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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR
THE POEMS, VOLUME I: POEMS
RHYMING POEMS
The Wild Common 5
Dog-Tired 6
From a College Window 7
Discord in Childhood 7
Cherry Robbers 8
Dream-Confused 8
Renascence 9
Virgin Youth 10
Study 11
Twilight 12
Love on the Farm 13
Gipsy 14
The Collier’s Wife 15
Flapper 16
Thief in the Night 17
Monologue of a Mother 17
The Little Town at Evening 18
ln a Boat 19
Last Hours 20
Flat Suburbs, S. W., in the Morning 20
The Best of School 21
Dreams Old and Nascent / Old 22
Suburbs on a Hazy Day 23
Weeknight Service 23
A Man Who Died 24
Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March 26
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree 27
Wedding Morn 28
Violets 29
Lightning 30
End of Another Home Holiday 31
Baby Running Barefoot 33
Sigh No More 33
Guards!
A Review in Hyde Park, 1910 / The Crowd Watches 34
Evolutions of Soldiers 35
Aware 35
A Pang of Reminiscence 35
A White Blossom 36
Corot 36
Michael Angelo 37
Hyde Park at Night, Before the War / Clerks 38
Piccadilly Circus at Night / Street-Walkers 38
After the Opera 39
Morning Work 39
Transformations
I. The Town 40
II. The Earth 40
III. Men 40
A Baby Asleep After Pain 41
Last Lesson of the Afternoon 41
School on the Outskirts 42
A Snowy Day in School 42
Whether or Not 43
A Winter’s Tale 51
Return 52
The Appeal 52
Lilies in the Fire 52
Red Moon-Rise 54
Scent of Irises 56
Forecast 57
Prophet 57
Discipline 58
The Punisher 59
Tease 60
Mystery 61
Repulsed 62
Coldness in Love 63
Suspense 64
Endless Anxiety 64
The End 65
The Bride 65
The Virgin Mother 66
At the Window 67
Reminder 67
Drunk 69
Sorrow 71
Dolor of Autumn 71
The Inheritance 72
Silence 73
Listening 74
Brooding Grief 74
Last Words to Miriam 75
Malade 76
Lotus and Frost 76
The Yew Tree on the Downs 77
Troth with the Dead 78
At a Loose End 78
Submergence 78
The Enkindled Spring 79
Excursion Train 79
Release 81
These Clever Women 81
Ballad of Another Ophelia 82
Kisses in the Train 83
Turned Down 84
After Many Days 85
Snap-Dragon 85
Come Spring, Come Sorrow 89
The Hands of the Betrothed 90
A Love Song 91
Two-Fold 92
Tarantella 92
Under the Oak 93
Brother and Sister 93
The Shadow of Death 94
Birdcage Walk 95
In Trouble and Shame 96
Call into Death 96
Grey Evening 96
Firelight and Nightfall 97
Blueness 97
A Passing-Bell 98
The Drained Cup 99
Late at Night 101
Next Morning 102
Winter in the Boulevard 103
Parliament Hill in the Evening 103
Embankment at Night, Before the War / Charity 104
Embankment at Night, Before the War / Outcasts 104
Sickness 107
In Church 108
Piano 108
The North Country 109
Love Storm 109
A Passing Visit to Helen 110
Twenty Years Ago 112
Reading a Letter 112
Seven Seals 113
Two Wives 114
Noise of Battle 118
At the Front 118
Reality of Peace, 1916 119
Narcissus 120
Tommies in the Train 120
On the March 122
Ruination 123
The Attack 123
Winter-Lull 124
Bombardment 125
Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector 125
Obsequial Ode 126
Going Back 127
Shades 128
Town in 1917 128
Bread upon the Waters 129
War-Baby 130
Nostalgia 130
Dreams Old and Nascent / Nascent 131
On That Day 134
Autumn Sunshine 134
ALL OF US
Farewell and Adieu 139
Star Sentinel 139
Mother’s Son in Salonika 139
Near the Mark 140
Man Hauling a Wagon 140
The Well of Kilossa 140
Straying Thoughts 141
Twofold 141
Fragile Jewels 141
Benediction 142
Supplication 142
The Grey Nurse 142
The Saint 143
The Wind, The Rascal 143
Rose, Look Out Upon Me 143
Unrelenting 144
Dust 144
A Powerful Ally 144
The Daughter of the Great Man 145
Drill on Salisbury Plain in Summer Time 145
An Elixir 145
The Jewess and the V. C. 145
Night-Fall in the Suburbs 146
Zeppelin Nights 146
Munitions Factory 147
Forlorn 147
Needless Worry 147
The Gazelle Calf 148
Foreign Sunset 148
Too Late 148
Antiphony 149
Swing Song 149
Prisoners at Work in the Rain 150
Neither Moth Nor Rust 150
UNRHYMING POEMS
LOOK! WE HAVE COME THROUGH!
