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The Creation of the World

p. 51

The Dragon’s mouth will consummate our search

p. 372

The Earthly Paradise of the Beasts

p. 51

The Eighth of December

p. 75

The Fair Judith

p. 73

The Father of the Saints

p. 91

The First Clothes

p. 56

The First Mouthful

p. 55

The Flight of the Holy Family

p. 79

The Foxes

p. 69

The Good Samaritan

p. 452

The House of God

p. 82

The Judgment of Solomon

p. 72

The Last Day (To The Editors, Yale News)

p. 343

The kind of laugh that Wodehouse imparts is

p. 401

The Last Days

p. 90

The Last Judgment

p. 91

The Lowdown On Art Or Æsthetics For The Science Student

p. 362

The Madonna’s Marriage

p. 76

The moon awaits your sleeping: fear to be kissed

p. 382

The Music Of The Spheres

p. 377

Then as the moon engilds the Thalian fields

p. 396

The New Wine

p. 61

The orchidaceous catalogue begins

p. 95

The Pet Beast

p. 303

The Princely Progress

p. 317

The Prodigal Son

p. 450

The sea, green and deep

p. 404

The Second Sin

p. 60

The Slaughter of the Innocents

p. 79

The State of Innocence (1)

p. 57

The State of Innocence (2)

p. 58

The stoat’s cry tears long slivers of the night

p. 382

The Sword

p. 327

The Tower

p. 63

The Three Dimensions

p. 423

The Two Breeds

p. 86

The urgent temper of the laws

p. 388

The Universal Deluge

p. 60

The verses of E. Lucie-Smith

p. 353

The Visit

p. 76

The Wedding at Cana (1)

p. 80

The Wedding at Cana (2)

p. 81

The Wedding at Cana (3)

p. 81

The Wiggle Poof

p. 402

The work ends when the work ends

p. 397

The young things who frequent movie palaces

p. 401

They fear and hate

p. 391

They lit the sun, and then their day began

p. 322

This lovely queen, if I should win her

p. 444

Thus kneeling at the altar rail

p. 400

Thy mouth, a fig, thy teeth

p. 449

To Amaryllis After The Dance

p. 359

To be a king, to be a king

p. 433

To Chas

p. 345

To Tirzah

p. 371

To Vladimir Nabokov On His 70th Birthday

p. 325

Tomorrow will be love for the loveless, and for the lover love

p. 380

Travel Song

p. 418

Travelling Song

p. 416

Two Uses for Ashes

p. 94

Une P’tite Spécialité Called L’Amour

p. 447

Useless to hope to hold off

p. 385

Waking and sleeping

p. 445

Water Song

p. 415

We will build a bridge to heaven

p. 442

We’ll be coming home

p. 442

‘What can I say? I’d better try a sonnet’ (to Mr Peter Brule)

p. 345

What I’d like to do

p. 431

When It Is All Over

p. 357

Where sweat starts, nothing starts. True, life runs

p. 373

Whisky

p. 349

Whitsun

p. 89

Winter wins

p. 405

Wir Danken Unsrem Führer

p. 358

Words Getting In The Way

p. 424

‘Work’

p. 93

You take my heart with such unformed grace

p. 376

You went that way as you always said you would

p. 397

You were there, and nothing said

p. 353

You whom the fisherfolk of Myra believe

p. 445

Your presence shines about the fumes of fat

p. 372

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First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Carcanet Press Ltd, Alliance House, 30 Cross Street, Manchester M2 7AQ.

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On the cover: Anthony Burgess (© INTERFOTO/Alamy)

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