The Creation of the World
p. 51
The Dragon’s mouth will consummate our search
p. 372
The Earthly Paradise of the Beasts
p. 51
The Eighth of December
p. 75
The Fair Judith
p. 73
The Father of the Saints
p. 91
The First Clothes
p. 56
The First Mouthful
p. 55
The Flight of the Holy Family
p. 79
The Foxes
p. 69
The Good Samaritan
p. 452
The House of God
p. 82
The Judgment of Solomon
p. 72
The Last Day (To The Editors, Yale News)
p. 343
The kind of laugh that Wodehouse imparts is
p. 401
The Last Days
p. 90
The Last Judgment
p. 91
The Lowdown On Art Or Æsthetics For The Science Student
p. 362
The Madonna’s Marriage
p. 76
The moon awaits your sleeping: fear to be kissed
p. 382
The Music Of The Spheres
p. 377
Then as the moon engilds the Thalian fields
p. 396
The New Wine
p. 61
The orchidaceous catalogue begins
p. 95
The Pet Beast
p. 303
The Princely Progress
p. 317
The Prodigal Son
p. 450
The sea, green and deep
p. 404
The Second Sin
p. 60
The Slaughter of the Innocents
p. 79
The State of Innocence (1)
p. 57
The State of Innocence (2)
p. 58
The stoat’s cry tears long slivers of the night
p. 382
The Sword
p. 327
The Tower
p. 63
The Three Dimensions
p. 423
The Two Breeds
p. 86
The urgent temper of the laws
p. 388
The Universal Deluge
p. 60
The verses of E. Lucie-Smith
p. 353
The Visit
p. 76
The Wedding at Cana (1)
p. 80
The Wedding at Cana (2)
p. 81
The Wedding at Cana (3)
p. 81
The Wiggle Poof
p. 402
The work ends when the work ends
p. 397
The young things who frequent movie palaces
p. 401
They fear and hate
p. 391
They lit the sun, and then their day began
p. 322
This lovely queen, if I should win her
p. 444
Thus kneeling at the altar rail
p. 400
Thy mouth, a fig, thy teeth
p. 449
To Amaryllis After The Dance
p. 359
To be a king, to be a king
p. 433
To Chas
p. 345
To Tirzah
p. 371
To Vladimir Nabokov On His 70th Birthday
p. 325
Tomorrow will be love for the loveless, and for the lover love
p. 380
Travel Song
p. 418
Travelling Song
p. 416
Two Uses for Ashes
p. 94
Une P’tite Spécialité Called L’Amour
p. 447
Useless to hope to hold off
p. 385
Waking and sleeping
p. 445
Water Song
p. 415
We will build a bridge to heaven
p. 442
We’ll be coming home
p. 442
‘What can I say? I’d better try a sonnet’ (to Mr Peter Brule)
p. 345
What I’d like to do
p. 431
When It Is All Over
p. 357
Where sweat starts, nothing starts. True, life runs
p. 373
Whisky
p. 349
Whitsun
p. 89
Winter wins
p. 405
Wir Danken Unsrem Führer
p. 358
Words Getting In The Way
p. 424
‘Work’
p. 93
You take my heart with such unformed grace
p. 376
You went that way as you always said you would
p. 397
You were there, and nothing said
p. 353
You whom the fisherfolk of Myra believe
p. 445
Your presence shines about the fumes of fat
p. 372
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