Foreword
From Tamar and Other Poems
Tamar
Divinely Superfluous Beauty
The Maid’s Thought
The Songs of the Dead Men to the Three Dancers
To His Father
The Truce and the Peace
Natural Music
Point Joe
The Cycle
Salmon-Fishing
To the House
To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House
To the Stone-Cutters
Suicide’s Stone
Wise Men in Their Bad Hours
Continent’s End
From Roan Stallion
The Tower Beyond Tragedy
Roan Stallion
Night
Birds
Fog
Boats in a Fog
Granite and Cypress
Phenomena
People and a Heron
Autumn Evening
Shine, Perishing Republic
The Treasure
Joy
Woodrow Wilson
Science
Apology for Bad Dreams
Ante Mortem
Post MortemSummer Holiday
Chapter XII from “The Women at Point Sur”
From Cawdor
Two Passages from “Cawdor”
The Old Man’s Dream After He Died
The Caged Eagle’s Death Dream
Fawn’s Foster-Mother
A Redeemer
An Artist
Soliloquy
The Bird with the Dark Plumes
Tor House
Hurt Hawks
Meditation on Saviors
From Dear Judas
The Loving Shepherdess
The Broken Balance
Birth-Dues
Evening Ebb
Hands
Hooded Night
From Thurso’s Landing
Thurso’s Landing
The Place for No Story
Fire on the Hills
November Surf
Winged Rock
The Bed by the Window
New Mexican Mountain
Second-Best
Margrave
from Give Your Heart to the Hawks
Give Your Heart to the Hawks
A Little Scraping
Intellectuals
Triad
Still the Mind Smiles
Crumbs or the Loaf
Descent to the Dead:
Shane O’Neill’s Cairn
Ossian’s Grave
The Low Sky
The Broadstone
The Giant’s Ring
In the Hill at New Grange
Antrim
No Resurrection
Delusion of Saints
Iona: The Graves of the Kings
Shooting Season
Ghosts in England
Inscription for a Gravestone
Shakespeare’s Grave
The Dead to Clemenceau: November, 1929
Subjected Earth
Notes to “Descent to the Dead”
At the Fall of an Age
From Solstice
At the Birth of an Age
The Cruel Falcon
Rock and Hawk
Life from the Lifeless
Rearmament
What Are Cities For?
Ave Caesar
Shine, Republic
The Trap
Praise Life
Distant Rainfall
Gray Weather
Love the Wild Swan
Signpost
Where I?
Return
Flight of Swans
From Such Counsels You Gave to Me
Steelhead
The Coast-Road
Going to Horse Flats
The Wind-Struck Music
Give Your Wish Light
The Purse-Seine
The Great Sunset
Blind Horses
Thebaid
The Answer
New Year’s Eve
Hope Is Not for the Wise
Nova
All the Little Hoofprints
Self-Criticism in February
Hellenistics
Oh, Lovely Rock
The Beaks of Eagles
Night Without Sleep
New Poems and Fragments
Decaying Lambskins
Shiva
Now Returned Home
Theory of Truth