Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• Foreword
• PART ONE (1927-1932)
• The Letter
• Taller Today
• Missing
• The Secret Agent
• The Watershed
• No Change of Place
• Let History be My Judge
• Never Stronger
• This Loved One
• East Knowledge
• Too Dear, Too Vague
• Between Adventure
• A Free One
• Family Ghosts
• The Questioner Who Sits So Sly
• Venus Will Now Say a Few Words
• 1929
• The Bonfires
• On Sunday Walks
• Shorts
• Happy Ending
• This Lunar Beauty
• The Question
• Five Songs
• Uncle Henry
• Consider
• The Wanderer
• The Watchers
• Adolescence
• The Exiles
• The Decoys
• Have a Good Time
• Half Way
• Ode
• Legend
• The Witnesses
• PART TWO (1933 - 1938)
• A Summer Night
• Paysage Moralise
• O What is that Sound
• Our Hunting Fathers
• Through the Looking-Glass
• Two Clibms
• Meiosis
• A Misunderstanding
• Who' Who
• Schoolchildren
• May
• A Bride in the 30's
• On this Island
• Night Mail
• As I Walked out One Evening
• Twelve Songs
• His Excellency
• Casino
• Oxford
• Dover
• Journey to Iceland
• Detective Story
• Death's Echo
• The Price
• Danse Macabre
• Lullaby
• Orpheus
• Miss Gee
• Victor
• As He IS
• A Voyage
• The Capital
• Brussels in Winter
• Musee des Beaux Arts
• Gare du Midi
• The Novelist
• The Composer
• Rimbaud
• A E Housman
• Edward Lear
• Epitaph on a Tyrant
• Sonnets from China
• PART THREE (1939 - 1947)
• In Memory of WB Yeats
• In Memory of Ernst Toller
• Voltaire at Ferney
• Herman Melville
• The Unknown Citizen
• The Prophets
• Like a Vocation
• The Riddle
• Heavy Date
• Law Like Love
• The Hidden Law
• Twelve Songs
• In Memory of Sigmund Freud
• Another Time
• Our Bias
• Hell
• Lady, Weeping at Crossroads
• Anthem for St Cecilia's Day
• The Dark Years
• The Quest
• Shorts
• No Time
• Diaspora
• Luther
• Montaigne
• The Council
• The Maze
• Blessed Event
• At the grave of Henry James
• Alone
• Leap Before you Look
• If I Could Tell You
• Atlantis
• In Sickness and in Health
• Many Happy Return
• Mundus et Infans
• Few and Simple
• The Lesson
• A Healthy Spot
• The Model
• Three Dreams
• The Fall of Rome
• In Schrafft's
• Under Which Lyre
• Music is International
• The Duet
• Pleasure Island
• A Walk After Dark
• PART FOUR (1948 - 1957)
• In Transit
• In Praise of Limestone
• Ischia
• Under Sirius
• Cattivo Tempo
• Hunting Season
• Fleet Visit
• An Island Cemetry
• Not in Baedeker
• Ode to Gaea
• Bucolics
• Shorts
• Five Songs
• Three Occasional Poems
• Their Lonely Betters
• First Things First
• The More Loving One
• A Permanent Way
• Nocturne
• Precious Five
• Memorial for the City
• The Shield of Achilles
• Secondary Epic
• Makers of History
• T The Great
• The Managers
• The Epigoni
• Bathtub Thoughts
• The Old Man's Road
• The History of Science
• The History of Truth
• Homage to Clio
• The Love Feast
• The Chimeras
• Merax & Mullin
• Limbo Culture
• There Will be no Peace
• A Household
• The Truest Poetry in the most Feigning
• We Too Had Known Golden Hours
• Secrets
• Numbers and Faces
• Objects
• Words
• The Song
• One Circumlocution
• Horae Canonicae
• Good-by to the Mezzogiorno
• Index of First Lines