| Introduction | |
| 'To see the art of poetry lost' | p. 3 |
| The Description of an Irish Feast | p. 6 |
| Verses Said to be Written on the Union | p. 8 |
| 'Behold! A Proof of Irish Sense!' | p. 8 |
| A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club | p. 9 |
| Holyhead. September 25, 1727 | p. 14 |
| On the Words 'Brother Protestants and Fellow Christians' | p. 15 |
| The Fable of the Bitches | p. 17 |
| An Excellent New Ballad | p. 18 |
| The Lady's Dressing Room | p. 21 |
| A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed | p. 24 |
| Stella's Birthday | p. 26 |
| Phyllis | p. 26 |
| An Elegy on the Supposed Death of Mr. Partridge, the Almanac Maker | p. 29 |
| A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General | p. 31 |
| Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D. | p. 32 |
| On the Day of Judgement | p. 44 |
| After the Irish of Egan O'Rahilly | p. 46 |
| The Poet Egan O'Rahilly, Homesick in Old Age | p. 47 |
| To Dr. Swift on his Birthday, November 30, 1721 | p. 48 |
| The Deserted Village | p. 50 |
| The Description of an Author's Bed-chamber | p. 60 |
| The Haunch of Venison | p. 61 |
| An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | p. 64 |
| Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire (Gaelic text) | p. 65 |
| The Lament for Art O'Leary | p. 76 |
| The Midnight Court | p. 84 |
| O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire | p. 108 |
| Siberia | p. 110 |
| Lament Over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga | p. 111 |
| Lament Over the Ruins of the Abbey of Timoleague | p. 114 |
| The Welshmen of Tirawley | p. 116 |
| A Supplication | p. 126 |
| Swift | p. 128 |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol | p. 135 |
| A Woman's Sonnets (1-12) | p. 154 |
| The Cold Heaven | p. 158 |
| Easter 1916 | p. 158 |
| On a Political Prisoner | p. 160 |
| Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | p. 161 |
| Death | p. 164 |
| Parnell's Funeral | p. 165 |
| Cuchulain Comforted | p. 166 |
| The Apparitions | p. 167 |
| Politics | p. 167 |
| Ode to the British Empire | p. 168 |
| George Moore Becomes the Priest of Aphrodite | p. 169 |
| On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition | p. 171 |
| The Wind Among the Reeds | p. 173 |
| The Passing of the Shee | p. 174 |
| The Curse | p. 174 |
| Danny | p. 174 |
| The Mergency Man | p. 175 |
| Ode of Welcome | p. 177 |
| Gas from a Burner | p. 178 |
| The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jaysus | p. 180 |
| Night and Morning | p. 182 |
| The Envy of Poor Lovers | p. 183 |
| Three Poems About Children | p. 183 |
| Orphide | p. 184 |
| The Great Hunger | p. 194 |
| A Wreath for Tom Moore's Statue | p. 213 |
| The Hospital | p. 214 |
| Death of Hektor | p. 216 |
| Saint-Lo | p. 224 |
| Mort de A. D. | p. 224 |
| 'The sunlight on the garden' | p. 225 |
| Meeting Point | p. 225 |
| from Autumn Journal (section 16) | p. 227 |
| The Bloody Brae | p. 230 |
| The Colony | p. 244 |
| Nineteen Sixteen, or The Terrible Beauty | p. 247 |
| The Tomb of Michael Collins | p. 249 |
| Lough Derg | p. 250 |
| from Is That Love You're Making? | p. 254 |
| Ballad to a Traditional Refrain | p. 255 |
| from The Weekend of Dermot and Grace (Sunday) | p. 256 |
| Dies Irae (Gaelic text from Aifreann na Marbh) | p. 265 |
| Downstream | p. 273 |
| Nightwalker | p. 275 |
| from A Technical Supplement | p. 283 |
| One Fond Embrace | p. 284 |
| All Legendary Obstacles | p. 292 |
| A New Siege | p. 292 |
| The Wild Dog Rose | p. 297 |
| Stefano Remembers | p. 300 |
| Claudy | p. 300 |
| Requiem for the Croppies | p. 302 |
| The Tollund Man | p. 302 |
| In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge | p. 304 |
| Casualty | p. 305 |
| From the Frontier of Writing | p. 308 |
| Two Lorries | p. 309 |
| In Memory of Gerard Dillon | p. 310 |
| Wounds | p. 310 |
| The Man of Two Sorrows | p. 311 |
| Eva Braun | p. 312 |
| The Pleiades | p. 312 |
| Reading Paradise Lost in Protestant Ulster 1984 | p. 313 |
| Lucina schynning in silence of the night ... | p. 315 |
| Early Recollections | p. 316 |
| Dead Fly | p. 316 |
| Trinity New Library | p. 317 |
| Death in Bangor | p. 318 |
| Courtyards in Delft | p. 320 |
| The Snow Party | p. 321 |
| A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford | p. 322 |
| At the Chelsea Arts Club | p. 323 |
| The Kilfenora Teaboy | p. 325 |
| The Levite and his Concubine at Gibeah | p. 326 |
| The War Horse | p. 328 |
| Listen. This is the Noise of Myth | p. 329 |
| Mourning Becomes the Law | p. 332 |
| On Ballycastle Beach | p. 334 |
| Marconi's Cottage | p. 335 |
| The Albert Chain | p. 335 |
| Ballads and Party Songs | |
| Come All You Warriors ... | p. 338 |
| The Ould Orange Flute | p. 340 |
| Dolly's Brae | p. 341 |
| The Croppy Boy | p. 342 |
| Me an' Me Da | p. 343 |
| On the Death of the Rev. Robert Traill, D. D. | p. 345 |
| The Ballad of William Bloat | p. 347 |
| Index of First Lines | p. 349 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 355 |
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