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Tables of Contents for The Poems of Dylan Thomas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xv
 
Introduction
xxiii
 
THE POEMS
Prologue
3
4
I know this vicious minute's hour
7
1
Cool, oh no cool
8
1
The air you breathe
9
1
Cabaret
9
1
Sometimes the sky's too bright
10
1
Rain cuts the place we tread
11
2
The morning, space for Leda
13
1
The spire cranes
14
1
Time enough to rot
15
1
It's not in misery but in oblivion
16
1
The natural day and night
17
1
Conceive these images in air
18
1
The neophyte, baptized in smiles
19
1
To be encompassed by the brilliant earth
20
1
Although through my bewildered way
21
1
High on a hill
22
1
Since, on a quiet night
23
1
They are the only dead who did not love
24
1
Little Problem
25
1
When you have ground such beauty down to dust
26
1
There's plenty in the world
27
1
Written for a Personal Epitaph
28
1
Never to reach the oblivious dark
29
1
Children of darkness got no wings
30
1
Too long, skeleton
31
1
Nearly summer
31
1
Youth Calls to Age
32
1
Being but men
33
1
Out of the sighs
34
1
Upon your held-out hand
35
1
Walking in gardens
36
1
Now the thirst parches lip and tongue
37
1
Lift up your face
37
1
Let it be known
38
1
The midnight road
39
1
With windmills turning wrong directions
39
2
The gossipers
41
1
Before the gas fades
42
1
Was there a time
43
1
`We who are young are old'
44
2
Out of a war of wits
46
1
Their faces shone under some radiance
47
1
I have longed to move away
48
1
To follow the fox
49
1
The ploughman's gone
50
1
Poet: 1935
51
3
Light, I know, treads the ten million stars
54
1
And death shall have no dominion
55
1
Out of the Pit
56
4
We lying by seasand
60
1
No man believes
61
1
Why east wind chills
62
1
Greek Play in a Garden
63
1
Praise to the architects
64
1
Here in this spring
65
1
We have the fairy tales by heart
66
2
`Find meat on bones'
68
1
Ears in the turrets hear
69
2
The Woman Speaks
71
3
Shall gods be said to thump the clouds
74
1
The hand that signed the paper
75
1
Let for one moment a faith statement
76
1
You are the ruler of this realm of flesh
77
1
Before I knocked
78
2
We see rise the secret wind
80
1
Take the needles and the knives
81
3
Not forever shall the Lord of the red hail
84
1
Before we mothernaked fall
85
1
The sun burns the morning
86
1
My hero bares his nerves
87
1
Song
88
1
Through these lashed rings
89
1
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
90
1
From love's first fever to her plague
91
2
The almanac of time
93
1
All that I owe the fellows of the grave
93
2
Here lie the beasts
95
1
Light breaks where no sun shines
95
2
A Letter to My Aunt Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry
97
2
See, says the lime
99
2
This bread I break
101
1
Your pain shall be a music
101
1
A process in the weather of the heart
102
2
Our eunuch dreams
104
2
Where once the waters of your face
106
1
I see the boys of summer
107
2
In the beginning
109
2
If I were tickled by the rub of love
111
2
Twelve
113
1
When once the twilight locks no longer
113
3
Especially when the October wind
116
1
When, like a running grave
117
2
I fellowed sleep
119
1
I dreamed my genesis
120
2
My World is Pyramid
122
3
All all and all the dry worlds lever
125
2
Grief thief of time
127
1
I, in my intricate image
128
4
Do you not father me
132
1
How soon the servant sun
133
1
A grief ago
134
2
Should lanterns shine
136
1
Altarwise by owl-light
137
5
Incarnate devil
142
1
Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month
143
1
Foster the light
144
1
Today, this insect
145
1
The seed-at-zero
146
3
Now
149
1
Then was my neophyte
150
2
It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell
152
1
I make this in a warring absence
153
3
O make me a mask
156
1
Not from this anger
156
1
How shall my animal
157
2
After the funeral
159
1
O Chatterton
160
2
When all my five and country senses see
162
1
The tombstone told when she died
162
2
On no work of words
164
1
I, the first named
164
1
A saint about to fall
165
2
Twenty-four years
167
1
The Molls
167
1
Once it was the colour of saying
168
1
Because the pleasure-bird whistles
168
1
`If my head hurt a hair's foot'
169
2
To Others than You
171
1
Unluckily for a death
172
2
Paper and sticks
174
1
When I woke
175
1
Once below a time
176
2
There was a saviour
178
1
The Countryman's Return
179
4
Into her lying down head
183
3
Request to Leda
186
1
Deaths and Entrances
186
2
On a Wedding Anniversary
188
1
Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
189
8
Love in the Asylum
197
1
On the Marriage of a Virgin
198
1
The hunchback in the park
198
2
Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred
200
1
Ceremony after a Fire Raid
201
3
Last night I dived my beggar arm
204
1
Poem
204
1
Poem in October
205
2
New Quay
207
2
Vision and Prayer
209
6
Holy Spring
215
1
A Winter's Tale
216
5
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
221
1
This side of the truth
222
1
The conversation of prayers
223
1
Lie still, sleep becalmed
224
1
Fern Hill
225
2
In my craft or sullen art
227
1
In Country Sleep
228
4
Over Sir John's hill
232
2
In the White Giant's Thigh
234
3
Lament
237
2
Do not go gentle into that good night
239
1
Poem on His Birthday
240
7
APPENDIX I: UNFINISHED POEMS
In Country Heaven
247
2
Elegy
249
4
APPENDIX II: EARLY POEMS
The Song of the Mischievous Dog
253
1
Forest Picture
254
1
Missing
254
1
In Dreams
255
1
Idyll of Unforgetfulness
256
2
Of Any Flower
258
1
Clown in the Moon
258
1
To a Slender Wind
259
1
The Elm
259
1
The Oak
260
1
The Pine
260
1
To the Spring-Spirit
261
1
Triolet
261
1
You shall not despair
262
1
My river
263
2
We will be conscious of our sanctity
265
1
I have come to catch your voice
266
1
When your furious motion
267
1
No thought can trouble my unwholesome pose
268
1
No, pigeon, I'm too wise
269
1
Woman on Tapestry
270
3
Pillar breaks
273
1
It's light that makes the intervals
274
1
Let me escape
275
1
The rod can lift its twining head
275
1
Admit the sun
276
39
NOTES
A Note on Verse-Patterns
279
4
Notes on the Poems
283
24
Poems 1--163
284
18
Unfinished Poems, 164--165
302
2
Early Poems, 166--191
304
3
A Chronology
307
4
A Note on this Revised Edition
311
4
Index of Titles and First Lines
315