Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928 Book

	Foreword to the Expanded Paperback Edition
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Introduction
	Textual Note
	California	3
	A Moment	4
	The Blind Lead the Blind	5
	Pardon	5
	Dawn ('Far into the vast the mists grow dim')	6
	On Seeing Some Dutch Pictures	6
	Joy	7
	Envoi ('You go')	7
	Envoi No. 2 ('You go')	8
	The Circus	8
	Everest	9
	A Dream	10
	A February Dawn	11
	A Rainy Afternoon	11
	The Coming of Love	12
	Nightfall ('Cool whisper of the trees')	12
	Envoi ('Take up your load and go, lad')	13
	To a Toadstool	14
	To a Field-mouse	14
	To a Small Buddha	15
	On a Greek Tomb Relief	15
	After Reading Keats' Ode	15
	Belief	16
	Sonnet ('This world is full of lovely things')	16
	A Tale	17
	Early Morning Bathing	19
	Woods in Rain	20
	Appletreewick	21
	The Sower	22
	The Lost Secret	22
	Prayer	23
	Autumn	24
	The Dragon-fly	25
	To a Child in Tears	25
	November at Weybourne	26
	Finis	28
	Bawbee	29
	The Old Lead-mine	29
	The Old Mine	31
	March Song	31
	Alston Moor	32
	Skyreholme Mill	33
	September	34
	The Plane Tree	34
	Speech	35
	Dawn ('On the cold waterfall, the flush of dawn gleams bright')	36
	Song ('Past all your knowing')	36
	March Winds	37
	The Mill	37
	Two Triolets	38
	The Last Time	38
	By the Fire	39
	The North	39
	We Sat	40
	My Lady of the Wood	41
	March	42
	Envoi ('From the red chimneys smoke climbs slow and straight')	43
	Song ('I have a little book')	44
	Arthur's Quoit, Dyffryn	44
	In the Nursery	45
	Christ in Hades	46
	Sonnet I ('There was desolate silence on the world')	47
	Sonnet II ('It matters not that we shall cease to be')	47
	Vision	48
	Stone Walls ('Where do they travel to')	49
	The Owl	50
	Farglow	51
	Inn Song	51
	The Miner's Wife	52
	In a Train	53
	Rookhope (Weardale, Summer 1922)	54
	The Cat	54
	By the Gasworks, Solihull	55
	The Robin	55
	Early Morning ('Perched on a nettled stump he stands')	56
	The Walk	57
	Elegy ('Why was it that you gave us no warning')	57
	The Old Colliery	59
	The Rookery	60
	After the Storm	61
	The Tarn	62
	Before ('I mark not without')	63
	Buzzards	64
	'There is so much that I can share with you'	65
	After the Burial	66
	The Traction-engine	67
	J. S. Bach	67
	The Candles Gutter Low	68
	'Though thy rafters are grown rotten'	69
	Allendale	70
	At Parting ('Under the lamp's exhausted glare')	71
	The Engine House	72
	'Since the Autumn day'	73
	The Pumping Engine, Cashwell	74
	'Whenever I see for the first time'	75
	The Mail-train, Crewe	76
	'So I must go my way'	78
	He Revisits the Spot	78
	'The dew steams off the thatches'	79
	'Now from far eastern wolds, the bay'	79
	Nightfall ('As ghosts peer over a bedroom curtain')	80
	Skyreholme Mill ('The mill-wheel never seems to tire')	80
	Stone Walls ('One almost takes a hedge for granted')	81
	'Like other men, when I go past'	82
	'The crocus stars the border'	83
	Damming Stream	83
	Sunday Morning	84
	A Visit	85
	The Hidden Lane (Near Selbrigg, March 1925)	85
	April in a Town	87
	The Mill (Hempstead)	87
	Elegy ('A wagtail splutters in the stream')	90
	Job	91
	Richard Jefferies	92
	The Sawmill	93
	'Below me Ticknall lay but in the light'	94
	'The Road's Your Place'	95
	Landscape	96
	The Dying House	96
	Friendship	97
