
horse;
of
into
it
have
no
their
to
that
you,
for
been
able
answers.
your
was,
there
just
be
and
Hector
as
for
absurd
poker
than
for
that
as
chair
no more
first
spell in
everything
was
was
and
direct
itself
childish
coal-scuttle
noble
of Ariel
in
is this:
miracleit
for
you
is
it enclosed
no
hither
no graz-ing,
behalf
you possess
signifies
as
long
the
trustingly
baah,
on
them
breaking
mirror,
hap-pened
to turn
that
clamour
within
consorted
type,
I shall attempt
that
fact
put
to
and
future
assorted,
trotted
address
mere
the
in
as
past,
the
the
popular
questions
proof
All
have
to and
anxiously
you,
reproachfully
your
To
reply, for
so
you
found,
is
lies
soon
general
who
flock
myself.
it
as
limits.
last
the
of
man,
and
hopes
forgive
respective
moderate,
new
tolerably
learning,
possible,
keep
you
and
both
that
it
that
should
you
should
have
was
it
I to
unrivalled
endless
wish
pleni-tude
your present,
transparent
shattered
come
together
one
these
and
in all their
to be, is, in relation
your
that
you
and
you
called
necessary
one
genius,
singular
enchantment
of
one,
by
who
only
wonders
novelty
behind,
globes
one
mother
therefore
you to presuppose
for
to
and
father
Tommyand
have
now
have
all
in
163
the
larger
mirror
does
colder
force
with
the
your
two
between
to
your
to
detect
the
side
taken
recognise
and
irreconcilable
reiterated
of
the
reckon
are,
and
His
successive
thing
might
your
be.
first
difference
affirmation
of
circumstances
furnished
every-
conditionally
say,
eyes
my
categorically
as
this
of
us, your ears to
what
room on
emptier
which
You
step.
else
have,
propositions
which
as
they
The
Journey
disillusioned
of
characterisation
its
possible
one
another,
but
the
acrossis
spent
time
rest
between
instants
and
all
way;
his
of
or
platform
and
or
waiting
and
blushes
and
offices:
places
of
and
it
is
random
that
betrays
he
he
is
incidents
in
that
all
whole
the
take
those
at
view,
from
he
place
in
queues
ticket
promis-
association,
he
in that
makes
promises,
until,
are
the
glimpses
remember
fidget,
enemies,
kisses,
observes
the
is
decisive
four
him
rooms,
anticipatory
and
he
the
to
he
which
wash-
parcels
cuous
or
carry
to
drab,
siding;
is
which
three
gets
he
scenery
the
gorgeous
thrills
in
transportation
of
needs
travel
from
hours
those
the
and
distant
actual
its
long
infinitely
The
are
put
still
infinitely
in
small.
measures
traveller
he
can
destinations
infinitesimally
down-at-heels
lifethe
figure
air
of
friends
confesses,
either
because
it
is
the
one
he
has
vowed
been
expecting,
to take
the first
or
to
because,
come
losing
along,
or
his
temper,
because
he
he
has
has been
given
ticket,
free
train
arrives
least
remembers
can
there
blink,
he
bags,
it
it
smells
has
and
Yes,
homes
clutching
in
he
before
standstill
again
his
and
battered
strange
entirely
noisesyet
vast
important
still
will, in due
seedy
their
smelliness
and
course,
stretch
smashed
nearer
the
at
terminus
be de-
and by himself.
have
made
way
back
in the
tundras,
around
breathlessly
locals
to
it
afterwards
whistlingbut
come
by
you
hanging
into:
thinks
that
he
suburban
get
does
mistake,
how
Nowhere,
posited,
or
misdirection
he
stands
familiarone
which
by
he
surrounded
noisiness
and
simply
which
whistlesat
he
or
which
definite
farming
but
whether
for
got
keep
start;
here
you
you
years
on one
arriving
have
or way
provinces
or
have
have
your
in
the
been
barely
those
of
minute
left
out
after
minute,
this
is
still
Average
Grandly
only
Place
the
main
depot,
from
165
which
odd
hours
som-brely
possible
expresses
the
for
me to
for
leave
and
Somewhere,
posit
the
go no
farther.
You
better
than
your present
fasted
state which there
barber
will
in
shops
never
your
here
more
knowledge
that
is
to
your
pack
will
learning
never
reaching
you
to
you
than
your
have
you
have
you
will
various
crowd
sharing
with
have
never
than
you
in
meet
of
on
the
be-postered
jollier,
around
throbbing,
shirt;
of
spots
insistence
exclude
you see
the
clean
delectable
these
in
your
forgotten
same opportunity
interestan
you
now
ticket,
not
an extra
do
have the
all the holy
break-
and
preserve;
you
you
feel
and
are restaurants
will necessarily
othersthan
halls;
shaved
still
that
all,
after
at
and
is
and
historic
one
never,
secure
order,
it
pyjamas
about
or
current
in
will
seriously
where
suggestion
indefinitely
feel
passport
you
the
more
you
here,
suppressed
excitement
still,
matter
to happen.
in which
outside
far
this
stagestruck
foreign,
certainties
we meet
to
of
we
shall
no
say
and
least
its
you
probableon
Release
I whom
you
to speak
be
you, we
and
highly
obey
able
what
should
putting
you
make
will
of
that
us
in
then,
how
there
then,
compelled
foolish
you
happen
I,
us, not
of
you;
be
listen
that
will beg,
for,oh
fatal
you
and
insist
one
least
should
but
to refuse
shall
those,
despotic,
either
guide,
will be
of
at
Here
is
no
to
one
and
to
your
whether
improbable
us,
right
us as your
of
Here,
your
warn you not,
for
warn you
meeting
to
stop
so
or success.
thing
leave,
that
inside
longer
nothing
commands.
for
well
free
there,
either
unfortunately
to
are
again
engage
your next
uncomfortable
failure
too,
Ariel
and
excit-ing
once you
habit
up
stands
hope,
all equally
of
the
But
direction,
land
democratically
and
to whom
of those
perhaps,
to
me or not,
will,
if
is
at
can at
our next
all
too
charge.
supposing
awfully
it is
uniform,
once one
lingoes
how
our
the
minor
your
of
your sorrows
I know
and
themrelease
us
Carry
meadows
private
are
me
back,
the
canons
town where
water
the
all
roles.
cathedral
through
out
them
well
awfully
from
to
translates
of expression,
Master,
run
with butter-
165
fly
the
nets
and
the
side
or
streets,
(gunpowder
keep
me
sweetshops
was
any
and
big
days
before
the
me,
rivers
mous-
this
my
the
in
really
wife
bar
on
with
with
gas,
had
its
carry
put
beer
poor
old
in
a
an
desolate
nothing
tache.
on
when
froze
pity
the
town
mill
by
years
whom
wrecked
of
lit
Captain,
sea-salt
has
coast
upland
poolroom
to
Pity
stranded
voyage
its
back
cheap
winter.
the
plush)
and
to the
back
weight,
to
back
and
grope-movie
his
women
old
cobbled
left
Give
unlucky
mahoghim
but
me
my
passage
home,
again
words.
me
let
as
just
was
it
than
modest
Abraham
mended
and
wonderful
sand-dunes;
plate-glass
windows
Biological
have
bad
on
the
on
the
on
the
nets
dogs
ones
left
You cannot
as
the
Marine
far
off
on
my
silver
glasses
ride
recover
steam
the
Uncle,
me
up,
away
on
Pick
Johnny
where
Look,
and
whistle.
to
extreme
the
his
rollers
are
as
the
and
it
miss
never
would
or
clench
it. Black
badgers
old horse-tramway
crowned
of
shoulders
shoulder
where
glittered
little
kingdom,
farm
undressed
sunset
broken
my
lost
let
friendly
hills
their
spouted.
have
massive
green
the
beings
whale
They
Uncle,
house
Station;
horizon
your
once
harbour
I learned
wharf;
white
that
Patriarchs
wiser
look.
see
before
with
are
winds
stone
become
ones
currant
said
away
necessary
right
fist
bushes
to
breed
hide
pocket.
the ruined
through
it
and
over
to look
ones
in great
westward
circlesfollow
in
opera
numbers;
suave
by
an
foot-
nightfall
one
come
would
waterwheelto
inhabited
forest
see
the
east
the
one
can
Cupid,
us
large
by
Devil's
charcoal
Bedposts
mutouch
Cupid,
the
ivory
howls
beyond
burners,
one
quite
seum
good-natured
north,
to
distinctly,
where
can
the
sixpence
for
chessman.
the
whole
dim
chorus,
take
home.
We
never
have
distinct
to
to
the
the
follow
Business,
so,
cold,
and
grew
long
strong
regulations
frankly,
so
tired,
not
Art,
and
O take
us
swelling
of
and
persons
all the
of
able
just
other
matter
who
kind.
soup
blue wonders
is
stone
the
grass
with
home
One,
is
been
home
pastures
authority
climate
very
rewarding
over our
ago.
this
never
properly;
been
the
in
have
mortal
promiscuous
minotaur
well
Religion,
im-
have,
Were
really
we
Science,
fictitious
here
felt
ideas;
to
where
roly-poly
you,
your
the
ruminant
is at stake,
and nothing
those
purring
sites
and
amus-
166
ing
vistas
sound,
scents,
the
up
made
where
whole
And
and
in that
deliverance
mill town
specific
never
any
Eden
have
condition,
itself.
overhead
or
yet,
Here
full
without
circumscribing
any
as
cathedral
town
or
or
the
you are.
This
casts
penumbra,
jungle
necessarily
you
of fact
is
or
other
ultimately
to that
directly
its desolation
is extraordinarily
any
which in point
moon
for
but to be
your mem-ory
but
you so cry
and instantly
hillside
of
plead
anxious
option
to
a nature
undistress.
when
every
no
indeed
which
known
our
for
oath of service
conceives
of
of
and
events
asymmetrical
and
harbour
falsely
liberal
light
or
colours
of
rich incoherence
very moment
you, not
transport
eruption
bravely
I shall
my
to
faithful
arabesques
fluctuating
and
from
possibility,
state
gaps
of
beautifully
but
the
the continuous
it.
have
downright
Directly
circle
of
dazzling
exactly
in which
still and sharp.
every
Cones
of
object
extinct
volcanoes
steam
up
straight
into
atmosphere.
seconds
and
as
are
events
ever
you
subject.
Who,
When,
questions
failure.
Your
which
will
neighbour
never
and
appear
with
all the
way to
journey
behind
where
her
anything.
an
be
and
the
Confronted
which
is
stands
by
only
and
open
to
little
of
utter
recognise
no one to
indeed
with
come
her
hands
minding
bosh,
purely
last
only
clinkers
truly
straight
is
decision
bach-elor's
not
caring,
tired
hush
have
your
mythology
passivity
to
and
help. You
the
upon
down
of
into
no
where
all
at long
be,
poor
the
really
end
not
to
persuaded
is
Liberty
back,
to which
infinite
order
tea
Why,
and
and
stagnation,
asked
few
Here,
silent
repetitions
splash
there
for
subsides.
fall wilting
tears
interruption
furiously
have
plateau
springs
a geyser erupts
there
the secular
are, as you
hot
rarefied
is utterly
tautological
historic
stare
and
note
alter
without
suddenly
possessive
with
windless
spouts
the lava
from
pitted
rises
Here
warning,
will
and
the
without
the
abruptly
chasms
which
from
up
rise
by
fissured
and
snubbing
sur-rounded
arithmetrical
perception,
by
dis-
and
with
that
free
go on to, your
to
nowhere
indeed
at last
is, to plunge
through
single
silence
to
choose
headlong
into
fathomless
and
drop, all value
existence
own
its
despair
your pure
dry,
is
meaning,
and
all fact
fall
your
alas.
167
But
finer
among
the
of
that
other,
smaller,
but
doubtless
group
you,
hausted
tired
what
delta
pro pre
yes,
moved
of
great
you
top
sexes
both
of
the
living
turn
ex-
ladder,
with
tense
their
gloomily
in
amour
whose
fortune,
for help
to
my
colleague.
will
sigh,
vices
we
have
would
the
the
authorities
to
spiritual
once we
at
local
hermits
of
prefers
more
season,
of the
elderly
faces,
persons
important
lions
out
of
the
have
called
city
had
what
success.
into
chain
Liberal
and
Arts.
steel.
sea
in
ship
of
it
and
us
creatures
ing
disappointing
their
bodies,
very
soon
us,
Deliver
our
of
our
of
us
billets-doux,
directives,
have
to
so
bring
helpless
their
vomiting,
giggling,
of
weep-
fugitive,
misspelt
minds,
and
fool-
the
light
from
empty
agglomerations
bed-wetting,
blotted,
hearts,
we
tried
deliver
on
adrift
going
whispers
from these
with
scrawling,
ishly
quite
to be
conspiring
Man; deliver
to whom
now
is
tantrums
the
buying
nothing
it
is
fools,
is
dances
freedom.
founder.
the
from
telephones
and
which
to
secretaries
against
better
the
mountain
by
its
there
Spirit,
dishevelled
no
is
such
suitably
dear
the
democracy
caesura
that
with
in
into
country
the
stoves
the
world
us
sugarloaf
and
revived
electric
gave
this
to
done
methods
I saved
I
But
lighthouses.
statistical
installed
cottages.
clear
re-conditioned
of
introduced
beer
promissory
they
did
all
the
bottles,
notes
and
not
laundry
broken
want;
litter
of
lists,
toys, the
mess
terrible
so
have
to tidy, sullenly
tempted
it;
we
which
life,
that
hell of inert
steadily
that
time
blessed
twelve
General
winds
seasons,
leaving
Angel,
behind
from this
grow-
for
realm,
impertinent
unreliable
ing
ever
immature,
so
far
above
to
the
and the four
that
Heaven
of
the
Really
Case
where,
and
in
at-
on
bright
ailing matter,
and
senile
particularised
futilely
insists
us,
translate
this
no
tortured
longer
by
three
dimensions
immune
from
temporal
absorbed
into
vertigo,
Life
turns
into
Light,
for good
the
permanently
self-sufficient,
stationary,
completely
absolutely
reasonable
One.
by
Obliged
gratify
this
request
of
transcend
168
the
terms
of
His
contract
to
wish
for
freedom
to
other
yours,
any con-
the
dition,
any,
direct
for
however
or
inherit
shoulder-shrugging
forthwith
ihto
wealth
exciting
of
poverty
of
an
of
ordinary
appear
dreadful
twisted.
round
are
coughs,
run
bend,
elements
in
mathematical
given.
wave,
the
but
measure- ment
a state
and change.
empirically
get
their
objects
men
fury
as a
of
dirty
merely
landscape
and
woods,
looking
are
catch
arms
through
gliding
these
allegorical
the
boys,
for
harmless
the
all
emotional
everlasting
Extended
whooping
as
has
happenold
girls
rug, comes
an
an
of
little
river
town-effacing
story
to
you
lead
all
and
events
flames
old bearskin
and
all is need
phenomena
which
but
which
action
adventure
world
to
do
where
improvisation
the
Ariel
nightmare
without
obligation
can poor
emergency
perpetual
All
immanent,
what
transmit,
power
unentailed
secretly
to
which
phenomenological
analysis
no
have
relevance.
possiblecrawling
through
sauntering
past
quicksands
and mined
derelict
over
brooks,
between
banks
at
pushing
the
cabs,
aeroplanes,
sense
of
earth
one
is going
which
to is
must
of
just
the
why
for
our ancestors,
is
all
canoes,
cars,
but
any
of where
on
where
as to
on
earth
one
represented
or
and
is
lacking
what
the
that
missing
or a sense
childhood,
of
lacking,
ourselves,
be
heaven,
of
stolen,
lark,
or
rotten
wounds;
something
but
smells
it
deliberately
hidden
that
keys
along
absent.
found,
is, the
genius,
humour,
been
be
to
oxcarts,
seem to
culture
belief
or
leys,
or
jumping
manholes
knowledge
completely
and
catholic
at
available,
from
through
swimming
letters,
trol-
through
plains,
clinging
straws
are
any
come
has
something
heir,
at
trains,
direction,
Religion
by
doors,
balloons,
or
pulling
transport,
of
running
pools
roses,
of
sucking
modes
hansom
into
revolving
balustrades,
areas,
sewers,
old
tiptoeing
across empty
and
diving
and
flues
shop-fronts,
factories
are
movements
All the voluntary
whether
accidentally
who
the
is
it has
lost
or
respon-sible,
social
structure,
or
mys-terious
as
found
behind
in
every
Again,
powers,
wicked
faiths
searchers,
every
clock,
tree
hollow
other
to
selves
are as many
there
are
there
and
can
clues
every
under
support
all of
undoubtedly
be
stone,
and
them.
exist,
but
everyones
though
169
pocket
is
bulging
insurance
letters
that
his
his
enemy
Brown),
or
rival
thief,
sionally
any
are
grimly
more
is
than
victim
professionally
impartial
journalist.
(there
is
who
are
is
name
real
is
here
crushing
upholding
he
so
or
police
busy,
of
forged,
another
friend
the
or
himself
whose
whether
or
whether
enemy
as
revolt
he
an
and
proving
of
planted
one
elsewhere
whether
as
disguised
no
tyranny,
or
genuine
disguised
friend
no way
is
knows
probably
as
are
they
certificates,
passports
there
no one
criminal
birth
policies,
credit,
of
whether
with
vicious
knows
the
interested
theft,
or
detective
the
thief,
or a
or a
profes-
Even
the
passion,
the
at
assignation
embrace
the
but
never
it
ing secret
information,
by
an
of
the
knows
nothing
but
Everything,
in
feels
boding.
infinite
heights,
ing
by
of its
way
delirious
And
and
the panting
strain
the
the
farewell
on
burner
fish-tail
of
through
forgetting
or
spiting
its
percussion
of
conceptual
suggests
the
frozen
this
goes
to
ever
expressive
but
of
Mind
adolescent
communicative
meaning
it
saving
dull
of
time
it is
subjunctive
gush
from
or
each
whether
short,
extension
subjective
the
the
since,
formance,
heart
aquarium,
tender
calls,
the
con-
present,
tinually
the
of
distance
under
are
landing,
circumstances
long-
but,
series
steeper,
of
love,
the
fore-
and
rising
stormier
has
gift
obtain-
surrounded
difficulty,
anxiety,
real
per-
its
or
life,
collapsed
under
contributes
noth-
staccato
barks
or a
glossolalia.
nightmare
of
public
solitude,
this
everlasting
have
you
gallop,
with
horizon
dead
rivers,
which
only
your
and
bevel
the
what
cry
of
at last
agony
an
what
the
but
the
grey
the
four
and
black
are
the
stone
cracked,
for
can your
unequivocal
meaning
to be yourself
refusal
but
Mournful,
the
relief
collective
toward
landmarks
bones
in its
find
course,
what
goal
Yet,
giddier
Flaming,
the
there
existence
ever
vision,
Joyless,
Tears,
of
Swamp
on
eye
bleaker
the
an
in
bisson
the
of
Not
but
and
become
fear all?
serious
despair,
Such
171
love
nothing,
the
are
glad-handed
averted
the
the
alternative
way
high-
track,
routes,
by
which
the
or
the
the
human
facile
virtuous
effort
to
make
own
its
was not to
opportunity
admonitory
but
little
so
result,
ear
attentive
any
what
every
myself
had
almost
the
futile
to
any
inter-pret
prohibition
as a
and
forthat
hoping,
attend
for
your
the
bell,
the
and
sight
every
honour
raise
open eye
the
advantage,
open
its
of producing
that
will always
they
eager at
triedthe
be neglected
confidence
certain
to their
sound
consolation,
is
all
to ring thealarming
forefinger,
so
with
right
arrives
fortune
dread-ful end. I have
abruptly
and
as a
rebuff
rescuethat
sake,
of addressing
I find
that
I have
the blind
and
the deaf.
Having
learnt
something
the
of
dramatist,
condition
truth, is doomed
more
the
less
it
the
is
can
estranged,
fainter
in
shows
condition
of
in
he
its
his
all
more
the
its
picture
he succeeds,
truth
his
of
your
and
from
revelation
justice,
its drabness
to
from the
the condition,
brighter
of
representing
estrangement
indi-cate
order,
to feel
embarrassment
he paints
the
I begin
who, in
to fail the
truthfully
clearly
truth
language,
the serio-comic
dedicated
you your
his
its
joy,
for
the
which
of
the
actual
sham,
and,
worse
still,
aim
is
and
the
the
so
are
in itself
imprisonment
being
your
led by
regarding
of
your
dia-logue,
using
yourself,
becomes
like
which
outside
his
Our
placed
his
only
control,
glass
or an
unfortunate
in
the
un-
that,
words,
the
with
one
to catch
be cured
an
far
by
be
is
your
the
your
about
which
never,
you
lets
guaran-teed,
on, a
some
mis-print
dramatist,
from
mirror,
unpredictable
absurd
gap
sur-render,
spending,
can
which
strengthen
the
yourself
or
of
step
your
activity
collecting
you
become,
of
and
in his
defects
company,
the
you can
to
in
contrition
one game
the
whatever
of
or
devouring
down,
his
so
of
your every
must
he
interest
release,
him to
to hide,
you are
question
more
other
exactly
between- what
an awareness
that
bridge,
else
conscious
opposes
that'
the
what
forbidden
what
any
No
direction?the
delusion
is
gap
and
without
unqualified
any
he
what
unfor-gettably
offended
questionably
your
he,
which
you
ungarnished
the
in
gift
to make
he defines
ultimately,
has
justification
commanded
sharply
itselfand,
artistic
if not
more
the
estrangement
madness
shock
misting
over
in his text.
therefore,
is
of
quite
171
seemly
skill,
predicament
all his
give
anything
an
and
gift
power
mishap
the
than
its
did
by
nevertheless,
about
for
get
passion,
the
players
the
worldly
were
stage
the
their
on
lay
in
his
effect,
that
without,
there
the
if
no
that,
mobbed
fog,
its promise
was
smiling
somewhere;
by
irrelevancies,
it has,
but
is
still
connection.
large
drama
first
at
unforeseen
must, through
stuck
some
the original
define
him
delayed
thousand
to
it
his
of having
that,
it
not forgotten
desperately
Beating
by
got
have
to
of
disappointment,
arrive,
ravenous,
mauled
if
ruin his
aroused
own,
exhausted,
imitative
to
your
all his
betrayal
some
ruin,
fault
to
a gross
be
that
to
never
passion,
lifeconsciously
dilemmayet
intervene
interest
trying
all his
presumptionas
this
expectation
give
doing
all would
obliterating
effect
and
of
to hope
time
will
of
task
unpardonable
however,
an
the
to solve
same
the
less
to
having
of
to
time
loose
which
performance
own
which
image
aroused
audience,
their
his
in which
behaving
was
flesh
the
onions,
come
the
off
go
were
tears
of
deformities
heroine
middle-aged
ately
spousethe
is
the
of
company
indeed.
now,
youwhich
we
on
with
through
inexcusably
our
the
awful.
provincial
Ariel
and
obliged,
to
right
been
so
Sweating
which,
with
landsknecht
of
into,
primeval
forest
with the
scraping
full
all of
as
any
us, to go
the final
and
shivering
in
stock
only
change
Parisian
rippling
of
are, you
indescribably
safety-pins,
and the
now a
bumping
opera
touring
involved
ill-fitting
re-arrangement
her seducer
to his plain and
deeply
were
has
moth-eaten
costumes
and
sit
chord,
herself
nor
grandest
of
and
the
immedi-
as
just
pick
bow
not
did
wash,
fancy
performancefor
dissonant
not
very
by
this
good
by
greatest
rendered
Our
wounds
home
flushed
know
and
gracious
demurely
sorryfor
caused
could
again to make
and
not
after
self-stabbed
up
sore
really
floods
holes,
bleating
had
hat
art-student,
palace,
at
of
to do for
now
cross
orchestra
purposes
we
could
scarcely
hear
missing
was
must
some
damp
in
from
fiasco
the
to
tenor
schmalz
were
instruments
cottage
the
filling-out
years
the
for half
and
piano
have
which
stood
we
parlour,
many
too
for
on
floundered
fiasco,
never
quite
able
at
his
moments
big
to get
172
right
up
stud
contralto
the
grief,
the
ravished
knock-kneed
their
bloody
Now
and
piece
bass
we
no
really
business,
off; there
happiness,
no
not
for
have
even
single
the
which
patronisingly,
not
fugato.
dreamt
with
red
simple,
unimportant,
aspect
huge
kind
be
through
harvesters
however
effect.
said.
of
our
stuffed
word
apart,
bar
honest
stage
down
however
was not a
produc-tion,
we
No.
stand,
applause;
of
however
over.
madly
limply
unearthly
in their
the
maternal
half
shuffling
the
down,
her
trilling
lovers
armies
entangled
it is
right
through
coloratura
battles.
hysterically
Here
ham
gargling
and the re-united
off-key
the
nor
faces
no
came
whole
bird
could,
it.
of
ourselves
but
swaying
cornice
that
rea-sons
neither
on
ultimate
overhangs
stood
are
is nothing
is at this
our
we
lives
use as an
we
our
have
excellent
personalities
is
not the
hear,
actors,
born
moment
and
only
everything,
whippings,
the
carbon
shame,
wish
the
the
present,
been
our
no
resolve,
than
ever,
not
in spite
of
them
are
blessed
by
that
real
are
and
the
all their
more
obviously
our
with
staginess,
and
have:
Wholly
which
have
reconstructed;
still,
we
but
we
all
more
now
only
them
Other
to
our
Word
that
incorrigible
all
in
con-descended
massacres,
has
time
as
displaying
twaddle,
still
fear,
never
which,
Not
are
our
and
intensely
the
nothing
copies
ever;
than
lies,
never
for the first
for
but
There
There
sounds
d'etre.
our
huge
in their
hitherto
looks,
improved;
say.
that
vehicle
raison
voidwe
heavy
to
playful,
wind-whipped
chuck
no way out.
is
was,it
nor
else,when
the
wills
at last
do
cosy
unabiding
by
our
been,and
handsThere
the
anywhere
silenced
derision,There
has
the
we
when
as we are,
out
never
have
very moment
at this
Yet,
see
that
Life
it
we
from
is
we are
which
emphatic
of
mirror
them at
all
in
our
its
separated
gulf
our
and proscenium
lastare
feebly
are
meanings
negative
positively
and the bones,
perfected
Work
it is
that
out
it is
just
ours.
through
so
our
that
precisely
we
that
can
among
here,
we may
which is not
stand
and
Judgement
of
fissures
understand
signs,
figurative
the ruins
coherences
archwe
Mercy;
tial
contrived
reversed
image
envisage
an essen-
by
which
of
rejoice
in the
great
Its
secular
173
blur
in all their
speaks
us
wonder
the
muffling
delivers
flinchingly
greet
overwhelmingly
our
through
full
its
with
righteous
banks
authentic
all
molar
their
and width;
bloom
the sounded
of
note
obligation;
of artificial
pardon;
grand
the
the
is the
Postscript
its
old
voice
and
un-
spaces
prospect
working
unbothered
restored
its
flowers
state;
relation.
charm
of
is
(Ariel to Caliban.
no
Weep
more
Fleet
your
By
Echo
but
Helplessly
me,
cast
shadow
at last,
caught
in love with
you,
art, fascination,
Elegance,
Fascinated
by
Drab
mortality;
me
Spare
To
pity
persistent
lameness,
by the Prompter)
your
I can sing
faults
as you
humiliation,
'
be true:
...
reply
Wish
nothing
for
Whose
entire
At the
mercy
Tempt
not
As I am
Love
For
eyes
lies
of
your
will;
your sworn
can
comrade,only
you as you
my
you mar
devotion
my company
For
lest
in these
The perfection
health
are
be lonely
be ill:
you
I will sing if
cry
will
...
I
174
Never
For
hope
our
Heavens
Nor
This
say
farewell,
is such
kindness
earths
was
Both
to
lethargy
of
cannot
touch
brutal
drum;
frankly
long
us
ago
decided,
know
why,
Can, alas, foretell,
When
our
What
One
falsehoods
we
are
divided,
shall become,
evaporating
sigh
...
August
61
Noon
1942-February
1944
How
still it is; the horses
Have
moved
Have
followed
their migrating
on
moraines
Curlews
Foretell
The
into the
kettle
shade,
the mothers
gardens.
the end of time,
doom of paradox.
But lovelorn
sighs
ascend
From wretched-greedy
Which cannot
include
And the freckled
Ducks
Stops
And wishes
flinging
at the pond
for stones,
were a
he
Or Lugalzaggisi
Tyrant
orphan
and drakes
looking
regions
themselves.
steamboat,
the loud
of Erech
and Umma.
from The
175
Age of Anxiety
? 1945
_
62
Lament
Sob, heavy
Sob
Mantled
spin
in mist, remote
The disconsolate
wailed
are
all night,
crying
together,
the bells toll and toll
Shut
is that
who
enlightened
Into civil cereals

Away
the
didactic
touched
shining
reformed
and sobered
cylinder
digit
the
sky:
eye
the lampless
flat and foundering,
The
from the happy:
have
clocks
For tall Agrippa
Which
Lawgiver
world,
as you
The washerwomen
And
for
and lifted
the weeds
the bulls;
seal,
and dreaded
voice
up
The
peace on
Which imposed
Primordial
Our
mess.
lost
Mourn
For
seven
For
seven years
father.
cycles
vice and virtue,
surviving
Through
pluvial
Of wind
and wet, through
And
On
an
periods,
comas
horse,
In his faithful
ball
On the spotted
Its purgative
Where
Shimmering
as
whirlpools
an
ugly
nag,
youth he followed
spirits
downhill
spiral
path to that
in the
of heat,
cold,
it bowled
longing
both,
paroxysms
of deadly
old white
The black
now,
for him
dad,
Our colossal
Past
the pullulating
leaves
shade
journey,
point
of rest
it, and
saw
the shrine
of gold,
The magical
Between
no man
marvel
towers
the
the tree
dare
touch,
of life
And the well of wishes,

The
waters
of joy.
176
Then he harrowed
Healed'the
Of torpid
instinct
Laundered
smells
For he ignored
abet
sounds
the Riddle
To their drab
Forts,
ditches
with
to him
thanks
vision
our ears.
and annexed
Chimaeras
till it roared
the Stupids,
The Fumblers
it lovable
the Nightmares
Put the clawing
Won the Battle

Stopped
flux,
us,
our
accost
clouds
And honest
Berated
it, made
and theories;
Brisker
ranges,
and trifling
it, lighted
Cathedrals
Cleaner
hell,
abyss
in cold
and fled,
of Whispers,
stormed
confined
into
the Sulky
and drove
Bores
to their bogs,
Their
beastly
moor.
their
storage,
the Crashing
In the high heavens,

