| The Don Juan Triptych | p. 9 |
| Tschaikowskian Poem | p. 14 |
| An Heroic Epistle | p. 16 |
| For the Nativity | p. 17 |
| The Divided Ways | p. 18 |
| Hart Crane | p. 19 |
| Ibycus | p. 20 |
| Address Not Known | p. 21 |
| Shepherd's Bush Eclogue | p. 21 |
| Churchyard of St Mary Magdalene, Old Milton | p. 22 |
| Elegiac Stanzas | p. 25 |
| Care in Heaven | p. 25 |
| Bird-Song in New England | p. 26 |
| Canso | p. 27 |
| The Lady's Complaint | p. 28 |
| Girl with Marionettes | p. 29 |
| Epitaph for Thais | p. 30 |
| The Cave of the Nymphs | p. 31 |
| Not Being Oedipus | p. 32 |
| Plato and the Waters of the Flood | p. 33 |
| Titus and Berenice | p. 34 |
| Ars Poetica | p. 35 |
| Lament for the 'Old Swan', