Obituary / Max Adeler -- In Memoriam / Max Adeler -- Polly Perkins -- As I roved out -- Unfortunate Miss Bailey -- The herse song -- Tarpauling jacket -- Foggy, foggy dew -- The lily and the rose -- The unquiet grave -- Gypsies in the wood -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Roman wall blues / W. H. Auden -- Song of the master and boatswain / W. H. Auden -- Sob, heavy world / W. H. Auden -- News of the World II / George Barker -- To my mother / George Barker -- Godolphin Horne / Hillarie Belloc -- Lord Finchley / Hillarie Belloc -- The garden party / Hillarie Belloc -- Henry King / Hillarie Belloc -- A child ill / John Betjeman -- The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel / John Betjeman -- Pot pourri from a Surrey garden / John Betjeman -- Senex / John Betjeman -- The burning of the leaves / Laurence Binyon -- O God! O Montreal! / Samuel Butler -- Stanzas for music / Lord Byron -- The good rich man / G. K. Chesterton -- The watch / Frances Cornford -- Voyages II / Hart Crane -- O what can you give me / Idris Davies -- One poet visits another / W. H. Davies -- The poet / W. H. Davies -- The inquest / W.H. Davies -- Buttons / Walter De la Mare -- At the keyhole / Walter De la Mare -- The bards / Walter De la Mare -- Hymn to God my God / John Donne -- Mythology / Lawrence Durrell -- The groundhog / Richard Eberhart -- Journey of the Magi / T. S. Eliot -- Raftery's dialogue with the whiskey / Padraic Fallon -- O Boys! O Boys! / Oliver St. John Gogarty -- Opportunity / Harry Graham -- The bards / Robert Graves -- Lollocks / Robert Graves -- Dr Newman with the crooked pince-nez / Robert Graves -- Sir John addressed the Snake-god in his temple, / Robert Graves -- Counting the beats / Robert Graves -- Traveller's curse after misdirection / Robert Graves -- The great-grandmother / Robert Graves -- Lift boy / Robert Graves -- The oldest soldier / Robert Graves -- To Lizbie Browne / Thomas Hardy -- In church / Thomas Hardy -- After a journey / Thomas Hardy -- A broken appointment / Thomas Hardy -- In death divided / Thomas Hardy -- The choirmaster's burial / Thomas Hardy -- I need not go / Thomas Hardy -- At Castle Boterel / Thomas Hardy -- Prayer / George Herbert -- His litany to the Holy Spirit / Robert Herrick -- She is far from the land / Thomas Hood -- The leaden echo and the golden echo / Gerald Manley Hopkins -- Infant innocence / Alfred Edward Housman -- Esylit / Glyn Jones -- A Christmas childhood / Patrick Kavanagh -- Moonlight night on the port / Sidney Keyes -- End of another home holiday / D. H. Lawrence -- Ship of death / D. H. Lawrence -- Sacco writes to his son / Alun Lewis -- The sentry / Alun Lewis -- In hospital: Poona (I) / Alun Lewis -- In hospital: Poona (II) / Alun Lewis -- On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape / Alun Lewis -- The dead in Europe / Robert Lowell -- As a plane tree by the water / Robert Lowell -- The libertine / Louis MacNeice -- Suicide / Louis MacNeice -- My dark-headed Käthchen / John Manifold -- His shield / Marianne Moore -- Very like a whale / Ogden Nash -- In time of pestilence / Thomas Nashe -- Prayer for the speedy end of three great misfortunes / Frank O'Connor -- Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen -- A right-ofway: 1865 / William Plomer -- The flying bum: 1944 / William Plomer -- Soirée / Ezra Pound -- Clara / Ezra Pound -- The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound -- His pilgrimage / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Judith of Bethulia / John Crowe Ransom -- Parting, without a sequel / John Crowe Ransom -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- Chard Whitlow / Henry Reed -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- The little brother / James Reeves -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Lent / W. R. Rodgers -- Carol / W. R. Rodgers -- Carol / John Short -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- A glassof beer / James Stephens -- Midnight / James Stephens -- The brewer's man / L. A. G. Strong -- The unknown bird / Edward Thomas -- The owl / Edward Thomas -- The collier / Vernon Watkins -- A lover's words / Vernon Watkins -- The buried child / Dorothy Wellesley -- Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span / W. B. Yeats -- For Anne Gregory / W. B. Yeats -- A dialogue of self and soul (Part II) / W. B. Yeats -- The three bushes / W. B. Yeats -- Three things / W. B. Yeats -- He thinks of his past greatness / W. B. Yeats -- Lapis Iazuli / W. B. Yeats -- John Kinsella's lament for Mrs Mary Moore / W. B. Yates -- The shepherd's hut / Andrew Young -- Passing the graveyard / Andrew Young -- A prospect of death / Andrew Young --