Early Poems Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Suggestions for Further Reading
	A Note on the Text
	Renascence	3
	Interim	11
	The Suicide	19
	God's World	24
	Afternoon on a Hill	25
	Sorrow	26
	Tavern	27
	Ashes of Life	28
	The Little Ghost	29
	Kin to Sorrow	31
	Three Songs of Shattering	32
	The Shroud	34
	The Dream	35
	Indifference	36
	Witch-Wife	37
	Blight	38
	When the Year Grows Old	40
	Thou art not lovelier than lilacs, - no	42
	Time does not bring relief; you all have lied	43
	Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring	44
	Not in this chamber only at my birth	45
	If I should learn, in some quite casual way	46
	Bluebeard	47
	First Fig	51
	Second Fig	51
	Recuerdo	52
	Thursday	53
	To the Not Impossible Him	54
	Macdougal Street	55
	The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge	57
	She Is Overheard Singing	59
	The Prisoner	61
	The Unexplorer	62
	Grown-up	63
	The Penitent	64
	Daphne	65
	Portrait by a Neighbour	66
	Midnight Oil	67
	The Merry Maid	68
	To Kathleen	69
	To S. M.	70
	The Philosopher	71
	I do but ask that you be always fair	72
	Love, though for this you riddle me with darts	73
	I think I should have loved you presently	74
	Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow	75
	I shall forget you presently, my dear	76
	Spring	79
	City Trees	80
	The Blue-Flag in the Bog	81
	Journey	89
	Eel-Grass	91
	Elegy Before Death	92
	The Bean-Stalk	93
	Weeds	95
	Passer Mortuus Est	96
	Pastoral	97
	Assault	98
	Travel	99
	Low-Tide	100
	Song of a Second April	101
	Rosemary	102
	The Poet and His Book	103
	Alms	108
	Inland	110
	To a Poet that Died Young	111
	Wraith	113
	Ebb	115
	Elaine	116
	Burial	117
	Mariposa	118
	The Little Hill	119
	Doubt No More that Oberon	120
	Lament	121
	Exiled	122
	The Death of Autumn	124
	Ode to Silence	125
	Memorial to D. C.	133
	Wild Swans	139
	We talk of taxes, and I call you friend	140
	Into the golden vessel of great song	141
	Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter	142
	Only until this cigarette is ended	143
	Once more into my arid days like dew	144
	No rose that in a garden ever grew	145
	When I too long have looked upon your face	146
	And you as well must die, beloved dust	147
	Let you not say of me when I am old	148
	Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this	149
	As to some lovely temple, tenantless	150
	Cherish you then the hope I shall forget	151
	Explanatory Notes	153
	Index of Titles and First Lines	169