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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Hap | |
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| Neutral Tones | |
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| The Subalterns | |
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| The Darkling Thrush | |
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| The Man He Killed | |
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| Channel Firing | |
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| 'I Found Her Out There' | |
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| After a Journey | |
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| from Satires of Circumstance | |
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| II. In Church | |
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| VI. In the Cemetery | |
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| The Pity of It | |
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| In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations' | |
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| Snow in the Suburbs | |
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| The Harbour Bridge | |
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| He Never Expected Much | |
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| God's Grandeur | |
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| "As kingfishers catch fire" | |
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| The Windhover | |
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| Pied Beauty | |
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| Spring and Fall | |
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| Inversnaid | |
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| "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" | |
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| "No worst, there is none." | |
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| [Carrion Comfort] | |
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| Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves | |
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| That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection | |
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| Justus quidem tu es, Domine | |
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| Gunga Din | |
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| Sestina of the Tramp-Royal | |
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| from Epitaphs of the War | |
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| Common Form | |
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| A Dead Statesman | |
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| To the Rose upon the Rood of Time | |
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| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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| Who Goes with Fergus? | |
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| The Valley of the Black Pig | |
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| September 1913 | |
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| The Witch | |
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| The Peacock | |
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| The Dolls | |
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| A Coat | |
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| The Wild Swans at Coole | |
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| Easter 1916 | |
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| The Second Coming | |
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| A Prayer for my Daughter | |
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| Sailing to Byzantium | |
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| The Tower | |
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| Leda and the Swan | |
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| Among School Children | |
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| Byzantium | |
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| Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop | |
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| Lapis Lazuli | |
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| Under Ben Bulben | |
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| The Circus Animals' Desertion | |
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| Politics | |
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| The Farmer's Bride | |
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| Fame | |
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| Arracombe Wood | |
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| On the Road to the Sea | |
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| Monsieur Qui Passe | |
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| Miss Loo | |
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| The Listeners | |
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| The Old Summerhouse | |
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| The Starling | |
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| The Other | |
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| Adlestrop | |
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| The Wasp Trap | |
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| A Cat | |
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| Rain | |
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| Bitter Sanctuary | |
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| Italian Pictures | |
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| from Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose | |
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| English Rose | |
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| Der Blinde Junge | |
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| Autumn | |
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| The Embankment | |
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| Conversion | |
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| from Fragments | |
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| As a Fowl | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Self Analysis | |
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| Meditation at Kew | |
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| Unde the Oak | |
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| Pomegranate | |
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| Snake | |
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| Swan | |
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| Willy Wet-Leg | |
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| Andraitx.--Pomegranate Flowers | |
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| Bavarian Gentians | |
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| A Working Party | |
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| The Rear-Guard | |
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| The General | |
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| from Facade | |
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| 4. Ass-Face | |
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| 6. The Bat | |
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| 22. Fox Trot | |
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| 37. Sir Beelzebub | |
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| The Canticle of the Rose | |
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| Still-life | |
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| "Children of wealth in your warm nursery" | |
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| News-reel | |
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| The Old Gods | |
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| The Three Mirrors | |
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| The Horses | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| Gerontion | |
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| The Waste Land | |
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| from Four Quartets | |
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| Little Gidding | |
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| Corfe | |
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| The Jew | |
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| Break of Day in the Trenches | |
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| Louse Hunting | |
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| Dead Man's Dump | |
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| First Time In | |
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| La Gorgue | |
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| Laventie | |
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| The Bare Line of the Hill | |
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| The Bohemians | |
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| Sea-Marge | |
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| from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle | |
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| [Sic Transit Gloria Scotiae] | |
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| [The Barren Fig] | |
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| [Yank Oot Your Orra Boughs] | |
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| On a Raised Beach | |
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| from In Memoriam James Joyce | |
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| Nelly Trim | |
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| East London Cemetery | |
