Poems, 1906 to 1926

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Hogarth Press, 1976 - 402 pages

Contents

Uncompleted Elegy Dont let the fact that Childhood
13
Poems 1910 to 1914
16
The Spanish Trilogy
30
Poems 1914 to 1919
45
To Karl von der Heydt Ill go then with a more ingenuous
57
Aubade Now all those onwardgoing
67
While life still takes and gives and takes again
72
Hearts grove which when my senses were on fire
78
Look I really am not if I should be
203
Only the noise as he breaks the next piece of muteness
210
Loves Beginning O smile inaugurating smile our smile
211
Death There a blue draught for somebody to drain
218
The God Questioned Am I not right thus provingly to bend
224
The bodys crossroads Yet theyre the celestial streets
227
Little Return Gift to the Sleepers Mood Landscape
233
Not war scarce even fate had kindled me
239

Lady before the Mirror Pallid lady facing unemissive
90
St George You though in allexpectant lonely purity here
92
Eyes which through reading books have come to be
98
The Sick Boy By turning in the pillows he had brought
104
From the NightWatches of Sister Godelieve One of the
105
For Herr Hugo Heller Destinies are not numerous Certain
111
Pregnant
116
I could be friends with you sombre youths for whom
122
And draws me on like one unfainly dead
123
Fragment of an Elegy Shall I celebrate the cities the long
129
Cancelled Conclusion of the second Section of the preceding
136
Long you will have to suffer knowing not what
142
St Christopher To serve the greatest is the thing preferred
148
Morning Sky Mark and marvel how nothing
149
Widow Deprived of their first leaves her barren children
155
Is not smile there? Are there not there vast spaces
161
Turned towards the stillingness up there
164
Oh but of face unto face
170
Like the evening wind that blows
176
Everownleafturning grove
178
First Draft of the preceding Poem
184
First Drafts of the Conclusion of the preceding Poem
192
Poems for Lulu AlbertLazard
197
For Baladine Klossowska Fullness is not merely there
245
From the Drafts of the preceding Poem
252
For Leonie Zacharias Oh tell us poet what you do?
258
Nine Sonnets from the Thematic Material of the Sonnets
263
of the brown
269
For the Author of The Book of Hares When Earths arrayed
275
Dedication to M Heartswing O securest from what
281
For Frau Helene Burckhardt Does Nature still feel that
288
Strongest star not needing to await
289
To feel how the most fleeting figuration
298
Walk The way Ive just begun my eyes have ended
303
For Baron H Lucius von Stoedten As Nature lets the other
309
World was in the face of the beloved
316
NightSky and Falling Star Heaven mighty full
322
Nights Nightstars I gaze
328
When from the merchants hand
334
A brazen bell onstruck by an iron clapper
338
A Sequel to The Bowl of Roses How they enrich the room
344
With the first reaching of your hand alone
350
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES GERMAN
359
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES ENGLISH
381
Comings never faroff and departing
384
Oh but how fugitive 302
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