Contents: Poems (1956); Another September (1958) Echoes [1] Test Case [2] The Travelling Companion [3] Night Songs [4] Midsummer [5] Soft, to your Places [6] A lady of Quality [6] Fifth Sunday After Easter [8] An Ancient Ballet [9] The Monk [11] Baggot Street Deserta [11] Tete a Tete [14] Pause en Route [14] An Outdoor Gallery [15] In the Ringwood [16] King John's Castle [17] Clanence Mangan [18] Another September [19] O Rome [20] Death and the Professor [20] Lead [21] Thinking of Mr. D. [22] Moralities (1960) Moralities [23] Faith [24] An Old Atheist Pauses by the Sea [24] Into Thy Hands [24] A Pillar of the Community [24] Love [25] Seventeenth Century Landscape: near Ballyferriter [25] Sisters [25] A Garden on the Point [25] Interlude: Time's Mischief [26] Death [27] The Doldrums [27] Sons of the Brave [27] Dead on Arrival [27] Song [28] Handclasp at Euston [28] At the Heart [28] Fire and Ice [28] Downstream (1962) I wonder whether one expects. . . [29] The Laundress [31] Wedding Morning [32] A Portrait of the Engineer [32] Charlie [32] Scylla and Charybdis [34] Carol [34] Dick King [35] Cover Her Face [36] Girl on a Swing [37] Navigators [39] Check [41] Tyrant Dying [41] Old Harry [42] A Country Walk [44] Downstream [47] Chrysalides [51] Brothers [52] The Force of Eloquence [52] Mirror in February [53] Nightwalker and other poems (1968) Our Mother [55] Office for the Dead [56] Ballydavid Pier [57] Landscape and Figure [58] Museum [58] A Moment's Peace [59] Traveller [59] Westland Row [60] Folk Wisdom [60] Tara [61] WORMWOOD [62] Beloved [62] 'Open this and you will see ' [63] Wormwood [63] Mask of Love [64] The Secret Garden [64] First Light [65] Remembering Old Wars [66] Je t'adore [66] The Shoals Returning [67] Before Sleep [71] Magnaffirnity [72] The Poet Egan O'Rahilly, Homesick in Old Age [73] 'To Autumn' [74] Soft Toy [75] Leaf-Eater [76] Nightwalker [76] Riyual of Departure [85] Phenix Park [87] New Poems (1973) 'hesitate, cease to exist ' [95] Hen Woman [97] A Hand of Solo [100] The High Road [102] Ancestor [104] Tear [104] Irwin Street [108] FROM THE LAND OF THE DEAD [109] Touching the River [109] Nuchal (a fragment) [109] Survivor [110] Endymion [113] At the Crossroads [113] Sacrifice [114] All is emptiness / and I must spin [116] The Clearing [117] Death Bed [117] The Dispossessed [119] The Route of the Tain [120] Ely Place [122] Worker in Mirror, at his Bench [123] St Paul's Rocks: 16 February 1832 [127] Drowsing Over The Arabian Nights [127] Crab Orchard Sanctuary: Late October [128] Wyncote, Pennsylvania: a gloss [130] PEPPERCANISTER POEMS (1972) BUTCHER'S DOZEN (1972) [133] A SECOND LIFE (1972) [139] VERTICAL MAN (1973) [143] THE GOOD FIGHT (1973) [147] ONE (1974) [159] Prologue [159] The Entire Fabric [161] Finistere [162] The Oldest Place [165] 38 Phoemx Street [168] Minstrel [170] His Father's Hands [171] Epilogue [174] A TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT (1976) [175] Prologue [176] Poems 1-24 [177] SONG OF THE NIGHT AND OTHER POEMS (1978) [195] He carried me out of the lamplight [195] C.G. Jung's 'First Years' [196] Anniversaries [197] Artists' Letters [200] Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore [202] Song of the Night [205] THE MESSENGER (1978) [209] SONGS OF THE PSYCHE (1985) [221] Settings [221] Model School, Inchicore [221] Phoenix Street [223] Bow Lane [224] Invocation [225] Songs of the Psyche 1-13 [226] Notes [233] A New Beginning [233] Opposites [233] The Little Chlidren [233] Brotherhood [234] Talent and Friendship [235] Self-Scrutiny [235] Self-Release [236] Self Renewal [237] HER VERTICAL SMILE (1985) [239] Overture [239] 1 [240] Intermezzo [246] 2 [247] Coda [252] OUT OF IRELAND (1987) [253] Entrance [254] Native Wisdom [254] Harmonies [256] The Furnace [257] The Dance [258] The Land of Loss [259] Exit [260] ST CATHERINE'S CLOCK (1987) [261] ONE FOND EMBRACE (1988) [273] PERSONAL PLACES (1990) [283] There are established personal places [283] Apostle of Hope [283] Seven [284] Pituals of Departure [286] Brothers in the Craft [287] In Memory [288] Dura Mater [290] Night Conference, Wood Quay: 6 June 1979 [291] At the Western Ocean's Edge [292] POEMS FROM CENTRE CITY (1990) [293] A Portrait of the Artist [293] Administrator [294] Social Work [295] The Stable [295] Household Spirits [296] The Bell [297] The Back Lane [298] The Stranger [300] Departure Platforms [302] The Last [303] Memory of W.H. Auden [303] MADONNA AND OTHER POEMS (1991) Better is an handful with quietness [305] Madonna [305] Morning Coffee [307] Visiting Hour [309] At the Head Table [310] OPEN COURT (1991) [315] From Stephen's Green [315] Open Court [315] Dream [321] THE PEN SHOP (1997) [323] THE FAMILIAR (1999) [329] Love bent the sineuy bow [329] The Familiar [329] St John's [333] Wedding Evening [333] Iris [334] GODHEAD (1999) [335] High Tide: Amagansett [335] Godhead [336] Trinity [336] Father [336] Son [338] Spirit [339] Midnight, San Clemente: a gloss [340] CITIZEN OF THE WORLD (2000) [341] The Design [341] Complaint [342] Echo [342] Migrants [343] Citizen of the World [343] Theme and Variations [346] 'Her little fingers' [346] Close of Day [347] House Guest [347] Climax [347] Model, with Artist [348] Coffee Shop [348] Virgin [349] Undine [349] LITTLEBODY (2000) [351] Down Survey (1655-1657) [351] Breakdown [351] Shop Shut [352] Glenmacnass [352] Cul de Sac [356] Going Home [356] Holy Well [356] Cul de Sac [357] The Body Brought to the Church [357] Notes to Out of Ireland [361] Notes on Peppercanister Poems [365] Index of Titles [367] Index of First Lines [373]