THE CONTENTS
Reading edition
The Poet and his Book: P. 7
Intimations of Mortality: P. 8
The Wind is Blind: P. 10
Time’s Reversals: P. 12
The Threshing Machine: P. 14
Winter Trees on the Horizon: P. 16
To Sleep: P. 18
“The Marriage of True Minds”: P. 20
In Honour of America (1917): P. 22
“Lord, I owe Thee a Death”: P. 23
Reflexions (I) In Ireland, 1920: P. 24
Reflexions (II) In “Othello”: P. 25
Reflexions (III) In Two Poets: P. 26
To Conscripts: P. 27
The Voice of a Bird: P. 28
The Laws of Verse: P. 30
The Question: P. 31
“The Return to Nature” (I) Prometheus: P. 32
“The Return to Nature” (II) Thetis: P. 33
To Silence: P. 34
The English Metres: P. 36
“Rivers Unknown to Song”: P. 38
To the Mother of Christ the Son of Man: P. 40
A Comparison in a Seaside Field: P. 42
Surmise: P. 44
To Antiquity: P. 46
Christmas Night: P. 48
The October Redbreast: P. 50
To “A Certain Rich Man”: P. 51
“Everlasting Farewells! And again, and yet again ... everlasting farewells!”: P. 52
The Poet to the Birds: P. 53
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