The
ageless
are
The gods
their watchman
away,
is
master
By his
about
Drift
in
are
O the lepers
worn
hands
For
their world-engine
Conjured
no more
to wed
music
to times,
Their truths
the Eternal
Objects
daze:
loose
in Lombard
Street,
The rents
rising in the river basins,
are angry.
The insects
The
For
their great
and cracking,
Creaking
are
places,
wringing
our
Bigger
cobwebbed
lawgiver
bones
Unwarped
Under
The
of
Who will dust
kingdoms
lies below
better
now?
his
people.
kind,
by their weight,
as
white
limestone
green grass,
grass
that
fades.
from "The Age of Anxiety"
177
:?
1946
63
Under
Which
Reactionary
( PHI BE T A
H A
Ares
R V A
Tract
K A P PA
R D,
Lyre
the
for
P O EM
Times
19 4 6 )
at last has quit the field,
The
on
bloodstains
To seeping
And
in
The
bushes
showers,
their
fractured
With
the
convalescent
towns
summer
state
associate
flowers.
yield
upon
Encamped
the
veterans
Raw
As freshman
Instructors
college
already
Shepherd
tongue
They
nerves
Are
shot
Poems
that
to
appliances
arts
the
stroll
And
or
and
the
slaughter
shorter
of Donne.
secret
back
from
Resume
proper
eruditions,
their
Though
liked
at
flinched
by
Professors
They
sciences
run,
never
pieces
courses,
basic
bewildering
mastering
young
the battle-weary
Through
For
'
forces;
with sarcastic
Among
plain
train
some regret
their
missions
it;
dictaphones
lot,
some
met
They
you
Let
But
Zeus
Permits
big
wheels,
inscrutable
the
and
do
not
it.
forget
decree
will-to-disagree
To be pandemic,
178
Ordains
And
that
vaudeville
shall preach
every commencement
Be
Let Ares
doze, that
Is instantly
And those
those
Hermes
who follow
all the
fought
way
qualms
obey
Apollo.
like all Olympic
Though
war
once more
who without
Pompous
Brutal
other
declared
'Twixt
Precocious
speech
polemic.
games,
with smiles
and Christian
names
And
less
This dialectic
The civil gods
And
What
dramatic,
as mean,
is just
more
fanatic.
high immortals
Is life and death
Their
Antipathy
ages
All
between
strife
on
do in mirth
Middle
Earth;
a-historic
gripes
forever
types,
and somatic
The sophomoric
Who
face the futures
With giggles
As
stout
And those
we
As
or
as
approach
And
'
sons
Cortez,
Apollos
turn pale
with ragged
told
children
From boring
Their
love
best
they
to play,
when
they
oughtnt;
never
shrink
jobs but have

work
sail
forties.
of Hermes
only do their
Are
hints
squints
who like myself
The fattening
The
darkest
with prairie
important.
to think
179
Related
by antithesis,
A compromise
perhaps
the
Falstaff
The
prig
The earth
the self
never:
friendship
confronts
Prince
welcome
Fasces
He loves
but
fool
If he would leave
Apollo's
is
e;
Impossibl
Respect
us
between
forever
Hal.
alone,
to the throne,
and falcons;
to rule, has always

would
soon,
done
did Hermes
it;
run
it,
Be like the Balkans.
But
His
jealous
of
common-sense
our
god
in secret
of
dreams,
schemes
To
rule
to
Unable
the
with
Creates
Official
the
lyre,
simulated
fire
art.
And when he occupies

Truth is replaced
Knowledge;
particular
to
Attention
Public
college,
by Useful
pays
He
heart;
invent
Thought,
Commercial
Relations,
Hygiene,
Sport,
In his curricula.
extrovert
Athletic,
For
to
him,
Is
the
The
goal
His
shield
Qui
Today
his
and
work
crude,
in
solitude
offence,
populous
bears
maJ
arms,
Nirvana:
this
device:
Mens
pense.
we
must
confess,
sana
From
to
Right
His
met
have
Left
success,
wave
banners
180
From
to Princeton,
Yale
Is
news
Reviews
very grave.
His radio Homers
all day
In over-Whitmanated
That
does
With adjectives
Extol
and the
to the Book
From Broadway
not
long
song
scan,
laid end to end,
the doughnut
and commend
The
Man.
His, too,
On sport
Common
each
or
Or dogs
Invented
by
homely
spousal
or
or
thing
spring
dusters,
some
For recitation
lyric
love
court-house
by the yard
In filibusters.
bard
To him ascend
And
sets
folk-ballad,
dietitians
A glass
orations
of fugal variations
some
On
While
the prize
sacrifice
of prune-juice
Marsh-mallow
or a
nice
salad.
Charged
with his compound
Sex plus
some
matter,
Religious
Enormous
novels
Rain down
Till
our
That
they
battle-line,
keep
Yet
are
heads
uniforms
in
declare
in complete
go on
swarms
alighting,
His existentialists
That
defenceless
teeth chatter.
In fake Hermetic
Behind
by co-eds
on our
our
of sensational
undenominational
writing.
181
despair,
No matter;
White
He shall
Aphrodite
What
though
Zeus willing,
Lone
we,
scholars,
sniping
Our facts
cocktail
ear
From
trend.
student
parties
to
in the public
next
Some
magazines
our
night
Collapse
walls
marines,
in little
Fat figures
the
defend,
Capture
At
from
periodicals,
Our intellectual
By
critical?
the unpolitical,
him yet.
beat
Of learned
Landing
side:
his threat
us grow more
To organize
Shall
be defied;
on our
is
morning,
witty
sneer.
Underground
whisper
round
ear;
eye
ambushed
by
In
our
morale
So, that
Routed
Battalions
Keep
well
the
Thou
shalt
Thou
not
behold
away
like fog,
Hermetic
as
do
shalt not
strength:
at length
Apollos
melt
runs
Which
our
must lie
we may
as
Decalogue,
follows:
the
write
dean
thy
pleases,
doctors
thesis
On education,
Thou
shalt
Shalt
thou
not
or
Administra
Thou
shalt
worship
thine
bow
projects
down
nor
before
tion.
not
answer
questionnaires
Or
upon
quizzes
Nor
Take
World-Affairs,
with
compliance
any test.
Thou
Thou
With
social
shalt
guys
not be
Thou shalt
Nor
on
on
for its
all, make
wash
terms
firms,
with such
prose,
love to those
too much.
not live within thy
plain water
If thou must
Between
friendly
in advertising
Nor speak
Who
commit
science.
As read the Bible

Nor, above
not sit
shalt
nor
With statisticians
and
means
raw greens.
choose
the chances,
choose
the odd;
Read The New
Yorker,
And take short
trust in God;
views.
1946
64
The
Fall
(FOR
The
In
CYRIL
are
piers
lonely
Lashes
an
Fantastic
pummelled
field the
grow
of the
sewers
by the
train;
caves.
the evening
Fisc
waves;
rain
abandoned
Absconding
The
CONNOLLY)
fill the mountain
Outlaws
Agents
Rome
of
gowns;
pursue
tax-defaulters
of provincial
163
through
towns.
Private
rites
The temple
of magic
All the literati

An imaginary
friend.
Cerebrotonic
the
Mutiny
to sleep;
keep
may
Cato
Extoll the Ancient
But
send
prostitutes
Disciplines,
muscle-bound
for
an
On
pink
Unendowed
Little
birds
Sitting
on
NOT
with
MY
speckled
WORK
form.
wealth
with scarlet
their
clerk
LIKE
official
warm
is
unimportant
1 DO
Writes
pay.
double-bed
Caesars
As
Marines
and
food
legs,
eggs,
or
pity,
Eye
each flu-infected
Altogether
Herds
Miles
elsewhere,
and miles
and
January
vast
move across
of reindeer
Silently
city.
of golden
very
moss,
fast.
1947
65
65
In
If it form the
Praise
one
landscape
of
that
we
Limestone
the inconstant
ones
Are
consistently
Because
homesick
it dissolves
in water.
for, this is chiefly
Mark
With their surface fragrance

A secret
That
system
spurt
own
The
butterfly
What
private
little
Of short
ravine
of thyme
and conduits;
with
be
more
rounded
slopes
and beneath
hear these
springs
chuckle
pool for its fish and carving
whose
and the lizard;
distances
could
background
caves
out everywhere
Each filling
Its
of
these
cliffs
entertain
examine
and definite
like Mother
this
region
places:
or a
fitter
For her
son,
for the
young
nude
displaying
That
are
but
male
Against
lounges
never
his dildo,
for all his faults
Extensions
weathered
doubting
he is loved,
of his
who
rock
power to
whose
charm?
works
From
outcrop
To hill-top
temple,
from appearing
fountains,
Conspicuous
from
waters
wild to
to
formal
vineyard,
Are ingenious
but short
more
attention
To receive
steps
that
child's
wish
than his brothers,
whether
By pleasing
Watch,
or
teasing,
then, the band
can
easily
of rivals
as
take.
they
climb
up
and down
Their
steep
sometimes
step;
or
stone gennels
Arm in
but
in twos
never,
and threes,
thank
God, in
engaged
On the shady
Voluble
arm,
side
discourse,
of
a square at
knowing
midday
each other
in
too well to
think
There
To
are any
conceive
moral
important
god
whose
secrets,
unable
temper-tantrums
are
And not
Or
good
to be pacified
by
clever
line
a stone
to
lay: for, accustomed
that
responds,
They have
a crater
Of
whose
had to veil their faces
blazing
could not
fury
to the local needs
Adjusted
Where
never
everything
can
awe
in
be fixed;
of valleys
be touched
or
reached
by
walking,
eyes
Their
Through
have
never
looked
the lattice-work
of
space
into infinite
nomad's
comb;
born
lucky,
Their
legs
And insects
have
never
encountered
of the jungle,
the fungi
the monstrous
forms
and lives
With which
common.
in
the
way
mind
For effects
happen
one
of them
like to hope,
goes to
the bad,
works
comprehensible:
Or deal in fake
we
have nothing,
So, when
his
Remains
we
jewelry
or
to become
ruin
fine
that bring down the house
to all But the
best
and
185
pimp
tenor
the worst
voice
could
of
us
...
is why, I suppose,
That
The
never
and worst
best
Immoderate
soils
The light
less
where
public
more
Something
the
stayed
here long but
beauty
was not so
and the meaning
than
mad
of life
camp.
evasive
Your kindest
is
kiss,
your
humor,
wastes,
how
permanent
how
cried
Come!
the granite
How
sought
external,
accidental
is
death.
(Saints-to-be
away
Slipped
clays
and
for armies
Wait
sighing.)
gravels,
On
purred
Come!
our
plains
there
is
the
room
to drill; rivers
to be tamed
and
slaves
to
construct
you a
tomb
In the
grand
and both
manner:
soft
as
the
earth
is
mankind
to
Need
be
altered.
and
the
(Intendant
slamming
Left,
really
were
reckless
By
an
am
the solitude
That
older
is
colder
how
Caesars
the
rose
door.)
But
fetched
voice,
that
I shall
the
oceanic
whisper:
asks and promises
you
set
nothing;
There
free.
is
no
love;
There
are
only
the
various
envies,
all
of
them
sad.
They
were
are;
And still
Where
this land
peace
Nor its
my
right,
dear, all those

is not
the historical
was
something
And dilapidated
the
calm of
settled
province,
were
voices
sweet
home
that
right
it looks,
site
once
and
for all:
connected
backward
To the big busy

Seedy
appeal,
world
is that
by
tunnel,
with
all it is now?
Not
certain
quite:
It
has
It
All
our
worldly
not
does
the
duty
which
neglect,
but
spite
calls
into
question
it
disturbs
assume;
Powers
Great
in
of
itself
rights. The poet,
Admired
The
By
sun
the
his
for
sun,
these
his
earnest
mind
Puzzle,
statues
solid
habit
is made
which
so
calling
of
uneasy
obviously
doubt
His
antimythological
Pursuing
myth;
the scientist
With such lively
Remotest
offers,
aspects:
and these
down
rebuke
I,
gamins,
the tiled colonnade

his
too,
concern
am
for Nature's
reproached,
for
what
And how
much
you
know.
Not
to lose time, not to
get caught,
Not
to be left
not,
behind,
please!
to resemble
187
The beasts
repeat
who
or a
themselves,
thing
like
water
Or stone
our
Are
whose
Common
can
conduct
Prayer,
be predicted,
greatest
whose
these
comfort
is music
can
Which
And does
be made
anywhere,
not smell. In
so
far
is invisible,
as we
have to look
forward
To death
Sins
can
These
The
no
fact,
athletes
solely
blessed
regarded
Having
doubt
if bodies
modifications
Innocent
Made
as a
be forgiven,
we are
of matter
will not
care
make
what
dead,
into
and gesticulating
for pleasure,
right: But if
rise from the
fountains,
angle
further
they
point:
are
from,
nothing
to hide. Dear, I know nothing
of
Either,
come,
what
streams,
Of underground
I try to imagine
but when
Or the life to
faultless
I hear is the
what
see
is
love
murmur
limestone
landscape.
May
66
Song
Deftly,
admiral,
Into the slow
Salt
are
The
glittering
the deeps
White
In
The
on,
your
is
mistake
that
favourite
Outer
The great
Where
engrossed
Stendhal;
Provinces
Unshaven
are
horsemen
wines
you
led,
head.
ambassador,
your
and
cover
you
fleets
your
fly
hover,
old trout
Till the wise
Read
cast
deep
lost,
swill
of the Chateaux
danced
long
ago.
die;
1948
187
Do
not turn, do not lift,

Toward
the
On the bridge
In its glory,
This
your
in its
is
your
Nothing
alter
Can
Or
between
to
Indifferent
your eyes
still pair standing
your
power,
their
their
At the appointed
Wait
claw
hour.
strength,
dispersuade
With
properties,
minding:
skill,
could
do
embrace
the
Furies
who
place
and
for them
your
dreadful
brow
now.
June
1948
67
Walk
cloudless
set
Can
After
The
night
the
tiring
in
like
spirit
soaring;
spectacle
slightly
is
boring
way.
Eighteenth-century
It
soothed
To
meet
adolescence
so
this
day
clockwork
Impressive
Dark
After
shameless
lot
stare;
The
things
as
Be
did
as
shocking
could
not
they
said
If that would still be
the
After
Now, unready
But
to die
one starts to
am
May
The
It's
As
dead.
at the stage
already
When
there
were
shocked
glad
dislike
those
points
also be counted
creatures
cosier
in the
sky
among
of middle-age.
thinking
more an
young,
the
of night
Old Peoples
Home
Than
That
Is
gone
like
Imperial
Yet however
classical
wrote,
authors
young
Have
nerve or
the
and the rich

the figure to strike
rerum note.
The lacrimae
For the present
stalks
abroad
the past and its wronged
Whimper
are
and
chose
Somebody
What
neednt
Occurring
no
this
event
Its first
little
Of the laws
be hid;
their
pain,
have happened
very
established
may
again
ignored,
And the truth cannot
Some
like
in which
Only the
Like
light
Rome
we may
much
manner
The stoic
By
machine,
faultless
at seventeen.
Or myself
The
shed for
the red pre-Cambrian
did.
night
rule,
already
have
hurled
No at the right
we accept to
Our post-diluvian
world:
school
_
the stars
But
burn
Unconscious
what
person,
My
And
these
overhead,
to bed,
As I walk home
Asking
on
of final ends,
judgement
all
my
United
waits
friends,
States.
August
1948
189
68
Memorial
In
City
seif-same
point
the
m ade
City
for the
sensual,
of
God
beginning.
in
the
ordained
that
self-same
to
him
our
point
from
soul
is
is
the
without
Juliana
of Norwich
eyes
The
crow
the
of
open
First
and
the
eye
Homers
Onto
of
the
world,
camera
not
ours.
and last
They
magnify
Mother
It is only
Both
She
The
And
and
in passing:
feel
Does
earth,
of gods
in
crow
the
on
if they
camera
either
men
die,
small
way,
not
care,
does
seriously
the
notice
behave,
own
and
is
abiding
gods
their
nothing
alone
the
men;
She
there.
crematorium
roving
but
the
chimney
battle
a space
Record
where
On the right
The
fire, the
soldiers
The
time
village
mayor
are
captives
has
away,
led
things
happen;
sighs
of the
dead,
cries
of
the
the
lovers
meaningless
ever
and
roar
of
whipped
And
moment
whistling
defile:
into
messenger
One
enjoys
an
the
and
the
hard
eternal
fact
disappears
glory,
shame;
one
He
There
the
into
composes
light
must.
in
far
sinks
ever
for
the
The
bright
on
falls
covers
waterfall
Which
while
tanker
That
Plum-blossom
to the left
market-town
sea.
way
the
into tears,
dedolent
the
place.
in
bursts
distance
is
no
is burning,
is
no
one
to
blame.
with into
endures
may,
she
The
steady
eye
candid
they
eyes
crow
of the
as
See
and
as
honestly
the cameras
they
know
The crime
Among
Post-Virgilian
but
the
is
chaos
of
Our grief
what
we
knowing
our
ahead
bury
there
our
hurt is not
dead
reason
is
for
desertion,
that
pity
nor our
ourselves
Whoever
we
As
Greek:
without
bear, That
we are to
Neither
is not
stretches
to sight,
till it is lost
future
We know
of the
graves
and the barbed-wire
our
Into
in this
ruins
City
our past
Where
now,
of life is not time. Even
night
the searchlights
whatever
We
how,
lie.
are not to
city;
catch,
the loudspeakers
blare,
despair.
II
Alone
in
a room
Pope Gregory
whispered
his
name
While
From
the Emperor
wherever
shone
he happened
on a
centreless
to be; the New
world
City
rose
Upon their
Of
not all; there
Were
Fear
opposition,
rival allegiance;
of the
stranger
yes
the
and
the sword,
was
was
home
lost
on
no
the local lord
and Rome;
the
way to
the
shrine.
The facts, the acts
of the City
bore
double
meaning:
Limbs
jest
The
The
became
hymns;
more permanent
foe in the choleric's
family
of water
children
The infinite
Those
embraces
tie; infidel
patience
born under
expressed
faces
nightmare;
in their postures
parodied
of heaven;
Saturn
felt the gloom of the day
of doom.
Scribes
tribes
To
and innkeepers
prospered;
suspicious
combined
rescue
Jerusalem
And disciplined
from
logicians
dull god,
fought
to
recover
thought
From the eccentricities
For the
Sane
orchards,
City; framed
of the private
deep rivers
brain
in her windows,
ports,
Wild beasts,
in
replaced
and dry rocks
Lay nursed
on
the
smile
of
Madonna.
merciful
191
In
sandy. province
The machine
that
Luther
so
If paid; he announced
No rite could
Henceforth
Her
Her
she
cross;
division
were
to
to the Sinful City
was
bear
The
to
with
the
raging
her
wept
herod
as
and the bad went
obscene
and saved
the Grace:
her
condition;
on
fear;
doubt,
insecure,
poets
tamed,
of
gap
grinning
include
Saints
groundlings
The grand
to be
also
were
endured.
acclaimed
forgave
he abased her before
conclusions
loves
as
denounced
smoothly
the
will;
secular
stage
to ruin in thundering
verse;
Sundered
by
reason
and
treason
the
City
Found
invisible
ground
concord
for
in measured
sound,
While
wood
of
Games
stone
and
man, to
flatter,
romp.
to
question
She
had
Prince's
what
soul
coldness
The
in the
ironic
smile
The
As
to
the
to hear,
that
she
scaffold
and
her
his
became
the
Civility
own
snob
unarmed
to
judge
put
worldly
city
and
grown
way
gentleman
her
pompous,
style,
devout,
rich: in his
shameless
name;
he wished
Between
the restrained
the
off, be
was
Nature
confessed,
no
learned
to show
did
as
children,
his
job
father
to
her
forests.
In
national
Attacked
And history
The
aim
capital
mystery;
marched
of
the
Mirabeau
the packed
galleries
to the drums
Rational
set
and his
City.
of
quick
roared
clear
idea,
to
admire.
to
Quick
him
tire
she
up
used
Napoleon
and
threw
away;
Her
pallid
Began
The
quest
were
deserts
heroes
affected
their hectic
for
man.
the prelapsarian
dangerous.
waters
the
rough,
their clothes
Absurd
Sleeping
but, changing
spots
Upon lawless
By
the
fear
They
or
by
Guided
natural
their Beatrices
little, they pushed
invaded
on,
denied
the
raised
or
pride
hated
and
often,
the
flag of the
Word
forgotten
of
the
Glittering
parental
harrowed
City;
shades,
the
hell
of
self.
Chimeras
mauled
them,
they
wasted
away
the spleen,
Suicide
picked
them off, sunk
off Cape
with
her
Lost
Consumption,
on
the Gibbering
Or trapped
Pole, They
on
the Tosspot
wrecked
Seas,
Isles
at the Soul's
in the ice of despair
died, unfinished,
alone;
but
now
the
forbidden,
The hidden,
were
the wild outside
Faithful without
faith, they
known:
died for the
Conscious
City.
III
Across
Between
the
square,
the burnt-out
Past
Headquarters,
Law Courts
the Cathedral
and Police
far too damaged
to repair,
Around
the Grand
Hotel patched
up to
hold
reporters,
Near huts of
The barbed
some
wire
Emergency
runs
Committee,
through
the abolished
City.
Across
Between
friends.
nor
the plains,
two hills, two villages,

The barbed
explains
wire
But where
runs
it likes
two trees,
which
two
neither
argues
place,
path,
railroad
ends,
The humor,
the cuisine,
the rites, the taste,
The pattern
of the City,
are
our
Across
sleep
runs:
The barbed wire
also
And white
sail without
weep,
ships
It makes
"
erased.
our sorry
It trips
us
us so we
though
fig-leaf
fall
the others
at the Sneerers
Ball,
It ties the smiler
It keeps
on
Behind
Which
No
or
the mirror,
dreaming:
It has
our
no
In
can
any
be counted.
place,
at
multiplied,
any
time
193
Is It
our
friend?
Image
image
age, no sex, no memory, no
It
bed,
from the witch's
head.
the wire
is behind
Awake
to the double
growing
creed,
is the
no name,
employed
destroyed.
same
to admire,
No; that is
That
This
our
hope; that
for It the wire
is
the
flesh
The
flesh
This
is
we are
we
die
but
and It does
are not
never
but
Adam
Let Our Weakness
we weep
and the ruins
would
it
believe,
is
waiting
not grieve,
the end:
to
death
His
for
pity;
City.
speak
IV
Without
It
me
Adam would
have fallen irrevocably
with Lucifer;
wa s
he would
Iwho
never
suggested
his
have been able to

theft
cost Adonis
I heard
as
moved
I was
as
they
Iwas
Orpheus
in Hectors
O felix culpa.
my
his
frailty
life.
sing; I was
not quite
say.
not taken in by the sheeps-eyes
angry
cry
to Prometheus;
with Psyche
confidence;
when
so
far
of Narcissus;
she
as
struck
it went.
light.
was
Had
he
when Diotima
To
me
the
cross;
the
spoke
Tristan
the
be
have
His
St. Anthony.
at
third
Word
Fifth
to
the
the
from
stoics.
meetings
of
with
Isolda;
tried to poison
they
on
his
understanding
the just
impediment
Helen;
With
tempted
stumbling-block
unwelcome
I rode with Galahad
I was
never
of Orestes.
I was not responsible
of love;
which
permitted
Saviour
to
was
trial
for the monsters
the
Corinth;
fell asleep
would
Oedipus
no vote at
I cast
left
me
to
listened
I know
Hamlet
Quest
me.
for the San Graal;
I kept his
to the marriage
I had
ghost
no
all
was
list; for which
could
never
with
one.
patience;
Don Giovanni's
of Faustus
when I see
for his admission

Quixote
without
vow.
but I forgave
Don
in the cart.
the
missing
he
account.
entry
in
I assisted
when
Figaro
the
Barber
in
all his
intrigues;
Prince
Tamino
at
arrived
wisdom
too
reward.
obtained
my
I was
sin of the Ancient

time
Mariner;
I warned
time
innocent
of
the
after
Captain
Ahab
to
accept
happiness.
195
As for Metropolis,
delusions
that
too-great
city;
her
are not
mine.
Her speeches
impress
me
little, her statistics
less;
to all who
dwell
on
the public
side
of her mirrors
resentments
and
At the place
of
no peace.
my
passion
her photographers
are
gathered
together;
but I shall rise again to hear
her judged.
June
69
Under
Yes,
are
these
the
The heather
dog-days,
lies limp
On the mountain,
to
Shrunk
Rusty
spears
the
Sirius
Fortunatus:
and dead
the baltering
soodling
torrent
thread;
of the legion,
unshaven
its
captain,
Vacant
the scholar's
his great
Under
as
Drug
she
A gush
And
you
may
brain
hat,
the Sibyl utters
of table-chat.
yourself
with
head-cold
and upset
stomach,
Lying
Your
Epic
Are
in bed
bills
till
unpaid,
noon,
your
much advertised
not yet begun,
sufferer
too. All day,
you
tell
us, you
wish
1949
Some
earthquake
would
astonish
Or the wind of the Comforters

Unlock
the prisons
The slipshod
And last night,
wing
and translate
gathering.
you say, you
dreamed
of that
bright
blue morning
195
The hawthorn
serene
When,
hedges
in bloom,
in their ivory
through
Sossing
By
how
jocular
Indulge
It
is
waters, piloted in
sea-horse
Ah!
How
seamless
natural
vessels,
come,
The three wise Maries
and
the bells
the
to
as
roar,
They
peccant
hope
dolphin:
fluent
cannons
the
and
shore.
pious,
believe
That all in the end shall be well,

But first of all, remember,
of
course,
to
So the Sacred
The
rotten
fruit
Books
shall
foretell,
be
shaken.
your
Would
hope
sense
make
it
Before
When
and
the
eagre
sleeping
look
and
silence
of
drown
insurrected
you
will
moment
that
break
the
Over
How
were
today
If
hangs
town?
what
will
you
do when the
basalt
Tombs
And
their
guardian
after
Come
How
will
sorcerers
the
of
you
you answer
shatter
megalopods
pitter-patter?
when
from
their
qualming
spring
The
immortal
And out
The
of the
pantocratic
nymphs
open
fly
shrieking
sky
riddle
breaks
Who
are
For when in
you
and
carol under
The reborn featly

There
Be
Now
will also,
those
why?
the apple-trees
dance,
Fortunatus,
who
pottering
refused
shades,
their
chance,
querulous
beside
the
salt-pits,
And
To
Between
And
mawkish
whom
event
golden
in
their
these
dull
seem
with
1949
196
wits,
dog-days
crowned
with
self-praise.
olive
70
Fleet
Visit
come
The sailors
Out
Mild-looking
Who
ashore
of their hollow
read
ships,
middle-class
the
comic
game
One baseball
boys
strips;
is
more
To them than fifty Troys.
They look
bit lost, set down
In this unamerican
Where
And
They
natives
place
pass
of their
futures
are not
here
with laws
own;
because
But only just-in-case.
The whore
Who pester
and neer-do-well
them with junk
In their grubby
ways at
least
Are serving
They
the Social
neither
Of the
From
on
ships
harbor
having
Without
will
to kill
are
humane
' And, far from looking
To be
By
as
if they
pure
abstract
worth
Of the millions
lost,
were meant
some master
Certainly
blue
gain
to do;
nothing
human
structures
Look
sell
the dazzling
actually
To tell them whom

Their
Beast;
nor
they get drunk.
No wonder
But the
make
design
of pattern
and
line,
every cent
they
must have
cost.
1951
197
71
The
over
She looked
on
But there
His hands
An artificial
plain
No
upon
cities,
untamed
the shining
had put
seas,
metal
instead
wilderness
sky like lead.
without
blade
Nothing
shoulder
well-governed
And ships
And
his
and olive trees,
For vines
Marble
of Achilles
Shield
of
to
feature,
grass,
eat
Yet, congregated
and
no
bare
sign
nowhere
on
of
and
brown,
neighborhood,
to
its blankness,
sit
down,
stood
An unintelligible
eyes,
million
Without
Out
No
by
as
In tones
They
voice
cheered
by
as
brought
line,
sign.
face
cause
was
in
was
enduring
them.
discussed;
cloud
of
somewhere
dust
belief
else,
grief.
She looked
over
his shoulder
For ritual pieties,

White
flower-garlanded
Libation
But
and
there
Where
the
on
heifers,
sacrifice,
the
altar
just
the place:
and nothing
away
in
for
some
that
column
logic
boots
waiting
without
statistics
marched
Whose
million
dry and level
one was
Column
expression,
of the air
Proved
multitude,
shining
metal
should
have
been,
to
saw
She
by
flickering
forge-light
scene.
another
Quite
his
198
Barbed
wire
Where
enclosed
bored
joke) And sentries

A
crowd
Watched
spoke
sweated,
of ordinary
posts
To three
mass
That
same,
and majesty
carries
Lay
What
shame
foes
She looked
nor
moved
led forth and
upright
of others;
in the ground.
weighs
they
for help and
to do
liked
as men
over
neither
and always
Was all the worst

And died
hot:
of this world, all
weight
in the hands
their
was
folk
were
driven
And could not hope
pride
and
(one cracked
for the day
decent
from without
spot
arbitrary
lounged
As three pale figures
bound
The
an
officials
help
done,
small
came:
their
could wish; they lost their
before
his
was
no
the
were
their bodies
shoulder
died.
women
Moving
dance
their sweet
limbs
quick,
Quick,
But
A ragged
up to
That
Were
are
and alone,
that
Of
any
world
where
one
could
weep
promises
because
thin-lipped
Hephaestos,
of the
Cried
bird
never
were
another
heard
kept
wept.
armorer,
hobbled
shining
out in dismay
199
stone:
two boys knife
to him, who'd
Or
Thetis
field.
from his well-aimed
raped,
axioms
shield
dancing-floor
vacancy; a
that
safety
The
no
aimless
about
girls
the shining
set
weed-choked
urchin,
Loitered
Flew
had
in
to music,
on
But there
His hands
games,
at their
For athletes
Men and
away;
breasts
third,
At what
the
god had
To please
Iron-hearted
wrought
son,
her
strong
the
man-slaying
Who would
Achilles
not live long.