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| King Duffus | |
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| Anne Donne | |
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| De Civitate Hominum | |
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| The Six Who Were Hanged | |
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| Homage to Hieronymus Bosch | |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
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| Strange Meeting | |
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| Arms and the Boy | |
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| Disabled | |
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| A Slice of Life | |
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| The Music Hall | |
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| Hymn to Love | |
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| I'd have loved you as you deserved had we been frogs | |
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| from In Parenthesis | |
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| from Part 7: The five unmistakable marks | |
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| from The Anathemata | |
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| from I: Rite and Fore-Time | |
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| III: Angle-Land | |
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| A, a, a, Domine Deus | |
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| Warning to Children | |
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| The Legs | |
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| To Juan at the Winter Solstice | |
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| The White Goddess | |
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| from Parallax | |
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| Forget Me Not | |
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| A Plea | |
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| Auction! | |
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| from First Book of Odes | |
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| 3. "I am agog for foam" | |
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| 8. "Loud intolerant bells" | |
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| 15. "Nothing" | |
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| 17. "Now that sea's over that island" | |
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| 28. "You leave" | |
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| 30. The Orotava Road | |
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| from Briggflatts: I, Coda | |
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| from Second Book of Odes | |
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| 11. "Boasts time mocks cumber Rome" | |
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| 12. "Now we've no hope of going back" | |
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| Souvenir de Monsieur Poop | |
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| Not Waving but Drowning | |
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| My Hat | |
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| The Celts | |
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| Pretty | |
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| Black March | |
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| from The Ecliptic | |
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| Cancer, or, The Crab | |
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| from The Great Hunger: I, IX | |
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| Father Mat | |
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| Canal Bank Walk | |
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| Headrock | |
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| from Advent: I | |
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| Plenum and Vacuum | |
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| Villanelle | |
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| Reflection from Rochester | |
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| Sonnet | |
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| Enueg I | |
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| Enueg II | |
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| Ooftish | |
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| "Bones wrenched, weak whimper, lids wrinkled ..." | |
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| The Secret Agent | |
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| The Watershed | |
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| "Consider this and in our time" | |
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| A Bride in the 30's | |
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| Spain | |
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| from Sonnets from China: VI, VII | |
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| Musee des Beaux Arts | |
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| In Memory of W. B. Yeats | |
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| September 1, 1939 | |
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| In Memory of Sigmund Freud | |
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| No Time | |
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| At the Grave of Henry James | |
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| In Praise of Limestone | |
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| from Horae Canonicae: Nones | |
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| Ode to Terminus | |
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| An Eclogue for Christmas | |
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| Valediction | |
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| Snow | |
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| Carrickfergus | |
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| Corybantic | |
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| Photogravure | |
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| Different | |
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| Interruption | |
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| Lough Derg | |
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| Obstacle Basilisk | |
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| from Gods with Stainless Ears: IV, V | |
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| High Street, Edinburgh | |
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| Nude in a fountain | |
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| Celtic cross | |
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| Intrusion | |
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| The Island | |
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| Going Westwards | |
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| Strafford | |
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| Obsessional | |
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| Delusions I | |
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| Delusions III | |
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| Delusions V | |
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| Delusions VII | |
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| Countries of the Dead II | |
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| The force that through the green fuse drives the flower | |
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| Our eunuch dreams | |
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| To-day, this insect | |
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| Over Sir John's hill | |
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| A Letter to John Donne | |
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| The Desert | |
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| Au Clair de la Lune | |
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| Place | |
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| And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis | |
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| Baptism | |
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| The Rites of Hysteria | |
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| The Cubical Domes | |
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| Song | |
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| Ideas of Disorder at Torquay | |
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| Portman Restaurant | |
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| Leap Year | |
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| The Nightfishing | |
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| A Note to the Difficult One | |
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| Language Ah Now You Have Me | |
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| Johnie Raw Prays for His Lords and Maisters | |
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| Simplify me when I'm dead | |
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| These grasses, ancient enemies | |
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| Mersa | |
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| Dead Men | |
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| Cairo Jag | |
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| Aristocrats | |
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| Vergissmeinnicht | |
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| How to Kill | |
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| [wan do tree] | |