Argument 155
Moonrise 155
Elegy 155
Nonentity 156
Martyr à la Mode 156
Don Juan 158
The Sea 158
Hymn to Priapus 159
Ballad of a Wilful Woman 161
Bei Hennef 164
First Morning 165
“And Oh—That the Man l am Might Cease to be—” 165
She Looks Back 166
On the Balcony 169
Frohnleichnam 169
ln the Dark 170
Mutilation 172
Humiliation 173
A Young Wife 174
Green 175
River Roses 175
Gloire de Dijon 176
Roses on the Breakfast Table 176
I am like a Rose 177
Rose of all the World 177
A Youth Mowing 178
Quite Forsaken 179
Forsaken and Forlorn 179
Firef1ies in the Corn 179
A Doe at Evening 180
Song of a Man Who is Not Loved 181
Sinners 181
Misery 182
Everlasting Flowers / For a Dead Mother 183
Sunday Afternoon in Italy 184
Winter Dawn 185
A Bad Beginning 186
Why Does She Weep? 187
Giorno dei Morti 188
All Souls 189
Lady Wife 190
Both Sides of the Medal 191
Loggerheads 192
December Night 193
New Year's Eve 193
New Year's Night 194
Valentine’s Night 194
Birth Night 195
Rabbit Snared in the Night 196
Paradise Re-Entered 197
Coming Awake 198
Spring Morning 199
Wedlock 200
History 203
Song of a Man Who is Loved 203
Song of a Man Who has Come Through 204
One Woman to all Women 205
People 206
Street Lamps 207
“She Said as Well to Me” 208
New Heaven and Earth 210
Elysium 214
Manifesto 215
Autumn Rain 221
Frost Flowers 222
Craving for Spring 223
BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS
FRUITS 229
Pomegranate 231
Peach 232
Fig 232
Medlars and Sorb-apples 235
Grapes 237
The Revolutionary 239
The Evening Land 241
Peace 244
TREES 247
Cypresses 249
Bare Fig-Trees 251
Bare Almond Trees 253
Tropic 254
Southern Night 254
FLOWERS 257
Almond Blossom 259
Purple Anemones 262
Sicilian Cyclamens 264
Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers 266
THE EVANGELISTIC BEASTS 273
St. Matthew 275
St. Mark 278
St. Luke 280
St. John 282
CREATURES 285
Mosquito 287
Fish 289
Bat 294
Man and Bat 295
REPTILES 301
Snake 303
Baby Tortoise 305
Tortoise Shell 307
Tortoise Family Connections 309
Lui et Elle 311
Tortoise Gallantry 314
Tortoise Shout 316
BIRDS 319
Turkey-Cock 321
Humming-Bird 323
Eagle in New Mexico 324
The Blue Jay 326
ANIMALS 329
The Ass 331
He-Goat 334
She-Goat 336
Elephant 338
Kangaroo 343
Bibbles 345
Mountain Lion 351
The Red Wolf 352
GHOSTS 357
Men in New Mexico 359
Autumn at Taos 360
Spirits Summoned West 361
The American Eagle 364
PANSIES
Our day is over 369
Hark in the dusk! 369
Elephants in the circus 369
Elephants plodding 370
On the drum 370
Two performing elephants 370
Twilight 371
Cups 371
Bowls 371
You 371
After dark 371
To let go or to hold on—? 372
Destiny 373
How beastly the bourgeois is— 373
Worm either way 375
Natural complexion 376
The oxford voice 376
True democracy 377
To be superior 377
Swan 378
Leda 378
Give us gods 379
Won’t it be strange—? 380
Spiral flame 381
Let the dead bury their dead— 382
When wilt thou teach the people—? 383
A living 384
When I went to the film— 385
When l went to the circus— 385
The noble englishman 387
Things men have made— 388
Things made by iron— 388
New houses, new clothes— 389
Whatever man makes— 389
We are transmitters— 389
All that we have is life— 390
Let us be men— 390
Work 390
Why—? 391
What is he? 392
O start a revolution— 392
Moon memory 393
There is rain in me— 393
Desire goes down into the sea— 394
The sea, the sea— 394
November by the sea— 394
Old song 395
Good husbands make unhappy wives— 395