1952
72
The
Willow-Wren
and
the
A starling
On
Saw
and
them
lively
As they
My white
meet
by
and
my
of
than these
leap
My sweetest
willow-wren,
may-tree
Dearest
More
Stare
weir,
heard
dear,
waters
chortling
the dam,
duck,
my
lascivious
precious
lamb.
goose,
him
say:
With
smile
What
does
Much
These
he
too
Forgive
brats
so,
For
Dear
fall
she
so
be
and
of
me,
fear,
closed
mine,
of
it,
her
eyes,
there:
what
said
may,
sign.
he
says?
willow-wren
Some
in
clown,
are
short
still
she
lay
mean
he
dwell
these,
grave
the
smile
Silent
Does
us, even
between
they
willow-wren;
stare.
sonneteer,
heart,
With
who
bottom-pinching
till
all
the
greed
of
the
said
loves
The snivelling
Who
said
want?
much,
these
The honking
That
to him,
she listened
to her there:
Talking
the
stare.
said
the
200
Hark!
Wild
And,
Now
as
our
Must
Robin
awe
And let their
silently
arms
that
Waking
heard
upon
Of that
For
the
willow-wren;
well, said the
arms
stare.
he cried.
content:
Promoted
Stood
said
that?
as
she threw
about him there:
in her
Utterly
I have
selfishness,
to the fire.
Unfunny
Its
partners,
with desire,
Go in their holy
Is it only
spirits
retire
kinder
Speechless
Her
his horn
require,
laughter-loving
in
Smiling,
winds
his notes
the high good
for
an
noises,
instant,
the shining
outskirts'
Joy I thank
you, my
dog and
every
goody.
There
She
on
the
laughed,
Then
grass
bank
he laughed,
they
laughed
together,
they ate and drank:
Did he know
what
he meant?
said
the
willow-wren;
God only
knows,
said the stare.
1953
73
Nocturne
Make
Moon,
this night
and with
Looking
Bless
down
me,
One
And friends
loveable,
eye
from
single
up
there,
especial
everywhere.
201
With
cloudless
our
Surround
brightness
absences;
our
Innocent
be
Watched
by great
sleeps,
still
White hills, glittering
Parted
Grant
by circumstance,
each
your
indulgence
we may meet
That
spaces,
deeps.
in dreams
For talk, for dalliance,

By
warm
Shine
In
any,
lest tonight
the
dark
Wake
alone
To
by cool streams.
hearths,
hear
Wishing
suddenly,
in
his
own
his
love
October
bed
fury
were
1953
dead.
74
Bucolics
(F O R
Winds
A LEX I
S
Deep
our
below
still,
Quite
lie
many
And
But
the
Round
LEG ER)
our
little
boneless
law-court
violences,
First
winds
and temple
Recall to Metropolis
That
Pliocene
Friday
Dad,
his
watch
maids,
when,
that
blow
At His holy
(Had
an
Or
insufflation
He picked
our
Would
teleost
to inspire,
arthropod
death
also
"I
am
loved,
come?)
said
I am:
therefore
now
And well by
have
creature
One bubble-brained
might
the lion
Be lying down with the kid,

Had he stuck
Winds
Nasty
Show
our
about
Iseek
what
Down what
Must
joy in observing:
an
image
City
brigs
gloomy
of dread,
galleries,
we stagger or
we may
weather
are
and the nice
Authentic
(Across
Before
weather;
people
a common
When
For
make
nasty
Is what
to that logic.
cryO
crawl
look!?),
I see old
Tapping
Or
men
their
lawn
The first
in hallways
barometers.
over
which,
thing after breakfast,
A paterfamilias
Hurries
Goddess
to inspect
of winds
and wisdom,
on some
windless
When,
Of dejection,
To
Your
day
unable
name or to structure,
poet
with bodily
Scratching,
Tugging
tapping
the lobe
Unconsciously
Show
his rain-gauge.
Your good
Rooster
or
of
an ear,
invokes
nature,
whistling
203
tics,
his teeth,
You,
allow
maid
To fetch him Arthur
OBower;
Then, if moon-faced
That
erudite
Through
Set
the
seven
Your poplars
To
warn
Your
Nonsense,
stalk
forger,
kingdoms,
a-shiver
clerk
lest
Die
he
an
like
spurious
And in all winds,
Which
of
Believer
Old
some
For
reading:
no matter
Your
twelve
he
may
hear,
Equinox
gales
Howling
Or
Of
at midnight
through
pines
Let
on
cloudless
in
Afternoon
That
marram grass,
faint susurration
him
every
feel
midsummer,
You
verbal
present,
rite
May be fittingly
And done
Of what
Yet
is excellent
creature,
visible
Earth,
done,
in anamnesis
Sky,
few
dear
names.
1953
September
II
Woods
(F OR
Sylvan
Piero
meant
savage
di Cosima
Where
women's
NI
C O LA S
so
nudes,
in those
NA B O K O V )
primal
woods
loved to draw,
bears,
sows
lions,
with
heads
Mounted
and
murdered
and
ate
each
other
raw,
Nor
thought
the
lightning-kindled
bush
to
tame
But,
flabbergasted,
Reduced
to
patches
fled
the
owned
useful
by
flame.
hunting
squires
Of
villages
with
ovens
and
stocks,
They
whispered
still
most
of
unsocial
fires,
204
Though
and Mitre
Crown
warned
The pasture's
humdrum
rhythms
And to abhor
the license
of the
Guilty
intention
That wants
no
still looks
details
And
many a
Has blamed
And,
birds, of
as
course,
for sylvan
A snapshot
at
By those
And
scared
well,
happy
of the sort.
did nothing
you
O how
the deed
greed.
take
short
the Gang will look
vast lives that
are not
who round
of
nature, if
picnic,
And lower-ordersy
none;
as
undone,
its nightingales
Sang with such sweetness
Those
in charm
semi-innocent,
flocks
hotel
and surrenders
A wood is that, and throws
silly
approve
grove.
a
for
their
to
never
of gods,
took
ghosts,
another
or
stepmother.
Among
The
Bridle
And
these
As Pan's
A burst
coast)
eye.
mock
now
its private
late
Hears,
Exactly
there,
or a
man,
close
as
it
or
all they
some
dying
and doves
far, the
of two.
loosened
leaf,
through
oldest
element,
his latter grief,
of his joys,
the water noise.
205
create
do
idiom for descent,
listening
was,
made.
Morse,
their modern family
here,
was
raps out
suddenly
in Welsh,
over
English
A fruit in vigor
Utters
father
of shade
an ear grown coarse.
re-educate
green
philologist
of his field
of undecipherable
In rustic
rear
world
the matter
And cuckoos
And
very
but in the
Old sounds
Now
on a
an austere
should
From which
To
(it cannot
its skirt-and-bargain-chasing
where
Relax
of its by-and-by
coffins
can
Public
A well-kempt
Is laying
bets
Retaining
upon
enough
The trees
Reveal
begs
forest
is not disgusted,
Someone
or at
the human
least
race
to last;
decency
on a country
encountered
lot about
that country's
A small
grace;
Our Ladys
grove
stroll
soul.
to the last
massacred
ash,
An
oak
with
heart-rot,
give
away
the show:
This
great
they
society
cannot
They
is going
us
with
smash;
how
fast
cost each other
and
fool
go,
How
much
they
the gods!
culture
is
no
better
woods.
August
III
Mountains
1952
than
its
(FO R
I know
HEDW I
G
retired
dentist
PET Z O LD)
who
only
paints
mountains,
'
But
That
holy
much,
Masters
who
care
seldom
sketch
them
in beyond
face
Or
While
Between
highly
dangerous
normal
worse
Who
side
the
eye
and better,
wishes
chair;
perceives
he
as a
them
like
were
child,
wall
scolded
crying
on
in France,
the
Italian
of the Alps
Caesar
does
not rejoice
when
high
ground
Makes
Nor
serious
does
a
Madam.
darker
Why
map,
should
being
Cries
out
for
gap.
they?
And
it
is
curious
how
steep
in
often
places
You
type
someone
meet
you
catch
short
who
beheading
frowns,
daisies
with
stick:
Small crooks
But
Are bred
flourish
in big towns,
monstersremember
perfect
on crags
in castles;
those
Dracula
unsmiling
parties,
206
Clumping
off at dawn in the
For points
They
And habit
Does
up, are a
have
gear
Spiritual,
their Order
mystery
bit alarming;
nerve
the balance,
of the
of their
but what
serve?
God
man
A civil
see
To
Another
is
in the
bourgeois
Well, Iwont.
I wish I stood
or any
Zurich,
express
For
cutting?
Soon
Tunnels
then,
invention
How
can
now on a
like the piano?
I, when
platform
at Penrith,
at which
you
local that
swerves
off
begin,
red farms
leave
soon
the
into
out to be
disappear,
turn to walls,
become
Cows
Am I
District,
junction
Hedges
pinewood,
citizen.
Lake
you
you
sheep,
smell peat
or
hear
Your first waterfalls,
And what looked
like
wall turns
world
With measurements
And
style
When
Stand
plain
angels
over
They
encourage
of gossip.
own
manage
the Flesh,
of ice and stone
her day
detest
of its
To
and night
any
Euphemisms
who make
kind of growth,
for the effort:
does
here
it
so
not
wayside
crucifixes
Bear
witness
to
Stick
my
to bare fact :"0

Ive
hole in
Dour. Still,
my
fine refuge.
fled with bronze
And that
With
cheap
papers
Three
quiet
girl has
goitre,
shoe!
That boy behind
Has the round skull of

That
outrage,
physical
too
And serenades
before
his goats
clan
tougher
metal.
old gentleman
room at
the Black
Eagle
but is not received
used
in Society
to
own
now:
207
These
farms
can
always
see a
panting
government
coming;
I'm nordic
I'd much
Where
the
myself,
but
rather
stay
nearest
person
hung is
Some
ridges
away.
even so
who
could
have
me
To be sitting in privacy,
On the
Where
warm
roof
like
of
the high-spirited
a cat
loft,
son
of
some
gloomy
tarn
Comes
Bright
real darling
keep
Like
splodges
sprinting
down through
me
poem,
Chinese
Is cooking
happy
What?
croft,
while,
delicious
near
lunch,
enough,
would
for
Five minutes?
who
Creature
Is awfully
For
an
uncatlike
gone wrong,
has
on even
Five minutes
a green
laid out in exquisite
with flowers
the nicest
mountain
long.
? July 1952
IV
(FO R
I
SA I
AH
A lake allows
any
Back
BERLI
N)
an average
To circumvent
And
Lakes
healthy
it in
an
mother
to her bedtime
father, walking
slowly,
afternoon,
to halloo
from their
the
children
games across:
(Anything
bigger
Though
Lake-folk
than that, like Michigan
potable,
require
is
no
an
"estranging
or
Baikal,
sea).
fiend to keep them
on
their
toes;
They
Who
leave
to ill-bred
aggression
A month
in
lacustrine
romantics
over
duel with their shadows
blasted
heaths:
atmosphere
Would find the fluvial rivals waltzing
not
exchanging
The
rhyming
insults
of their
great-great-uncles.
208
No wonder
jails,
did not
Christendom
Till, scarred
by torture,
Her pensive
chiefs
white
get really
from
converged
started
caves
on
and
the Ascanian
Lake
And by that
stork-infested
life of Godhead,
Of three
Sly Foreign
small
making
fishes
Ministers
shore
catholic
in
invented
The
the figure
triangle.
should
always
meet beside
one,
For, whether
path will yoke
a very
About
Could
in
for their
as
deasil,
they
plod;
Poseidon's
man,
conceited
in mid-Atlantic,
was meant
frown
for him
person,
But it is only human
The little lady
The drinking
At nothing
May
come
to believe
of the glacier lake has fallen
In love with the
rare
bather
whom
water of the city where

noticing
how
real
from reservoirs
one
whose
she
one
drowns.
panics
is
are
guards
too conscious
Of being
Saw
in
followed:
fish-pool
Websters
something
cardinal
horrid
with
hay-rake;
I know
A haunted
Sussex
hammer-pond
lake is sick, though;
Its
liquid centre
armies, but it helps.
or
wicked
one
may not guarantee
to sink somewhere
think
to
pumping
compassion
A marriage
or
widdershins
shoulders
two old donkeys
Like
Such physical
Only
they walk
their
like that.
normally,
they
all
doctor
Our tactile
Where
with
fevers
are
beaks
dumb
visual
world
like boughs
and faces
safe
like houses
The water-scorpion
And, if it shudder
It
never
Liking
as
Nature,
with
One Fall,
for water
asks
one's
Goes
one
finds it quite
slightly
when
or a
savage
dispossession,
do, benign
dogs
and man-traps:
is enough,
209
Why
should
Just because
The genius
It is unlikely
Or build
But thats
I give
every
of
some
I shall
Eden to the Nation
Lake
mortal
Jack
amniotic
ever
keep
a tower on any
and Jill has been

mere?
a swan
small tombolo,
not going to stop
Of lake I would decide
me
on
wondering
if I should.
by boats,
loan.
lake-lovers
wish for
unticklish,
caressed
what
sort
I'm
sorry;
Moraine,
pot, oxbow,
Just
off
reeling
glint, sink, crater, piedmont,
names
their
is
ever so
dimple
? September
V
(FO R
on
Old saints
millstones
no
female
Whereon
Threaten
Beyond
Close
pelvis
with cats
can
the long
to
Pirates
in
Observe
Obsession
float
agape.
their
1952
S A C C HET T I
)
sea,
out at
Islands
GI
O C O NDO
To islands
...
comfy.
with
arm
of the Law,
shipping
their
the
road,
island
pirate
security
lairs
code.
In
prevails;
Sovereigns
His Highness
Pick
and The People
islands
where
Once,
Do
detected
penitential
had
jails.
worldlings
jobs,
Exterminated
Who
both
their
for
species
not
read
played
their
211
His continental
Laid
on an
Napoleon
To talk
How
damage
island
has five
about
fascinating
Whose
Sappho,
Hold
only
years more
himself.
is that
member
Tiberius
done,
shelf,
class
is Me!
and I
forth beside
the
sea.
What is cosier than the shore
Hobbes.
now
Of
How
lake turned
do all these
In democratic
nudity
sexes
Their
age or
lie; except
To
go,
Farmer
you
weight
The keeping
They
out?
to be about?
Dare
By
inside
other people
she
could
not tell
from the kept.
goes,
mainland
thou goest,
I go
livelihood:
and fisherman
complain
The other has it good.?
1953
August
VI
(F O R
W ENDELL
I can imagine
In
drinks
Disreputable
A second
Reams
J O HNS O N)
quite easily
decaying
Cadging
Plains
port
from the
old
man;
childhood
of edifying
in
up
ending
on a
desolate
unwary, a
coast,
quarrelsome,
I can picture
valley,
scribbling
and unreadable
verse;
But I
see a
cannot
O
plain
please,
God,
without
please,
shudder:
ever
dont
me
make
live
there
211
It's horrible
to think
That pecking
Tall
pomps
Dreaming
That what
what
come
peaks
rain and squelching
of stone where
goddesses
of being woken
those
by
blind brutes
some
leave
down
glacier
lay sleeping,
chisel's
when
through
a mere
But
The potter's
Will
substance,
cuff,
of growing
kiss,
are
they
is nothing
clay that meekly
takes
as concrete
gravel that
unsex any space
And think
to,
defeat
which it encloses.
where
are
all elsewheres
equal!
So long
dreamer
as
theres
Can place
hill-ridge
somewhere
his land of marvels;
in
the
poor
valleys
Orphans
can
head
downstream
to seek
million:
Here
nothing
Science
points;
to choose
between
Art
and
An embryo
What
could
genius
have to spin
would
do if set loose
these farms
stick.
but drift
like clouds?
goal of unrest
What
Not in this weather.
Romance?
Who
hearts
leads
the quadrilles
can
who
Would,
is there but the Navy?
call their
madcap
sunstroke:
These
that
Yes
he is,
are
lives
charmer
Ovid's
in Arcady,
boy-lord
and No their
soon
die of cold
in firmer
hands;
Of
own,
or
that
old
grim She
Who makes
genera
the blind dates
Creates
their country
for the hatless
matters.
(Woe
to the
child-bed,
Woe
And
on
Than
to the strawberries
these
any
tax-collector
If,
now
follows,
How swift
drink.
greedy
Caesar
disappear
and then,
No thunder
Crown.
attend,
climate,
in Her moods!)
if Shes
as
fowl and harsher
with all his They.
If
in the hills,
keeper
is shot
but where
to the point
in the forest,
roads
of protest
It hangs, it flogs, it fines, it
run
level,
strides
goes.
the
There
is
There
are
to beat. But Zeus is with the
wives
strong,
212
Born
as
Quite
rule
cannon
Whence
some
in
where
often,
small
a smart
put
would
place
(an
can spot
lad
the
island,
the bluff
at
harbor
his
mercy),
Though
it
is
here
they
chamber
with
At
Clio.
this brook
The
cross-bow
Christian
stopped
the
Heathen
scimitar;
Here
His
is
right
windmill
wing
an
whence
crumple;
across
emperor
these
saw
cabbage
fields
A
pretender's
Light
Horse
made
their
final
charge.
If I were
plainsman
From the mechanic
the fastidious
Who steals
palate,
my
I should
rioting
hate
for
us
all,
cheap
hate the painter
wrinkles
for his Twelve
loaf
To
Apostles,
Hate
the priest
even
make
behind
my
cannot
who
it
shower.
What
could
harrow
Marbles
in panic,
As it is, though,
as a
Only
Across
tried
no
I know
lost
my way
run,
to
an
abominable
Like
Tarquin
screaming,
made
to care?
them personally
common to two
by spiders
knowing
help; On them,
And stood without

Of
of rivers
and Don't-Care
them, spotted
I have
I trudged
images
landscape
and
as
at
I smile
But bloodshot
there
in brilliant
shadow
nightmares:
from afar,
was no
hiding
moonlight,
I have
at the dead centre
desolation,
ravished
by his post-coital
sadness.
Which
Not
Who
goes to
show
of plains,
of
Ive
reason to
course,
wouldnt?to
but of
shoot
be frightened
me.
I should
beautifully
like
and be
obeyed
(I should
also like to
I wish I weren't
To think
these
To be reminded
so
own a cave
silly. Though
flats poetic,
that nothing
its
with two exits);
I can't
as
pretend
well at times
is lovely,
even
Not
in poetry,
which
is not the
case.
? July 1953
213
VII
[F O R
Dear water,
you
As
Streams
ELI
Z A BET H
clear water, playful
dash
or
DREW )
in all
loiter through
your streams,
life who
does
not
love
To sit beside
you, to
Pure being, perfect
Air is boastful
hear
in music
you
and
see you,
and movement?
at times, earth slovenly,
fire
rude,
But
you
in
your
bearing
are
always
immaculate,
The most
Servants
Nobody
Use
the
suspects
same
well-spoken
in the household
you
vocables
of mocking
you were
of all the older
of Mrs. Nature.
him, for
you
using the day
still
Before
Downed
that unexpected
every
hod
on
And still talk to yourself:

Arching
your torso, you
Canter
Through
across
in all sections,
Idolaters
of
By
The
our
tales
single
and diets
we
How
could
keep
Coming
love
basalt
disliked;
sill,
pilgrim,
but for whom
as
excluding
absent
distance,
we
should
be
apart
one
or
alien
strata.
of all other
the
from
chalk, slog forward
rock, kept
landscapes,
Babel,
are you
nowhere
the aboriginal
At home
which
dive from
white
red marls,
row
half-finished
if
you
quite
did not
directly
assist,
As when past
The willow
And Homo
Fun of
our
Iseult's
pash-notes
Ludens,
feuds
Transferring
To Muppim
tower
you
of wanted
surely, is
by opposing
your
floated.
Tristram?
child, who make
identical
banks,
the loam from Huppim
and back
214
each time
you
crankle.
cannot
Growth
brooks
your song: as
add to
you
Already
Descending
Into Assam,
his titanic
staircase
to Himalayan
bears
even man can
roses
Coarsens
spoil
and dogs
you:
you
To toil at
Leaping
turbine,
in gardens
Tells of
a sort
To which,
Gaston
Where,
from this
and there
other,
polis like that
everywhere,
came
within earshot.
in that dale of all Yorkshire's
Jumps
Sprawled
the loveliest,
helter-skelter,
into Swale with
out
on grass,
it is,
his allegiance
siege-guns
off its fell-side
sluice
one
of scholars
Paris pledged
As Bismarck's
Lately,
of world, quite
name
you
raging at what
and passports,
in the
herd
for his amusement,
heart
different
With its envies
keep
he
through
your outcry, water,
still is
Even, to his soiled
Altogether
or
thunder.
company
his
but. should
you
Innocent
as
son,
Brahmas
And not
unchristened
to ants what,
whisper
boyish
I dozed
Kisdon
Beck
shouting,
for
second,.
And found
In
myself
with thrushes
Of all the players
The best
While,
on
a croquet
following
calm enclosure
tournament
popular:
in that cool valley
with the mallet
was my
darling.
men
the wolds
that begirdled
it, wild old
Hunted with spades
and hammers,
monomaniac
each,
For
or a
megalith
And bird-watchers
fossil,
stalked
the
mossy
beech-woods.
Suddenly,
over
For, 1o, through
the lawn
we
trees in
the
started
a cream
to
run
and golden
coach
Drawn
by two baby locomotives,
The god of mortal
doting
215
approached
us,
Flanked
by his bodyguard,
Who laugh
thanked
us
promised
He
And
With
a wave
So round
in
of his
ring
When I awoke.
Day because
And
those
at thunderstorms
dearer,
of
water,
Gladthough
armigers
weep at a
our
for
and
torch
he
we
flew,
But
my
hairy
and
than
passion
my
dear
knows
Figures
I thought,
of splendor,
undying.
on my
seemed
dance;
right,
that
and enlightened,
the
voice,
whyto
the human
Wishing,
homage,
of
commanded
ever your
goodness
green
sky:
cheers
fortunate
dream
in
blue
if
run
with
race,
least
their holy
as
of
places.
7 July
1953
men
their
75
Horae
Canonicae
"Im molatus
vicerit"
Prime
as
Simultaneously,
Spontaneously,
As, at the vaunt

Gates
To
of the
its world
soundlessly,
suddenly
of the
body
dawn,
fly
beyond,
the kind
open
the
gates
The horn gate and the ivory
Swing
of the
gate,
to, swing shut, instantaneously
Quell the nocturnal
216
rummage
mind,
Of its rebellious
Ill-natured
fronde,
and second-rate,
widowed
Disenfranchised.
By
an
historical
Recalled
From
to be
a name or
my
Between
As, in complete
To the light's
As
Out
sheet,
there
This
The
seeing
display.
I wake
wholly
day.
in the right.
obedience
outcry, next
near as a
wall,
mountain's
is present,
poise
of stone,
about,
that I am, here, not alone
And Iknow
But with
on
and the
laconic
as a
The world
Unvexed,
to be
history
body
this moment,
Holy
and orphaned
mistake:
from the shades
absence
Without
ill-favored,
world, and
for the
adjacent
rejoice
will has
still to claim
arm as my own,
memory to name me, resume
Its routine
of praise
and blame,
being.
And smiling
to
Still the day
The Adam
me
is this instant
is intact,
sinless
in
our
Adam still previous
I draw
breath;
No matter
Lost
eager
as
No honest
and myself
owing
the steady
death:
sea,
village
in its bunny,
fresh
and
sunny
still,
to hand, this ready
equalbut
My assassin
217
wish
to die and the cost,
of the fishing
Still asleep
But things
course to
that is of
ridge,
The flat roofs
Though
any act.
how, is Paradise
course
of
The
beginning,
to
what, to be wise,
To be different,
No matter
while
and I
my
are not
flesh
accomplice
to be, and
my name
now,
friends
for
Stands
For
Afraid
my
historical
lying self-made
our
of
Which
living
share
of
care
city,
task, the dying
the coming
day will ask.

1949
II
Terce
paws
shaking
After
(Whose
bark would
tell the
with
world
his
that
dog
he is always
kind),
The hangman
He
not
does
To
Gently
do
With
the
closing
(Today
the
she
sigh the judge
on
descends
of
of
of
rules
her
provided
with:
bedroom
headaches),
stair;
the stars:
his eclogue,
the heath;
Justice
wifes
breather
starting
be
sentence
earth the Law that
before
his
his marble
by what
will
works
one
has
And the poet, taking

Round his garden
who
door
over
briskly
off
yet
high
He does not know

He will apply
sets
know
Does
not know whose
of hearth
Sprites
Truth
and store-room,
can
annihilate
bothered
with this
Who
Cannot
be
to
Each
me
Let
Without
Being
Let
me
Let
image
get
like
of
in
an ass
me
moment:
we are
each
image
of
this
us
of
himself:
coming
from
left,
day
superior,
a repartee,
in front
of the girls;
exciting
lucky
hear
now
cult,
his
Ones
city,
down
something
find
the Big
through
dressing
worsted
Or behaving
Let
secret
his
an
to
Prays
godlings
mysteries,
professional
Of
he will tell.
coin
new
on
happen,
funny
sidewalk,
story.
218
At
It
is
this
our
only
Who
hour
Then
victim
knows
can never
We
are
why
That
the
we
he
here,
might
is
anyone:
be
without
(that
is
knows
the
why
already
is
wish,
what
answers,
there
even
that, in fact,
our
heard,
one
not
machinery
Without
There
who
If
Knows
prayers are
all
already
forgive.
dust?),
That
we
will be
no
of
of
hitch,
us
our
will
world
that
squabbling
will
today,
on
up,
slip
Mount
function
for
once,
Olympus,
No
no
But
other
We
mutters
Chthonian
miracle,
shall
knows
have
had
unrest,
of
that
by
good
sundown
Friday.
October
III
Sext
1
You need
not
see
what
someone
is doing
to know if it is his vocation,
you
have
making
only
cook mixing
clerk
wear
primary
the
same rapt
it is,
bill of lading,
expression,
themselves
beautiful
eyes:
incision,
completing
forgetting
How
to watch his
a sauce, a surgeon
in
function.
1953
that eye-on-the-object
To ignore
to desert
the
look.
appetitive
goddesses,
the formidable
shrines
219
of Rhea, Aphrodite,
to
pray
instead
Demeter,
St. Barbara,
San Saturnino,
or
one's
whoever
that
one may
what
There
patron
be worthy
heroes
to the first flaker
the first
Where
mystery,
his
there
dinner,
of sea-shells
celibate.
should
we
should
who took it first,
of flints
collector
to remain
of their
be monuments,
to the nameless
who forgot
is,
step to have taken.
prodigious
should
Diana,
to St. Phocas,
be but for them?
Feral still, un-housetrained,
still
be odes,
wandering
through
a consonant
slaves
of Dame
all notion
city
noon,
and, at this
there would
without
Kind, lacking
of
forests
our names,
to
this
for
death,
no agents.
be
not hear
You need
to know
you
have
when
if
what
someone
only
has
general
bacteriologist
realizes
sees
by his troops,
in
what
flash
with his hypothesis,
from
he is giving
to watch his mouth:
besieging
city wallbreached
when
orders
authority,
glance
was wrong
when,
at the jury, the prosecutor
knows the defendant
willhang,
their lips and the lines around

relax, assuming
an
expression,
them
not of simple pleasure
own sweet way
their
at being right,
of Fortitudo,
You
Nous.
like them much

but
does?)
basilicas,
incarnation
Justicia,
may not
(who
an
at getting
but of satisfaction
we owe
them
divas,
dictionaries,
pastoral
verse,
the courtesies
of the city:
without
these
judicial
(which
belong
to
very great
how
squalid
tethered
afraid
or
for the most
of the
part
scoundrels)
existence
for life to
the local
mouths
would
some
local snake
ford demon,
be,
hut village,
speaking
of
some
(think
the local patois
three hundred
of the family
poison-pens,
think
and,
at this
squabbles
and the
of the inbreeding)
221
noon,
there
this
death.
to command
words
would
be
no
authority
you
Anywhere
on
anywhere
the crowd
eyes
(which
seem
Earth,
her thirstlands
Ocean,
stands
(which
somewhere
life-giving
between
and undrinkable
its
like,
broad-chested
perfectly
seem
infinite^
one)
still,
and its mouths
many)
expressionless,
The
crowd
boxing
battleship
match,
being
who
will win, what
how
many
never
by
barking
the crowd
an
flag she will fly,
dog,
sees
only
does
Whatever
is always
on a
epiphany
which
wonders)
alive,
distracted
mosquito
(which
everyone
(as
will be burned
everyone
a
everyone
launched,
not wonder
(as
(what
train wreck,
does
is
see
not
does
blank.
perfectly
smell
bald
only
the
of fish,
head:
one
thing
can
crowd
see).
of that
whatever
god
in whatever
distracted)
is done.
a person
way
believes
he believes
in,
sees)
222
are
(no two
as one
exactly
and only
believes
in which
there
Few
people
never
will
but
Only
one way
accept
each
do anytMng
rejects
thing all
because
other
no one,
for
because
on
they
one
ever
do.
of that,
When
their
stopped
work
their provincial
at this
joining
can we say
ignored
second
The Prince
and most
brothers,
to the social exoskeletons:
have
of believing.
properly,
men can
of that
men are our
superior,
in that
is only
the crowd
is the only
all
alike),
of the crowd he believes
cities,
of this world
noon, on
this hill,
queens,
to worship
like
us,
the crowd
in the occasion
of this
dying.
Spring
IV
What
we
Nones
to be not possible,
know
Though
time after
By wild hermits,
to
Or revealed
child in
Like will and kill,
we
realize
ease
At the
time foretold
by shaman
and sybil
in their trances,
Gibbering
Before
it:
some
chance
comes to pass
we are
and speed
of
surprised
our
deed
223
And
uneasy:
It is barely
Mid-afternoon,
Of
our
Dry
sacrifice
on
the
For silence
The day
Too
ever,
three,
yet the blood
is already
grass; we are not
so
19 54
sudden
and
prepared
so soon;
is too hot, too
bright,
the dead remains
too still,
too nothing.
rhyme
What
The
we
shall
do till nightfall?
wind has dropped
we
and
have
lost
our
public.
many
The faceless
any
when
Collect
up,
Blown
Felled,
Have
burnt
sawn
as
now,
sheep,
shouted
So loudly
or
in the
can
The hangman
We
are
left
The Madonna
has
our
with
with the
one
red
eye,
wash,
our
green
the soldiers
feat.
woodpecker,
of the fig-tree,
beside
projects
reply
him die, not I.
the yellow
Turn their kind faces
And
why
this morning;
with
gone to
alone
The Madonna
The Madonna
remember
would
saw
sleeping,
about
sunshine
was a monster
that
torn apart,
and trees
of walls
calmly
what
All if challenged
A crowd
open,
through,
away: not one
who in the shade
Harmless
"It
cracked
in two, hacked
Lie sprawled
He
is to be wrecked,
down,
all melted
Of these
who always
world
under
from
dam,
us
construction,
to eat:
Look only
Fix their
Pile-driver,
Crane
But
one
in
direction,
gaze on our
completed
and pickaxe
our act, we
Outliving
to be used again,
wait
can we repeat
how
work:
concrete-mixer,
this?
stand
where
we are,
as some
As disregarded
224
Discarded
Like
artifact
torn
Abandoned
rusted
worn
buried
This mutilated
flesh,
Birds
aim of
Behind
the rapture
The mock
the
garden,
game; stamps,
same,
and sunken
We shall always
Of the deed
victim,
chalk-pit
eggs are not
Of tow-paths
on
chase
behind
be
the wonder
lanes,
the spiral
now
into which
nettles.
too well,
asparagus
our
kettles,
lop-sided
in
our
too nakedly,
The spell of the

The
our own,
branch-lines,
Grindstones
Explains
of
gloves,
stair,
aware
they
and mock
lead,
under
capture,
The
racing
and tussling
The panting
Be
listening
for the
To follow
after:
The
sun
There
and splashing,
and the laughter,
shines,
cry
and stillness
wherever
run,
brooks
are
books
written,
will also be this death.
Soon
cool tramontana
The
shops
The empty
will
will stir the leaves,
re-open at
four,
blue bus in the empty
pink
square
Fill
up
and depart:
To misrepresent,
Mythify,
While,
Down
Waits
use
under
wrong
for
our
we
have
excuse,
time
deny,
this event
hotel bed, in prison,
turnings,
lives:
its meaning
sooner
than
we
would
choose,
Bread will melt, water
And the great
Set
At
up
will burn,
quell begin,
Abaddon
his triple gallows
our seven gates,

