Selected poems

Who stands, the crux left of the watershed

From the very first coming down

Control of the passes was, he saw, the key

Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings

Watch any day his nonchalant pauses, see

Will you turn a deaf ear

Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all

It was Easter as I walked in the public gardens

Since you are going to begin to-day

Consider this and in our time

This lunar beauty

To ask the hard question is simple

Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle

What's in your mind, my dove, my coney

"O where are you going?" said reader to rider

Though aware of our rank and alert to obey orders

O Love, the interest itself in thoughtless Heaven

O what is that sound which so thrills the ear

Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys

Out on the lawn I lie in bed

A shilling life will give you all the facts

Our hunting fathers told the story

Easily, my dear, you move, easily your head

The Summer holds: upon its glittering lake

Now through night's caressing grip

O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges

Look, stranger, at this island now

Now the leaves are falling fast

Underneath the abject willow

Dear, though the night is gone

Fish in the unruffled lakes

Casino

Funeral Blues

Journey to Iceland

"O who can ever gaze his fill"

Lay your sleeping head, my love

Spain

Johnny

Orpheus

Miss Gee

Wrapped in a yielding air, beside

Dover

As I walked out one evening

Oxford

O tell me the truth about love

In time of war

The Capital

Musee des Beaux Arts

Epitaph on a tyrant

In memory of W.B. Yeats

Refugee blues

The unknown citizen

Calypso

September 1, 1939

Law, say the gardeners, is the sun

In memory of Sigmund Freud

Eyes look into the well

Lady, weeping at the crossroads

Song for St. Cecilia's Day

The quest

But I can't

In sickness and in health

Leap before you look

Jumbled in the common box

Atlantis

At the grave of Henry James

Mundus et Infans

The lesson

The sea and the mirror

Noon

Lament for a lawgiver

Under which lyre

The fall of Rome

In praise of limestone

A household

Song

A walk after dark

Memorial for the city

Under Sirius

Their lonely betters

Nocturne I

Fleet visit

The shield of Achilles

The willow-wren and the stare

Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier

Nocturne II

Bucolics

Horae Canonicae

Homage to Clio

The Old Man's Road

The song

First things first

The more loving one

Friday's child

Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno

Dame kind

You

A change for air

After reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics

On the circuit

Et in Arcadia Ego

Thanksgiving for a Habitat

Epithalamium

Amor Loci

Profile

Fairground

River profile

Prologue at sixty

Forty years on

Ode to Terminus

August 1968

A New Year greeting

Moon landing

Old People's Home

Talking to myself

A shock

A lullaby

Aubade

A Thanksgiving

Archaeology.