Owl and Miner | p. 13 |
Revisited | p. 14 |
Praying with Kit Smart while Walking to Work | p. 15 |
Antique Lands | p. 16 |
At the Gates | p. 16 |
As if in Arden | p. 17 |
A Natural History | p. 18 |
Given in Sleep | p. 19 |
Coasts of Africa 1850 | p. 20 |
Far from the Habitations of Men | p. 21 |
Heartland | p. 22 |
Pastoral | p. 23 |
The Green Boy | p. 24 |
Kurdistan | p. 25 |
The Romance of Steam | p. 26 |
The Village, or, Festive Schadenfreude | p. 27 |
Pedestrianism | p. 28 |
Hell on the Ringroad | p. 29 |
Medieval, Somehow | p. 30 |
On the Grand Tour | p. 31 |
Cemetery Clearance | p. 32 |
Victorian Angels | p. 33 |
Now and Then | p. 34 |
To Warm a House | p. 35 |
At a Pinch | p. 36 |
For Notes | p. 37 |
Chai | p. 38 |
Eight Magpies | p. 38 |
Their Names | p. 39 |
The Country Bus | p. 39 |
The House Sitter's Letter | p. 40 |
Not the Noise of the World | p. 41 |
The New Badge | p. 42 |
Nowhere Near | p. 43 |
Tailor in a Landscape | p. 44 |
Thus | p. 45 |
In Silence | p. 45 |
Queen Victoria's Chaffinch | p. 46 |
Giant Forms | p. 47 |
From the Top Floor of the Library | p. 48 |
Solarised | p. 49 |
The Valley Floor | p. 50 |
Therefore Choose Life | p. 50 |
The Shore | p. 53 |
Passing the Park | p. 54 |
The Old Masters | p. 55 |
A Troubadour | p. 56 |
Winter Quarters | p. 56 |
Part of the Bridge | p. 57 |
At North Villa | p. 58 |
An Egregious Talent | p. 60 |
A Moment's Reflection | p. 61 |
The Gun | p. 62 |
The Shorter 'Life' | p. 63 |
That Old-Time Religion | p. 64 |
In a Gothic Yard | p. 66 |
At Her Grinding-Stone | p. 67 |
Words for a Sundial | p. 67 |
Topographical Note | p. 68 |
In My Kitchen | p. 68 |
A Letter to an Editor | p. 69 |
The Cartoon Version | p. 71 |
The Coffin Factory | p. 72 |
The Bear (The Sofas) | p. 73 |
The Devil on Holiday | p. 74 |
On Crete or Somewhere | p. 79 |
Sitting Propped Up in the Side-Galleries | p. 79 |
Individual Culture | p. 80 |
Common Property | p. 81 |
The Seventeenth of June | p. 82 |
Line with Atoll and Idol | p. 83 |
Cosmological | p. 84 |
Staff Only | p. 85 |
Pokerwork | p. 86 |
An Office Memo | p. 87 |
The Tar on the Roads | p. 88 |
He Loves to Go A-Wandering | p. 90 |
A Malediction | p. 91 |
A Bee | p. 92 |
Next | p. 93 |
Jottings from Northern Minsters | p. 94 |
An Expedition | p. 95 |
Spade | p. 96 |
Sunday | p. 96 |
Elegiac Alternatives | p. 97 |
Chandlery | p. 98 |
One Mile Wide | p. 98 |
A Priest in the Sabbath Dawn Addresses His Somnolent Mistress | p. 101 |
By the Fire | p. 102 |
Truants | p. 103 |
The Bell | p. 104 |
Anatolian Sequence | p. 105 |
A Winter's Fancy | p. 106 |
Traffic | p. 107 |
Night Moves | p. 108 |
The Smart Chair | p. 109 |
In the Glass | p. 111 |
The Surgery | p. 111 |
The Smoke | p. 112 |
Death of Pan | p. 113 |
Red Nights | p. 114 |
Home Town | p. 115 |
Mappa Mundi | p. 116 |
Talking to David | p. 118 |
Country Alembic | p. 119 |
Scenes from a Long Sleep | p. 120 |
The Guitar | p. 122 |
The Jar | p. 124 |
Part of the Rubric | p. 125 |
Eikon Basilike | p. 126 |
The Classical Farm | p. 128 |
The Pierhead | p. 129 |
The News | p. 130 |
The Rain | p. 131 |
Old Farms | p. 133 |
Glimpsed Among Trees | p. 134 |
Cider Story | p. 137 |
A Shop | p. 138 |
On the Green Phone | p. 139 |
White | p. 141 |
A Flyte of Fancy | p. 142 |
A Man of Letters Recalls an Incident in His Youth | p. 143 |
Long Distance | p. 144 |
Events at the Poles | p. 145 |
The Hailstone | p. 146 |
Eirenicon | p. 147 |
The British Museum | p. 148 |
The Globe | p. 149 |
What Care We Shew | p. 150 |
The Barn | p. 151 |
The Fly | p. 152 |
Vesperal | p. 154 |
The Mountain Hare | p. 155 |
The Northlands | p. 156 |
The Sleepers | p. 158 |
Hare's Run | p. 159 |
Gillan Spring | p. 160 |
The Best Translations | p. 162 |
A Monastery in Georgia | p. 163 |
The Restoration | p. 164 |
That Way Inclined | p. 167 |
Hermetics | p. 168 |
The Pub Yard at Skidby | p. 169 |
The Experts | p. 170 |
Celebrations | p. 171 |
During a Storm | p. 172 |
Running | p. 173 |
Building the Titanic | p. 174 |
Geography | p. 174 |
Back of the House | p. 175 |
Three Lakes by Humber | p. 176 |
Strange Ubiquitous History | p. 177 |
The Butchers of Hull | p. 178 |
Upstairs | p. 178 |
The Specialist Heart | p. 179 |
The Summer Courts | p. 180 |
A White Wine for Max Ernst | p. 182 |
The X | p. 183 |
The Autumn | p. 184 |
Bard | p. 185 |
The Nail | p. 186 |
April | p. 187 |
Donegal | p. 188 |
The Sigh | p. 189 |
A Vernacular Tale | p. 190 |
Aloft | p. 191 |
Cemetery | p. 192 |
The Seventh of April | p. 193 |
The Drainage | p. 194 |
The Flowers of Finland | p. 196 |
Cat Nights | p. 198 |
A Daft Place | p. 199 |
In the Dakotas | p. 200 |
In Britain | p. 202 |
In Belgium | p. 203 |
The Web | p. 204 |
A Civil Garden | p. 205 |
Two Urns | p. 206 |
The Library Steps | p. 207 |
A Book | p. 208 |
Venery | p. 209 |
The Residents, 1840 | p. 210 |
A Riddle | p. 212 |
Roses | p. 213 |
Clues | p. 213 |
Saying Goodbye | p. 214 |
Notes | p. 216 |
Index of Titles and First Lines | p. 219 |
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