Our wives
waltz
fat Belial make
naked;
meanwhile
go
be best to
It would
home,
if
we
have
home,
any case
In
good to rest.
225
That
our
dreaming
This dead
On knife
edges,
Across
moss,
Of string
Down
doors
black
and penitent
ramps
marked
one
mazes
cones,
and damp
Private,
by latent
villages
In the pine-trees
Lit by
in
passages,
gates that will not relatch
To dark chateaux
Inviting
squares,
and hillocks,
And watched
To hostile
instead
and white
baize, velvet, boards,
granite
Through
And
on
cracks
Over
may seem to escape
wills
calm, wander
pursued
at the heads
where
to
Moors
of fjords,
wind sobs
and telephones
trouble,
by
robbers,
ring,
a room,
weak bulb, where
our
Double
sits
Writing
not look
and does
we are
That, while
thus
up.
away, our own
wronged
flesh
May work
The order
open
Vessels
exactly,
glands
contract
Flow
Now
close
secrete,
essential
to renew'exhausted
knowing
By
the rhythm
and expand
At the right moment,
Not
restoring
destroy,
spoil out of spite: valves
We
And
undisturbed,
we try to
quite what
fluids
cells,
has happened,
but
awed
death like all the creatures

watching
spot, like the hawk looking
this
down
Without
Passing
blinking,
close
The bug whose

Or the
Peer
the
smug
hens
by in their pecking
deer who
through
view
shyly
is balked
order,
by
grass,
from afar
chinks in the forest.
July 19 5 0
226
V espers
the
If
been
hill
you see
the
west,
the
our
overlooking
as
known
Adams
Grave,
recumbent
his
giant,
arm
right
city
has
only
at
his
resting
head
always
to
turned
ever
for
can
dusk
on
Eves
haunch,
can you
the
learn,
scandalous
way
the
from
pair, what
he
up at
looks
citizen really
thinks
of
his citizenship,
as now you can
just
caterwaul
his
discipline,
rebel
hear
in
sorrows
in lustful
eyes
drunkards
crying
for
per-ceive a
parental
disconsolate
soul,
scanning
some
with
vestige
of
desperation
her
long
ago
once
and vanished:
For
Sun
masks,
wear
when
but
their
and
wishing
Moon
in this
own
angel
was a
supply
hour
faces.
all passing
faceless
help
their
limbs
who
for
in
that
mounted
her
conforming
of civil twilight
all must
And it is
Both
that
simultaneously
notes,
He
with
would
would
our two
that
am an
I note,
He
now
to
like
see
his
his
that he is
my
contempt,
alarm,
to
like
recognize
Arcadian,
with
cross.
paths
Aquarian
Scorpion's
see me
to
belly:
mouth.
cleaning
him removed
Anti-type:
Utopian.
latrines:
some
other
planet.
Neither
possibly
speaks.
to
buy:
peasant
it
at
Glancing
observe
What
experience
could
we
share?
lampshade
is too hideous
He
observes
in
for
it
to buy.
227
is
a store
anyone
too
window,
in their
expensive
senses
fora
Passing
looks
slum
me:
reform
with
if he
our senators
I hope
don't
child
way
the other
He
rickets,
passes a
will
behave
hopes
I look
they
the
other
way:
He
one.
chubby
like
saints,
will
behave
provided
like
they
baritoni
cattivi, and, when lights burn late in the Citadel,
I (who
free
as
would
shocked
say,
they
be
He
huge
(who
has
will
You
and
In
black
been
working
see,
then,
thinks:
up
Eden
a person
born.
her
several
who
who
fine
One
police
city
as
bureaus
times)
is
our
night
my
between
no treaty
man-ners not to get

a person
the
there.
why,
my
was
all
of
Were
up
beaten
Jerusalem,
he
inside
stones.:
New
Jerusalem
the
think:
sundown
after
his
the good
sorry
be
can
seen
and
at all but
not shocked
boys
never
have
am
station)
is
dislikes
born:
dis-likes
Eden
negotiable.
Bellini
In his
work
has
New
will be
very
my
In
and
to
In
his
In
my
special
our
Eden
gossip:
In
daily
his
in
of
New
obsolete
of
Jerusalem
chefs
political
news
there
spelling
simplified
machinery
even
minders.
source
only
waterwheels
Jerusalem
machine
New
beam-engines,
few
overshot
pieces
beautiful
with:
will be cucumber-cool
is
have
loco-motives,
other
play
we
Eden
saddle-tank
for
will
be
non-verbal
types.
In
my
rituals
morals:
be
Eden
and
In
empty
each
observes
super-stitious
his
but
New
all
his
tabus
we
the
temples
Jerusalem
will
compulsive
but
practice
the
have
no
will
rational
vir
tues.
One
to
reason
tow-path,
tunnel
for
his
my eyes,
close
take
contempt
cross
the
the
barge
is
iron
that
I have
through
the
only
to
footbridge
short
the
brick
and
228
there
by
the
I stand
in
krum-horns.
Eden
again,
doppions,
welcomed
sordumes
of
back
jolly
miners
and
(romanesque)
reason
One
his
eyes.
some
bob
of
St. Sophie
for
major
my
august
day
alarm
not
arrives.
he
through
ruined
intervene
in the Chamber
some
when
and
themselves
So
night
when
he closes
Jerusalem.
when
but
and
fish-wives
delations
thieves
those
and
noyades
(including
he
hates
me)
shall
with
passing
incorrigible
each,
glance
our
Already
we
steps
towards
his
take
recede,
kind
of
the
others
heading.
meal
evening.
it
(as
cross-roads)
life-paths.
or
also
are
hate
instead.
posture:
Was
on
cavort
hellikins
or
of
un-repentant
sequestered
is that.
drawing-rooms
autumn
the
Cathedral
Kalte):
in New
out-rage
of
the
from
(Die
it must
simply
loyal
look
to different
rendezvous
to
any
fortuitous
god
of
intersection
fibs,
between
accomplices
of
and
who,
in spite
to
remind
desire
he
would
forcing
us
for
victim
but
(do
half
both,
at
their
of
resist
meeting
bottom.
secret
which
to forget,
like
lxlth.
our
blood.
other
of that
most
remember
the
the
truth?)
cannot
themselves,
of
fraction
(but
for
me
of
him
for
he
second.
I could
could
to
forget
the
forget
innocence)
on
whose
you
whom
immolation
will. it is
our
utopias.
dear
(call him Abel. Remus,
one
Sin Offering)
old bag
of
arcadias.
democracy.
are
alike
founded:
For
without
human.
safely
it
must
a
be
cement
of
innocent)
blood
no
(it
secular
must
wall
be
will
stand.
June 1954
229
VI
Now,
as
Section
and the things
to require
Cease
As, seizing
Plants
Compline
desire
attention,
its chance,
When
peace
now a
Its last deed and feeling
The instant
escapes,
the body
to join
by section,
in their chaster
To its real taste,
desired
day
more
which is
is its past,
in, should
come
of recollection
the whole
thing makes
sense:
it
comes,
but
all
I recall
are
doors
Two housewives
A childs
Actions,
wild look
words,
And I fail to
Or meaning;
that
see
of
an
envy,
could
either
I cannot
A thing between
banging,
scolding,
fit
any
tale,
plot
remember
noon
and
three.
old
man
gobbling,
Nothing
is with
A heart's
me now
Leisurely
walking
language
Talk
I can
measure
My heart
around,
but not
some
All liking
to
me,
let
Accept
Leave
her part
our
from
me,
noon to
from
beyond
know
what
they
of fancy,
blessing
them both
of their cassations,
separations.
now
will take
without
its unwashed
Who have
But
magic
know
to know, scorning
me
into dream,
a status,
230
Among
three,
indeed
I neither
I ought
For the sweetness
A stride
us
hilarity
All vain fornications
Now
read: maybe
and happening,
But, knowing
Nor what
and both
of motion
constellations
Sing of
sound,
of stars
is confessing
In what happened
That
but
a sense
rhythm,
no
tribes
dances
and
cult to propitiate
of wishes
no
jokes
What
happens
Odd rites
noon
from
which they hide
till three,
from meshould
chance,
Say,
on
youths
in
an
oak-wood
Insulting
white
deer, bribes
threats
Will get
to blaband
them
Past untruth
is
one step to
For the end, for
Is total absence:
Must
go
back
For the sake

Past
Be
To believe
Or
pray
Whose
Do
or
poor
men
in television)
easy
name
of
C (dear
s-o-bs
awake,
love
iibera
C)
who
properly,
Us in the youngest
justice
forgotten:
ones
anything
Shaken
the rhythm
in unknowable
name
be
comprehending.
It is not
in the
Me, libera
And all
of the equity,
(can
saved?
for cities,
comes to
what
into non-being
measure
Can poets
me as
then
nothing,
day
facts
never
spare
when all
are
facts
are
nor
(And I shall know
Today
That
exactly
noon
between
what
we, too, may come to
With nothing
moves
As it
Turns
happened
and three),
the picnic
to hide, join the dance
in perichoresis,
about
the abiding
tree.
Spring
VII
Among
The
Lauds
the leaves
crow
the small birds
of the cock
In solitude,
1954
for
commands
sing;
awaking:
company.
231
Bright
Men
In
shines
of
the
their
solitude,
for
sun
on
neighbors
company.
creatures
become
mortal;
sensible:
The
crow
Already
the
of
cock
goes
the mass-bell
In solitude,
for
the Realm,
In solitude,
Already
The
bless
God bless
In solitude,
The
this
for
green
goes
dong-ding;
is again turning:
God
bless
world
mill-wheel
for
the People:
the People;
temporal:
company.
the leaves
In solitude,
sensible;
company.
the Realm,
dripping
Among
become
God bless
mill-wheel
for
dong-ding:
company.
the mass-bell
dripping
In. solitude,
God
for
awaking;
company.
Men of their neighbors

God bless
commands
is again
the small
birds
turning;
sing:
company.
1952
76
to Clio
Homage
Our hill has made
on
Swept
into
the north:
against
color,
and the
around
to night, flowers
From morning
Color
its submission
green
me,
duel incessantly,
in combats
232
Which
point
they
May
come
a new
Of
all win, and at
Not
another
generation
for effect
tribal
Are
but because
aware
Keep watch
book,
on an
Of unsatisfactory
My
from
some
who
chirp
chirping
than I perceive
May
morning
sharper
inedible
senses
patch
smell, unsafe
many areas are: to
book
lives
of mine this
I sit reading
So
hour
outcry
of birds
Is the thing to do. More
As
any
else
as
observation
is dead, and by observations
they
live
space, as unaware
In
As Provocative
Virago
Whose
of silence
or
Aphrodite
Artemis,
subjects
her twin,
the Tall Sisters
are.
they
That is why, in their
Dual Realm,
can
Banalities
Why
nothing
Rearranging
Not
roar
ones,
Nothing
is
we, at
are
easy.
With twelve
no
Between
Where
Are
and
things
we so
A cock
or
your
any
are
or
the
streams
of
wrong
loud
sound
face to face
brought
may
silence. After that
as we
dream
wish
navel-stone
nymphs
help:
us
We
pillar
small
earthquake
haphazard
your
Clio, with
Of phallic
Are
an
of
the whispers
din: but
And unseasonably,
By
or too
is too big
and the
Color,
be beautiful,
twirling
silence
magical
about
already
it, but pictures
is there
center
taken in hand. Besides,
sorry? Woken
pronouncing
at
sun-up to
himself
himself
hear
Though
I was
all his
sons
had been castrated
glad I could be unhappy:
and eaten,
if
233
I dont
least
know
how
I shall
manage,
at
I know
The
may
beast-with-two-backs
be
species
Evenly
distributed
not
Were
The
grave
of
To count
friend,
the loves
two
And gossip
If it
were,
no one
Would
like
dies
forgiveness
would
not have
Mum
and
Dad
To
visit
people.
ugly
scene,
grown out
has
tearless
of,
bird,
in particular
were never true,
One-eye-for-one
an
to make
one
Is not nice, but to chirp
As though
but
other
unthinkable:
would
be
no use,
be just and the innocent
to suffer. Artemis,
are
Aphrodite,
you,
But it is
Madonna
When
we
Major
Powers
will mind
Castellans
never
who
lost
p's
have
control,
qs,
and
up,
spoken
we turn
to whom
of silences,
have
and all wise
their
your eyes,
Clio, into
which
We look
We have
for recognition
after
out. How shall I describe
been found
you? They
Can be represented
(One
guesses at once
The flawless
Whom
one
arts for
the
has not
Affinity
with
Your photo,
A baby
or
Historical
you,
who look like
and show
I have
beast?
mourning
to
corners,
must be), but what icon
I think, in the
where
buttocks,
too grand to have
noticed
You had nothing

Observe
from the perfect
mouth
the colossus
Have
Girl
in granite
say
no
a corpse:
nursing
each
and did not,
fact, defending
special
seen
papers,
you were,
any
Muse
time
one
could
of the unique
with silence
see,
world
Some
your
of
beholding,
silence
234
can conquer
No explosion
Has
been known
Ever listen:
that is why
up
and round
yours.
Lives
Becoming
Making
Easy,
Muse
have
a great
host
for and
of Cumberland,
like the Laxey
of Artemis
Wheel,
of silence
but
what
decisive
one must
of Time,
always
can
only
like music,
be
once,
sound: it sounds
find the time. Clio,
but for whose
merciful
silence
step would count and that

be murder,
Is taken in, forgive
And teach
they
The
went,
go,
you move
that obey
now
Only the first
Would
Yes
The Bald, The Pious, The Stammerer
As the children
Not
you
and down like the Duke
Or round
Short,
lover's
screams to care
Of superfluous
Why,
but
to fill. So few of the Big
us our
our
whose
kindness
never
noises
recollections:
to throw
away
The tiniest
fault
someone we
of
says
Is out of the question,
Who should
Who
have
know,
done just
yet
love
Aphrodite,
one
has known
that. Approachable
people
as you
seem,
I dare
not ask
do not look
Nor
can
as
if
I see
you
if
you
you ever
a reason
bless
the poets,
For
you
read them
why
you
should.
June
1955
235
77
First
Woken,
Things
Ilayin the
First
arms
of
my own
warmth
and
listened
winter
or
To
a storm
dark
Till
watery
Set to work
half-sober,
uproar,
interjectory
its storminess
can
Into
in the
when half-asleep
to unscramble
that
its airy vowels
love-speech
the tongue
well As harshness
of
I should
have
yet,
chosen,
and clumsiness
would
as
allow, it
in
your
you a
Kenning
Wind
and
indicative
Name.
Scarcely
spoke
it
Construing
consonants
Proper
enjoying
my ear, as
With
monsters,
of the Moon
power to tame
your
Likening
Here
county,
god-child
praise,
and the West
both real and imaginary
poise of being to
green on purpose,
there
an
pure
upland
blue
for
luck.
Loud
though
was,
it
lt reconstructed
When
me
a sneeze
walking
as
presence
exactly
headland
ageless
moreover,
smirking
devil
as
it certainly
of peculiar
could be heard
On
occasion
This,
alone
day
once, so
an
me,
of
off, and had
beside
you,
the
any rose, your
valuable,
hour when
annoys me
mile
of lava
As the stare
So
at
found
silence
only
in beautiful
so very now.
too often A
English,
Predicting
sand-buried
Misinformed
guides,
world where
every
site all cultured

and thoroughly
And gentle hearts
sacred
Texans
are
location
Is
do,
fleeced
by their
extinct
like Hegelian
Bishops.
I slept till
Grateful,
How
said
much
But
quietly
been done
cistern
things
one
morning
it believed
So
Against
drew
of what
my
many
a
first: Thousands
without
would
not
metres
to what had
the
more
summerputting
have
say
I said the storm had
attention
cubic
leonine
that
lived without
in
my
first
love,
not
water.
7 1957
236
78
The
Looking
That,
But
More
up at
the stars,
for all they
on
Loving
care,
I know
I can
earth indifference
We have to dread from
One
quite well
go to
hell,
is the least
man or
beast.
How
should
With
we
passion
If equal
Admirer
as
Of stars
that
I cannot,
I missed
Were
learn
I am
I see
this
them,
terribly
to disappear
to look
might
damn,
say
all day.
or
die,
an empty
at
And feel its total dark

Though
burn
return?
me.
be
do not give
now
all stars
I should
could not
be,
one
loving
Ithink
one
us we
cannot
affection
more
Let the
were stars to
like it
for
sky
sublime,
take
me a
little
time.
? September
1957
79
Fridays
(IN
MEMO RY
BO NHO EFFER
OF
MA RT Y RED
Child
DI
ET RI
CH
AT
FLO S S ENBUR G
He
PRI
L
us we were
told
But, children
9T H
free to choose
as we were, we
Love will only
Paternal
1
94 5)
thought
use
Force in the last resort
237
too bumptious
On those
Accustomed
never
It
crossed
Exactly
Perhaps
But it
anger or
If
What
our
He
perhaps
compassion
bangs
reverence
Divinity
so
to
leaves
paid
odd
the Acts
of God?
He meant
He grieves
He lets the Adam whom He made

Perform
dread,
said.
us.
is rightly
to repent
minds
idle to discuss
The bigger
To
what
He frowns,
seems
to religious
It might
be jolly
we
if
(When
kings
were
The self-observed
We meet
when
utterly
Though
Make
or
cannot
It
can
Mind
at all
unkind
at Its command
come true,
understand
clearly
We have
based
must
All proofs
belief
no means
Is really going
put
or
up
upon,
of learning
what
on,
with having
disproofs
existence
Unopened
do.
are rot
the analogies
senses
Of His
knelt);
banal.
instruments
What
And
observe
wish and counterwish
It clearly
Since
people
observing
we
Is not alarming
But
Man
local,
try to, but who can?
Some
Our
felt
at this Universal
Awe
are
that
returned
to the sender
learned
we
tender
238
Now,
did He
And rise
really
But conscious
sure
Quite
Meanwhile,
Speaks
And
To
Just
unbelievers
silence
on
shall
ever
some
of
you
guess
the
Day.
what
cross,
the
be,
total gain
or
loss,
and I are free
from the insulted
Appearances
By suffering
seal
say;
feel
of Judgement
as we
As dead
break
We dare not
again?
in
He
public
A death reserved
face
saves
place
for slaves.
? 1958
80
Good-bye
to the
Mezzogiorno
(FO R
C A RL O
I
ZZO )
Out of
Of
Guilt
gothic
culture,
Southward
Of vineyards,
To these
Are males,
Verbal
we
into
behave
Sunday
and
come
men
where
untrained
as
in
ruthless
it is taught
upon
out for gold,

Masters,
and
1a bella figura,
siblings
rectories
fathers
otherwhere
townships
afternoonsno
for Old
children
our
like
sunburnt
baroque,
in-fighting
Barbarians
the pallid
beer-or-whiskey
feminine
In Protestant
Hot
North,
a potato,
drizzling
more as
nor as
but
unwashed
profiteers,
for plunder
239
Neverthelesssome
Is better
down
believing
South
(Which is doubtful),
To strong sunlight
amore
and much
some
cheaper
persuaded
is lethal to
germs
exposure
(Which
is patently
In middle-age
we are not
What
The
South
A tongue
It is
sounds
or
perhaps
nonsense:
brothers
climate
And
Making
Or
one.
to
a game
In
where
landscape
Than this
Never
an
fun in
Wanting,
an
Open Road
gate and beckons-
over
pleasure
so, to us
only
to walk
it looks
very
odd
child engrossed
up, a
private
even as
the hills
invention
populated
sauntering
make
heat
it is
it has made
body
in this
less
Even
see an
question
is unequipped
the orchard
is
raise. Perhaps
in turn to set out
away,
me,
and Apemantus,
the Myth of
runs past
And far
Of
it,
like
be next,
might
and Don Giovanni
beautiful
Which
Three
we
what
in which Nestor
To frame
others,
to twig from
seems never to
Don Ottavio
Equally
and
false)
hoping
pair
of friends
lingo,
by himself
it perplexes
'
who is not
ears
Our
us to
Puts
are
called
Bobby.
Their
when cats
or
Lupo, Nero
we can
shame:
So frugal by nature
No effort
Read
are
They
without
envy
only
it costs
not to guzzle
their faces
Cat and dogs
either
dining
people
them
and swill. Yet (if I
rightly
after
hope. The
ten years)
used
Greeks
to call
the Sun
He-who-smites-from-afar,
and from here, where
240
Shadows
I can
are
see
they
eye
laughs
change
Ex-volcano,
Echoes
Why they
As
Boo
scorn any
and
laugh.
This
saint
up to
to the Three
bird,
be
a reason
full volume,
a way
Sisters:
notion
off their Vespas,
can expect
countermagic,
blue,
silent
could
take the silencers
minim
a stream or a
without
Turn their radios
And
to
or escape,
that
ocean
the daily
meant: his unwinking
what
Outrageous
Of
dagger-edged,
rocketsnoise
of saying
Mortal
we may
be,
we are
But
still here!
cause
might
them to
hanker
After
flesh,
To all metaphysical
we
But
That
need
surfaces
Be taught
are not
Tapping
(I wish it
The
Helena
Queen
really
water
as tutors:
Goethe,
hexameters
blade
of
begotten
Roman
else)
doubt
draw
girl, is
the figure
he treated
the line at
on
of his Second
Bildungsroman
shocked,
As pupils
were someone
Her baby: between
rather
space, to own
of running
bad, but hopeless
would
are
to accept
cannot
cloud.
our stamp: no
one
We
solid
feel immune
not be superficial
Homeric
On the shoulder
But
threats.
vulgar,
of
packed
souls
within earshot
Or in sight
Of all
their
need shocking:
Nor gestures
We
streets
proximitiesin
With human
that
her well,
calling
occasion,
WaJpurgisnacht,
those
who
and those
mean
by
life
to whom living
Means
to-be-visible-now,
there
cannot
If
Embraces
bridge.
yawns a
gulf
we try
241
go southern,
To
Flabby,
Taking
Is
dingily
pay
to
Forget
To
Not
lecherous,
the Pledge
one
that
harmand
has heard
case,
certain
Monte)
us,
entitles
Ithink
(even
and invoking
names,
My sacred meridian
for all
A piacere!,
two. Go I must, but I go grateful
To
of them
to Yoga
away,
tuck
scream at
we grow
time,
and
turning
we
loot
no
little
or
no
no one
thoughtin
spiritual
We do them
spoil in
bills: that
comforting
The
we
Pirandello,
Croce, Vico, Verga, Bellini,
To bless
Who
this region,
call it home:
Remember
exactly
its vendages,
though
why
one
and those
one cannot
has been
always
happy,
There
no
is
forgetting
one was.
that
1958
September
81
Dame
Steatopygous,
Kind
sow-dugged
and
To WhomWhom
else?the
was
By
chinned
mammal
owl-headed,
first innocent
formally
that hard times
had turned
From Whom
his first promiscuous
the body-building
who
put
us, we
downpour
cereals
of
Now
carnivore,
orgy
begged
To speed
blood
shed
should
a warmer age:
like to know,
in Her manage?
242
Strait-laced
She
never was
and has
Since
the
skeptical
academies
not
grown more so
got wind
'
of the Chi-Rho;
St. Cuckoo's
wooden
church
Bald hermits
celebrate
for Her
on
where
Green
Sundays
wordless
cult in Her praise:
your
So pocket
fifty sonnets,
Bud;
tell Her
Of unpunishable
gods
they
Haven't
we
spotted
Her Picked
whom
And does
...
the
handsome
myth
WOULD
with.
interfered
Winners
She
by? Didnt
cossets,
ramparts
the darlings
have
ONE BOMB
and all the girls
...
cold hearts?
BE ENOUGH.
Now
look
who's
Brother,
you're
worse
or a
Who nightly
abhors
than
thinking
lonesome
gruesome!
Peeper
He-Virgin
the Primal
Scene
in medical
She mayn't
be all She
might
be
She
You can't
tell
us your
Latin:
but
hypochondriac
is
our
Mum.
from Provence
Blue-Stocking
Who makes
the clockwork
go
arcadies
round
is worth twopence;
You wont find
steady
in that
museum
unless
Tea with
with
Before
you
you
catch it foryour
lovely
monster:
mim look
and gnostic
Ask
the Kind Lady
prefer
angel to bedtime
shapeless
who fitted
chirrup,
you out
to fix
you up.
243
Supposing
even
(through
misdirections
or your own
You do land in that
anomalous
Her
Where
four
remotest
eyes encounter
one
mirror
As the clear rock-basin
duchy,
fief,
in two
perilous
that stultified
frigid Narcissus,
mischief)
Where
tongues
on a
stammer
And
common
Even there,
as your
Name,
are
creatures
snub-nosed
at
First
of guile,
bereft
blushes
invoke
its Guardian
(whose
Name
is singular
abashed
face in profile,
for each
true invocable
true heart
to tell)
and false
To
sacre your
courtship
so
ritual
it deserves
More
solemn
of
Do
bow
music
than the he-hawing
to the Coarse
Old
salesman's
Party
that
limerick,
wrought
you
an
Of the
same
verbose
and sentient
alderliefest
kidney,
grateful
For all the dirty
work
She
did.
How
Of lawful,
unlawful,
not least
many
hundreds
both equally
loveless
Of lying endearments,
crooked
beds,
questions,
crookeder
answers,
Of bawling
matches,
sarcastic
silences,
megrims,
How
much half-witted
horseplay
bloody
It took
you two
to bring
on
both
244
82
You
Really,
you,
must
Over-familiar
Dense
companion,
Be there
The bond
always?
between
Is chimerical
Yet I cannot
Must
us
surely:
break
it.
I, born for
Sacred
play,
Turn base mechanic

So
you may
worship
tears,
and sheer
misrule
together
schedule?
1959
Your
secular
With
no
bread,
thought
Of the value
Thus
of time?
far I have known
From its pleasanter

But
you
know
side,
I know
come
A day
will
When
you grow savage
And hurt
Totally
Would
But,
me
badly.
stupid?
you were:
that
no, you
With tastes
Once
your
only
Character
me
plague
I was
to believe
fool enough
in.
Bah!, blockhead:
I know
where
Can I trust
you
learned
you even
On creaturely
245
fact?
them.
I suspect
strongly
You hold
some
Of positive
And
feed
dogma
truth,
me
fictions:
never
shall
prove
Oh, I know
A sinner's
How
The
Of
you came
cranium,
between
two glaciers
master-chronometer
an
innocent
Altered
That
how
it.
primate
its tempi:
explains
nothing.
Who
tinkered
and why?
Why
am
Whatever
The fault
I certain,
your
faults
is mine,
are,
by
Why
not
is loneliness
A chemical
discomfort,
Nor Being
smell?
September
1960
83
Reading
After
to Modern
a top
If all
physicist
Childs
Physics
knows
the Truth be true,
About
Then, for all the so-and-sos,

Futility
Our
and grime,
common
We have
world
better
Than the Greater
Or the atoms
in
contains,
time
Nebulae
our
brains.
246
Marriage
is rarely
But, surely
bliss
it would
be
worse
do,
Guide
to pelt
As particles
At thousands
About
In which
Would
Though
year
it be cruel
after
An ageing
year,
suitor,
an
Which
a
a
Has
That
prefer
habitable
to
Would
ever
else.
suppose
place
view,
enclose
Euclidean
Exploded
gruel
somewhere
geocentric
architects
A quiet
An
mass
there,
indeterminate
is partly
eyes
Our
That
it repels
it has,
God, sufficient
To be altogether
Not
neck.
at which I stare
the face
shaving
Thank
kiss
not be felt
the loved ones
Or break
For,
lovers
either
While
per sec
of miles
universe
space:
mythsbut
feel at home
expanding
who
astraddle
saddle?
This passion
Is
of
process
For the
fact
kind
of finding
one can
But I would
If I knew
our
hardly
rejoice
more
in it
clearly
out
doubt,
more
what
We wanted
the knowledge
Felt
still that the mind
certain
for,
or not.
Is free to know
It has chosen
once,
And whether
our concern
it
seems,
247
1
For magnitudes
extremes
Really
a creature
Who
becomes
comes
in
Or politicizing
median
size,
Nature
Be altogether
wise,
Is something
we
shall learn.
1961
84
On the
Among
Lost
Circuit
pelagian
on
travelers,
their lewd
conceited
To Massachusetts,
Miami
or
way
Michigan,
L.A.,
An airborne
instrument
Predestined
nightly
I sit,
to fulfill
Columbia-Giesen-Management's
Unfathomable
By whose
I bring
will,
election
my
gospel
justified,
of the Muse
To fundamentalists,
To Gentiles
And daily,
Before
to
nuns,
and to Jews,
seven
local
days
sense
From talking-site
week,
has jelled,
to talking-site
Am jet-or-prop-propelled.
Though
I shift
I cannot
The
warm my
so
welcome
so
frequently,
now say
evening
I was
where
before
everywhere,
fast,
last,
248
Unless
some
Should
intervene
A truly
asinine
to
There,
Since
on
an
the place,
face,
encounter,
Unscheduled
With, here,
save
remark,
A soul-bewitching
Or blessed
event
singular
addict
the rostrum
Indeed,
'twere
is,
unafraid:
damnable
If I am overpaid.
fan.
dunghill
I mount
Plan,
of Tolkien,
Williams
Charles
Merit but
full of joy,
the Giesen
to ask
Spirit
to repeat
is willing
Without
qualm
same
the
But Flesh is homesick

Apartment
A sulky
fifty-six,
A change
York.
he finds
of mealtime
far too
Grown
A luxury
The
in New
utter hell,
crotchety
to like
hotel.
Bible
is
goodly
can peruse
I always
old talk,
our snug
for
But really
cannot
For Hiltons
book
with
say
the
zest,
same
Be My Guest,
Nor bear with equanimity

The
radio
Musak
Then, worst
of all, the anxious
my
plane
And the No Smoking
What
ordear
God!
in bars.
Girl-organists
Each time
cars,
in students
at breakfast,
begins
sign
thought,
to sink
comes on:
will there be to drink?
249
Is this
I must
milieu where
How grahamgreeneish!
How
from the bottle in
Snatch
An analeptic
Another
infra
below
comes:
me on
one more
I see,
the plane,
The roofs
of
I shall not
see
God bless
the lot of them, although
I dont
which
the U.S.A.,
So friendly,
audience
again.
remember
God bless
dig!
bag
swig?
morning
Dwindling
my
and
so
so
was
which:
large,
rich.
? June 1963'
85
Et
in Arcadia
Ego
now,
Who,
Happily
seeing
Can imagine
the screeching
the Amazon,
Earth Mother
Her jungle
Are
so
to Man,
helpmate
Housewife,
Virago,
Her
married,
growths
abated,
Monsters
was?
Her exorbitant
abashed,
Her soil mumbled,

