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