Trees Be Company

by King, Angela; Clifford, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781890132835
• ISBN10: 1890132837
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Marvel Enterprises

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 13
Foreword	p. 15
Afforestation	p. 19
Afternoon Tea	p. 19
Alcaic	p. 20
The Almond Trees	p. 20
Alone in the Woods	p. 22
Amphion	p. 23
Apple Poem	p. 26
'Autumn again, you wouldn't know in the city' from Autumn Gold: New England Fall	p. 27
A Barbican Ash	p. 29
Bare Almond-Trees	p. 29
The Battle of the Trees (from The Red Book of Hergest)	p. 30
'Bear me, Pomona! to thy citron groves' from The Seasons: Summer	p. 34
Beech	p. 35
Beech Tree	p. 36
Binsey Poplars	p. 36
Birches	p. 37
Blunden's Beech	p. 39
Bog Oak	p. 40
'The bushy leafy oak tree' from Sweeney Astray	p. 41
Cardiff Elms	p. 42
The Cedar	p. 43
Ceremonies for Candlemasse Eve	p. 44
The Chalk-Pit	p. 45
The Cherry Tree	p. 47
The Cherry Trees	p. 49
The Christmas Tree	p. 49
The Combe	p. 50
'Come farmers, then, and learn the form of tendance' from The Georgics	p. 50
The Crab Tree	p. 52
Cypress and Cedar	p. 53
Dead Wood	p. 58
Delight to Being Alone	p. 59
Dieback	p. 59
Domus Caedet Arborem	p. 60
Elder	p. 61
The Elm	p. 61
The Elm Beetle	p. 62
The Elm Decline	p. 62
The Elms	p. 62
The Elm's Home	p. 65
Elms under Cloud	p. 67
Ending up in Kent	p. 68
An English Wood	p. 69
'Enter these enchanted woods', from The Woods of Westermain	p. 71
The Fallen Elm	p. 72
Felling A Tree	p. 73
Fence Posts	p. 74
Fifty Faggots	p. 75
'For over-al, wher that I myn eyen caste' from The Parlement of Foules	p. 77
'Give me a land of boughs in leaf'	p. 78
Glyn Cynon Wood	p. 78
Green Man	p. 80
Green Man in the Garden	p. 81
'The groves are down' from Logging	p. 82
'The holly and the ivy'	p. 83
Home-Thoughts, From Abroad	p. 84
'How long does it take to make the woods?' from Sabbaths	p. 85
'Hwaet! A dream came to me at deep midnight' from The Dream of the Rood	p. 85
In a Wood	p. 87
'In midwinter a wood was'	p. 89
'In somer, when the shawes be sheyne' from The Ballad of Robyn Hode and the Munke	p. 90
In the Woods	p. 90
In Westerham Woods	p. 91
'I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing'	p. 91
'I see the oak's bride in the oak's grasp' from Gaudete	p. 92
'I think that I shall never see'	p. 93
'It is not growing like a tree'	p. 93
'The Land of Y Llain was on the high marsh' from The Sound of the Wind that is Blowing	p. 94
The Leaf	p. 95
'Living a good way up a mountain' from The Grey and the Green	p. 96
London Trees	p. 98
The Long-Tailed Tits	p. 98
'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now' from A Shropshire Lad	p. 99
The Magic Apple Tree	p. 99
Maple and Starlings	p. 100
Maple and Sumach	p. 101
The May-Tree	p. 102
The Memorial Trees	p. 103
Never Tell	p. 104
The New Tree	p. 105
'No weekends for the gods now. Wars' from Waking Early Sunday Morning	p. 105
No-man's wood	p. 106
'Nor less attractive is the woodland scene' from The Task	p. 106
Not After Plutarch	p. 107
'Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me' from The Temple (Affliction I)	p. 108
'Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile' from As You Like It	p. 108
'O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books' from As You Like It	p. 109
Oak	p. 109
Oak Duir from Tree Calender	p. 110
'The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines'	p. 111
The Old Elm Tree by the River	p. 112
The Old Oak Tree	p. 113
'Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'	p. 114
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road	p. 114
Pine	p. 115
Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening	p. 116
The Plantation	p. 116
Planting Trees	p. 118
A Poison Tree	p. 119
The Poplar Field	p. 119
Poplar Memory	p. 120
Ronsard's Lament for the Cutting of The Forest of Gastine	p. 121
'Shut, too, in a tower of words, I mark' from Especially when the October Wind	p. 122
The Silver Tree	p. 122
A Single Tree	p. 123
'The solemn work of building up the pyre' from The Knight's Tale	p. 124
Some Trees	p. 125
Song of the Open Road	p. 126
Song of the Stand-pipe	p. 126
South Wind	p. 127
Stovewood	p. 127
'Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all' from Yardley Oak	p. 128
The Tables Turned	p. 131
The Tall Fruit-Trees	p. 132
'There grew a goodly tree him faire beside' from The Faerie Queene	p. 133
'There is an old tale goes that Herne the Hunter' from The Merry Wives of Windsor	p. 134
'There is a thorn; it looks so old' from The Thorn	p. 135
'There was an old lady whose folly'	p. 135
'There was an old man in a tree'	p. 136
The Thicket	p. 136
'This night I walk through a forest in my head'	p. 141
'Thrice happy hee, who by some shadie Grove'	p. 141
Throwing a Tree	p. 142
Timber	p. 143
To a Late Poplar	p. 143
To a Tree in London	p. 144
To Make a Tree	p. 145
Tree	p. 145
A Tree	p. 146
The Tree	p. 147
The Tree	p. 147
The Tree	p. 148
Tree Fall	p. 148
The Tree in the Goods Yard	p. 150
Tree-kill	p. 151
The Tree of Guilt	p. 151
Tree of Heaven	p. 152
Tree Party	p. 153
Trees	p. 155
The Trees	p. 155
Trees Be Company	p. 156
Trees in a Town	p. 157
The Trees in Tubs	p. 159
A Tree Song	p. 159
A Tree Telling of Orpheus	p. 161
The Tree Trunks	p. 166
Two Japanese Maples	p. 166
Under the Oak	p. 167
Under Trees	p. 168
Upper Lambourne	p. 168
Urgent	p. 169
'The very leaves of the acacia-tree are London'	p. 169
Violet and Oak	p. 170
Virgin in a Tree	p. 171
Walking in Autumn	p. 172
Walnut St., Oak St., Sycamore St., etc	p. 173
'A waste of time! till Industry approached' from The Seasons: Autumn	p. 173
The Way Through the Woods	p. 174
'When first the Eye this Forrest sees' from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax	p. 175
'When there pressed in from the porch an appalling figure' from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	p. 176
Wind and Tree	p. 178
A Wind Flashes the Grass	p. 179
Winter	p. 180
Winter the Huntsman	p. 180
The Winter Trees	p. 181
Winter Trees	p. 181
The Wood	p. 182
'The wooden-shouldered tree is wild and high'	p. 183
Wooding	p. 184
The Wood of the Self-Murdered	p. 185
Wood Rides	p. 186
Woods	p. 187
'Ye fallen avenues! once more I mourn' from The Task	p. 187
'You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs'	p. 188
'Y was a Yew'	p. 188
Acknowledgements	p. 189
A-Z list of Poets and their Poems with Sources and Acknowledgements	p. 191
Common Ground	p. 206
Publications by Common Ground	p. 207
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