Where
Will
crops,
soon
aligned
precisely,
be orient:
250
Levant
or
couchant,
Well-daunted
thoroughbreds
on
mead
A church
clock
Graze
and pasture,
subdivides
the day,
Up the lane at sundown
podge
Geese
home.
As for Him:
to the Brute
What
has happened
Epics
and nightmares
pursue
No bishops
Their
archdeacons
In the crumbling
Of
robber
with
axes,
lair
baron
picnic
Sightseers
Who
tell of?
carry no
I well might
daggers.
think
myself
A humanist,
Could
How
I manage
see
the autobahn
Thwarts
the landscape
In godless
The
not to
Roman
farmers
arrogance,
children
Tiptoe
past the shed
Where
the gelding
knife
is kept.
? May
1964
251
86
Thanksgiving
Funes
etenim
mihi
ceciderunt
mea
hereditas
for
in praeclaris:
praeclara
est mihi.
XVI, 6
Psalm
Prologue:
(FO R
The
J O HN
From gallery-grave
to Low Mass
is hardly
don't
Birth
and the hunt
and trailer
that
of A rchitecture
BA Y LEY )
way nor
of
wren-king
camp
tick by the carbon
count
Habitat
clock, but I
do
you:
already
itis millions
just
where
anything
works
but
Blenheim,
by the
even,
we
why.
without
concrete
to puzzle
wears as
because
as
of what
that Immortal
and its
know
what
He did,
He thought,
(To get that,
one
would
grapefruit.)
Its
it should
but, mortal
are masons
we can see
or not,
from
our
windows,
Commonwealth
regardless:
never
quite
Its
in perfect
boring but
do. Among
its populations
and carpenters
252
have
our turn now
No world
has still to be built
which is there
it wont
Memorial
way,
the unborn.
well
world
or
you, to me,
Old Man
names: we
to be selfish in His
To
Cathedral,
the Albert
same
He thought
see
dont
me to measure,
for
Once
could happen.
different
what,
After
and Chartres
the Acropolis,
under
Age,
still prehistoric
Stonehenge
are
no
which is
before
ago
of heartbeats
to the Bicycle
back
taste
who
build
no
but
than
the most
there
are
or
heretics
nature
second
shelters
and
safes,
any more
bounders:
to take
at death, to construct
umbrage
exquisite
architects,
must know
of tomb
and temple,
the meaning
lives
of If.
? Spring
II
Thanksgiving
(F O R
G EO FFREY
Nobody
with
like to be buried
would
or
help,
and
keep
could
can
sacred
beast.
have built
buy
manage
us
Habitat
G O RER)
silver cocktail
radio
shaker,
strangled
his word
great-great-grandmother
by
to
I know
transistor
daily
of
for
Only
the gait
baroque
because
who got laid
a press
San Simeon:
back
1962
no
lord
unearned
and gestures
staircase,
or
the art
income
of believing
human
our
footmen
speech.
while mending
might
to look
are not
round.)
is worth
visit,
he does
or
Pegler's
Tump
is Schonbrunn,
idea
of the body
have been his,
Mum formulated
chains:
enough
Still, Hetty
so
at someones
that should
castles
hang their j ackets
their lethal bicycle
there
crags to go
hear
(In adulterine
half-strong
luckily,
don't
shouldn't:
as
the flesh
that whatever
feels in the mood
for,
253
stocktaking,
he stays
is
horseplay,
the
same
worship,
shape,
Royal I. To be overadmired
good enough:
although
rare
sex,
in either
others
making
disgraces
is not
fine figure
like it
love,
have
be
existed
before.
Proustian
democrat,
but which
to be touched
are
city planners
is
no
rational
sovereign
clone.
overseas, at
I shall
as a
Linnaeus
give
deface
are germane
a pen
transplant
am
and
me
their
dominant
blooming
lives, few
of whom
and with fewer
recoiled
gruesome
naked
Arachnids
who
last
ever meet,
converse.
of country
conurbation
graphs
longer
for Adam's
I,
acres
three
rooms no
mistaken:
habitat
over
even
all about
animal
fitting
from
Jacksonian
us wants
but earnest
superhumanize,
for
of
We know
enormous
Darwin,
may
sound
inadvertently,
by his beloved?
and
One
or a
snob
from the Amphibia
rabble,
the shudders,
emblem
to Hitler: the
but fools
of guilt
race
of spiders
shall be allowed
to be to
my
weather:
of fine
and
some,
their webs. I should
as a
water-brethren
are
maybe,
vulnerable,
and jealous
are
Many
like
spell
stupid,
heartless,
but who is not
easy to scare,
of his privacy?
the blackbird,
(1
for instance,
am
glad
cannot
254
tell if I'm talking

just
I may
enjoy
to outlast
as
English,
typewriting:
as an
down
to
to outlast
any
filter-passing
of nitrogen
I ought
dragonflies
firs
me:
esophagus,
shall, anyhow,
or
he utters
alien rigmarole.)
the limber
the muscle-bound
going
German
that what
are
certainly
I shall not
though
end
I may
succumb
predator,
stop eating, surrender
to the World Fund
my
smidge
with
drawn-out
some
of
I be translated
a c.c.
to
in
in
my
assume
but
and
nano-second
nothing
Should
baIliwick,
conventional
and its routiers
I shall of
wolves
course
posture:
the submissive
men are not
won't
war
blunderbuss
invest
commander
of poisonous
giga-death).
and
it probably
status,
help. Territory,
love, sing all the birds,
what
is, in
not hope
I dared
my
where
fifties, mine,
I needn't,
those
at the nod
(unless
Oh
jittery
ever,
I am not
or
are
what matter:
fight for
toft-and-croft
be
at home
at home
to
with, not
cradle,
magic
and not
I may
Eden without
windowless
go
clocks,
grave,
but
both in and out of.
place
1962
August
255
III
(I
N
The
Cave
MEMO RI
AM
of Making
L O UI
S
For this and for all enclosures

is Weland's
more
private
lovers
bedroom
even,
for neither
nor
maids
are
welcome,
secrets:
bedroom's
the dictionaries
best
like it the archetype
an antre
Stithy,
than
MA C NEI
C E)
money
can
but without
from the Olivetti

(the
buy),
portable,
very
the heaps
of
paper,
it is
evident
what must
flowers
here
go on.
and family
to
Devoid
of
photographs,
function,
designed
to
all is subordinate
discourage
daydreamshence
windows
averted
from plausible
videnda
could
reached
life
staircase,
and
are
is turned
watch
odors,
to sharpen
hearing:
shut
domestic
the vast background
off. Here
of natural
silence
into objects.
Iwish,
while
one
light
byand
an
by
outside
noises
but admitting
mend
you were
and the house
Louis,
I could
have
shown
and garden:
lover
women
of
and
Donegal,
from
sights
your
perspective
I overlook,
you'd
notice
and in turn take
scholar's
interest
in facts I could
to
four miles
tell
you
(for instance,
our east, at a
wood
palisade,
Carolingian
Bavaria
stopped,
unknowable
beyond
nomads).
it
Friends
we
became
personal
choice,
made
us
it
still in public,
but fate had already
neighbors.
For Grammar
we
both
by
you
inherited
good
which
mongrel
never
barbarian
completely
English
to the Roman
succumbed
rhetoric
or
the Roman
like
gravity,
none.
which stood
nonsense
that
Though
neither
our
of
d(ids,
Horace's,
wiped
his
was
neither
nose on
his forearm,
porphyry-born,
our ancestors
and
probably
were among
money to
it cost less
became
those
murder.
self-conscious
when locomotives
subjects
plentiful
were
at
Born
so,
both of
named
after
knights
Malory,
Science
Stinks,
and
to schoolboys
the Manor
was
still
known
was
as
politically
numinous:
both watched
the
sack
with mixed
of Silence,
the
us
a moment
feelings
churches
empty,
the
in
cavalry
go,
the Cosmic
become
Model
any
and
German,
faith,
if
we
had
it, in
immanent
virtue
died. More
life-out-there
we
but
trust
than
is goodly,
not since
shan't,
ourselves
ever
miraculous,
ever
again:
lovable,
Stalin and Hitler,
we
know
that,
subjectively,
all is possible.
To
you,
ever
though,
since,
Fall,
you
garden,
into
last
quietly
out of
slipped
Granusion,
our
moist
the Country
matters.
caught
of Unconcern,
I wish
you
that cold, but the dead
to talk to: with those

tensed
no
by problems
possibility
hadn't
no
we
miss
are
easier
longer
one cannot
feel shy
and,
anyway.
when playing
or
pulling
faces
cards
are out
or
drinking
of the question,
is there
to do but talk to the voices
what
else
of
conscience
they
have
now on, as
From
become?
visitor
who
your
needn't
especially
be met
at the station,
at
is welcome
influence
here, where
to The Burning
from Poems
any
hour in
my
ubity,
titles
Perch
offer
proof
positive
you were,
of the maker
once
exchanged
went
on
winks
about
with whom
once at a
collaborated,
as a
weird
juggins
Alienation.
Who would.
be
obliged
of
bard in
an
beefy
for preference,
oral culture,
at drunken
some
Symposium
feasts
illiterate
to improvise
eulogy
burner.
257
giver
of
of rings,
or
depend
for bread
on
the moods
a
Baroque
Prince,
expected,
like his dwarf, to amuse?
After
all, it's rather
privilege
amid
to
the affluent
serve
this
traffic
art which cannot
unpopular
be turned
into
background
or
cannot
or
noise
as a status
hung
be
abridged
for study
trophy
by rising
executives,
like Venice
done
like Tolstoy,
but
stubbornly
our
handful
still
upon
insists
being
or
read
ignored:
at least
of clients
can rune.
(It's
to forget
heartless
about
the underdeveloped
but
ear
starving
is
as
countries,
deaf
as a
suburban
optimists:
to stomachs
integers
only
truthfully
the Hindu
speak.)
Our forerunners
might
envy us
our remnant
as
Nietzsche
still able to listen:
said
they
would,
the plebs
steadily
denser,
quicker
the optimates
still
Talleyrand
on
the uptake.
(Today,
even
have
got
seem a
might
cope
little to
naif: he had
with.)
I should
so
like to become,
if
possible,
minor
atlantic
with his passion

without
re
and stones
but
his silliness
the
while
Goethe,
for weather
Cross:
knowing
at times
bore,
can at
Speech
but,
best.
shadow
echoing
the
silent
light, bear
witness
to the Truth it is not, he wished
it
were, as
the
Francophile
gaggle
are too
of
pure songsters
vain to. Were
not musicans:
to stink
of
Poetry
is unbecoming,
to be dull shows
ought
honor,
never
and
lack
of taste. Even
to be something
awaiting
death
a man
from
limerick
of
cancer or a
firing
squad,
could read without
that frontier
in either
or a
I wouldn't
prophets
diplomat's
contempt:
(at
dare speak to
bellow
whisper).
anyone
258
Seeing
from the inside

how
much,
and
our
in
you
know
our mystery
therefore
lonely
we
dens,
need
the
companionship
of
our
to give
good dead,
on
comfort
dowly
days
us
when
the
self
is
nonentity
on a
dumped
to break
mound
of nothing,
our
the spell of
self-enchantment
when
lip-smacking
imps
of mawk
us
write with
imposing
I ask
and hooey
you
what they will,
won't
think
me
if
you to stay at my
until cocktail
I should
something
time:
elbow
dear Shade,
have
been
more
like
able to
you
for
your
elegy
manage
than this
egocentric
monologue,
but accept
it for friendships
sake.
July 1964
IV
Down
There
(FO R
I
RV I
NG
A cellar underneath
upstairs
that
were our
Caves
first
and windowed
quarters
water-scooped
from limestone
A providential
dwellings,
when
the Great
woke
our
to, A hole by occupation
we
But,
deep
cloak,
sun
sleep
on caves;
Ride there
Where light
ripened,
commons,
good
at all
maybe,
fixed to
made
come
back
to smell human.
aloft, but still, at safe
Earth,
we
Wine, beer,
level:
her key-cold
can never
bottles,
anchor,
dine at street
beneath
and heat
In barrels,
kind
Encrust
Which
lamplit
in Mother
shelter
came,
Cold
feel for somewhere
Self-walled,
not lived in,
the house, though
our warm
Reminds
W EI
SS )
spoil what
we mew
jars,
conserves
her
and pickles,
seasons.
with
years
of
Of creepy-crawlies
clammy
or a
grime,
ghost,
the
lair,
its flagstoned
vault
Is
not
for
girls:
sometimes,
courage,
259
to
test
their
male
A father
sends
something
younger
the
For Mother
boys
to fetch
from down there;
ashamed
to whimper,
hearts
They
dare
re-emerge
steps,
the dank
pounding,
with proud
faces.
The
rooms we
injured
without
warning,
and switch
never
lights
takes
explorers,
Who
talk and work in always
When trunks
are
being
We drive
on,
umbrage;
They
up
packed,
look
and when,
in the dark, unlock
seem put out: a
It takes
cellar
us as we are,
homebodies,
seldom
visit
others
when
we
don't
need
them.
July 19 63
(FO R
Up There
A NNE
W EI
S S)
never
Men would
collectors
cabinets
or
past they
women
only
no use
have
the
Wait unworshiped
occasional
an
of
eyrie for two

Where,
Boy
no
sails
out of their
what
schooner
north
or
spider
recalls
it's
world
conjure
excited
boxes,
programs,
letters
spins
for
it
a part
of,
to its function.
changing
who
when Mother
Now
clock
is devoted
from children,
them,
Special
new
name now
in bulging
galoshes,
[a starving
fly):
Day
All it knows
cling to Items
to the household
hour
No Saint's
attic. Keen
build
Each
index
for, Can't
eaves,
Hats, veils, ribbons,
Once
on,
an
need
coins
bear to part with.
couldn't
Up there, under
The
Roman
for them, dote
specimen:
they
come to
have
of glass
it has to Guess
Now
in its plenum,
an
sisters,
is bad, her
on
which
approaches
rage
a
can't
lonely
reach
only
coral islands.
Ju ly
260
VI
The
G eography
of the
House
1963
(F O R
C HRI
S T O PHER
after breakfast
Seated
In this white-tiled
Arabs
I
S HER W O O D)
cabin
call the House
wh
ere
goes,
Everybody
Even melancholics
Raise
Nature
cheer to Mrs.
for the primal
Pleasures
Sex
is but
She
bestows.
dream
to
Seventy-and-over,
But
joy
proposed
we start to
-til
Mouth-delight
Virtue
This
depends
in the cook,
unto
grave.
off the potty,
Lifted
Infants
from their mothers
their first impartial
Words
of worldly
Hence,
to start
on
but
She guarantees
Cradle
Hear
un-
shave:
praise:
the morning
from
With
Dump
All
satisfactory
is
our
omen
good
adult
days.
came to
Revelation
Luther
in
privy
have
(Crosswords
been
solved
Rodin
was no
When
he cast his Thinker,
Cogitating
Crouched
Of
fool
deeply,
in the position
a man at
stool.
261
All the Arts

This
ur-act
Private
derive
from
of making,
to the artist:
are spent
Makers'
lives
Striving
in their
Medium
to produce
De-narcissus-ized
suring
chosen
en-
excrement.
there)
did not invent
Freud
Banks
Built
have
letter
For Night
are
Stocks
Currencies
Either
soft
or
firm
Open
hard.
Grant
us a
When
us
well:
kind ending,
childhood,
weak-sphinctered,
cheap
When
our
lifetime,
as
minds
second
Petulant,
Keep
our
through
our
keep
of compassion
Purge
Deposits,
liquid,
of nations
or
Global Mother,
Bowels
In
boxes
in their fagade,
Marked
Not
the
miser:
Constipated
in
hotel.
our
we get
station:
pound-noteish,
we seem
Take
up
Send
us some
Higher
about
to
Thought,
deflating
Image
Prophet
on a
taken
our
Major
short.
to
ought
(Orthodoxy
Bless
ex-
like the pained
pression
modern
plumbing:
262
Swift
and
Lived
in centuries
When
St. Augustine
stench
sewage
of
Ever in the nostrils

Made
a strong
Point
for Manichees.)
Mind
and Body
debating
run on
Different
timetables:
Not until
our
Visit
Leave
here
the dead
Yesterday
is
concerns
behind
Face with all
What
morning
can we
of
us,
our courage
now to
be.
July 1964
VII
Encom ium Balnei
(FO R
NEI
L
LI
T T LE)
it is odd that the English
a
should
Cleanliness
have invented
is next
rather
dirty
people
the slogan
to Godliness
by that
gentleman
persuaded
smells
themselves
faintly
of tar
constant
that
cold
hydropathy
would
pure
make
the
sons
of gentlemen
in heart
(not
offspring
papa or
that
his
chilblained
can
hope to be gentry)
still John
hip-bath
it
Bulls
was
that
for the first
made
time
one
since
263
carnal
we
pleasure
quarreled
lawful
over
Faith
and Works
probably
(Shakespeare
Monarque
certainly
stank
Le Grand
did)
thanks
shrines
where
subarctic
meet
could
fire-cult
to him
and
marry
a
rose
river-cult
from torrid
Greece
again
resweetened
the hirsute
West
Roman
though
bath addict
fan
would
be puzzled
seeing
compressed
mistake
the caracallan
into such
few
acreage
square
feet
them for hideouts
warrens
who mortify
of
some
outlawed
sect
their flesh with strange
implements
is not that
wrong
if the
barrel vaulting
to churches
has migrated
and railroad
stations
tepidarium's
if
go
or
there
make
or
to wrestle
we no
longer
gossip
love
cannot
st. Anthony
and
purchase
were
(for them ablutions
sink
of that
doomed
this world)
have
just
as
tub)
tabu
habit
behavioral
conjugal
his wild brethren
been
he thought
work
are no more
chaste
obedient
nor
we can
possibly
help
it
264
poor
than
he
was
but
who
(besides
how
to
the
carry
showing
lovers
binoculars
unclassical
instead
wonder
were
have
of nature
of
of being
gun)
taught
us
all by oneself
our
though
may
dwellings
still have
master
who
owns
the front-door
key
bathroom
has only
an
inside
lock
today
is taking
to whoever
bath
us
to withdraw
from the tribe at will
be neither
nor
Spouse
Parent
Guest
a sacrosanct
political
right
else
find its
shall the Average
not in sleep
the several
Ego
peace
worlds
we
invent
surely
are
quite
as
pugnacious
as
and
the
one
even more
into which
we are
Oxford
I may
born
public
escape
notice
never
Street
or
Broadway
on
roads
I dream of
Eden is there
for the lapsed
but hot water
snug
in its caul
widows
may
as an
only
as
self-important
a sage
and
be silly without
feel
child
shame
present
Lieder
Abend
265
to
captive
audience
of his
toes
retreat
into
some
syllabic
from rhyme
and
reason
mallarmesque
fog
half
it is wise
an
hour
to forget
the time
daily peril
and each other
for the soul
once
cycle
in the twenty-four
hour
of her body
whether
according
as we
to
our
schedule
sit down to breakfast

stand
up to
welcome
folk for dinnert
feel
as
the Pilgrim's
as some
choose
if
Way
to call it
War
were now a square
in the Holy
City
that what
was wrong
has
Path
been
put right
if Von HUgels
and lumpers
were
thinking
same as
hoggers
the
extinct
thanking
military
already
slighted
hardware
and submerged
April 1962
VIII
G rub
First,
Then
Ethics
Brecht
(FO R
MA R G A RET
G A RDI
NER)
the shade
Should
visit
how
us,
anxious
to ourselves,
say to him:
our use
would
you,
anthropos
we can
may
we
is,
read
of holy numbers
of Plato
to know
could
shock
lament"where
and
Well,
a poet
is Telford
266
whose
bridged
where
out
rode
a storm
where
thanks
now
are
canals
and
still
on a
Muir who
called
Mr. Vynyian
Shropshire
Douglas
an
glory,
spruce
earthquake
noble,
Board,
to whose lifelong fuss the hunted
whale
suffers
a
called
quicker
an
made
we
death?'without
idiot, though
would
public
point, for
is the place
Though
none
splash,
where
being
of them bore
dig at Athens,
we
cook.
built in Lower Austria,
do-it-yourself
America
arms or
then Look!
Here
prophetically
palace
where
blueprinted
kitchen
royalty
would
might
Courtesy
and the back
your
of
but cannot
this
for kingdoms
"From
neck
I know
tell from
your
is to give the orders.
who
for
an age
your
voice
be incognito,
think:
we
shall get
when
on
thumbs
The right
note is harder
to hear than in the Age of Poise

when She
talked
to her maid and
shamelessly
noble lies with Him, but struck
it
can
be still in New
banned
by
as
not Father's,
I put below
it is
as a
and sacred
stuff
nasal
as
witch at
not,
whom
hearthstone,
birthday-button
to Granny,
is
as
old
but this all-electric
ghosts
my taste
if I am
fault,
the bowel-loosening
war cry,
where
my
the salt.
The prehistoric
round
where
Cnossos
shrug it is
would
feel
loss, is numinous
the center
of
as
was, an
lately
it
room
uneasy,
and again
dwelling
abhorrent
dungeon
sang
where
the
warm
unlaundered
meiny
267
belched
their
prose
comic
and from.a
dream
of
which
chaste
Milady
House-proud,
these
deploring
engines
that banausics
cook
awoke
blushing.
labor, extolling
politely
can
a pure
be liberals,
artist
who
moves everyman
- at
deeper level than
Mozart,
work,
insist
for the subject
to-hunger
dear
is
of the verb
never a name:
Adam and Eve had different
bottoms,
but the neotene

upright
who marches
can
and
subtract
reveals
belly
like the serpents
vulnerable
pigmy,
with the
same
look. Jew, Gentile
or
he must get his calories
can
he
before
his
consider
own,
or
her profile
you or
attack
play chess,
and take what there is however
hard
to get down:
then surely
may
God is edible
omelette
The
among
and
be
weigh
one can
sure
seldom
having
peck
at
to behold
mouth and
no
to be
chefs
eyes
of
their
one
married
smile.
268
good
mature
hostile
sinner
grieves
into
to observe
master-dish,
at the first bite by
they
waiter
bore
the mutually
job,
should
to kiss them yet,
wonder
types, doomed
choleric
than they
Some
dead
and
out of
warriors
more
with the thin-lipped,
for the worst
Beauty
brave
detestable.
trencherman,
mysteries
the gourmet
pounds
dislike
compared
are
the Deadly
do it: children,
can
creed
fine
deed.
Christian
but in murder
one can
didn't
sin of Gluttony
is ranked
Seven,
those in whose
call
reward
The
are
houses
our
of
real enough
haphazardly
City
but they lie
is
any space
who
power
So,
earth,
us
happen
to meet
citizen
too,
can
her foes. Where
is clearly
the
seen,
to be
lies remains
the force, though,
the
forum
two of
where
can spot a
papers.
without
over
scattered
and her vagabond
with them: perhaps
only
by falling
Her
own
can
vision,
She become
but
we
have
sworn
we
ask for,
under
four
blaze
and
eyes
to keep Her upall
should
meres
is
may
the night
come
when comets
break,
good
march
dinner,
that
we
in high fettle, left foot
first,
to hold her Thermopylae.

1958
IX
(F O R
and silent
room
This
you
What
awaits
alone,
A weekend
In
house
Facing
are
You
most
of the
from
you
as
C LA RK )
by orderly
sugar-beet
engaged
woods,
country,
to their stint,
to encounter
or romance: were
would
bring,
life.
backed
hosts
year,
can
visitor,
tractored
unlike
Dragons
T EC K LA
Only
set apart
being
of personal
Your working
You
Friends
to friendship,
shrine
Empty
A ND
ours,
yet not
Ours
As
J O HN
For
not
have
drama
craving,
come.
269
we
Books
Literate
For
Is
do have
mood,
writing
mark
for almost
and notepaper,
one
(to borrow
of ill-breeding):
any
envelopes,
stamps
Between
lunch
dinner,
After
Should
you
Lovers
are
have
helps,
We shall not be
Is,
our
them
counsel:
too much,
to speak well,
difficult
To the galimatias
or
rhyme
Distance
of
often
If it make
our
divide
and bedroom,
prose,
soon goes rusty.
us,
seem an
evil
re-meeting
A real occasion.
room
nursery
spoken,
will not
a tongue
resemblance
shepherd's
and duties
But absence
of friendship
discover,
no cognates, no
And, unless
badly)
will hear it,
nosey.
With
Your
we
hurts
Very
Court
drive;
(pets will die,
at first, the language
as we soon
gossip.
behaving
and give
If to mention
Easy
or
troubles
always
And confession
Examine
tea, perhaps
and
music
Come
when
will be ready.
you can:
In Tum-Turns
reign
On the bedside
table
tin of biscuits
provided
For nocturnal
munching.
changed,
the fashion
There,
bottle
And
for sunbathers
of mineral
notte! May
dream,
That whoever
count
their
calories,
water.
cordial
have
in appetites:
who
Felicissima
Into
weapons
Now
slept
you
fall at
once
assured
in this bed before
270
someone we
Was
also
That
within
Also
you
the circle
have
no
like,
our
of
affection
double.
June 1964
Tonight
(FO R
M.
at Seven-Thirty
F.
K.
FI
S HER)
The life of plants

is
one
continuous
solitary
meal,
and ruminants
theirs to sleep
hardly interrupt
or to mate,
but
most
predators
ravenous
always,
feel
most of the time
bolting
to snatch from the
en
dine
play
to
more
as
they
terrified:
can
contrive
pack-hunters
it is true,
famille,
with protocol
and competitive
such morsels
and placement,
but
none
of them
host
a stranger
whom
supererogatory
Dame
Kind's
thoroughbred
do the honors
and
before
was
they help first. Only
doing
the last
of
lunatic,
can
feast,
so
Glaciation
when
he offered
mammoth-marrow
and, perhaps,
Long
man,
beast,
Pig, will continue
Doomsday
when at God's
board
till
do
the saints chew
are no
longer
the Law
pickled
Leviathan.
crenellated,
of the Hearth
only
In this
age
farms
cops port arms,
is unchanged:
but
brawler
may not
be put to death
instanter,
on
the spot,
to quit the sacral dining
but he is asked
and
The right of
a guest
to standing
and foster
as
as
on
shoulder.
the ban
is
area
gets the cold
foul-mouth
old
incest.
271
For authentic
comity
the gathering
should
be small
and unpublic:
at
mass
banquets
where
flosculent
speeches
are
made
some
in
we
think
seated
same,
but
own
hired hall
of ourselves
baker's
today,
or
dozen,
when
nothing.
Christ's
King Arthur's
one's
host
may
cenacle
rundle
the
well be his
servitor
chef,
when the cost
even
that holy
too large
and scullion,
space can
of
Zodiac
frequency
in fact, six lenient
none
is
now a
however
worldly
or
Perfect
engaged
But
dinner
party,
select,
would
profane:
curmurr
or
endearments
though,
in
all children
a must:
the glance
failure
in the toil
Not that
who wish
and fish
should
be fed
married
can
maltalents
spoil
grievance.
god,
to grief, would be
he would
soup
in bed.
like
of his bosom
immune
the
some covert contrast
evening
single
is
two doters
between
and be safely
Well-liking,
of
sieges,
rite that nicknames
and
earlier
an
decade,
for !Is:
semble
in restaurants,
belong
family
diminutives
to tiddle
in
is
of them perilous,
Social Number.
is
double
number
be too odd
an
ideal guest:
to talk to and, despite
his
presence,
imposing
bore,
for the funniest
mortals
aware
are
and the kindest

of the baffle
our care
of being,
is consolable,
heartless
those
who
don't
but believe
than tears, that
are most
kid themselves
laugh is less
hostess
272
prefers
it. Brains
great
can
they
as
assets
be
on
are not
evolved
festive
therefore,
like artful
cooks
digestions.
table
at which the youngest

keep
bowels,
and good looks
occasions,
essential
and stalwart
Isee
after
fine raiment
the
eye
for what Nature's
and
oldest
present
grateful
bounty
and
grace
of Spirit
can
create:
for the
ears
one raconteur,
one
content
gnostic
with amazing
shop, both
in
one
talkative
mood
wide-traveled
but knowing
to stop, and
when
to interject
worldling
now
and
then
a
and
men
comment,
sardonic
women
who enjoy
the
cloop
of corks,
appreciate
dapatical
in speech
can see
fare, yet
sign act of
in swallowing
reverence,
work
of re-presenting
the true olamic
silence.
? Spring
XI
(F O R
The
L O UI
S
A ND
Cave
1963
of Nakedness
EMMI
E
K R O N E N B E R G E R )
Don Juan needs
to undress,
love to
for
clothes
no
bed, being
do Tristan
far too impatient
and Isolda,
much too in
care
so
mortals
nor
mundane
require
a matter,
one,
but unmythical
and prefer
to take their
off,
if only
to sleep. That is why bedroom
farces
must be incredible
are never
watchers,
theres
be it
to be funny, why Peeping
praised,
for their
bed,
nun's
baldachined
or
like novelists
keenness
restricted
of observation:
or an
cot
Toms
bird
where
Emperors
and nightly-redamselled
couch,
there
are no
effable
data.
(Dreams
may
be repeatable,
273
n
but
wilderness
our
deeds
of errantry
in the
of wish
so
often turn out, when told, to be less
romantic
than
cannot
describe
our
day's
routine:
besides,
we
them
without
faking.)
Lovers
don't
see
their
embraces
as a
his
viable
theme
for debate,
nor a
monk
prayers
(do they, in fact, remember
them?):
O's
of passion,
acts
interior
not being
of attention,
story
in which
the
way
the
names
matter
don't
but
of telling,
with
lawyers
wit
or a
noblemans
assurance,
a
does, need
own.
room
drawing
of their
Bed-sitting-rooms
soon
drive
us crazy, a
dormitory
even
sooner
turns
architects
us to
brutes:
bona
fide
know
that
doors
are not
emphatic
enough,
and
interpose,
as a
so
alien,
the no-mans-land
from
two realms,
march between
so
disjunct,
of
stair. The switch
personage,
with
family
a state
number,
first
and
name,
to the naked
Adam
or
Eve, and vice
versa,
should
stair retards
it
not be off-hand
or
abrupt:
to
solemn
procession.
Since
my
at
Edwardian
my
infantile
bidding
entrance
into
England,
I have
thousand
mother's
the
suffered
over
transit
forty
times,
to
usually,
my
chagrin,
by myself:
about
blended
of Derbies
and
I know
certain
nothing
belong,
colloquia
therefore,
about
perhaps
too much.
Some
though,
to all unwilling
are
midnight
occult
antipathies
perks
those
flesh,
Joans,
celibates:
our rooms
seldom
battlefields,
reading
we
enjoy
the pleasure
of
in bed
we grow
older,
it's
to get nodding
drunk
first),
(as
true,
we may
find it prudent
the right
we
retain
to choose
our
with sundry
sacred
image.
(That
I often start
at sundry
splendors
but always
aware
of
no
times
greened
after,
end
one,
of
same one, may
the
be
importance,
but
I hope
it is.) Ordinary
human
unhappiness
is life in its natural
on
putting
of nothing
rare as
color, to cavil
airs: at day-wester
to think
to memorize
benign
is
as
feeling
no
personal
blemish,
and Age, despite
its damage,
274
is well-off.
When
they
look in their
bedroom
mirrors,
may
Fifty-plus
be bored,
but Seventeen
is faced
by
frowning
failure,
with
no money, no
mistress,
no manner
of his
own,-
who
never got to
nor met a great one: to say a
Italy
few words
at
banquets,
to attend
can
be
cocktail
severe,
but
party
in honor
Junior
has
of N
daily to
or
M,
cope
with ghastly
meals, with dear Papa
family
and
Mama
being
odd
in the
wrong way.
(It
annoys
him to
speak,
him not to.)
and it hurts
When
and
I need
called
entrust
my
the world,
from
to the Gospel
not fear (not in neutral Austria)
Makers,
being
for
in the waist
of the night
on
to be heard of
would
I disband
future
earth
by deaf agents,
again: the assaults
never
I
be spared
are none
of them princelyfire,
nightmare,
insomnia's
Vision
of Hell, when Nature's
wholesome
genial
fabric
lies utterly
wafts
all corrupt,
of the general
its
cause
me
(to know
can
worthless
degrade
vague
minerals
iteration
that, probably,
the panic,
rule, with pills to help them,
Four
exempt
wake
sullen
her adamant
loathing
it). As
and from
stench,
each life
is chemical
not stint
the Holy
discussed
contagious
my
nights
from nuisance,
and
even
when Iwould be woken, when, audible
here and
there
in the half-dark,
members
of
an
avian
orchestra
are
already
softly
an overture
noodling,
at sunrise,
in the old convention
they
up
limbering
to
their effort
inherit
that
for
express
joy
in
beginning
our
for which
declare
species
was
created,
and
it
good.
may not
We
mannerlyto
the Trinity
but only
be obligedthough
it is
bless
that
we are
corporal
villain will omit
her henwife,
Dame
Kind,
contraptions,
to thank
as
Our Lady
he, she,
or
or
both
ensemble,
emerge
from
reneighbored
private
cavity
to be reborn,
in the Country
of Consideration.
June
275
XII
(FO R
The
Com
C HES T ER
mon
Life
K A LLMA N)
1963
A living
room,
without
and
knocking,
secular
I may
faith: he
where
like to
compares
chill
or
bow, confronts
its dogmas
whether
see more
nothing's
style,
with his, and decides