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| [Lion Lenin Leonora] | |
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| [Alevin Bars Causapscal] | |
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| Church Going | |
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| Toads | |
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| Nothing To Be Said | |
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| Water | |
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| The Whitsun Weddings | |
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| An Arundel Tomb | |
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| High Windows | |
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| Going, Going | |
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| Homage to a Government | |
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| This Be The Verse | |
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| The Explosion | |
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| Hearing Russian Spoken | |
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| Rejoinder to a Critic | |
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| Rodez | |
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| Out of East Anglia | |
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| A Conditioned Air | |
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| Inditing A Good Matter | |
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| Letter to My Father from London | |
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| From Lucy: Englan a University | |
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| Orkney Lyrics | |
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| Sea-Poppy 1 | |
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| Sea-Poppy 2 | |
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| First Words | |
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| Georgic | |
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| Bird Appeal | |
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| Blue Crepe | |
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| Choices | |
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| Fountain | |
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| On Its Own | |
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| Hearing Elgar Again | |
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| The Prose of Walking Back to China | |
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| Aesthetic | |
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| Distinctions | |
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| Saving the Appearances | |
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| Swimming Chenango Lake | |
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| Prometheus | |
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| Annunciation | |
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| The Plaza | |
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| The Garden | |
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| Baggot Street Deserta | |
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| Ritual of Departure | |
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| George Fox, from his Journals | |
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| from Twenty Words, Twenty Days: XVII-XX | |
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| Thighs Gripping | |
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| The Trout | |
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| A Bright Day | |
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| The Cage | |
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| This Neutral Realm | |
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| The Well Dreams | |
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| The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death | |
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| Confessions of the Life Artist | |
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| Moly | |
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| Seesaw | |
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| A Sketch of the Great Dejection | |
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| Lament | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Exile | |
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| For Brighton, Old Bawd | |
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| View of a Pig | |
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| Pike | |
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| Out | |
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| Pibroch | |
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| Wodwo | |
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| Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door | |
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| from Gaudete | |
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| Flounders | |
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| from City | |
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| The Entertainment of War | |
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| The Poplars | |
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| "Walking through the suburb at night" | |
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| From an English Sensibility | |
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| from A Furnace | |
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| Introit | |
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| II. The Return | |
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| Death of a Son | |
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| First it was Singing | |
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| Dandelion | |
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| A Daisy | |
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| A Word about Freedom and Identity in Tel-Aviv | |
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| The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas | |
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| The Little Cardboard Suitcase | |
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| The Ice-cream Boom Towns | |
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| Against Death | |
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| Young Women with the Hair of Witches and No Modesty | |
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| The British Museum Smile | |
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| Mothers and Child | |
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| Genesis | |
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| Ovid in the Third Reich | |
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| September Song | |
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| History as Poetry | |
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| from Mercian Hymns: I-XII, XXVII-XXX | |
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| from The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy: 4, 5 | |
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| Respublica | |
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| from The Triumph of Love: XXIII, XXV, XXXV, XXXIX-XLIV, LV, LXI-LXIV, CXLVII-CL | |
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| Against Coupling | |
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| The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers | |
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| Leaving the Tate | |
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| v. | |
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| Czargrad | |
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| Wedding Day | |
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| You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life | |
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| South America | |
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| from Logbook: pages 106, 453 | |
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| from Sentenced to Death | |
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| "sentenced he gives a shape" | |
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| "curiously the whole thing had begun" | |
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| "reversals of performance levels" | |
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| from Eternal Sections | |
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| "in black tunics, middle-aged" | |
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| "brilliance of the orange lily" | |
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| "thoughts are in real time" | |
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| Out of the Picture | |
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| Saxon Landings | |
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| Man Jack | |
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| The Slave Ship | |
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| The Sea | |
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| Towards the End of a Century | |
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| Grandmotherpoem | |
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| The Mother's Tale | |
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| Good Old Harry | |
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| Inaugural Address | |
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| When the geography was fixed | |
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| The Blue Mosque | |
