Collected Poems Anthony Burgess (best pdf reader for ebooks txt) 📖

Censorship

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And as the Manhattan dawn came up

p. 395

And his hooves hammer me back into the ground

p. 383

And if there be no beauty, if god has passed some by

p. 301

And in that last delirium of lust

p. 370

Archangels blasting from inner space

p. 384

At the end of the dark hall he found his love

p. 389

‘Augustine and Pelagius’

p. 311

Augustus on a guinea sat up straight

p. 323

Back to the Roots

p. 52

Bard’s Song

p. 419

Balaam’s Ass

p. 68

Bear

p. 435

Beasts and men are made the same

p. 441

Bed

p. 435

Bells broke in the long Sunday, a dressing-gown day

p. 385

Beryl is the daughterly daughter

p. 376

Belshazzar’s Feast

p. 74

Bull Song

p. 419

Cabbage Face

p. 449

Cain’s Crime

p. 59

Cain And The Lord

p. 59

Calm lies our harbour, while the maiden day

p. 403

Catullus 1

p. 353

Catullus 2

p. 354

Chant

p. 413

Christ at the Pillar

p. 84

Christ’s Cross-Examination

p. 84

Christ’s Foreskin

p. 78

Christ in Hell

p. 88

Courage

p. 85

Cracks open the leaden corncrake sky with crass, angelic

p. 374

Crippled, the antarctic fire with chiselled skill

p. 405

Curtal Sonnet

p. 386

David’s Duel

p. 71

Dead Leaves

p. 365

Dear Chris, The Trouble Is, As You Must Know’ (To Mr

Chris Mahon)

p. 346

Desert Song For Moses

p. 415

Doubting Thomas

p. 88

Do ye the savage old law deny

p. 400

Dragged from his doings

p. 384

Dreaming when dawn’s left hand

p. 408

Eden

p. 395

Eight and twenty years

p. 432

Epigraph On A Printer

p. 377

Epiphany

p. 77

‘Epithalamion’

p. 370

Exodus

p. 68

Father of fire who, with bold simony

p. 404

First Communion

p. 83

Fish And Heroes

p. 368

Fish grey, fish brown

p. 450

Foreword 1974 (from Moses)

p. 97

Foreword 1976 (from Moses)

p. 100

Forgive my writing verse: I get so bored’ (To Mr S. G. Byam JR)

p. 346

Forgive the lateness, please, of this reply (to Mr Alan Fox)

p. 344

From ‘The Circular Pavane’

p. 388

Gasping in the dunny in the dead of dark

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Girl

p. 359

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves(1)

p. 70

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves(2)

p. 71

Golden Calf Song

p. 419

Guessing Game

p. 73

Guilt in the Ghetto

p. 87

Happy Birthday Tae Andrew

p. 347

He bought me from a Saracen

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Here on the final pyre

p. 440

Heroes are dead to us

p. 354

His bowels are of gold, his veins of silver

p. 438

His Own Image and Likeness

p. 54

How come that such a scholar

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How dare I dare to dream

p. 437

Holy King David

p. 72

Holy Starvation

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I am sick of a kingdom which is a jewelled prison

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I choose no tail or toy!

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I had not thought to hear

p. 400

I love hate

p. 430

I send these lines to you in Agincourt

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I sought scent, and found it in your hair

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I wouldn’t frirk Uranus

p. 440

I wrote on the beach, with a stick of salty wood

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I’m weary of working with words that you write

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Ich nem’ ein’ Zigarett’

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I’ll crash the moon

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Ill-Starred

p. 85

Imagination is your true Apollo

p. 406

In Memoriam Wystan Hugh Auden KMT

p. 398

In this spinning room, reduced to a common noun

p. 379

Independence Day

p. 390

J.B.W.

p. 404

Jack’s Story

p. 367

January 1

p. 351

Joseph the Jew (1)

p. 65

Joseph the Jew (2)

p. 65

Jubilee Anthem. For Malayan Boys’ Voices

p. 420

Land where the birds have no song, the flowers

p. 374

Late as I am, but blame the mails, not me (to Mr Selwyn

C. Gamble)

p. 343

Lex for law and order

p. 439

Limbo

p. 87

Limerick: The Angler Of Kinsale

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Local Industry

p. 92

Lot at Home

p. 66

Lot in Repose

p. 67

Lot’s Wife

p. 67

Marriage Round

p. 418

Man

p. 53

Martha and Mary

p. 83

Miriam’s Song of Triumph

p. 416

Money isn’t everything

p. 446

Moses – A Restive People

p. 205

Moses – Abominations Before The Lord

p. 279

Moses – Balaam

p. 258

Moses – Death And The Law

p. 228

Moses – Jordan

p. 293

Moses – Miracles Of The Desert

p. 185

Moses – Return Into Egypt

p. 137

Moses – The Bondage

p. 101

Moses – The Death Of Dathan

p. 250

Moses – The Exodus

p. 173

Moses – The Golden Calf

p. 216

Moses – The Mountain

p. 195

Moses – The Passover

p. 168

Moses – The Plagues

p. 150

Moses – The Young Moses

p. 113

Moses – Unrest

p. 238

Moses – Zimri

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Moses – The Burning Bush

p. 125

Moses’s Song

p. 418

My adorable Fred

p. 443

My dead tree. Give me back my dead dead tree

p. 443

My father, his wife

p. 355

My love lay across the waters

p. 450

Nathan’s Song

p. 449

Noah’s Ark

p. 61

None but the coward

p. 428

Nostalgia In Head Plunging

p. 407

Not, of course, that either of us thought

p. 378

Nymphs and satyrs, come away

p. 369

O Lord, O Ford, God Help Us, Also You

p. 331

Oh, love, love, love

p. 442

Original Sin

p. 80

Orpheus And Eurydice

p. 360

Our Norman betters

p. 407

Out of the station puffs the train

p. 405

Passover Hymn

p. 454

Pastorale

p. 414

‘Perhaps I am not wanted then

p. 380

Pigs snort from the yard

p. 383

Prayer

p. 414

Princess’s Lullaby/Queen’s Lullaby

p. 413

Privy Matters

p. 95

‘Prudence! Prudence!’ The Pigeons Call

p. 368

Rice-paper land, O lotus-footed

p. 376

Say nothing, Priest, father, mother

p. 302

September, 1938

p. 392

Sevilla, Seviya, Sevija – or Seville

p. 429

Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, rounded by river

p. 387

Sick of the sycophantic singing, sick

p. 321

Signs (Dogs Of Peace)

p. 307

Sixth-form Triolets

p. 366

Slavery slavery

p. 427

So the world ticks, aye, like to a ticking clock

p. 396

So will the flow of time and fire

p. 348

Soldier’s Song

p. 413

Some consider love is great

p. 344

Sonnett À L’Hôtel Le Clos Voltaire

p. 352

Sonnet In Alexandrines

p. 356

‘Spaniards’

p. 92

Spread the Word

p. 89

Spring In Camp, 1941

p. 393

Summer, 1940

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Talk is easy. Easiest for one who

p. 301

Thank you. Enough, brother Teryth

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That The Earth Rose Out Of A Vast Basin Of Electric Sea

p. 355

The Age of Man

p. 62

The afternoon hour has struck for you to

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The Annunciation

p. 75

The Battle of Gideon

p. 69

The Bet

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The Circumcision

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