he would
enter
leave without
each visitor with
area you
the catholic
(Thou, rather)
of
us.
(Spotless
rooms
left lying about
me, so
cups
do
smeared
used for ashtrays
with lipstick:
the homes
warm to,
though
seldom
wealthy,
always
convey
feeling
of bills being promptly
with checks
an
that
don't
bounce.)
settled
There's
no
instant,
only Thou and
of protestant
a room
1, two regions
being
is too
which
small,
nowhere
therefore,
overlap:
We at
if its occupants
that
they
if it gives
ours,
their
at will
forget
alone, too big
any excuse
them
for raising
quizzing
cannot
are not
voices.
would
in
quarrel
What,
Holmes
Sherlock
infer?
Plainly,
ours
in
is
sitting
generation
to prefer
(or is forced
to command,
on a
culture
which prefers
would rather
well-upholstered
than the burly
back
of
at book titles would
comfort
it)
incline
its buttocks
chair
slave:
quick
glance
tell him
276
that
we
belong
on our
what
to the clerisy
food. But
our prayers
could
and
spend
and jokes
are
about,
creatures
frighten
us most, or
much
he read
what
names
what
our
head
to
roll call of
go to
singular
lives
loneliness,
or mere
or
together
would
least
like
draws
in the first place,
lust, ambition,
convenience,
one
murder
clear
persons we
bed with? What
enough:
is obvious,
why they drop
another
how
create, though,
they
a common
world
between
them, like
yet useful numbers,
impossible
has
yet explained.
manage to
forgive
to endure
by
conversational
without
I should
miss
lots
Historys
Still, they
impossible
some
butchered
Its
you to
a
die,
wonder
that
by accident,
have, silently
criminal
behavior,
larval habits
(were
yours).
no one
do
miracle
tics and
wincing
has been
or, as
Bombelli's
vanished
noise
into
neither
unmourned
we
as
for, but that, after twenty-four
should
cater-cousins,
of
Naples
regards
doing British
very
odd
under
look
of Strauss
and
crossword
indeed.
Stravinsky,
puzzles,
Im glad the builder
our common-room
through
the glassy
Bambino,
the portrayed
is
years,
sit here in Austria
which
no
home
should
gave
small windows
observed
outsider
can
observe
us:
every
be
fortress,
277
equipped
versed
Nature
in all ancient
the Dark
Lord
animivorous
can
buy
very
with all the
for keeping
and
magic,
engines
the arts
his hungry
chimeras.
machine
latest
at bay,
in
(Any
brute
shop,
of quelling
but the
sacred
and if
they won't
so
or
The
has warned
we
feasting,
we
the Spirit
without
ogre
us.
the kind,
wish
will
come
in
any case:
Howbeit,
both know
this: without
is in the worst
of taste,
though truth and love
really
the subaltern
we
die, but life
the Letter
and always,
can never
are secret to
is what
work.)
Joyce
fasting
spells
power
differ, when they
should
seem to,
be truth.
? July
87
Epithalamium
(F O R
PET ER
MUDFO RD
A ND
A UDEN
MA Y
All folk-tales
with
State
15,
mean
1
965 )
by ending
Marriage,
RI
TA
1963
feast
and fireworks,
Peter
and
we
you,
wish
Rita,
two idiosyncrasies
who
to
opt in this hawthorn
common your
month
lives.
278
A diffy
for to
are
undertaking,
us,
whose
odorless,
dreams
what
is real
seems a bit smelly:

strong nerves are an
an accurate
can
be
May
advantage,
wrist-watch
a great
Venus,
too
help.
to whose
caprice
all blood must buxom,

take such
shine
to
you
that, by her gifting,
your
palpable
may
re-ify
they
are
substances
those
purveyed
delights
for:
both
cool Hymen
teratoid
sulks,
from Jealousy's
phantasms,
competitive
and
Pride's
that
won't
headaches,
monologue
listen
but
tautological
echoes,
ever
you.
refrain
As genders,
who
share
twist,
us to
Mrs. Nature
are our
don't
our
quarter-tones,
myopic
own)
us.
to last
skins
leak like the
our ears can
vision
by
better built
than tigers,
choice
for doing
the handsome
are
your
thank
(our ugly looks
We
or not,
married
with all flesh
left-handed
reminds
demands
ciliates',
detect
even our most
have good
enough
for courtship:
279
and
uncanny
how
were
have got to
that life should
up
through
layers
as
Wherefore,
Seth-Smiths,
with civic
hail
after
the inhuman
purges.
Permian
we
us
the Citys
destruction
surviving
it is
say so.
to
here
Paleocene
Mudfords,
Audens,
Bonnergees,
spear
and distaff
gangrel
pseudo-rat,
the Ur-Papa
of princes
and crossing-sweepers:
as
Adams,
Eves,
to nonesuch
answer
commanded
being,
the One for Whom
enantiomorphs
are
super-posable,
yet
all
Who
numbers
by its
Proper
each particle
Name.
April 1965
88
Fairground
old tunes
Thumping
of colored
cease to
give
one can see
long before
lights,
beyond
voice
to its whereabouts
the dazzling
archway
which household
proverbs
be valid,
280
ground
and
sacred
his cult
panic,
shock,
by fool-proof
As passive
on
to the god of vertigo
of disarray:
are
here jeopardy,
dispensed
in measured
doses
engines.
objects,
Roller-Coaster
packed
or
tightly
together
Ferris-Wheel,
mortals
taste in their solid flesh the volitional
joys
of
seraph.
Soon the
Roundabout
of Right
one
ends
the clumsy
and Left: the riding
spinning
the perfect
sphere,
mob melts
the perfect
shape
conflict
into
performing
motion.
Mopped
and
through
mowed
clammy
cobwebs,
tunnel,
at,
as
their train-worms
by ancestral
grinning
spooks,
initiates
caressed
emerge
by
into
daylight
as
tribal heroes.
Fun for Youth

is not
a copy
who knows
of Father's,
learn that the tissues

like Mum's,
Those
are
on,
relieved
all hours
requiring
caution,
agenda,
spirit
which lend it stamina,
bourgeois.
with their wander-years
rather
spied
are
his libertine
but has yet to
behind
them, who
escape are
that all routes
of
of amusement
counted,
away:to
keep
silent
synods,
games
like
be found
they
play
in coigns
chess
that call for patience,
war,
or
where,
sitting
in
cribbage,
manoeuvre,
foresight,
like marriage.
June 1966
281
89
River
Our
body
is
Profile
a
moulded
river
Navalis
Out
of
head-on
bellicose
fore-time,
collisions
of cloud
up-thrust,
deadly
thundering
and rock
crevasse-and-avalanche,
in
an
troll country,
to breathers,
it whelms
into
our
picture
below
the
melt-line,
tarns lie frore
where
cirques,
under
frowning
goat-bell,
wind-breaker,
fishing-rod,
miner's-lamp
country,
at
already
ease
the mien and gestures

in streams,
down
a steep
in probing
Soon
still
of
down
size to be named
a steep
among
and the
cause
of
rival agencies,
stair, penstock-and-turbine
robber-baron,
country,
wriggling
between
tow-rope,
gorge
crags
incised
that nauntle
portage-way
in softer
heaven,
country,
of merchants.
Disembogueing
meanders,
country,
ram-starn,
hemmed
nightmare
its kindness,
still jumpable,
stair, penstock-and-turbine
to foam through
strata,
that become
anonymous,
spirals.
dirty in-fighting
it plunges
with
now
from foothills,
now
in riffling braids,
in hushed
it vaunts
across
senile
plain,
country,
well-entered,
chateau-and-cider-press
progress
its regal
282
gallanted
then
by
retort,
for
chim
Polluted,
neys:
by
led
bridged
it bisects
1a mode
by girders,
taxi,
or
the
duller,
tidal
concrete,
by
country,
foot-lights
burrow ing to the
hotter,
moon's
wastem antle,
cotton-gin
phases,
on
through
country
approaching
m ark
where
it
puts
and
punting-pole,
fowling-piece,
to its final
through
off
majesty,
sw am ps
disintegrates,
w earies
banked
m etropolis,
brothel,
pulverized
with
scours,
launder
always.
turbid
it
poplars,
cool and
gasom eter country,
polyglot
Broadening
flatter,
quibbling
off to
color.
ticker-tape,
while
steam-hammer,
it changes
now
of
oyster-tongs
delta,
country,
act
in
of surrender,
huge
attractive
image
of
death
spherical
m onsters,
too,
of
child
ever
no
aggregate
dream
cuddled
of, non-country,
as
dew-drop
our
atonement
effacement,
am orphous
tales
even as water,
of life. Unlovely
believe,
the
can
selfless
be
translated
mother
all especials.
July 1966
283
90
Prologue
(FO R
Dark-green
At
FRI
EDRI
CH
upon
the stationary
distant
flocks
Sixty
HEER)
heights
foresters
tend,
blonde
and fertile
browing
post-alone,
Easier
limbed
the fields
an
hog-back,
to hear,
to
harder
see,
lives, locomotive,
and irritable,
social
or
mates
and territories
solitary,
seek
their foods,
while their time lasts.
Radial republics,
to spots,
monarchies,
stoic
sort and self-policing,
by
enjoy
their
All but the youngest

Name-Giver,
of
rooted
bilateral
Law
frankly,
of data,
of their Flesh.
of the yawning
mammals,
Ghost-Fearer,
wars
and wise-cracks,
a rum creature,
the anxious
moving
rites, their realms
live well by the
whom
them:
stands
light-demanding.
automatic
maker
below
oak
in
species
chance
and
to bide here yearly
to leaf-blush,
crisis
always,
to which I belong,
my own
choice
have
from bud-haze
dislodged
from elsewhere,
arrived
by blood
Son
barbarian,
in bias
of the North,
outside
Rapacious
crude
my
pirates
of view
the limes.
were,
people
and cruel, but not calculating,
284
never
nor
marched
in step
sank like senators
for grandiose
I can translate
of five
parish
to
buildings
But the Gospel
reached
what
nor
made
straight
slaves
and gladiators.
the
unroman
churches
preach
in Baroque:
all Luck is good,
Flesh must fall through fated time
from birth to death, both unwilled,

but Spirit
from
may
And
climb counterwise
death, in faith freely chosen,
to resurrection,
the Greek
re-beginning.
Code
lands.
onion-towers
to make One, there must be Two,

Love is substantial,
roads,
taste
got to
us
also:
Mind of Honor must acknowledge
the happy
eachness
even
distinguish
to what-is-the-case.
and bear witness
on
East, West,
motorists
sandy
Alluvial
lands
as
litters
the
shamble
valued
pass us pay
away
passage.
often,
North,
alps
of path-seekers.
ski-slope
or
theatre-opening,
attention
hamlets
where
at harvest
child-driven,
down
285
by,
of nature:
Age,
of limestone
upon
tractors,
grace
lie to the
progress
squandered
chugging
by
in the Stone
vale is
Their thoughts
our
granted
of outwash,
embarrass
to
the Main Line

will snake
flats. flooded
to the South
few who
on
express
a gap
still today,
our
the Autobahn
whoosh,
far-sighted
through
of all things,
from odd numbers,
sheltered
lanes.
time
now
Quiet
but acquainted
with unwelcome
scare
scream,
and
Turks
have
the scathe
on
empired
my
Solihull
bronchial
the Festiniog
Cross
Austrian
lunch,
made
Isafjordur,
Poprad,
me
years
itself,
numinous
gas-works,
gazed
map
at in
awe
boy, the Blue John Mine,
railway,
sacred
good lay,
the Fiirbringer
is odd to
vaunts,
ground),
the Rhayader
Fell, Keld and Cauldron
of sites
they brought.
of hedge-rows
names to my
its
of the
legions,
joy
the landscape
love has looked
added
by
of battle:
tract after ten
this unenglish
into
no
and
the absence
(no Whig landlord,
ever
too
violation,
been here, Boneys
Russians,
Germans,
Though
visitors,
by something
or
sheer
Epomeo,
read there,
lightness
and the Friedrich
Basel, Bar-Ie-Duc,
dams,
Snout,
of heart,
Strasse,
of
more
modern
on
holies, Middagh
Hall and the Con-Ed
Carnegie
am
First Avenue. Who
An American?
opens
who
No,
his Times
whose
dream
images
awake
among
lasers,
sex
do-it-yourself
bugged
phones,
date him already,

electric
brains,
and sick jokes.
orbited
our sorry
at
page,
at the obit
manuals.
helpless
has blinked
I now?
Yorker,
sophisticated
weapon-systems
Already
New
Street,
stacks
dog
conceited
O,
286
where
many are
my
and
who
read
Now
Rilke
sleep
treaties
who
in their
in jumbo
nor
are
are not
shit
signed
few
look
good,
out torturers
the Cosmocrats
time-zones
nor
famished,
day turned
rest periods.
are
jets
have
crashed
to
our
Joint
Conference:
shepherds
(with secret
all there.
through
had, and
clauses)
by Heads
sense to
Can Sixty
make
What
my camp
has
with buttons
Much,
Taste
was no
To speak
beyond
when
and beards
I hope.
with theirs,
and Be-Ins?
In Acts it is written
at Pentecost.
problem
is human
hope, for
because
an
the creatured
Likeness:
Sixteen-Plus?
common
in
Image
to listen,
shall become
translate
Giver-of-Life,
till I accomplish
human
Eighth Day,
my corpse at
for
the
me
last.
April 1967
91
Forty
Except
where
Years
blast-furnaces
On
and
generating-stations
have
or a
inserted
Thru-Way
Bohemias
look
just
their
sharp
slashes
contours
as
amiable
profiles
harshly
now
across
them,
as
when I saw
them first
her coast
(indeed,
is
gentler,
for tame hotels

the havocking
have
bears),
ousted
nor
have her dishes
lost
their flavor
was
since Florizel
thwacked
into exile
287
and
we
and Sicily
discorded,
fused into
rival amalgams,
in creed and policy
Only
drastic
has
to the
ear
oppugnant.
is it patent
something
happened,
that
orators
no more
of primogeniture,
speak
prerogatives
of
age
and
sceptre:
(for
our
health
the fraternal
that
was
shop
we
of
have had to learn
our new
Bonzen,
easy.)
For
useful technician
I lacked
but
the schooling,
was
my
survived
for
bureaucrat
the
all I had
Sitz-FIeisch:
the courtiers
and
to adapt
agility
to the times. It sufficed.
rogueries
prosper
than I ever did under
better
the old lackadaisical
economy:
it is
many
years now
since
my
or
travelled
on
was
singing
audience
deft
for pennies,
boo
but today's
my
ballads:
it calls
of Protest,
and
wants its bawdry
straight
A pedlar
still, for
reasons
I no longer
but in ill-lit
likely
(how
or sang
I miss,
would
not surreptitious.)
obvious
pocket
then!),
foot.
(The
for Songs
I picked
hand
cry my wares,
alleys
coaxingly
whisper
clients:
Anything
you cannot
In the stores
English
I will
foot-wear,
Or transistor
buy
supply,
nylon hose,
radios;
to
me
to
Come
for the Swiss
Unobtainable
For
Any
price
Ican invent
official
document,
Work-Permits,
Driving-Licences,
you
Any Certificate
Believe
me,
Iknow
There is nothing
Why, then,
should
No rheum has
cardiac
Francs
in banks;
please:
all the tricks,
I cant
fix.
I badger?
my
altered
gait,
as ever my
muscles
are
my
undismayed,
perfectly
competent,
cells
and by
now
I am far
too rich
for the thought
noose
of the hangman's
288
me
to make
around
oggle. But how
seem
suddenly
and how
seldom
to have become,
I feel like
hay-tumble.
three
now
of
I see
glib all the faces
me
I have
a suave
had the
afternoon
same
For
nights
running
dream
in Fall. I am standing
on
high
ground
looking
over
out westward
run
plain,
smoothly
by Jaguar farmers.
In the
eloignment,
a-glitter
sheer
in the whelking
bare cliff concludes
sun,
the vista. At its base
see,
black,
shaped like
the mouth of
dream)
bell-tent,
by which
(I know
in
my
I am to
my
make
so
its roof
make
a cave
final exit,
low it will need
an
awkward
duck to
it.
Well,
will that be
I ask when
awake.
so
shaming?,
Why
should
it be? When has
Autolycus
ever
solemned
himself?
1968
92
Ode
The High Priests
to Terminus
of telescopes
and cyclotrons
keep
pronouncements
making
on
to be noticed
discoveries
which,
euphemisms
enough
the vulgar
tongue, will give
to gardeners
or
senses,
native
in the elegant
look
innocent,
but, when translated
anthropomorphic
no cause
for hilarity
housewives:
bolt like panicking

riot
happenings
dwarfish
couched
of algebra,
harmless
into
our
by
about
or
too gigantic
scales
like fish in
if galaxies
mobs,
if
mesons
feeding-frenzy,
289
too like Political
it sounds
to boost
civil morale,
the crimes
we are
How
and strikes
supposed
trite, though,
that were
so
our
of
and demonstrations
to gloat
fears
here to shiver,
addicted
History
too symbolic
on at
beside
that
breakfast.
the miracle
Thingummy
to lethal violence
should
have
somehow
tump with exactly
the right
to start and to cocker
give
account
Earth, where
moves
and his light is felt
where
outline
not
all visibles
they
recognize
who
as a
in motion,
each other
to all species
biology
may
definite
undoubtedly
lovers
by their surface,
the talkative
and diet that
whatever
micro-
think, is the world
live in and that
saves our
all too well how
mind behaves
appearances
where
the niche
them. This,
Middle-
bombardment,
are
except
become
know
our
friendly
do have
have been allotted
really
shall have to
to occident,
photonic
to, and
stick
or
at rest
where
to all
by day from orient
presence
heavenly
at the Judgement,
Sun-Father
placid
ingredients
Life, that
manage we
for whose
freak
secreted
we
sanity,
the most
in the dark
without
erudite
surround
it is called
how, discarding
it sinks
into
rhythm,
driveling
see a
too literal to
distinguish
penis
on to
interpret,
punctuation,
metaphor,
monologue,
or
joke
from
pencil.
290
Venus
are powers too
and Mars
our
to temper
You alone.
can
God
of walls,
overtakes
Terminus
us
teach
doors
but blessed
of two
or
also.
that thanks
and
every
in confident
the pentecostal
each in each finds
In this world
has plundered
our
colossal
nemesis
technocrat,
is the City
grace,
'
our gestures.
and reticence,
us games
three
repeats
as
the Mentor,
to alter
the sacrilegious
for giving
By whose
how
natural
extravagance:
outlandish
grammar
you
and metres.
gathering
amity
marvel,
his right translator.
immodesty
and poisoned,
it is possible
save us.
You still might
learned
us to
must remind
tall story,
who
by
that
take
self-proclaimed
audience,
all they
abhorred
utter
now
say as a
are
in the Heavns
poets
who,
have
to be truthful,
this: that scientists.
to
some resonant
all
wow an
lie.
May
1968
93
1968
August
The Ogre
Deeds
does
what
But
one
The
Ogre cannot
About
Among
The
prize
is beyond
master
subjugated
its desperate
Ogre
While
ogres can,
quite impossible
stalks
for Man,
his reach,
Speech:
plain.
and slain,
with hands
drivel gushes
on
hips,
from his lips.

September
291
1968
94
A
New
(After
an
Year
Article
by M ary J. Marples
in Scientific
American,
1969)
January
(FO R
V A S SI
LY
On this
day
stock
Bacteria,
Happy
my
New
Yeasts,
free
your
choice
Year
ectoderm
Middle-Earth
For creatures
lives,
Viruses,
to all for whom
as
our
you,
and Anaerobics:
A Very
is
allots
of
to all of
greetings
Aerobics
Y A NO W S K Y )
tradition
to taking
my
Greeting
to
me.
size I offer
of habitat,
so
settIe
yourselves
that
of
you
suits
my pores or
in the deserts
or
the
do
and lipids
me annoy
of
my
scalp.
and moisture,
you
need,
you never
with
as
but behave
or
crotch,
I will supply
warmth
condition
not rioting
and
fore-arms,
cool woods
adequate
on
my
of
Build colonies:
the sebum
the tropical
of arm-pit
forests
zone
in the
best, in the pools
your presence,
good guests
should,
acne
into
athlete's-foot
or a
boil.
292
Does
my
inner
weather
the surfaces
Do unpredictable
record
from fairs
my
where
affect
you
live?
changes
rocketing
when the mind
plunge
is in tift
and relevant
no one
and
I should
but
calls
like to think
a not
occur
thoughts
to fouls when nothing
impossible
will happen
and it rains.
that I make
world,
an Eden it cannot be:

my games. my purposive
may turn to
If
catastrophes
you were
your
how would
unmerited
religious
folk,
dramas
justify
suffering?
would
your
for the hurricanes
that
By what
twice
myths
every
twenty-four
each time I dress
when,
clinging
whole
that
Then.
a
when
sooner or
my
account
hours,
undress,
are swept away
space. or
scalds
day
or
priests
come
to keratin rafts,
cities
to perish in
acts,
there.
the Flood
to death when I bathe?
later, will dawn
of Apocalypse,
mantle
suddenly
turns
too cold. too rancid.
of
am
sort, and I
fiercer
stripped
you,
for
to predators
appetising
Past,
of
excuse
and
nimbus,
to Judgement.
subject
May 1969
293
95
Moon
Its
so
natural
huge
Landing
the Boys
phallic
it would
should
triumph,
not have
exact
we
time:
hurrah
like huddling
made
in
yes, our sex may

the deed,
that primed
it
to
up
for
women
possible
gangs
only
and knowing
in fairness
although
were
it
adventure
occurred
to think worth while,
because
whoop
an
the motives
somewhat
less
than
the
menschlich.
gesture.
A grand
What
does
But what
it osse?
with objects
courage
at
the first
still don't
only
Homer's
our
than
was
excused
lively
glories,
where
braver
Hector
of having
I can well believe
it.
I ance rode through
remote
mornings
merely
by television.
charmed:
the New, the
August
no
fortunate:
the insult
garden,
was
like Adams,
modern
certainly
Mneh!
was not
facile
from the moment
lack of decorum.
more
to see?
seeing?
on
exactly,
covered
going
selves,
adroiter
more
this landing
our
were
Trio, but
Worth
about
us
fit
heroes
Worth
and
flaked
in thisour
his valor
and
than kindness:
of time. But
it period?
always
than lives,
was
flint
a matter
does
were
We
von
give
me a
desert
watered
from blatherers
Brauns
and their
ilk, where
I can count the morning
to die has
meaning,
no
and
can
engine
my
shift
perspective.
294
Unsmudged,
as
Heavens
thank
God,
ebbs
She
my
Moon
and fulls,
still
queens
the
to glop
Presence
at,
Her Old Man, made
still visits
with His
still have
an
is
my
old detachment,
a greater
Hybris
comes to
oaf than Superstition.
squalid
will continue
mess
we can pray
chefs
and the old warnings
Irreverence
finish,
Our apparatniks
all
several
power to scare me:
ugly
the usual
of grit not protein,
Austrian
and saints
called
for is that
may
still
making
History:
artists,
appear to
blithe it.
August
96
Old
Peoples
Home
1969
All
nuance
are
limitory,
of damage.
but each has her
The elite
can
own
dress
and decent
themselves,
are
to read
ambulant
book
movements
with
of what
has
to
(Yes,
is their
freedom
obnoxious
single
or
stick, adroit
play
the slow
of
easy sonatas.
carnal
all through,
perhaps
spirit's
happened
their
bane:
very
intelligent
glum beyond
tears.)
Then
come
on
those
wheels,
majority,
lenient
who
therapists,
the loners,
the terminally
parody.
endure
the
in Limbo,
incompetent,
impeccable
(Plants
average
T.V. and, led by
do community-singing,
muttering
unspeakable,
they
are
and why, they
as
then
and last
improvident,
as
may sweat
the plants
profusely
but
never
sully
themselves.)
them: all
295
One tie, though,
unites
appeared
when
the world,
though
much
was awry
there,
was more
more
spacious,
an
with
audience
in dismay
and secular
with Mamma,
to be revalued
Gran
we
all know
generation
to look at, its Old Ones
comely
station.
a story.
and told
what
Then
could refuge
child,
with
now,
As of
to expect, but their
is the first to fade like this, not at home
but assigned
to
numbered
conscience
as
frequent
unpopular
ward,
stowed
out of
luggage.
I ride the subway
to spend half-an-hour
she
was
not
in the
pomp
when week-end
with
one,
and sumpture
visits
were a
I revisage
presumptive
good work. Am I cold to wish for
painless
that God
or
dormition,
Nature
pray, as
will abrupt
who
of her hey-day,
I know
joy,
speedy
she
prays,
her earthly
function?
1970
97
to Myself
Talking
(FO R
year
this
Spring
O LI
V ER
SA C K S)
in Austria
started
off benign,
heavens
lucid, the air stable, the about
feeders,
vegetate
the deathless
regime,
of
course
but You have

object,
pleased
Porn-Ads,
with-it
to the bottle,
Your poise, strange
preserved
malapert
are,
there
with their
is compulsory.
next door has taken
whom I, made
warped,
looked
what is not forbidden
and hubby
in Gods
Image
will-worship,
but
rustic
already
must bow to
Me.
296
My
alloted
I must
but
manor,
mortal
to
the
carnal
my manage, my
earn
territory
fosterling
cash to support,
for whose
all
bestial:
minerals
where
Shadows
clergy,
or
the
sane to
too,
my tutor
neural instructions
also,
I could
never
as
acknowledge
what
Instinctively
nor
prone to
poor
let
or
smeller,
omnivore
palate
Unpredictably,
among
down
rather
a censor
can
that
decades
that unending
from Nature's
my
Random
maw.
As You augmented
and
should have been much
proportions
far
with
an
creatures
spewed
says
event,
say
was meant to
Science.
I,
be?
profile,
more
and, all things
have You been
no
imposing:
Ive been
I've gotten used to Your
considered,
I might
have
worse.
were,
(it did
of
developed
let down! By now, though,
You
too
at Your looks askance. His architecture
I looked
Seldom
funk,
food.
A true miracle,
that he
fangs
You arrived
A random
bottom!
Your
of smells,
take hot
ago,
neither
and therefore
upon
cascade
for who is not certain
fared
having
sun go
is not.
what
nor venom,
hooves
the
imagine
I guess,
passive,
nor
talons
or
is
I admit,
bother.
a martyr to
good to tell YouBut
For
many years
horn-colic
Im not in love!):
how
stoutly,
though,
invasions,
with
You
are
the
Injured
Party
got You hooked.
(Had
younger,
addicts
Imight
as
the pusher
we
well have
been both
You
mischiefed
bit
worse
needle.)
I'm always
coasts
I am
for, if short-sighted,
I was
germ
all
my tantrums
who tired You, if short-winded
are,
cigarette
with
repelled
chastised
megrim.
the book-worm
who
You've
never
but
at how
amazed
and outgates
what-goes
on
little
I know,
inland,
Iknow
You. Your
for I govern
there,
but
the rites, the social codes,
297
Your torrents,
salt
what
is
I believe
Our marriage
what
is not
that I cannot
whose
is
and sunless,
on
doctors
drama,
spoken
no
You will
escapes
enigmas:
only.
stage-play
is not thought:
syllable
raison-d'etre
but
remain
hearsay
in
our
pronounce
me.
Why
where
theatre
all
in acts
secrete
fluid
or
when I dole,
stretch
or open,
to close
Demands
must
come
mine
(all I have
of hours
done
when You
when I joy?
or
include
corner, are no
from Your
Your work
Your lips
is to provide
may put
when I librate
eject,
province
of
the time-table
them):
but what
between
is
glum and
frolic?
For dreams
All I know
they would
mean
I, quite irrationally,
is that
I don't
to
conform
just what
some
say.
they
as a poet
make,
Thanks
to Your otherness,
unlike
my
human
the
apposite
discipline,
point
nocturnal
I disapprove.
Your jocular
emblem
congregations,
perceived,
prosodic
realm of dissonance
can serve me as my
You.
them: if I could,
Whatever
manias
so
reproach
choose
and
concords,
anger,
for the Cosmos:
though,
sign is
as
You
for
Hobbes
some
ungainly
monster.
Whoever
All States
have
coined the phrase The Body Politic?

we've
lived in,
had shocking
health,
or
historians
tell of,
psychosomatic
cases,
physicked
by sadists
when
I read the
Time,
we
both know,
I'm scared
of
or
glozing
papers,
our
You
will decay
divorce:
ones. Remember:
expensive
seem an
Ive
You, and already
seen some
please,
pay no
my
to
attention
for His sake
piteous
horrid
says to
when Le Bon Dieu
Leave him!, please,
quacks:
Adonis.
Dont's,
You
and mine,
but bugger
off quickly.
April
298
98
A
The
Lullaby
din of work
another
day
and mantling
is subdued,
has westered
darkness
Peace! Peace! Devoid
of its vexations
Your
daily
you've
arrived.
your
round is done
gotten the garbage
answered
some
portrait
and rest.
tiresome
with,
out,
letters
1971
and paid
bill by return,
all frettolosame nte.
you
Now
naked,
jacent
its
have
curled
to lie,
licence
like
shrimplet,
in bed, and enjoy
cosy
micro-climate:
Sing, Big Baby, sing lullay.
The old Greeks
Narcissus
tamed
an
is
got it all
wrong:
oldie,
at last
by time, released
from lust for other bodies,
rational
For
and reconciled.
many years you
the hirsute,
now you
No longer:
your
almost
with mettled
imagining
sinless
snug
envied
the he-man
type.
fondle
feminine
flesh
satisfaction,
that
you are
and all-sufficient,
in the den of yourself,
Madonna
and Bambino:
Sing, Big Baby, sing lullay.