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| Salt Water | |
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| Bogland | |
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| North | |
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| Singing School | |
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| Oysters | |
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| The Toome Road | |
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| The Underground | |
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| from Station Island: VII, XII | |
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| The Mud Vision | |
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| from Lines on the Liver: 1, 2, 10, 11, 17 | |
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| from Excavations, Part One | |
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| from Book 1: Distant Points | |
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| "the body in its final commerce" | |
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| "folded in river clay" | |
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| "carefully dismembered" | |
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| from Book 2: This Carol They Began That Hour | |
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| "Sing to me" | |
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| "Meaning spills" | |
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| "Leaving a simple state" | |
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| from Book 3: Vacated Thrones | |
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| "Ganesa dances" | |
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| "'I arrived at a place mute of light'" | |
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| The Snow Party | |
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| A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford | |
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| Courtyards in Delft | |
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| A Garage in Co. Cork | |
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| The Veil Poem | |
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| Six Glasgow Poems | |
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| A Priest Came on at Merkland Street | |
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| An Enquiry into Two Inches of Ivory | |
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| A Martian Sends a Postcard Home | |
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| The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish | |
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| Listen. This is the Noise of Myth | |
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| from Outside History | |
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| 9: In Exile | |
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| from four novels | |
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| 1. African Mission | |
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| defamiliarising -- *:38 | |
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| Mummers' Strut | |
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| A History Lesson from My Son on Hadrian's Wall | |
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| Energy | |
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| The Double D Economy | |
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| from Stet | |
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| Thucydidean | |
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| Cordelia: or, 'A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be' | |
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| Mirror's Song | |
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| Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990 | |
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| The Turlough | |
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| Cry Help | |
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| Tohu-bohu | |
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| Affections must not | |
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| Lure, 1963 | |
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| When it's time to go | |
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| Pastoral | |
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| Wherever you are, be somewhere else | |
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| Knowing in the real world | |
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| from Hellhound Memos | |
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| Reekie | |
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| The Stumbling Block its Index | |
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| Answering a New Year Letter, 1989 | |
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| Self-Portrait in a '90s Bestiary | |
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| An Essay on Translation | |
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| The Fat Black Woman Remembers | |
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| The Fat Black Woman Versus Politics | |
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| Skanking Englishman Between Trains | |
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| Long-Man | |
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| Tulips | |
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| The Seed-Picture | |
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| Slips | |
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| Aviary | |
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| The War Ending | |
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| The Albert Chain | |
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| Brought Forward | |
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| Starlings | |
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| Garb | |
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| Hill Figures | |
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| Quoof | |
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| Meeting the British | |
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| Incantata | |
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| Eclipsing Binaries | |
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| La Quinta del Sordo | |
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| Where? | |
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| Mi Revalueshanary Fren | |
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| from Steps | |
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| Fire | |
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| from Sarn Helen | |
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| "bayonetted" | |
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| "snap crackle and pop" | |
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| "You've got some lip" | |
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| Phrase Book | |
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| The Mad Cow in Love | |
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| Mad Cow Dance | |
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| And If | |
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| The Wedding | |
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| Grand Hotel | |
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| Standing Female Nude | |
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| And How Are We Today? | |
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| Psychopath | |
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| Translating the English, 1989 | |
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| Poet for Our Times | |
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| 'stranger' | |
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| The Materialization of Soap 1947 | |
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| Internal Exile 1 | |
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| Coolie Odyssey | |
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| from Turner: I, II, XVIII, XX, XXIV, XXV | |
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| Colonies of Belief | |
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| from Arbor Vitae: I | |
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| Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem) | |
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| Cherry Tree Garden | |
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| Money | |
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| The SUN | |
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| from The Adoption Papers | |
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| Chapter 7: Black Bottom | |
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| The Anxiety of Information | |
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| The Postcards of Scotland | |
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| Les jets de la Poupee | |
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| A Garden of Tears | |
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| from Pitch: Part Three | |
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| Taxonomy | |
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| Blackbird/Jackdaw/Turdus/corvus/merula/monedula | |
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| Section VIII | |
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| Poem | |
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| Index of Authors | |
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| Index of Titles | |