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Foreword by Nikolai Tolstoy
Part I: Poems
Blitz poetry
‘The sea and the sky are silent’
Mrs Koren
‘The harsh dry polished rattle’
‘You will come to it’
The Olive Harvest
The Inine
tibi donum offero
A present
French verses
Mal du pays
‘A dog bit his master’
Goat
Looking towards the south
Foxes surprised
Epitaph
February
The Deep Gold of a Pomegranate-Tree
The Cypress Tree
Meads no more
The Lagoon
A Lycéen
In Upper Leeson Street
How to lay a mine
The far side of the pass
August, Sun-impaled
Words from the bottom of a river
Croagh Patrick
A T’ang Landscape Remembered
Song
Farewell, my sin I have enjoyed you
A man under his impulsion
David danced before the ark
The falling of the leaves
Dear Mona Fitzpatrick ’32 (or ’3)
The theft
The electric light failing
Youth gone
Giving up smoking
Diego
Spaniards Exiled
The Captain and the Stock
To the hermitage and down, refreshed
Waiting for money in a far country
In Madame Ponsalié’s garden
Walk by the sea to see wonders
The raven
The young listless man
From the Welsh
Snowdon for the sunrise
The wine-dark sea
The bad day
Sterne
The Pleiades on Christmas Eve
The apology
Dead hours of louring justification, a desert of time
Myself a young man read a poem
The uncertain land
Silver-haired charm and urbanity
Winter in Foreign Parts
Obsèques
The dark figures
‘Is true the rat’
The duty of pleasure
Poulp: or, the Medusa a Toy
Grey and white
No smoking: the second day
Pray, Luv, forgive me my sourness
The Mandrake
For Louise’s visitors’ book
‘Clouds over clouds’
‘Walking on the high mountain’
‘Help my understanding, Lady’
‘Down through the vines’
Collioure
‘Long, straight, the steel lines’
‘If I could go back into my dream’
‘Loose-bellied, grey’
Old Men
‘When your lance fails’
Part II: Drafts
The Sardana for the First Time
‘Yesterday an old husband’
‘Whereas in Jewry came a star’
‘Not that a hard-roed herring should presume’
‘The pattering of rain’
‘The cry of buzzards in the sky’
‘Vicious intromission’
Forbear O Venus pray forbear
A halt on the Trans-Siberian
‘When my Muse and Chian Veins vie’
The sorrow & woe
Boars
Night walking
‘On the mountain I have quite a good sense of direction’
The True-born Englishman
‘Sun sloping through the cypresses’
Labuntur anni (The advancing years)
‘Peace; a great lawn that small, fat feet’
The hard winter
‘An old thin tall man’
What the hell do you know about poverty?
‘The north wind low over the house’
‘High on the cold mountain road’
‘I went out in a night of tearing wind’
‘A wheeling buzzard lifting to the sun’
‘Thoughts that range from anger and revenge’
‘Of France and of the knowledge of that land’
Captivity
‘When a dry heart sets a bleeding’
Loud-mouthed neighbours through the floor
‘For Jojo’s livre d’or 85’
Footnotes
Acknowledgements
Index of first lines
The Works of Patrick O’Brian
About the Publisher