Let
your
last
thinks
all be thanks:
your parents
praise
who
gave you
of strength
Super-Ego
299
that
saves you so
digit friends
then
to
pay
much bother,
and dear
them all,
fair attribution
your age, to
born when
having
you were.
been
In boyhood
you were
permitted
beautiful
old contraptions,
soon to
be banished
saddle-tank
Yes, love,
waterwheels.
you
Sing, Big Baby,
down below
They
have been lucky:
sing lullay.
for oblivion:
the belly-mind
the domain
who
from earth,
loks, beam-engines
and over-shot
Now
to meet
let
take
over
the diaphragm,
of the Mothers,
guard the Sacred
Gates,
without
soon
whose
wordless
the verbalising
becomes
vicious
lewd, incapable
disdainful,
Should
for all, both
are
jokes
despot,
of love,
status-hungry.
dreams
you,
haunt
sweet
them not,
heed
and horrid,
in dubious
too jejune
warnings
taste,
to have truck with.
Sleep, Big Baby, sleep
your
fill.
April 1972
99
A
Thanksgiving
When pre-pubescent
that moorlands
people
I felt
and woodlands
seemed
were
rather profane.
300
sacred:
Thus,
when
Hardy and Thomas
Falling
now
and Stalin
was
think
I sure
me
Now,
as
and home
Nature
back
things
doing
about
God.
were
Williams
in
years
bountiful
allures
wrong?
and Lewis
to belief.
Imellow
in
Brecht.
were
they
Wild Kierkegaard,
guided
the whole
me, was
hair-raising
me to
forced
Graves.
crumbled:
to instruct
Finally,
Why
warning,
suddenly
that Hitler
important:
so was
help,
Then, without
Economy
that,
was
at least,
was a
there,
verse,
and Frost.
in love altered
Someone,
Yeats
to
I started
sat at the feet of
I presently
me
landscape,
again.
Who
are
the tutors
I need?
Well, Horace, adroitest
of makers,
beeking
in Tivoli, and
Goethe.
devoted
who
guessed
Newton
Fondly
without
to stones,
thathe
led Science
I ponder
could
prove
weakest
have
managed
of lines.
7 May
301
100
Archaeology
The
archaeologists
delves
into dwellings
vacancied
long
ago,
it
astray.
You all:
You I couldn't
even my
never
spade
1973
unearthing
evidence
no one
of life-ways
would
dream of leading
concerning
to
say
the
which
that
lucky
man!
may
Knowledge
have
its
purposes,
is always
fun than knowing.
We do know
or
from fear
has
he has not much
can prove:
he
but guessing
more
now,
always
What
that
Man,
affection,
graved
disastered
volcanic
His dead.
city,
effusion,
fluvial outrage,
or a
agog
human
horde,
for slaves
is visually
and were
and glory,
patent,
pretty
sure
that,
as soon as
palaces
were
built,
their rulers,
though
must
on sex
gluttoned
and blanded
often
by flattery,
have yawned.
302
But do grain-pits
a year
Where
peters
some
murals
and statues
glimpse
of what
Old Ones bowed
in what
infer
catastrophe?
Maybe.
but cannot
or
we
out, should
we get a
the
coin-series
major
Maybe.
From
signify
of famine?
conceit
situations
shrugged
down to,
they
blushed
their shoulders.
Poets
but
have
just
learned
how
When Norsemen
did they
was
seriously
take them?
I'd
that
men
heard
thunder,
believe
hammering?
say:
No,
as
their myths,
a stumper.
That's
Thor
us
did They
I'd
have
swear
always
lounged
Tall Stories,
their real earnest
that
has been to grant
excuses
for ritual actions.
Only
in rites
can we renounce
and be truly
Not
that
should
oddities
all rites
be equally
some are
our
entired.
fonded:
abominable.
in myths
Theres
would
nothing
like
the Crucified
less
to
than butchery
appease
Him.
CODA
From Archaeology
one
moral,
at least,
may
be drawn,
to wit, that all
our
school
What
is nothing
being
text-books
lie.
they call History
to vaunt
made,
as
by the criminal
goodness
of,
it is,
in
us:
is timeless.
August
304
1973
on
A Note
The
poems
published
in this
books
(1930):
Poems
(second
The
edition
(1932):
Dog Beneath
Look,
Stranger!
Island):
first
appeared
in Auden's
follows:
No. 1-11
Poems
The Orators
selection
as
the Text
1933):
No. 12-14
No. 15-16
the
Skin
(1936,
(1935):
American
No. 24-25
title
On
This
17-23,
No.
26-30
Spain
No. 34
(1937):
Letters
Iceland
from
Journey
to
Another
Time
The
Double
No.
52
The
War
British
Being
Poetry
Collected
of
(1944):
W.
H.
41-49
title
New
Year
Letter):
No. 60
Auden
(1945,
similar
edition
Collected
The Age
Nones
(1941,
For the Time
British
No. 40
No. 33, 35-39,
(1940):
Man
No. 31-32
(1937):
(1939):
Shorter
of Anxiety
(1951):
Poems
(1947):
No. 63-69
1930-1944):
No. 50-51,
53-59
No. 61-62
(and
no.
75, parts
Iand IV only)
The
of Achilles
Shield
to
Homage
only)
About
City
Without
Thank
You,
Auden
later
House
No. 87-93
(1972):
No. 94-97
certain
XXVI
abridged,
40
39,
the
remaining
(the
may
in
34,
40
poems
Other
no.
notably
31,
versions
25,
poems
be
found
in
this
Audens
(parts
10,
parts),
have
in
were
4,
remaining
poems
early
poems
appear
17,
47.
only),
of his
the
Of
not
7,
VIII
No. 98-100
Fog (1974):
did
86, part
No. 82-86
(1965):
(1969):
no.
no.
(and
WalIs
excluded
edition:
70-75
No.
76-81
No.
Godson
collections.
following
or
the
to
Epistle
(1955):
(1960):
Clio
lesser
X,
XIV,
extensively
16,
20,
44,
54,
23,
57.
Poems
XX,
revised
24,
28,
Most
revi-sions.
CoIIected
the
collected
final
IX,
his
from
book,
The
of
final
(1976)
305
or,
most
for
As
those
stated
of
corrected
some
the
of
Collected
paperback
in the
preface,
first
published
the
on
minor
important
Shorter
the
basis
revisions
Poems
the
of
that
changes,
in
1927-1957
texts
editions,
in
this
with
manuscripts,
Auden
the
(1966).
book
are
misprints
and
made
with
shortly
after
to
publication.
first
or
two
poems,
three
more
adopts
cuts
to
published.
In
incorporates
when
more
memory
17
line
"The
About
had
complicated
published
the
House
"Postscripts;
Auden
omitted
which
he
the
them
prepared
Auden
apparently
press
the
for
and
textual
unpub-lished,
lapse
occurs
revision
where
censor
"To
reading
of
in
the
context-
in
play.
some
poems
these
but
assuming
superior
intricate
shorter
appeared.
(the
IV,
play-clearly
In
edition
part);
part
of
replaces
the
for
in
first
text
change
new
later
Auden's
dated
present
the
small
cuts,
text
edition
was
the
reasons
on
be
book
with
poem,
this
of
poem
time
second
the
This
present
can
cuts
after
only
meter.
the
the
the
for
these
first
year
good
offers
86
the
preparing
than
history
made
same
the
for
in
where
a year
simultaneously
forgot
8,
in
amounts
instance
adjustment
(1930);
about
one
only
no.
Auden
Poems
of
manuscript
made
small
poem
is
the
(1933)
than
exception
occur
revisions
Such
and
of
have
in
the
parts
appended
his
shortly
been
own
after
of
to
poem
them
omit-ted
here,
selections,
the
one
poem
no.
as
as
of
first
306
Index
Titles
cellar
cloudless
and First Lines
underneath
night
room,
living
shilling
life will
starling
and
About
Adventure
Reading
After
shaking
are
The
been
Alonso
141
259
all the
slowly
208
276
32
facts
200
never
wrong
79
141
108
Child's
paws
limitory,
All had
you
were
in
108
After
All folk-tales
area you
willow-wren
they
walking
father,
catholic
give
not lived
though
188
this
Francisco
Adventurers,
All
the
suffering
and
the house,
like
an average
A lake allows
Adrian
of
but
mean
Guide
with
his
each has
by
ordered
ending
weeks
to Modern
dog
her
Physics
218
own
295
278
before
the
start
99
246
Always
far from
Among
pelagian
Among
the
the
age
And
the
traveller
the
ended,
small
birds
and the last
hopes:
Let
sing
77
231
deliverer
me
be
at last has
quit
to be the
Ashamed
a young
As all the
child
pigs
As
I walked
At
Dirty
At
the
the
turned
and
back
evening
Sloppy
Henry
adore
into
him
men
144
119
307
1968
Average,
set
291
The
on
Bucolics
But
I Can't
But
in the
105
the
idea
116
202
110
evening
the
oppression
lifted
69
136
60
Joe's
James
102
grief
could
116
Atlantis
Being
any
178
of his
wisest
one
out
of
the field
darling
have
Dick's
Grave
August
70
died
far from
302
Archaeology
As
248
136
Antonio
Ares
of
travelers
leaves
And
our names
the centre
74
46
Caliban
to the Audience
Capital,
The
Casino
45
Cave
of
Making,
Cave
of
Nakedness,
71 City,
this
Dear
Dear,
Dear
214
Son,
again
14
time
he
saw,
the key
admiral,
273
There
284
lips
warm
our
Doom
18 Door,
259
playful
your
fly
bed, being
is dark
The
your streams
in all
202
187
far
and
99
141
44
violences
cast
no
111
cry
multitudes
gone
is
water,
clear
Don Juan needs
sea-dingle
of
the night
below
heights
fingering
distant
when the
water,
undress
and
100
upon
though
Deftly,
Down
our
in
passes was,
all benevolence
Deep
again
242
Kind
Dark-green
Dear,
song mount
276
and
The
Crossroads,
Dame
the
230
of the
Control
let
Life, The
Compline
Consider
273
The
101
The
Common
256
The
praise:
Certainly
148
78
too
impatient
deeper
than
any
to
my
Easily,
you move,
dear,
me,
Embrace
Encomium
belly,
bear
them
Epitaph
on a
Tyrant
in Arcadia
Except
your
33
head
138
through
the
sky:
theyre
72
free
80
278
Epithalamium
250
Ego
grave,
Evening,
easily
bride
263
Balnei
Engines
Et
like
where
immense,
and
blast-furnaces
139
clear
and
generating-stations
287
308
280
Fairground
Fall
of
The
Rome,
183
Far from the heart
First
Temptation,
First
Things
Flesh,
256
Fresh
From
For
and
Friends
you, warm secret
Only
for all enclosures
Years
addenda
Friday's
73
236
unique,
and
Forty
used
197
fair.
For this
was
102
The
First
Visit
137
kiss
he
137
Ferdinand
Fleet
of culture
Child
On
are
that
my
269
like
it the
archetype
287
published
every
day
106
237
gallery-grave
and
the hunt
of
wren-king
252
From
very
the
of
Geography
He
to
First,
the
in the
He parried
every
He
and
stayed:
He
turned
He
was
found
his
He
was
their
He
watched
Hearing
Here
Hero,
His
of
war
The
Homage
by
to
free
into
and
all his
they
of
say
noted
organs
70
throne
107
hurled
66
in possession
237
68
meeting-place
rotting
like
the
choose
Bureau
stars
80
winter
from
that
servant-some
simple
of
imprisoned
the
harvests
is
His peasant
field
with
generous
Horae
question
was
the
He watched
dead
wisdom
us we were
141
266
Ethics
in all his
to fly
239
Mezzogiorno
Then
disappeared
He looked
He told
261
The
must learn
little sunbeams
Good-bye
Grub
the House,
139
Gonzalo
Good
down
110
The
Garden,
coming
first
Statistics
he
was
birds
of
in the
85
68
in flight
concern
valleys
a monument
to be
blind
67
103
28
72
107
bearing
parents
to Ciio
Canonicae
was a new
killed
232
216
invention
themselves
67
with toil
105
How
still
it
175
is; the horses
309
I can
imagine
I know
206 I sit
If
all
If it
quite
retired
one
in
a top
ones
184
of
one
lady
been
known
227
mountains
246
that
we
dismissed
148 If the
211
paints
86
knows
hill
the
inconstant
your
hired
overlooking
In
garden
our
shady
city
this
has
holy
96
In Memory
of
Sigmund
In Memory
of
W. B. Yeats
In Praise
In Time
of
In villages
and
War
from
Incredulous,
it is odd
natural
80
184
111
in Health
64
which
he stared
their
at the
came
childhoods
101
105
amused
210
Islands
was
91
Freud
Limestone
of
In Sickness
It
only
dives
having
up
ending
who
landscape
now,
If
impersonators
always
the
physicist
form the
easily
dentist
that
Easter
the
the
as
Boys
English
I walked
should
263
in the public
whoop
it
up
gardens
for
294
7 It's
Journey
to Iceland
Jumbled
in the
Kicking
Lady,
his
for
say
the
your
Lesson,
of his
soul
123
95
crossroads
Lawgiver
176
gardeners,
is the
sleeping
you a
tell
stranger,
Look,
up at
Looking
Lucky,
Make
Mechanic,
55
now
island
stars,
Iknow
43
quite
well
237
merchant,
144
king
the City
never
147
201
loveable
Boatswain
for
would
Miranda
the
story
little
at this
night
and
Memorial
89
50
299
this
Master
sun
love
107
The
Lullaby,
my
head,
125
The
me
Men
go
she let
231
Lauds
Let
until
at the
115
box
208
Lament
Lay
mother
weeping
Lakes
Law,
46
common
have
146
190310
come
to need
an
attic
260
Miss
55
Gee
Moon
M ore
Loving
206
et Infans
Mundus
Musee
des
My
Dear
My
rioters
Nature
123
79
Arts
as
is mine
so near:
my
the rooks
names.
their
window
in his
Nobody
I know
was
It
suburb
147
lonely
145
dream
in the college
63
garden
292
Greeting,
are
mirrors
all disappear,
Year
No, not
Beaux
One
is
237
The
One,
Mountains
New
294
Landing
the
lights
would
others
that
who
bedroom
to be buried
like
76 No
built
101
where
253
Nocturne
201
223
Nones
175
Noon
Nothing
as
Now,
is given:
desire
Now
the leaves
Now
through
42
for
doors
O Love,
O what
where
we must
and
are
the
falling
night's
to be
the
is that
are you
find
things
open
sound
fast
caressing
interest
and
itself
which
going?
said
our
an
77
law
230
desired
43
41
grip
invite
with gilded
in thoughtless
so
thrills
reader
the
ear
to rider
edges
25
Heaven
26
19
"O
who
can ever gaze
Old
Peoples
Old
saints
this
Only
day
295
millstones
tradition
smell
are
hands
289
Home
on
48
fill
with cats
float
210
On
the
248
Circuit
On
his
to Terminus
Ode
had
to the
living;
292
allots
to make
feelings
wheel
66 Only
known
45
attracted
the
Orpheus
55
Others
has
had
made
hunting
Out
of
not
off
to the
submission
told
fathers
yet
Ours
swerved
its
ours,
bellicose
the
left
story
being
before
green
and the
Our
Our
33
set apart
fore-time,
108
232
269
282
thundering
311
Out
of
Out
of it
Out
on
Oxford
gothic
steps
the
lawn
the pallid
future
of the
I lie in bed
children
poor
239
99
29
63
Perfection,
Plains
North,
the
211
of
kind,
was
what
he
was
after
80
hill
Poet,
oracle
and
Preparations,
104
The
216
Prime
Prologue
At
Prologue:
to Ariel
78
waiting
Quest,
you
must
Really,
Say
this
city
Sea
and
the
the
rich
ten million
has
breakfast
souls
127
The
261
145
Temptation,
1, 1939
September
102
The
86
219
Sext
looked
Shield
Should
of
are
99
245
Mirror,
after
where
The
282
Profile
Sebastian
252
83
Blues
Refugee
Second
of Architecture
129
of pleasures
Quarter
Seated
284
Sixty
The Birth
Prospera
She
99
The
Presumptuous,
River
109
wit
174
Postscript
over
his
Achilles,
the shade
shoulder
The
198
of Plato
266
198
83
always
as
Simultaneously,
you are
Since
no
Sir,
like
Simple
So
all
the
from
heavy
Sob,
to begin
enemy,
man's
wishes,
the gifts
12
to-day
all
forgiving
dream
years
216
soundlessly
going
they
were
75
employ
showered;
64
each
176
world
187
Song
for
Song
St.
Day
Cecilias
96
51
Spain
312
upon
Spinning
this
Spring
with
act
me,
129
I pack,
and
108
296
benign
off
with
your
first
Stay
free
242
sow-dugged
138
he'd
meant
Talking
while
like tops
thirst
started
214
Suppose
Sylvan
central
in Austria
Steatopygous,
Streams
Taller
Ariel,
no
Stepha
their
year
listened
savage
to M yself
to-day,
we
107
committee
primal
woods
204
296
remember
218
Thanksgiving,
to the erudite
in those
300
similar
evenings
3 Terce
Thanksgiving
for
The
aged
The
archaeologists
The
din
The
eyes
catch
of work
is
first
125
The
friends
100
The High Priests
life
of
life
of
The
Ogre
The
over-logical
The
are
does
are
and
fell for the
suffer;
They
died
They
noticed
They
wondered
that
an
is
This
lunar
Though
upon
that
of
291
the
The
106
waves
than
183
119
marble
36
lake
They
73
do
like
was
fruit
their
glittering
the closed
virginity
architecture
aware
its
is all they
why
beauty
75
197
with them
entered
Temptation,
This
289
102
look
witch
intransigeant
terror
and
are gone
cyclotrons
completed
by the
ashore
holds:
carry
Third
quite
pummelled
They
its
ogres can
what
less
Summer
embraced
and
open
in flight
271
come
snow,
The
never
plants
sailors
The
is
we were
and
him with
camera
of the
I dreamed,
of telescopes
annoyed
man
eye
the
met here
who
The
The piers
and
time that
The
299
subdued
The
library
302
spade
190
The
127
breath
crow
of the
252
Habitat
their
a purse
life
needed
had
74
like
been
nuns
69
104
forbidden
103
for the odd
103
16
our
rank
and
alert
to obey
orders
65
20 Thumping
280
Time
To ask
old tunes
say
will
the
hard
gives
nothing
question
but
voice
I told
is simple
to its whereabouts
you so
110
17
313
Tonight
at
Tower,
The
103
Traveller,
The
Trinculo
146
Under
Sirius
Under
Which
Unknown
Up
Way,
85
227
105
Dark,
After
Wandering
any
Waters,
178
The
106
The
Vespers
Watch
195
Lyre
260
Vocation
Walk
101
Citizen,
There
Useful,
271
Seven-Thirty
lost
day his
The
The
109
106
upon
188
the mountains
nonchalant
of
pauses,
our
see
choice
77
Weep
no more
but
What
does
song
55
we
What
Whats
the
in
all the
When
pre-pubescent
When
there
now,
Who
seeing
stands,
the
Willow-Wren
Within
Ilay
listened
236
Wrapped
in
Yes, these
You
crux
deaf
and
so
left
have
mourn
to
91
the watershed
of
ear
the
shall
250
5
200
The
Stare,
gates
all opening
in the
arms
these
Woken,
going
past.
300
I felt
Her
19
76
202
Winds
are
report
hands
223
my coney
dove,
of
the moved
possible
are so many we
you turn a
Will
174
for? And
my
mind,
apparatus
When
Who,
hope
to be not
know
your
me
pity
The
need
are
yielding
the
dog-days,
now;
language
of
see
110
warmth
and
59
air, beside
to suffer,
not
begins
my own
204
Woods
of
size
what
195
Fortunatus
the
Yes,
71 Yesterday
sky
51
You
someone
is
doing
we
all the
245
219
314
WYSTAN
HUGH
AUDEN
was
born
in
York,
England,
on
February
21,
1907.
He
studied
at
Gresham's
School,
Holt,
and
Christ
Church,
which
after
Oxford,
he
lived
for
year
in
Berlin
slum.
In
the
early
nineteen-thirties
he
taught
at
school
Helensburgh,
in
and
Scotland,
at
then
the
Downs
near
School,
Malvern.
In the
later
thirties
he
worked
as
a
writer,
free-lance
and
published
travel
books
on
Iceland
(with
Louis
MacNeice)
and
the
Sino-Japanese
War
(with
Isherwood).
Christopher
Also
in
collaboration
with
Isherwood,
wrote
he
three
plays
the
for
Group
Theatre,
London:
The
Dog
Beneath
Skin,
the
The
Ascent
of
F6,
and
On
the
Frontier.
In
1939
he
left
England
for
the
United
States,
where
he
became
until
1941,
citizen
in 1946.
In America
he
lived
in
New
York
then
taught
at
Michigan
and
Swarth-
more.
In 1945
he
served
in Germany
with
the
U.
S.
Strategic
Bombing
an
Survey,
and,
when
he
returned,
again
took
apartment
in
New
York.
to
1948
From
1972
spent
he
his
winters
in
America
and
summers
his
in
Europe,
first
in
Ischia,
then,
from
1958,
in
house
he
owned
in
Kirchstetten,
Austria.
During
this
period
wrote
he
opera
four
libretti
with
Kallman:
Chester
The
Rakes
Progress
Igor
(for
Stravinsky),
Elegy
for
Young
Lovers
and
The
Bassarids
(both
for
Hans
Werner
Henze),
and
Loves
Labour's
Lost
(for
Nicolas
Nabokov).
1950
In
he
published
book
of
essays,
The
Enchofed
Flood,
or,
The
Romantic
Iconography
the
of
Sea.
Further
essays
are
gathered
in
two
large
collections,
The
Dyers
Hand
(1962)
and
Forewords
and
Afterwords
(1973),
as
well
as
in
the
shorter
Secondary
Worlds
(1968).
His
commonplace
book
Certain
World,
which
he
called
sort
of
autobiography,
of
each
was
to
1956
year
in
Oxford
as
published
1960
he
1970.
in
spent
few
From
months
the
elected
Professor
In 1972
Poetry.
of
he
left
his
He
died
winter
home
in New
to
York
return
to
Oxford.
in
Vienna
on
29. 1973.
September
EDWARD
the
the
MENDELSON,
executor
literary
VINTAGE
the
of
FICTION,
.. ..
.. ..
editor
Estate
ABE,
V-2014
AUDEN,
AUDEN,
H I Collected
V-2015
I The
KO BO
927-1957
W.
AND
POETRY,
V-814
Woman
in
I Collected
this
of
of
selection.
H.
PLAYS
the
Dunes
Longer
Poems
Poems
Shorter
V-102
A U DEN, W ^ H
V-601
A U DEN, W
AN D PAUL B. TAYLO R (trans.)
The Elder
STAN
Edda
BABIN,
V-20
(eds.)
STEINER
Anthology
of
I Borinquen:
BEDIER,
V-523
BELLAM Y, JOE
Story
formed:
V-72
Open:
Four
An
H. Auden
AN D
An
literature
I Tristan
and
DA V ID (ed.)
Iseult
Superfiction
or
The
Anthology
LOUISE
Centuries
BOLT,
W.
Trans-
BERNIKOW
Women
V-321
JOSEPH
of
M ARIA-THERESA
Puerto-Rican
V-271
American
Poetry
Selected
is
Auden.
Poets
ROBERT
(ed.)
I The
World
Split
of
in
England
I A Man
and
for
America
All
1552-1950
Seasons
V-21
BOW EN, ELIZABETH
V-294
BRADBURY,
BRECHT,
V-670
John
W illett)
Plays,
John
W illett)
John
W illett)
BERTOLT
John
W illett)
BERTOLT
Jade
BERTOLT
and
(ed.
by
Ralph
Manheim
and
(ed.
by
Ralph
M anheim
and
(ed. by
Ralph
M anheim
and
Vol.
W ITTER
Mountain:
AND
Chinese
Anthology
ALBERT
V-281
CAM US, ALBERT