Fight! O my young men— 395
Women want fighters for their lovers— 396
It's either you fight or you die— 397
Don’ts— 397
The risen lord 398
The secret waters— 400
Beware, O my dear young men— 401
Obscenity 402
Sex isn’t sin— 402
The elephant is slow to mate— 403
Sex and trust— 404
The gazelle calf— 404
Little fish— 404
The mosquito knows— 405
Self-pity 405
New Moon 405
Spray 405
Sea-weed 405
My enemy— 406
Touch 406
Noli me tangere— 406
Chastity 407
Let us talk, let us laugh— 407
Touch comes— 408
Leave sex alone— 409
The mess of love— 409
Climb down, O lordly mind— 410
Ego-bound 411
Jealousy 412
Ego-bound women— 412
Fidelity 412
Know deeply, know thyself more deeply— 414
All I ask— 415
The universe flows— 415
Underneath— 416
The primal passions— 416
Escape 418
The root of our evil— 418
The ignoble procession— 419
No joy in life— 419
Wild things in captivity— 420
Mournful young man— 420
There is no way out— 421
Money-madness— 421
Kill money— 422
Men are not bad— 422
Nottingham’s new university— 423
I am in a novel— 423
No! Mr Lawrence! 424
Red-herring 424
Our moral age— 425
My naughty book— 426
The little wowser— 427
The young and their moral guardians. 428
When I read Shakespeare— 428
Salt of the earth— 429
Fresh water 429
Peace and war— 429
Many mansions— 430
Glory 430
Woe 430
Attila 430
What would you fight for? 431
Choice 431
Riches 432
Poverty 432
Noble 432
Wealth 433
Tolerance 433
Compari 433
Sick 433
Dead people 434
Cerebral emotions 434
Wellsian futures 434
To women, as far as l’m concerned 435
Blank 435
Elderly discontented women 435
Old people 436
The grudge of the old— 436
Beautiful old age— 437
Courage 437
Desire is dead 438
When the ripe fruit falls— 438
Elemental 438
Fire 439
l wish I knew a woman— 439
Talk 439
The effort of love— 440
Can’t be borne— 440
Man reaches a point. 440
Grasshopper is a burden— 441
Basta! 441
Tragedy 441
After all the tragedies are over— 442
Nullus 442
Dies lrae 443
Dies Illa 444
Stop it— 444
The death of our era 444
The new word 445
Sun in me 446
Be still! 446
At last— 446
Nemesis 447
The optimist 447
The third thing 447
The sane universe 448
Fear of society is the root of all evil 448
God 448
Sane and insane. 448
A sane revolution 449
Always this paying— 449
Poor young things— 450
A played-out game— 450
Triumph 451
The combative spirit 451
Wages 452
Young fathers 453
A tale told by an idiot 453
Being alive 453
Self-protection 454
A man 455
Lizard 455
Relativity 455
Space 456
Sun-men 456
Sun-women 456
Democracy 457
Aristocracy of the sun 457
Conscience 458
The middle-classes 458
Immorality 458
Censors 459
Man’s image 459
Immoral man 459
Cowards 460
Think—! 460
Peacock 460
Paltry-looking people— 460
Tarts 461
Latter-Day sinners 461
What matters— 461
Fate and the younger generation 463
As for me, I’m a patriot 464
The rose of England 464
England in 1929 465
Liberty’s old story 465
New brooms 465
Police spies 465
Now it’s happened 466
Energetic women 467
Film passion 467
Female coercion 467
Volcanic Venus 468
What does she want?— 468
Wonderful spiritual women 469
Poor bit of a wench!— 469
What ails thee?— 469
It’s no good! 470
Don’t look at me!— 470
Ships in bottles 471
Know thyself, and that thou art mortal 472
What is man without an income?— 473
Canvassing for the election 474
Altercation 475
Finding your level 475
Climbing up 477
To Clarinda 478
Conundrums 479
A rise in the world— 479
Up he goes!— 480
The saddest day 481
Prestige 483
