The collected poems
Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work--Publisher's description.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper & Row,
[1981]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
| Series: | Harper colophon books ;
CN900. |
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Table of Contents:
- Conversation among the ruins
- Winter landscape, with rooks
- Pursuit
- Bucolics
- Tale of a tub
- Southern sunrise
- Channel crossing
- Prospect
- The Queen's complaint
- Ode for Ted
- Firesong
- Song for a summer's day
- Two sisters of Persephone
- Vanity fair
- Strumpet song
- Tinker Jack and the tidy wives
- Faun
- Street song
- Letter to a purist
- Soliloquy of the solipsist
- Dialogue between ghost and priest
- The glutton
- Monologue at 3 a.m.
- Miss Drake proceeds to supper
- Recantation
- The shrike
- Alicante lullaby
- Dream with clam-diggers
- Wreath for a bridal
- Epitaph for fire and flower
- Fiesta melons
- The goring
- The beggars
- Spider
- Spinster
- Rhyme
- Departure
- Maudlin
- Resolve
- Landowners
- Ella Mason and her eleven cats
- Crystal gazer
- November graveyard
- Black rook in rainy weather
- The snowman on the moor
- Mayflower
- Sow
- The everlasting Monday
- Hardcastle crags
- The thin people
- On the difficulty of conjuring up a dryad
- On the plethora of dryads
- The other two
- The lady and the earthenware head
- All the dead dears
- Natural history
- Two views of Withens
- The Great Carbuncle
- Words for a nursery
- The disquieting Muses
- Night shift
- Ouija
- On the decline of Oracles
- Snakecharmer
- A lesson in vengeance
- Virgin in a tree
- Perseus : the triumph of wit over suffering
- Battle-scene from the comic operatic fantasy the seafarer
- Yadwigha, on a red couch, among lilies
- A winter's tale
- Above the Oxbow
- Memoirs of a spinach-picker
- The ghost's leavetaking
- Sculptor
- Full fathom five
- Lorelei
- Mussel hunter at Rock Harbor
- Moonrise
- Frog Autumn
- In Midas' country
- Incommunicado
- Child's park stones
- Owl
- Whiteness I remember
- Fable of the rhododendron stealers
- The death of myth-making
- Green Rock, Winthrop Bay
- The companionable ills
- I want, I want
- Poems, potatoes
- The times are tidy
- The bull of Bendylaw
- The eye-mote
- Point Shirley
- Goatsucker
- Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows
- A winter ship
- Aftermath
- Two views of a cadaver room
- Suicide off Egg Rock
- The ravaged face
- Metaphors
- Electra on Azalea path
- The beekeeper's daughter
- The hermit at Outermost House
- Man in black
- Old ladies' home
- The net-menders
- Magnolia Shoals
- The sleepers
- Yaddo : the grand manor
- Medallion
- The manor garden
- Blue moles
- Dark wood, dark water
- Polly's tree
- The colossus
- Private ground
- Who
- Dark house
- Maenad
- The beast
- Flute notes from a reedy pond
- Witch burning
- The stones
- The burnt-out spa
- Mushrooms
- You're
- The hanging man
- Stillborn
- On deck
- Sleep in the Mojave Desert
- Two campers in Cloud country
- Leaving early
- Love letter
- Magi
- Candles
- A life
- Waking in winter
- Parliament hill fields
- Whitsun
- Zoo keeper's wife
- Face lift
- Morning song
- Barren woman
- Heavy women
- In plaster
- Tulips
- I am vertical
- Insomniac
- Widow
- Stars over the Dordogne
- The rival
- Wuthering Heights
- Blackberrying
- Finisterre
- The surgeon at 2 a.m.
- Last words
- The moon and the yew tree
- Mirror
- The babysitters
- New year on Dartmoor
- Three women : a poem for three voices
- Little fugue
- An appearance
- Crossing the water
- Among the narcissi
- Pheasant
- Elm
- The rabbit catcher
- Event
- Apprehensions
- Berck-plage
- The other
- Words heard, by accident, over the phone
- Poppies in July
- Burning the letters
- For a fatherless son
- A birthday present
- The detective
- The courage of shutting-up
- The bee meeting
- The arrival of the bee box
- Stings
- The swarm
- Wintering
- A secret
- The applicant
- Daddy
- Medusa
- The jailer
- Lesbos
- Stopped dead
- Fever 103*
- Amnesiac
- Lyonnesse
- Cut
- By candlelight
- The tour
- Ariel
- Poppies in October
- Nick and the candlestick
- Purdah
- Lady Lazarus
- The couriers
- Getting there
- The night dances
- Gulliver
- Thalidomide
- Letter in November
- Death & Co.
- Years
- The fearful
- Mary's song
- Winter trees
- Brasilia
- Childless woman
- Eavesdropper
- Sheep in fog
- The Munich mannequins
- Totem
- Child
- Paralytic
- Gigolo
- Mystic
- Kindness
- Words
- Contusion
- Balloons
- Edge
- Bitter strawberries
- Family reunion
- Female author
- April 18
- Gold mouths cry
- Dirge for a joker
- To Eva descending the stair
- Cinderella
- Jilted
- Sonnet : To Eva
- Bluebeard
- Aquatic nocturne
- Notes to a neophyte
- Metamorphoses of the moon
- Dialogue en route
- To a jilted lover
- The dream
- sonnet: To time
- The trial of man
- April aubade
- Go get the goodly squab
- Trio of love songs
- Lament
- Doomsday
- Moonsong at morning
- Doom of exiles
- The dispossessed
- Admonitions
- Never try to trick me with a kiss
- The dead
- Danse macabre
- Circus in three rings
- Prologue to spring
- Song for a revolutionary love
- Sonnet to Satan
- A sorcerer bids farewell to seem
- Midsummer mobile
- On looking into the eyes of a demon lover
- Insolent storm strikes at the skull
- Denouement
- Two lovers and a beachcomber by the Real Sea
- Black pine tree in an orange light
- Terminal
- Love is a parallax
- Aerialist
- Morning in the hospital solarium
- The Princess and the goblins
- Touch and go
- Temper of time
- Epitaph in three parts.
