Preface
Fowls in the Frith p. 3
I Am of Ireland p. 4
Thomas the Rhymer p. 5
Sir Patrick Spens p. 9
Western Wind p. 11
"They fle from me that sometyme did me seke" p. 12
The Lullaby of a Lover p. 13
Of Money p. 15
The Lowest Trees Have Tops p. 16
The Lie p. 17
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand" p. 20
Ye Goat-herd Gods p. 21
The Burning Babe p. 24
A Litany in Time of Plague p. 25
Elegy p. 27
"Since ther's no helpe, come let us kisse and part" p. 28
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love p. 29
"How like a winter hath my absence been" p. 31
Tom O'Bedlam's Song p. 32
The Relic p. 35
Epitaph on Salomon Pavy, a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel p. 37
The Mad Maid's Song p. 38
"Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back" p. 40
A Song p. 41
Dirge p. 42
Of English Verse p. 43
The Philosopher and the Lover; To a Mistress Dying p. 45
"When I consider how my light is spent" p. 47
No Platonique Love p. 48
To His Coy Mistress p. 49
Corruption p. 51
A Discourse of Melancholy p. 53
To The Ladies p. 54
A Nocturnal Reverie p. 55
The Progress of Beauty p. 57
Ode on Solitude p. 62
The Sick Rose p. 63
To a Mouse p. 64
Lucy Gray p. 67
Proud Maisie p. 70
Kubla Khan p. 71
Darkness p. 73
"When the lamp is shattered" p. 76
The Badger p. 78
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe p. 80
Ode to a Nightingale p. 81
The Rhodora p. 85
Snow-Flakes p. 86
Telling the Bees p. 87
Annabel Lee p. 90
Tithonus p. 92
Memorabilia p. 95
The Owl and the Pussy Cat p. 96
Stanzas p. 98
The Maldive Shark p. 99
A Noiseless Patient Spider p. 100
The Woodspurge p. 101
"As imperceptibly as grief" p. 102
"When I am dead, my dearest" p. 103
Afterwards p. 104
The Windhover p. 106
Into My Heart an Air that Kills p. 107
The Way Through the Woods p. 108
Easter 1916 p. 109
The House on the Hill p. 112
"I saw a man pursuing the horizon" p. 113
Sympathy p. 114
For Once, Then, Something p. 115
Mnemosyne p. 116
The Gallows p. 118
A Postcard from the Volcano p. 120
These p. 122
Piano p. 124
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter p. 125
The Horses p. 127
A Grave p. 129
Animula p. 131
Annihilation p. 133
"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" p. 135
You, Andrew Marvell p. 136
Anthem for Doomed Youth p. 138
Repose of Rivers p. 139
Advice p. 140
Yet Do I Marvel p. 141
Birth of Love p. 142
In Memory of W. B. Yeats p. 145
Observation Car p. 148
The Brandy Glass p. 151
At the Fishhouses p. 152
Those Winter Sundays p. 155
The Moon and the Night and the Men p. 156
Fern Hill p. 158
Fall 1961 p. 161
Meridian p. 163
In the Park p. 164
Advice to a Prophet p. 165
Aubade p. 167
Menage a Trois p. 169
A Hill p. 172
As You Came from the Holy Land p. 174
Copyright Acknowledgments p. 177