Collected Poems of Emyr Humphreys

by Humphreys, Emyr

• ISBN13: 9780708315118
• ISBN10: 0708315119
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Table of Contents

Author's note	x
A Young Man Considers his Possibilities	1	(1)
Cymru 1938	2	(2)
Unloading Hay	4	(1)
A Nonconformist	5	(1)
Courage	6	(1)
Cowardice	7	(1)
Isolation	8	(1)
Innocence	9	(1)
Apprentice Sermon	10	(2)
Eddie	12	(1)
The Renunciation	13	(2)
Page from a Diary	15	(1)
Humble Song	16	(2)
In Brindisi	18	(1)
A Landscape in Hyde Park, July 1944	19	(1)
Song	20	(1)
Judas Iscariot	21	(1)
The Serpent	22	(1)
February 1947	23	(1)
Birth Day	24	(1)
Holy Places	25	(2)
First Born	27	(1)
Pastoral Pose	28	(1)
Pascal	29	(1)
Romantic Illusion	30	(1)
Interim Verdict	31	(1)
Partial Recall	32	(1)
Rabbit Ensemble	33	(1)
An October Day in Lleyn	34	(1)
Governance	35	(1)
A Subject People	36	(1)
Hugo	37	(1)
Actors X	38	(1)
Actors Y	39	(1)
The Last Exile	40	(1)
The Traveller	41	(2)
The Duchess and her Duke	43	(1)
The Colonel and his Lady	44	(2)
Novelette	46	(2)
Bourgeois Nationalism	48	(1)
A Rural Man	49	(4)
Two Generations
The Father	50	(1)
The Eldest Son	51	(2)
Hawkins without a Number	53	(1)
A Fanatic	54	(1)
The Sniper	55	(1)
Monologue of a Horizontal Patriot	56	(1)
At the Memorial	57	(2)
At the Bus Stop	59	(1)
Bullocks	60	(2)
A Tree Waiting	62	(1)
Poppies	63	(1)
One More Dove	64	(1)
Horses	65	(1)
Turkeys in Wales	66	(2)
Director with Star	68	(1)
A Chilly Morning in Oak Park	69	(1)
Overheard at O'Hare	70	(1)
Petty Larceny	71	(1)
The Farmer's Wife	72	(1)
Friendship	73	(1)
A White World	74	(1)
Ancestor Worship	75	(1)
Poet of the Old North	76	(2)
A Roman Dream	78	(2)
An Apple Tree and a Pig	80	(2)
Dialogue in a Garden	82	(2)
Dream for a Soldier	84	(2)
On the Death of an Old Woman	86	(1)
At the Frontier	87	(2)
The Hermit	89	(1)
My Great-aunt	90	(2)
Uncle Thomas	92	(1)
Mrs Jones	93	(1)
Gwr y Rhos	94	(1)
Pastoral	95	(1)
A Democratic Vista	96	(1)
From Father to Son	97	(1)
Twenty-four Pairs of Socks	98	(2)
Master Plan	100	(1)
Bron y Foel	101	(1)
Nant y Benglog	102	(1)
Betws Garmon	103	(1)
Traeth Neb	104	(1)
Mynydd Bodafon	105	(1)
Llys Dulas	106	(1)
Din Lligwy	107	(1)
Hen Gapel	108	(1)
Traeth Bychan	109	(1)
Cytgan	110	(1)
Pwyll a Riannon	111	(7)
Bran	118	(2)
Branwen's Starling	120	(4)
The Young Warrior	124	(1)
An Old Man Complaining	125	(3)
Sweet Research	128	(2)
J.S.L.	130	(1)
Before the Deluge	131	(1)
St Michael's Little Summer 1941	132	(2)
Dartmoor 1917	134	(1)
What is a Man?	135	(1)
Plagiarising Parry-Williams	136	(1)
Ar Adeg o Derfysg	137	(2)
Cardiau Post	139	(2)
Cyflwr Dwr	141	(1)
Hanes Plwyfol	142	(2)
Cara Signora	144	(3)
Carchar Gweir	147	(3)
Norchia	150	(2)
Aralleirio Montale	152	(1)
Montale Fwy neu Lai	153	(1)
Poughkeepsie	154	(2)
Cymodi a Flawd	156	(2)
Ar y Guincho	158	(1)
Ebychiad	159	(2)
Raptus	161	(1)
Cara Signora	162	(3)
Show Business	165	(2)
Motet	167	(2)
Postcards	169	(4)
Inscribing Stones	173	(6)
S.L. i R.S. (An Imagined Greeting)	179	(2)
Who's Speaking?	181	(3)
Counting the Dead, Winter 1942	184	(1)
Hitler's Teeth	185	(1)
That Summer	186	(1)
The Life Peer	187	(1)
A Public Meeting	188	(1)
Oscar	189	(1)
Andree	190	(1)
Tomos Ty Calch	191	(1)
Cae Llanol	192	(1)
The Pest Controller	193	(1)
The Day I Forgot your Name	194	(1)
Contradiction	195	(1)
Bathroom Interrogation	196	(1)
Listening to Messiaen	197	(1)
Contemplating a Yew Tree (Llanddeiniolen)	198	(2)
Single Mother	200	(1)
Wrong Number	201	(1)
Marvao	202	(1)
Residential Home	203	(2)
Index of poem titles	205	(2)
Index of first lines	207