Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- from THE DWELLING-PLACE (1977) -- I -- The Exile -- Chiaroscuro -- The Invalid Storyteller -- The Sparking of the Forge -- East Anglian Churchyard -- Genealogy: The Portrait -- Victorian Gothic -- The Ruined Abbey -- The Long Climb -- The Well -- II -- The Dedication -- The Rector -- Arthur Dead -- In Malignant Times -- Likeness -- The Goldsmith -- Sanctuary -- The Disenchanted -- Bird Watcher -- Saxon Buckle -- from DEVOTIONS (1982) -- I -- The Advent Carols -- Narcissus, Echo -- My Great Aunt, Nearing Death -- On the Demolition of the 'Kite' District -- Il Palazzo della Ragione -- Pony and Boy -- Two Cambridge Images -- Beyond Recall -- II from Air and Earth -- Migrant -- Beside the Autobahn -- Aerial Songs -- On the Devil's Dyke -- III -- The Natural History of the Rook -- Near Walsingham -- Home -- Homecoming -- For the Fly-Leaf of a King James Bible -- Antiphonal Sonnets -- Gothic Polyphony -- To Nicholas Hawksmoor -- Venice -- A Woodland Scene -- The Parable of the Sower -- The Peaceable Kingdom -- Chinoiserie: The Porcelain Garden -- Prayer for my Children -- OF EARTHLY PARADISE (1992) -- I -- Invocation -- Three Brueghel Paintings -- St Francis Preaching to the Birds -- The San Damiano Crucifix -- The Coat of Many Colours -- Cattle Market -- Birdsong and Polyphony -- The Infinite Variety -- The Thirst -- To Robert Wells -- II A Catalogue of Flowers -- Wild Flowers -- Bindweed Song -- An Autumn Vision -- Post-war Childhoods -- Conservancy -- Alkanet -- To Paint a Salt Marsh -- III -- Work -- The Law of the House -- At the Grave of Ezra Pound -- At the Grave of William Morris -- Fonte Branda in Siena -- A Plaque -- To a Poet from Eastern Europe, 1988 -- To Haydn and Mozart -- The Kitchen Table -- IV -- Charon's Bark -- Two Journals -- The Temple of Aphrodite.

Amores -- Re-reading my Poem 'Saxon Buckle' -- Transference -- The Dream -- In the Greenwood -- The Garden -- Oasis -- The Earth Rising -- V -- Caedmon of Whitby -- KING ALFRED'S BOOK & OTHER POEMS (1992-2000) -- I -- King Alfred's Book -- Lindisfarne Sacked -- House-martin -- The River in Springtime -- The Manor House -- Anthem -- Psalm -- Grace -- The Pig Man -- Kaspar Hauser -- II Three Epistles -- To Thom Gunn, on his Sixtieth Birthday -- Letter to J.A. Cuddon -- In Memoriam Graham Davies, Psychotherapist (1937-1993) -- III -- Visitation -- The Heron -- Vacations -- To Pyrrha -- Soft and Hard Porn -- Fin de Siècle -- The New Era -- IV -- Epitaph -- At a Friend's Funeral -- Fernando Pessoa's Lisbon -- Wood Work -- Stone Work -- A Baroque Concerto -- Casa Natal de Borges -- The Translator's Apology -- Olivier Messiaen -- THE MYSTERY OF THINGS (2006) -- I -- Bottom's Dream -- Dog Rose in June -- Wonderwoman -- Greensleeves -- In the Library -- The Ruin -- Much Ado about Nothing -- The Holy of Holies -- Recorded Message -- A Vision -- The Ladder -- Bethel -- The Architect at his Mountain Villa -- For my Daughter's Wedding -- Overnight Snow -- Plenty -- Chutney -- The Apple Trees -- At Great Coxwell -- Behold, the Fowls of the Air -- In the Beginning -- W.S. Graham Reading -- To George Herbert -- The Source -- The Falls -- II -- Ghostliness -- Stigmata -- The Need for Angels -- REPORT FROM NOWHERE & OTHER POEMS (2006-2011) -- I -- To One who Accused Him of Writing Hate-mail -- Meditation -- To a Buddhist -- The Nice and the Nasty -- The Language of Flowers -- Message -- To his Muse -- II -- Learning to Read -- In the Conservatory -- A Blue Tit's Egg -- Gregoire, 60 -- Cinnabar Moth -- A Curse -- Gaudier-Brzeska in the Trenches -- A Farmhouse near Modena, c.1980 -- III -- Remembering John Heath-Stubbs -- Shakespeare -- Brook's 'Lear' -- In Hospital.

Fragment -- A Far-off Country -- Civitas -- Report from Nowhere -- POEMS WRITTEN FOR SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (2009-10) -- A Valedictory Ode -- The Sidney Carol -- SELECTED POEMS FROM THE HUNGARIAN -- JENŐ DSIDA (1907-1938) -- MIKLÓS RADNÓTI (1909-1944) -- ISTVÁN VAS (1910-1991) -- JÁNOS PILINSZKY (1921-1981) -- GYÖRGY GÖMÖRI (b. 1934) -- DOMOKOS SZILÁGYI (1938-1976) -- GYÖRGY PETRI (1943-2000) -- ANNA T. SZABÓ (b. 1972) -- OTHER TRANSLATIONS -- FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS (c.84-c.54 BC) -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1181?-1226) -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI (c.1255-1300) -- FROM THE GERMAN OF RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) -- FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF FERNANDO PESSOA (1888-1935) -- FROM THE POLISH OF CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ (1911-2004) -- FROM THE BULGARIAN OF LYUBOMIR NIKOLOV (b. 1954) -- FROM THE RUSSIAN OF OSIP MANDELSTAM (1891-1938) -- NOTES -- INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES -- Copyright.