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Collected Poems

by Henry Treece. 162 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Henry Treece

Publisher:

   Knopf

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1946
Subjects:   Poetry
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Mystic Numbers
Pilgrim 3
Welsh Choir 3
The Dyke-Builder 4
Old Welsh Song 4
Poem ("Oh, God, your blood . . .") 5
Poem ("Oh, little child . . .") 5
What Thing Affrights You . . . 6
Through the Dark Valley . . . 6
The Three Houses 7
The House of Truth 8
Invitation and Warning 8
Three Ages 9
Poem ("I dropped the crock . . .") 9
Tale 10
Poem ("I made a cloak of music . . .") 10
The Characters 11
Song 11
Ballet 12
The Two Souls 12
Poem ("End and beginning . . .") 13
Pastoral 13
City 14
The Ghosts 14
The Warrior Bards 15
Horror 16
Rustic Charm 16
Dramatic Interlude 17
The Lying Word 17
How Sweet Are the Flutes! 18
Pastoral 1941 19
Ballad of the Ranting Lad 19
Homage to A.E.H. 20
Venus from the Waves 21
Elegy Unending 21
Poem ("What song is sweet . . .") 23
Wedding Song 23
Confession in War- Time 24
Legend 25
Inscription on a Begging Bowl 25
The House 26
The Never-Ending Rosary -- A Sequence 27
Towards a Personal Armageddon -- A Sequence 40
The Boat Returns 53
Poems from a Work in Progress 59
Death Mask 69
See-Saw on Dying 70
The Seasons 70
Emperor Zero on Death 71
The Homeless 72
Poem for Easter 73
Psalm Carved from Sorrow 74
The Poet 75
"I Locked Love's Door" 75
In Such a Wilderness as This 76
Remembering Last Year 77
Poem for Christmas 77
The Three Selves 78
Winter 1939 78
The Old Ones 80
Age 80
The Black Book 81
Sonnet 82
Relies 83
Birdwatcher 83
The Magic Wood 84
The Crimson Cherrytree 86
The Lost Ones 87
Boat Blessing 92
Bard's Lament 93
Blind Bard 93
The Heroes 94
Evacuation from the Isles 97
The Shadows of My Words 98
Fugitive 98
The Possessors 99
Poem 100
Varied Growing 100
Three Steps for a Poet 101
The Barriers 102
There is a Cause for Faith 102
The Varied Faces 103
Christ Child 103
Betrayal 104
Second Coming
Resurrection 105
The New Way 105
The Seasonal Mind 106
The Sermon in the Field 107
Second Crucifixion 108
A Thief to his Lord 108
A Young Nun to her Lover 109
Love Poem 110
Love Song 110
Tears Are Too Small 111
Oh Child 111
Dumb Love 112
Revenante 112
Captured Moment 113
The Dilemmas 113
Love Sonnet 114
Ophelia 114
Sad Song 115
The Ballad of the Prince
Prologue 116
The Ballad of the Prince 117
His Coming and the Fear 117
The Wizard's Daughter 119
The Prince Passes 123
A Courtier Speaks 125
The Shepherd Lad's Lament 126
Epilogue 128
Ballad 129
War Poem 130
To Certain Ladies on Going to the Wars 131
Prayer in Time of War 132
Poem Before the End 132
The Conscripts 133
Conqueror 134
Martyr 136
To the Edge and Back 136
Lyric 144
Lincolnshire Bomber Station 144
The Heart's Wild Geese 145
Walking at Night 146
In the Third Year of War 146
Three Pleas 147
Birds 147
Circle 148
Poem ("The word that lies inside the head . . .") 148
Sympathy with Stone 149
Poem ("Who murdered the minutes . . .") 149
Poem ("Call me the Twelve . . .") 150
Poem ("When quiet comes . . .") 151
The Lantern and the Ghost 151
Poem ("Blood in the bud . . .") 152
Y Ddraig Goch 153
Plaint 154
Victor and Vanquished 154
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