Have done with it— 484
Henriette 484
Vitality 486
Willy wet-leg 487
Maybe— 487
Stand up!— 487
Demon justice 488
Be a demon! 489
The jeune fille 491
Trust 492
NETTLES
A Rose is not a Cabbage. 497
The man in the street. 497
Britannia’s baby. 498
Change of government. 499
The British Workman and the Government. 500
Clydesider. 500
Flapper vote. 501
Songs I Learnt at School
I. Neptune’s little affair with Freedom. 501
II. My Native Land. 502
III. The British Boy. 503
13000 people. 504
Innocent England. 506
Give me a sponge. 507
Puss-Puss! 507
London Mercury. 508
My little critics. 508
Daddy-Do-Nothing. 508
Question. 508
Editorial office. 508
British Sincerity. 509
The Great Newspaper Editor to his subordinate. 510
Modem Prayer. 511
Cry of the masses. 511
What have they done to you—? 512
The People. 512
The factory cities. 513
Leaves of grass, flowers of grass. 513
Magnificent democracy. 513
THE ‘NETTLES’ NOTEBOOK
Image-Making love. 517
People. 517
Desire 518
To a certain friend 518
The Emotional Friend. 518
Correspondence in after years 519
The Egoists 519
Chimaera 519
Ultimate Reality 519
Sphinx 520
Intimates 520
True love at last. 520
Andraitx.—Pomegranate flowers. 521
I dare do all. 521
Battle of Life. 522
There are too many people. 522
The Heart of Man. 522
Moral Clothing 522
Behaviour 523
The Hostile Sun 524
The Church 524
The Protestant Churches. 525
Loneliness 525
The Uprooted. 525
Delight of being alone. 525
Refused friendship. 526
Future Relationships 526
Future Religion 526
Future States. 526
Future War 527
Signs of the Times 527
Initiation Degrees 527
Unhappy Souls 527
Full life 527
People who care 528
Non-existence 528
All-knowing 528
Salvation. 528
Old Archangels 528
Lucifer [1] 529
The Mills of God. 529
Multitudes. 529
Fallen Leaves. 529
The difference. 530
The breath of life [1] 530
Vengeance is mine— 530
Astronomical Changes 531
Fatality 531
Free Will. 531
In a Spanish tram-car. 532
Spanish privilege 532
At the bank in Spain. 532
The Spanish wife. 533
The painter’s wife. 533
Modern problems. 533
Dominant woman. 534
Men and Women 534
The Scientific doctor. 534
Healing. 534
En masse. 535
God and the Holy Ghost. 535
Humility 535
Proper Pride. 535
Humility-mongers. 536
Tender Reverence. 536
Absolute Reverence. 536
Belief. 536
Bells. 537
The triumph of the machine. [1] 537
The triumph of the machine. [2] 539
Forte dei Marmi 540
Sea-bathers. 540
Talk of loyalty 541
Talk of faith. 541
Amo sacrum vulgus 541
Boredom, ennui, depression 542
The deadly Victorians 542
What are the wild waves saying—? 543
Welcome Death. 543
Dark Satanic Mills 543
We die together. 544
What is a man to do? 545
13 Pictures 545
Auto da Fe. 546
Shows. 547
The Gulf 547
The Cross. 548
Fellow-men 550
The Sight of God 550
Souls to save 550
When most men die. 550
Hold Back! 551
lmpulse. 551
Men like Gods 552
Man and Machine 552
Masses and Classes 553
Give Us the Thebaïd. 553
Side-step, O sons of men! 554
On and on and on— 554
Oh wonderful machine! 554
But 1 say unto you: Love one another. 555
Love thy neighbour— 555
As thyself—! 556
Lonely, lonesome, loney-o! 556
Trees in the Garden 557
Storm in the Black Forest. 558
Revolutions as such! 558
Robot feelings 558
Robot-democracy. 559
Real democracy. 559
Worship. 559
Classes 560
Democracy is Service 560
False democracy and real. 560
Service. 561
What are the gods? 561
The gods! The gods! 561
Name the gods! 561
There are no gods— 562