CAMUS,
CAMUS,
and
ALBERT
I The Fall
ALBERT
I A
Happy
CAM US, ALBERT
I Lyrical
V-75
CAM US, ALBERT
I The
Essays
V-258
&
Caligula
I Exile
V-626
Other
KAN G -H U
KIANG
(eds.)
CAMUS,
V-865
M anheim
Collected
V-207
V-223
Ralph
Vol.
Plays,
(ed. by
Collected
BYNNER,
V-841
Heart
Vol.
Plays,
the
of
Bradbury
Collected
BRECHT,
V-819
Death
Vintage
Vol.
Plays,
The
BERTOLT
BrEcht,
V-216
I The
I The
Collected
BRECHT,
V-759
RAY
Three
the
Death:
and
Myth
CAM US, ALBERT
I The
CAM US, ALBERT
I The Possessed
V-30
CAM US, ALBERT
I The
V-2
CAM US, ALBERT
I The
V-28
CATHER,
W ILLA
I Five
V-705
CATHER,
W ILLA
I A Lost
V-200
CATHER,
W ILLA
I My
V-179
CATHER,
W ILLA
Rebel
Stranger
Stories
Obscure
Novel
Essays
Sisyphus
V-245
lady
Mortal
Critical
of
Plays
Other
Kingdom
Enemy
Destinies
and
Plague
V-252
CATHER,
W ILLA
V-913
CATHER,
W ILLA
I The
V-434
CATHER,
W ILLA
V-680
CATHER,
W ILLA
I Shadows
V-684
CATHER,
W ILLA
V-140
CERF,
BENNETT
V-203
CERF,
BENNETT
American
Modern
Plays
Short
of
GEOFFREY
Youth
(ed.)
(ed.)
I The
CONRAD,
Narcissus,
I Troilus
GEOFFREY
CONFUCIUS
Bright
Medusa
Stories
Contemporary
(ed.)
Great
JOSEPH
Vintage
prose
(a
and
in
Cressida
G. I What
I Three
version
Is to
W aley)
Be
Tales:
Great
Done?
Analects
The
Nigger
Heart
Darkness,
Youth
CRANE,
STEPHEN
V-126
DANTE,
ALiGH IERI
V-177
DINESEN,
DINESEN,
ISAK
ISAK
I Stories
I The
and
Tales
Divine
I Anecdotes
Comedy
Destiny
of
I Ehrengard
V-752
DINESEN,
ISAK
I Last
V-740
DINESEN,
ISAK
l Out
V-807
DINESEN,
ISAK
I Seven
V-62
DINESEN,
ISAK
I Shadows
V-205
DINESEN,
ISAK
I Winters
V-721
DOSTOYEVSKY,
FYODOR
I Crime
V-722
DOSTOYEVSKY,
FYODOR
I The
Karamazov
Girl
CHAUCER,
(trans. by Arthur
V-10
V-431
Slave
Rock
Ghost
I The
Tales
Canterbury
V-173
of
the
I Four
V-293
CHERNYSHEVSKY,
of the
the
BENNETT
Fantasy
V-723
V-155
House
the
Famous
CHRISTOPHER
Science
English)
CHAUCER,
on
and
(ed.)
V-142
Modern
and
Sapphira
CERF,
V-127
Ours
Professor's
Stories
CERF,
V-326
Anthology
of
One
Tales
of
Africa
Tales
Gothic
on
the
Grass
Tales
and
Punishment
Brothers
V-780
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I Absalom,
V-254
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I As
V-884
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I Go
V-139
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I The
V-792
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I Intruder
V-189
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I Light
V-282
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I The
Mansion
V-339
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I The
Reivers
V-412
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I Requiem
V-381
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I Sanctuary
Absalom!
Lay
Dying
Down,
Moses
Hamlet
in
the
Dust
in August
For
V-5
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I The
Sound
V-184
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I The
Town
Nun
and
the
V-351
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I The
Unvanquished
V-262
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I The
Wild
V-149
FAULKNER,
WILLIAM
I Three
Novels:
Man,
V-45
Horses,
Spotted
The
FORD,
FORSTER,
E.
V-40
FORSTER,
V-187
FORSTER,
V-61
FORSTER,
FRISCH,
Palms
Famous
Short
Old
Bear
FORD
V-7
V-219
Fury
MADOX
I The
M.
IHowards
E.
M.
IThe
E.
M.
IA
E.
M. Where
MAX
I I'm
Good
Longest
Room
Journey
With
Angels
Not
Soldier
End
Fear
View
to
Tread
Stiller
V-842
GIDE,
ANDRE
I The
Counterfeiters
V-8
GIDE,
ANDRE
I The
Immoralist
V-96
GIDE,
ANDRE
I Lafcadio's
V-27
GIDE,
ANDRE
I Strait
V-66
GIDE,
ANDRE
I Two
Is
Adventures
the
Legends:
Gate
Oedipus
and
Theseus
V-958
von
MAYER,
LOUISE
GOETHE,
JOHANN
BOGAN
WOLFGANG
(ELIZABETH
W. H. AUDEN,
&
Werther
and
Novella
trans.)
I The
GRASS,
V-300
of
Sorrows
GUNTER
Young
I The
Tin
Drum
V-425
GRAVES,
ROBERT
I Claudius
V-182
GRAVES,
ROBERT
I I, Claudius
B. G. (ed.)
GUERNEY,
V-717
Literature
in
the
Period:
the
I An
God
Anthology
Russian
of
Soviet
From
Gorki
to
Pasternak
V-829
HAMMETT,
V-2013
HAMMETT,
DASHIELL
I The
V-827
HAMMETT,
DASHIELL
I The
Dain
V-773
HAMMETT,
DASHIELL
I The
Glass
V-772
HAMMETT,
DASHIELL
I The
Maltese
DASHIELL
V-828
HAMMETT,
V-774
HAMMETT,
V-781
HAMSUN,
V-896
HATCH,
JAMES
I Plays
by
About
V-15
HAWTHORNE,
V-61 0
HSU,
Writer's
Visit
and
I The
Big
DASHIELL
I The
Red
DASHIELL
I The
Thin
KNUT
I Growth
AND
of
Knockover
Continental
Key
Falcon
Harvest
Man
the
VICTORIA
Op
Curse
Soil
(eds.)
SULLIVAN
Women
NATHANIEL
KAI-YU
to the
I The
I Short
Stories
Literary
Chinese
Scene:
Peoples
Republic
HUGHES,
V-910
Langston
of
White
V-158
Two
Hughes
I Selected
HUGHES,
Poems
LANGSTON
of
I The
Ways
Folks
ISHERWOOD,
Plays:
The
Beneath
V-295
LANGSTON
V-304
JEFFERS,
CHRISTOPHER
AND
W.
H.
Dog
the
Skin
and
ROBINSON
The
Ascent
I Selected
of
F6
Poems
AUDEN
V-380
JOYCE,
JAMES
Ulysses
V-991
KAFKA,
FRANZ
The
Castle
V-484
KAFKA,
FRANZ
The
Trial
V-841
KANG-HU,
AND
KIANG
WITTER
BYNNER
The
Anthology
Jade
Art
of
Mountain:
KENNETH
KOCH,
V-508
Chinese
The
Love
V-915
KOCH,
KENNETH
V-467
KOCH,
KENNETH
The
V-82
KOCH,
KENNETH
V-134
LAGERKVIST,
V-240
LAGERKVIST,
V-776
LAING,
R.
D.
LAWRENCE,
V-23
LAWRENCE,
V-71
Red
Robbins
Wishes,
Lies
PAR
Barabbas
PAR
The
Hearts
of
Change
and
Dreams
Sibyl
Knots
D. H.
D. H.
The
St.
Plumed
Mawr
&
Serpent
The
Man
Who
Died
V-329
LINDBERGH,
ANNE
MORROW
Gift
V-822
LINDBERGH,
ANNE
MORROW
The
Other
Poems
MANN,
V-3
Other
Stories
MALRAUX,
V-479
MANN,
V-180
ANDRE
Buddenbrooks
THOMAS
Death
MANN,
in
Venice-
THOMAS
MANN,
THOMAS
The
Magic
V-86
MANN,
THOMAS
The
Transposed
V-36
MANSFIELD,
V-137
MAUGHAM,
V-720
MIRSKY,
From
Its
D.
Beginnings
KATHERINE
SOMERSET
S.
of
to
History
Sea
and
Fate
Seven
Faustus
Mountain
Heads
Stories
W.
and
Doctor
V-497
the
Unicorn
I Man's
THOMAS
V-297
from
Of
Human
Russian
Bondage
Literature:
1900
V-883
MISHIMA,
V-151
MOFFAT,
Revelations:
of
YUKIO
V-926
MUSTARD,
(eds.)
Works
ROBIN
(trans.)
NGUYEN,
WHITNEY
Plays
PAINTER
J.
I Heinrich
DU
AND
The
Heine:
Tale
EUGENE
of
Kieu
O'NEILL,
Jr.
Famous
Seven
Plays
Greek
FRANK
OHARA,
V-973
No
CHARLOTTE
I Monster
HELEN
V-925
OATES,
/
Modern
AND
Women
MORGAN,
V-125
Five
JANE
Diaries
V-851
Selected
MARY
Poems
Selected
of
Frank
O'Hara
ONEILL,
V-855
ones,
The
Iceman
EUGENE
Hairy
Ape
I Anna
O'NEILL,
EUGENE
V-856
O'NEILL,
EUGENE
I Seven
V-276
O'NEILL,
EUGENE
O'NEILL,
V-165
Strange
EUGENE
Mourning
V-151
/
Emperor
I The
Becomes
Famous
Greek
Plays
PAINTER,
of
Moon
Six
For
Plays
the
of
Misbegotten
the
Sea
Plays
Short
Three
Plays:
Desire
Under
the
Electra
JR.
EUGENE,
Seven
Revelations:
Interlude,
ONEILL,
V-125
(eds.)
EUGENE
Cometh
V-236
Elms,
The
Christie,
O'NEILL,
V-18
CHARLOTTE
AND
WHITNEY
AND
MARY
J.
JANE
OATES
MOFFAT
Diaries
Women
V-907
PERELMAN,
V-466
PLATH,
V-232
PRITCHETT,
S. J.
SYLVIA
V. S.
Crazy
The
/
Like
Colossus
Midnight
Oil
Fox
and
Other
Poems
V-598
PROUST,
MARCEL
The
V-597
PROUST,
MARCEL
Cities
V-596
PROUST,
MARCEL
The
Guermantes
V-600
PROUST,
MARCEL
The
Past
V-594
PROUST,
MARCEL
Swann's
V-599
PROUST,
MARCEL
The
V-595
PROUST,
MARCEL
I Within
V-714
PUSHKIN,
and
Other
JEROME
ALEXANDER
the
From
by
the
T.
J.
T. J.
I Less
MARY
I After
V-42
RHYS,
JEAN
I Good
JEAN
V-319
RHYS,
V-2016
ROSEN,
Clouds:
Contemporary
V-976
ROTHENBERG,
Grove
America
of
Daughter
AND
GEORGE
American
Poetry
from
Score,
But
MARY
Point:
I The
Bull
(eds.)
the
(ed.)
American
Times
of
Mr.
Morning
the
Wine
Mackenzie
Midnight
New
I The
to
Man
Rain
Send
Indians
JEROME
AND
GEORGE
I America
Prophecy:
Pre-Columbian
Last
Leaving
I Quartet
KENNETH
by
Stories
Reading
of
American
Poetry
from
to
Present
SARGENT,
Stories
logical
V-876
Gone
Captain's
RENAULT,
I The
JEAN
Fiction
Cheat
Budding
Sea
RHYS,
V-366
Than
V-504
V -24
QUASHA
to
Reddy
RENAULT,
V-653
Way
The
Reading
Way
Present
REDDY,
Poems
New
Times
Pre-Columbian
V -80
Plain
Recaptured
Sweet
(eds.)
ROTHENBERG
Prophecy:
the
of
QUASHA,
V-976
Stories
Captive
about
PAMELA
(ed.)
I Bio-Futures:
SCience
Bio-
Metamorphosis
SARGENT,
PAMELA
(ed.)
I More
Women
of
Wonder:
Fiction
SCience
Novelettes
by Women
PAMELA
SARGENT,
V-41
Science
Fiction
Stories
Women
About
about
(ed.)
Women
I Women
of
Women
V-838
SARTRE,
JEAN-PAUL
I The
Age
V-238
SARTRE,
JEAN-PAUL
I The
Condemned
V-65
SARTRE,
JEAN-PAUL
I The
Devil
&
Two
and
Other
Three
Plays
Wonder:
by
&
Altona
of
The
JEAN-PAUL
SARTRE,
V-16
Reason
of
Good
Lord
I No
Exit
Plays
Other
V-839
SARTRE,
JEAN-PAUL
I The
Reprieve
V-74
SARTRE,
JEAN-PAUL
I The
Trojan
V-840
SARTRE,
JEAN-PAUL
V-443
SCHULTE,
Women:
Euripides
I Giant
Talk:
An
thology
V-607
of
Third
World
Sleep
QUINCY
An
AND
GEORGE
I Human-Ma-
Anthology
of
About
Stories
V-330
SHOLOKHOV,
MIKHAIL
I And
Quiet
V-331
SHOLOKHOV,
MIKHAIL
I The
Don
the
(eds.)
TROUPE
Writings
N.
THOMAS
(eds.)
chines:
AND
An-
SCORTlA,
ZEBROWSKI
I Troubled
RAINER
Cyborgs
Flows
Flows
the
Home
Don
to
Sea
V-447
Three
SILVERBERG,
Novellas
Spirit
About
of
ROBERT
I Born
With
the
Dead:
the
Man
WHEELER
V-945
SNOW,
LOIS
V-133
STEIN,
GERTRUDE
I China
On
I Autobiography
Stage
of
Alice
B.
Toklas
V-826
STEIN,
GERTRUDE
I Everybody's
V-941
STEIN,
GERTRUDE
I The
Autobiography
Geographical
History
of
America
V-797
STEIN,
GERTRUDE
I Ida
V-695
STEIN,
GERTRUDE
I Last
V-477
STEIN,
GERTRUDE
I Lectures
V-1S3
STEIN,
GERTRUDE
I Three
STEIN,
V-710
I Selected
GERTRUDE
Writings
Gertrude
I Borinquen:
V-770
STEINER,
Anthology
Anthology
the
MARIA-THERESA
BABIN
Literature
VALDEZ
LUIS
(eds.)
I Aztlan:
Literature
American
Mind:
AND
Indian
HILL
SHIRLEY
WITT
(eds.)
Literature
(ed.)
HOLLY
The
at
Palm
the
End
Selected
&
Poems
STEVENS,
V-896
SULLIVAN,
By
AND
STAN
V-278
Plays
(ed.)
VECHTEN
An Anthology
of
of
VAN
Mexi-
of
STEVENS,
V-768
AND
Puerto-Rican
of
can-American
The Way:
Lives
CARL
An
STAN
STEINER,
V-769
Plays
America
of
STAN
(eds.)
An
in
Stein
STEINER,
V-20
&
and
Operas
and
Play
by
WALLACE
Wallace
Stevens
I The
Necessary
AND
VICTORIA
JAMES
Angel
HATCH
(eds.)
About
Women
V-63
SVEVO,
ITALO
V-178
SYNGE,
J. M.
V-601
Elder
TAYLOR,
Edda
SCHULTE
v-770
PAUL
(eds.)
VALDEZ,
B. AND
Giant
of
Third
LUIS
of
Confessions
TROUPE,
V-443
thology
I Complete
W. H. AUDEN
QUINCY
Talk:
World
Zeno
Plays
An
AND
(trans.)
I The
RAINER
An-
Writings
AND STAN
STEINER
(eds.)
I Aztlan:
An
Anthology
of
Mexi-
can-American
VAN
V-710
VECHTEN,
Gertrude
WITT,
The
Way:
Code
of
An
the
AND
GERTRUDE
HILL
Indian
Anthol0gy
ELIE
WIESEL,
O f V-870
SHIRLEY
American
of
(ed.)
CARL
AND
STAN
on
Souls
Fire
(eds.)
STEINER
Literature
P. G.
WODEHOUSE,
V-2028
The
Woosters
to
V-2026
WODEHOUSE,
P. G.
Leave
V-2027
WODEHOUSE,
P. G.
Mulliner
Nights
V-607
ZEBROWSKI,
AND
THOMAS
SCORTIA
STEIN
Stein
Writings
Selected
V-769
Literature
(eds.)
chines:
GEORGE
Human-M
An
VINTAGE
It
Psmith
N.
a.
Anthology
of
Stories
About
Cyborgs
BELLES-LETTRES
BELLES-LETTRES
V-418
AUDEN,
W. H.
The
V-887
AU DEN,
W.
Forewords
V-271
BEDIER,
V-512
BLOCH,
MARC
V-572
BRIDGE
HAMPTON
H.
JOSEPH
Dyer's
Tristan
The
Hand
and
and
Historian's
Bridge
Afterwords
Iseult
Craft
Hampton
Works
&
Days
V-161
BROWN,
NORMAN
O.
Closing
V-544
BROWN,
NORMAN
O.
Hermes
V-419
BROWN,
NORMAN
O.
Love's
V-75
CAMUS,
ALBERT
The
Myth
of
Time
the
Thief
Body
Sisyphus
and
Other
Essays
V-608
Conan
CARR,
Doyle:
JOHN
The
Who
V-407
and
Method
of
Was
Rebel
The
Life
of
Arthur
Sir
Holmes
ELIZABETH
Literature
and
Seduction
HERRIGEL,
V-244
Betrayal:
EUGEN
The
Zen
HERRIGEL,
V-201
HUGHES,
V-235
KAPLAN,
in
the
Art
New
WALTER
World
(trans.)
Archery
of
Consciousness
of
AND
&
Society
Philosophy
FRIEDRICH
Beyond
and
Good
Evil
The
WALTER
of Tragedy
(trans.)
AND
FRIEDRICH
Birth
and
KAUFMANN,
NIETZSCHE
Zen
ABRAHAM
KAUFMANN,
NIETZSCHE
EUGEN
H. STUART
KAUFMANN,
NIETZSCHE
V-985
The
Sherlock
V-663
V-369
Man
HARDWICK,
Women
V-337
ALBERT
DICKSON
CAMUS,
V-30
The
the
of
Case
WALTER
Wagner
(trans.)
AND
(trans.)
AND
FRIEDRICH
Gay
Science
V-401
KAUFMANN,
NIETZSCHE
KAUFMANN,
NIETZSCHE
Morals
of
Genealogy
V-437
WALTER
FRIEDRICH
the
On
The
and
WALTER
Ecce
(trans.)
Homo
AND
FRIEDRICH
to
Will
Power
V-995
Interpretation
Small
JAN
KOTT,
of
Personal
LINDBERGH,
ANNE
MALRAUX,
V-406
MARCUS,
Class
The
V-58
Eating
Tragedy
Voice:
V-479
Working
Greek
Essays,
MORROW
ANDRE
STEVEN
of
the
Reviews,
Gift
Man's
Engels,
MENCKEN,
Gods:
An
LESSING,
V-685
DORIS
Interviews
from
the
V-329
Sea
Fate
Manchester
H. L.
and
Prejudices
the
by
Selected
The
Vintage
Farrell)
Mencken
(Gathered
MARY
MOFFAT,
James.T.
JANE:
AND
H. L.
MENCKEN,
V-25
by
Alistair
PAINTER
CHARLOTTE
V-151
Cooke)
(eds.)
Revelations:
Diaries
of
Women
HELEN
MUSTARD,
V-926
(trans.)
Works
Selected
AND
FRIEDRICH
WALTER
and
Good
(trans.)
The
Tragedy
KAUFMANN
Heine
NIETZSCHE,
KAUFMANN
AND
FRIEDRICH
Birth
(trans.)
Beyond
WALTER
KAUFMANN
of
and
the
NIETZSCHE,
V-985
Heinrich
Evil
NIETZSCHE,
V-369
V-337
Wagner
of
Case
FRIEDRICH
(trans.)
The
AND
WALTER
AND
WALTER
Gay
Science
NIETZSCHE,
V-401
KAUFMANN
FRIEDRICH
(trans.)
/
of
Genealogy
NIETZSCHE,
V-437
(trans.)
The
the
On
Morals
and
Ecce
AND
FRIEDRICH
Homo
WALTER
KAUFMANN
to
W ill
Power
V-672
OUSPENSKY,
P. D.
The
V-524
OUSPENSKY,
P. D.
V-943
OUSPENSKY,
P.
The
Possible
Evolution
D.
Fourth
New
the
of
Psychology
OUSPENSKY,
V-639
Way
Model
P. D.
Universe
Man's
of
Tertium
Organum
PAINTER,
V-151
MOFFAT
(eds,)
Diaries
PAUL,
V-986
Prose
of
/
of
MARY
JANE
Women
DAVID
(trans.)
Baudelaire,
Mallarme
AND
CHARLOTTE
Revelations:
and
Rimbaud
Poison
&
Vision:
Poems
&
V-598
PROUST,
MARCEL
The
V-597
PROUST,
MARCEL
Cities
V-596
PROUST,
MARCEL
PROUST,
V-594
The
MARCEL
Captive
PROUST,
MARCEL
The
V-595
PROUST,
MARCEL
Within
SAMUEL,
MAURICE
Plain
Way
Way
Swanns
V-599
V-899
the
of
Guermantes
Sweet
The
Cheat
Gone
Budding
World
of
Grove
Sholom
Aleichem
SHATTUCK,
V-415
ROGER
The
Banquet
Years
(revised)
V-278
STEVENS,
V-761
WATTS,
ALAN
Behold
V-923
WATTS,
ALAN
Beyond
Godmanship
Taboo
V-853
Against
WALLACE
Who
You
Whereabouts
Necessary
the
Are
The
V-665
WATTS,
ALAN
Does
V-951
WATTS,
ALAN
In
V-299
WATTS,
ALAN
The
V-592
WATTS,
ALAN
Nature,
V-609
WATTS,
ALAN
Psychotherapy
V-835
WATTS,
ALAN
The
Supreme
V-298
WATTS,
ALAN
The
Way
V-870
WIESEL,
ELIE
/
/
it
Souls
The
Art
of
Book:
On
the
WATTS,
V-999
Unknown:
My
Angel
Spirit
Theology:
ALAN
WATTS,
Knowing
Cloud-Hidden,
The
Mountain
Matter?
Own
Way
Joyous
on
Man
of
Fire
Cosmology
and
Woman
East
&
Identity
Zen
West
ALAN
Journal
VINTAGE
POLITICAL
AND
SCIENCE
SOCIAL
CRITICISM
V-568
ALINSKY,
SAUL
D.
I Reveille
V-736
ALINSKY,
SAUL
D.
I Rules
V-286
ARIES,
V-604
BAILYN,
V-334
BALTZELL,
PHILIPPE
BERNARD
Radicals
for
Radicals
for
Centuries
of
Childhood
of
American
E. DIGBY
Origins
I The
Politics
Protestant
Establishment
V-571
Dissents
BARTH,
and
in
V-60
ALAN
the
Prophets
Supreme
BECKER,
With
Honor:
Great
Dissenters
Great
CARL
Court
L.
I
The
Declaration
of
Independence
V-513
BOORSTIN,
Colonial
Experience
Americans:
DANIEL
V-501
DANIEL
/ The
Discontents:
V-305
BREINES,
T.
J.
B.
IThe
BOORSTIN,
Experience
Democracy
I Classes
AND
SIMON
and
Its
in
Modern
WILLIAM
Society
J.
DEAN
I The
of
Revolution
Revolution:
Without
Streets
V-44
BRINTON,
V-30
CAMUS,
V-33
Broker:
V-11
The
J.
America
BOCTOMORE,
Black
DANIEL
on
Reflections
Everyday
Americans:
The Democratic
DANIEL
V-414
Pedestrian
Experience
Americans:
BOORSTIN,
/ The
BOORSTIN,
The National
J.
J.
V-358
Cars
/
CRANE
The
Anatomy
I The
Rebel
CARMICHAEL,
STOKELY
AND
Power
CARO,
Robert
New
ALBERT
V-2024
Moses
York
and
the
CHARLES
ROBERT
Fall
of
A.
I The
HAMILTON
Power
V-98
W. J.
CASH,
V-555
CHOMSKY,
Mandarins
East:
I The
Mind
V-248
CHOMSKY,
on
Reflections
the
of
I American
NOAM
Justice
South
Power
and
I Peace
NOAM
in
the
the
New
Middle
and
Nationhood
V-743
CLOWARD,
PIVEN
Poor:
V-383
The
The
Functions
Public
of
A.
RICHARD
Politics
Turmoil:
AND
FOX
Welfare
AND
FRANCES
FOX
of
on
Essays
Poverty,
Race,
V-940
Crisis
RICHARD
FRANCES
the
CLOWARD,
PIVEN
A.
RICHARD
I Regulating
SENNETT
The
and
COBB,
Hidden
the
Urban
JONATHAN
Injuries
AND
of
Class
V-311
CREMIN,
Education
Crisis
AND
of
CUOMO,
Low-Income
SIMON
The
/
V-305
The
Without
MARIO
Housing
BRIENES
Streets
A.
LAWRENCE
V-2019
Hills
DEAN,
Pedestrian
American
of
Genius
Forest
Diary:
WILLIAM
Revolution:
Cars
V-638
DENNISON,
GEORGE
V-746
DEUTSCHER,
ISAAC
The
Prophet
Armed
V-748
DEUTSCHER,
ISAAC
The
Prophet
Outcast
V-617
DEVLIN,
The
BERNADETTE
Lives
I The
Price
ELLUL,
JACQUES
I The
Political
V-390
ELLUL,
JACQUES
I The
Technological
V-998
EPSTEIN,
the
News
JAY
V-2023
V-927
FITZGERALD,
FRANCES
V-316
FREEMAN,
DAVID
V-368
FRIEDENBERG,
S.
EDGAR
I News
FEST,
I Fire
Energy:
Z.
My
of
V-812
EDWARD
I The
Children
DOMHOFF,
and
G. WILLIAM
of
V-671
Television
The
J.
Higher
Soul
Circles
Illusion
From
Society
Nowhere:
JOACHIM
in the
The
I Coming
C.
Hitler
Lake
New
of
Era
Age
in
America
V-378
J. WILLIAM
FULBRIGHT,
I The
Arrogance
of
Power
V-846
GAYLIN,
in
V-325
V-174
Crippled
Giant.
Equality
I Partial
Justice:
PAUL
GOODMAN,
Study
of
AND
Communitas
PAUL
GOODMAN,
The
I The
I More
WILLARD
Sentencing
PERCIVAL
and
HERBERT
GANS,
V-2018
Bias
J. WILLIAM
FULBRIGHT,
V-167
Mis-education
Compulsory
of
Community
Scholars
V-32
GOODMAN,
V-457
GREENE,
Nature
of
PAUL
FELIX
I Growing
I The
Up
Enemy:
Absurd
Notes
Some
on
the
Contemporary
Imperialism
V-453
HEILBRONER,
V-635
and
I The
HEALTH/PAC
Socialism
HENRY,
V-465
HINTON,
V-95
HOFSTADTER,
Bryan
America
at
V-686
WALLACE
D.
Social
American
to
Portrait
Capitalism
American
Against
Culture
The
Age
of
HOFSTADTER,
V-9
Tradition
RICHARD
Reform:
RICHARD
V-317
AND
in
American
MICHAEL
Vio-
lence
V-540
HOFSTADTER,
Man
Madness
Anti-Intellectualism
HOFSTADTER,
(eds.)
Between
HOFSTADTER,
Political
Empire
Fanshen
RICHARD
R. V-795
RICHARD
Health
JULES
pathways
WILLIAM
F.
The
HOFSTADTER,
Life
JULES
1750:
RICHARD
to
L.
ROBERT
HENRY,
V-283
V-882
From
American
RICHARD
AND
CLARENCE
VER
STEEG
Issues
Great
American
1584-1776
in
History,
From
',
the
Revolution
American
History,
V-385
the
1765-1865
War,
Civil
(ed.)
RICHARD
Reconstruction
to
RICHARD
The
Issues
Great
in
RICHARD
The
the
Present
1864-1964
Day,
Paranoid
Style
and
Essays
Other
HOFSTADTER,
Historians
From
From
Politics
V-591
Revolution,
(ed.)
RICHARD
HOFSTADTER,
American
and
to
HOFSTADTER,
V-542
to
Settlement
HOFSTADTER,
V-541
H. STUART
HUGHES,
V-201
Progressive
Consciousness
Society
Cities
To
the
Serve
&
Natives
To
&
Colonial
V-2017
JUDSON,
Addiction:
What
Learn
V-790
of
Great
Economy
to
American
of
Cities
Riot
LANDAU
WITH
EVE
LANDAU
WITH
EVE
SAUL
Devil:
Vol.
Sojourner
HORACE
from
SAUL
Vol.
AND
Americans
KAPLAN,
Revolutions:
AND
Life
The
Prelude
Slaves
the
Serve
Devil:
RAUL
JACOBS,
&
Death
RAUL
JACOBS,
V-460
PELL
PAUL
JACOBS,
V-459
JANE
JACOBS,
V-584
V-433
PELL
JANE
JACOBS,
V-241
the
Heroin
Can
English
Experience
AND
CAROL
II
FREEDLAND
LAWRENCE
(eds.)
Comparative
Study
V-361
KOMAROVSKY,
V-675
KOVEL,
JOEL
MIRRA
White
Blue-Collar
Racism
Marriage
in
V-367
LASCH,
CHRISTOPHER
America
V-560
LASCH,
American
Left
LEWIS,
V-280
The
New
CHRISTOPHER
OSCAR
Radicalism
The
The
Agony
in
the
of
of
Children
Sanchez
V-421
LEWIS,
OSCAR
La
V-634
LEWIS,
OSCAR
Death
V-533
LOCKWOOK,
Castro's
V-406
MARCUS,
Working
Class
LEE
Vida
STEVEN
Family
Sanchez
Cuba,
Engels,
Fidel
Cuba's
Manchester,
HERBERT
MARCUSE,
V-480
in the
and
the
Soviet
Marxism
MARX,
V-2001
The
KARL
dations
Political
KARL
Writings,
The
the
of
MARX,
V-2002
AND
Vol.
MARX,
KARL
Political
Writings,
from
Exile
AND
Writings,
Vol.
The
International
V-619
McCONNELL,
Democracy
Origins
and
of
DAVID
FERNBACH,
(ed.)
III:
and
GRANT
After
Private
Power
McPHERSON,
V-386
and
JAMES
The
ROY
A.
Let
History
Judge:
The
Consequences
Stalinism
V-816
MEDVEDEV,
Madness
V-112
Ivan
(ed.)
War
MEDVEDEV,
V-928
DAVID
FERNBACH,
Political
First
II:
KARL
Surveys
(ed.)
1848
of
MARX,
Civil
I:
V-2004
Negro's
(trans.)
Economy
DAVID
FERNBACH,
AND
Vol.
Political
of
Critque
AND
Revolution
V-2003
American
MARTIN
NICOLOUS,
Foun-
Grundrisse:
Denisovich
'
ZHORES
MEDVEDEV,
V-614
AND
ROY
ZHORES
MERMELSTEIN,
of
Question
Ten
DAVID
Years
(ed.)
After
The
Economic
Reader
Crisis
NANCY,
SCHURMANN,
V-93
MITFORD,
Reader
The
Prison
is
Nations
World
Asian
Poverty
V-708
MYRDAL,
and
Morals
P.
An
(ed.)
Inquiry
into
/
KESSLE
Birth
Poverty
Report
Kaufmann
The
of
the
MYRDAL,
of
of
Challenge
NIETZSCHE,
Walter
Practice
Against
the
The
JAN
GUN
the
On
V-730
GUNNAR
AND
Evil,
Coping:
From
China:
The
FRIEDRICH
(trans.)
V-369
Tragedy
&
The
and
(trans.)
Kaufmann
NIETZSCHE,
Ecce
FRIEDRICH
On
The
V-985
NIETZSCHE,
FRIEDRICH
PIVEN,
FRANCES
of
Genealogy
of
(ed.)
Kaufmann
FRIEDRICH
Politics
the
Homo,
NIETZSCHE,
The
Punishment:
Wagner,
Walter
Usual
ROBIN
GUNNAR
V-437
V-383
and
Economics
V-337
FRIEDRICH
Walter
V-401
Kind
MYRDAL,
JAN
Continued
Good
of
Drama:
V-793
Village
NIETZSCHE,
on
MYRDAL,
Chinese
Beyond
AND
China
China
MYRDAL,
Essays
V-170
Revolution
The
MORGAN,
DANIEL
V-107
Critical
GUNNAR
Powerful
Government
Stream:
(eds.)
V-539
MOYNIHAN,
V-389
Case
Peoples
JESSICA
Business
Sisterhood
of
IV:
DAVID
MILTON,
V-971
FRANZ
FOX
Will
The
Gay
AND
RICHARD
AND
RICHARD
to
Power
SCience
A. CLOWARD
Tur-
moil
V-743
PIVEN,
Regulating
FRANCES
the
Poor
V-719
REED,
V-159
REISCHAUER,
JOHN
FOX
Ten
PLATO
V-128
Days
EDWIN
That
O. /
The
Shook
Toward
A. CLOWARD
Republic
the
World
the
21st
World
Changing
PAUL
ROAZEN,
V-622
for
Century.Education
Freud:
Political
and
Social
Thought
of
EMMA
ROTHSCHILD,
V-204
the
Paradise
Lost:
The
Decline
Auto-Industrial
Age
V-965
SALE,
V-2067
SAKHAROV,
KIRKPATRICK
ANDREI
SDS
D.
My
and
Country
the
World
MIRIAM
V-738
SCHNEIR,
V-971
SCHURMANN,
(eds.)
MILTON
China
The
China
Reader
perial
The
Reader
China
JOSEPH
V-279
White
FRANZ
FRANZ
(eds.)
O. SCHELL
of
AND
O.
SCHELL
AND
O.
SCHELL
( eds.)
(eds.)
CIass
AND
World
(ed.)
War
/
II
Lost
Chance
Despatches
CHARLES
SILBERMAN,
JONATHAN
SERVICE,
V-405
E.
CHARLES
Reader
SILBERMAN,
V-681
The
S. AND
in China:
of
John
S.
in
Black
Crisis
E.
COBB
JOHN
Crisis
Service
in
and
the
Classroom
V-850
China
RICHARD
SILBERMAN,
V-353
China
AND
III:
ESHERICK,
The
NANCY
China
Reader
Injuries
AND
II:
Reader
Communist
Hidden
DAVID
China
SENNETT,
V-940
Feminism
I im -
SCHURMANN,
China
Peoples
FRANZ
I:
Republican
V-377
The
IV:
SCHURMANN,
V-376
AND
I The
SCHURMANN,
V-375
(ed.)
FRANZ
CHARLES
SNOW,
EDGAR
E. /
/
Red
The
Open
China
Classroom
Today:
The
Other
Side
of
the
River
SNOW,
V-930
EDGAR
The
Long
Revolution
V-388
1865-1877
STAMPP,
KENNETH
V-253
STAMPP,
The
Era
KENNETH
Reconstruction
of
The
Peculiar
Institution
V-959
STERN,
PHILIP
M.
V-908
STONE,
I. F. /
The
TANNENBAUM,
V-231
Negro
Keys
V-686
in
to
the
Americas
Latin
America
WALLACE,
HOFSTADTER
ZINN,
The
FRANK
V-312
of
the
Taxpayer
Era
Slave
&
Citizen:
TANNENBAUM,
AND
The
FRANK
RICHARD
American
Documentary
HOWARD
Rape
Truman
MICHAEL
(eds.)
Violence:
V-483
History
Disobedience
and
Democracy
Ten
Poetry
This
new,
presents
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revised
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W.H.

day his nonchalant

12. To ask the hard

13. Doom is dark and deeper

going to begin to-day

17. O Love, the interest

life will give

all the facts

24. The Summer

told the story

26. O for doors

27. Look, stranger,

29. Dear, though

can ever gaze

41. The Capital

40. In Time of War

46. The Unknown

52. The Quest

53. But I Can't

60. The Sea and the Mirror

63. Under Which Lyre

64. The Fall of Rome

65. In Praise of Limestone

for the City

69. Under Sirius

71. The Shield

and the Stare

77. First Things

72. The Willow-Wren

83. After Reading

89. River Profile

92. Ode to Terminus

84. On the Circuit

94. A New Year Greeting

96. Old Peoples

Index of Titles and First

to find them still alive

and in the sixties,

were ever to escape

him at the moment

from his poetry

into The Ascent

verse; a note on sources

left of the watershed,

On the wet road between

And further here

tear them from;

the fells impassable,

And in his final valley

Through long abandoned

some acts are

The winch the gale would

and there, though

water; for ten

turn back again, frustrate

off, will not communicate,

hear the wind

driven from the ignorant

your car may cross a

truck, the last

He, the trained

but who would

into the trap