	The Sunken Lane	98
	Punchard	98
	To E. T.	100
	The Canal, Froghall	100
	Song ('The merriest cuckoo')	101
	Sonnet ('April is here but when will Easter come?')	102
	Memento Creatoris Tui	103
	Earth's Praises	104
	Daily Bread	104
	The Dark Fiddler	106
	Maria hat geholfen	107
	Sunshine	108
	Autumn Evening	108
	The Carter's Funeral	109
	Rain	110
	In a Country Churchyard	111
	The Gipsy Girl	112
	Frost	113
	Flowers and Stationmaster	114
	Ploughing	115
	Helen	116
	'At last, down in the lane'	117
	Christmas Eve	118
	Trippers	119
	[actual symbol not reproducible]	120
	Progress	121
	Waste	121
	Alone	122
	Motherhood	123
	On Receiving a Christmas Card	124
	The Photograph of a Boy in Costume	124
	At the Maison Lyons	125
	An Episode	125
	Song ('The crocus stars the border')	126
	Lead's the Best	127
	Felo de se	130
	Dethroned	130
	April	131
	The Letter	132
	Chloe to Daphnis in Hyde Park	134
	Thomas Prologizes	136
	Pride ('Love's specious information')	139
	At Parting ('Though Time now tears apart')	140
	Portrait	141
	Amor Vincit Omnia	142
	Yes and No	143
	Cinders	143
	Thomas Epilogizes	146
	Humpty Dumpty	149
	Lovers' Lane	153
	Bank Holiday	156
	Last Bus, Saturday Night	160
	Song ('Relation seemed ordained for us')	161
	First Meeting	162
	Consequences	162
	In Due Season	164
	Early Morning ('Earth rolls these houses out into the sun')	165
	Tea-time in November	166
	The Happy Tree	167
	Winter Afternoon	168
	Say Yes!	169
	Ballad	169
	The Last of the Old Year	171
	Before ('Unkempt and furtive the wind crawls')	172
	Encounter	174
	After	175
	Day-dreams of a Tourist	176
	The Evolution of the Dragon	177
	Pride ('When Little Claus meets Big Claus in the road')	180
	Quique Amavit	181
	Easter Monday	183
	Narcissus	185
	Hodge Looks toward London	188
	Aware	191
	Bach and the Lady	192
	Extract	193
	'Out of sight assuredly, not out of mind'	194
	The Megalopsych	199
	'The sprinkler on the lawn'	205
	'I chose this lean country'	210
	'On the frontier at dawn getting down'	214
	'No trenchant parting this'	215
	'Truly our fathers had the gout'	216
	'We, knowing the family history'	217
	'Who stands, the crux left of the watershed'	218
	'Suppose they met, the inevitable procedure'	220
	'The crowing of the cock'	221
	'Nor was that final, for about that time'	224
	'Deemed this an outpost, I'	225
	'Because sap fell away'	227
	'The mind to body spoke the whole night through'	229
	'From the very first coming down'	231
	'The four sat on in the bare room'	232
	'The houses rolled into the sun'	234
	'The colonel to be shot at dawn'	234
	'To-night when a full storm surrounds the house'	235
	'The weeks of blizzard over'	236
	'Light strives with darkness, right with wrong'	238
	'Control of the Passes was, he saw, the key'	239
	'Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings'	240
	'The spring will come'	241
	'The summer quickens grass'	242
	'"Grow thin by walking and go inland"'	243
	'Some say that handsome raider still at large'	244
	'Often the man, alone shut, shall consider'	245
	'To throw away the key and walk away'	246
	'The Spring unsettles sleeping partnerships'	248
	'No, not from this life, not from this life is any'	249
App. 1	'Rotation' by 'Mystan Baudom'	251
	App. 2	253
	Index	271