Food of the North 563
Retort to Whitman 563
Retort to Jesus 563
The deepest sensuality 563
Sense of truth. 563
Satisfaction 564
Vibration of Justice 564
Lies 564
Poison. 564
Commandments 564
Emotional lies. 564
Laughter. 565
Drawing-room. 565
Cabbage-roses. 565
Cold blood. 565
Sunset 566
Listen to the band! 566
The human face. 566
Portraits 567
Furniture 567
Children singing in school. 567
Keep it up. 567
Race and battle. 568
Nothing to save. 568
Emasculation. 568
The English are so nice! 568
The Hills 569
Tourists 569
Seekers. 570
Search for love. 570
Search for truth. 570
Lies about love. 570
Travel is over. 571
Old Men. 571
Death. 571
Bourgeois and Bolshevist 572
Property and No-property 572
Cowardice and Impudence. 572
Lord Tennyson and Lord Melchett. 572
Choice of evils. 573
Hard-boiled Conservatives 573
Solomon’s baby 573
The Property Question 573
The way out. 573
St George and the Dragon. 574
The half-blind. 574
Minorities in danger. 574
If you are a man— 575
Terra incognita. 575
Climbing down. 576
Only the best matters 576
To Pino 576
Broadcasting to the G. B. P. 577
We can’t be too careful 578
Glimpses 579
All sorts of gods. 579
For a moment. 579
Goethe and Pose. 580
Men like Gods. 580
Thought 580
Be it so. 581
Conceit. 581
Man is more than homo sapiens. 581
Self-conscious people. 582
Two ways of living and dying. 582
So let me live 583
Gladness of Death. [1] 583
Gladness of Death. [2] 584
Humanity needs pruning 585
Self-Sacrifice. 585
Shedding of blood. 586
The old idea of sacrifice 586
Self-sacrifice 587
[Untitled] “I heard a little chicken chirp” 587
“Gross, coarse, hideous—” 587
[Untitled] “Dearly-beloved Mr Squire” 588
Let there be Light! 588
God is Born 589
Butterfly [1] 590
Butterfly [2] 590
The White Horse 591
The State of Grace. 591
Glory of darkness [1] 591
Glory of darkness [2] 592
Glory of darkness [3] 592
Flowers and Men. 593
Ship of Death 594
Song of Death [1] 597
Prayer 597
THE LAST POEMS NOTEBOOK
The Greeks Are Coming! 601
The Argonauts 601
Middle of the World. 602
For the heroes are dipped in Scarlet. 602
Demiurge. 603
The work of Creation 603
Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette 604
Bodiless God. 605
The Body of God 605
The Rainbow 605
Maximus 606
The Man of Tyre. 606
They say the sea is loveless. 606
Whales weep not! 606
Invocation to the Moon. 609
Butterfly [3] 610
Bavarian Gentians [1] 610
Bavarian Gentians [2] 611
Lucifer. [2] 612
The breath of life. [2] 612
Silence. 612
The Hands of God 613
Pax. 614
Abysmal Immortality 615
Only Man 615
Return of Returns 616
Stoic. 617
In the cities 617
Lord’s Prayer 618
Mana of the Sea 619
Salt 619
The Four 620
The Boundary Stone. 620
Spilling the Salt. 620
Walk Warily 621
Mystic 621
Anaxagoras 622
Kissing and horrid strife. 623
When Satan fell 624
Doors. 624
Evil is homeless. 625
What then is Evil? 626
The Evil World-Soul 626
The Wandering Cosmos. 627
Death is not Evil, Evil is Mechanical. 627
Strife 628
The late War 628
Murder. 628
Murderous Weapons 629
Departure 629
The Ship of Death. [1] 630
The Ship of Death. [2] 633
Difficult Death. 634
All Souls Day. 635
The Houseless Dead. 635
Beware the unhappy dead! 636
After All Saints Day. 637
Song of Death. [2] 637
The End, the Beginning 638
Sleep 638
Sleep and waking 638
Fatigue 639
Forget 639
Know-all. 639
Tabernacle 640
Temples. 640
Shadows. 640
Change 641
Phœnix. 641
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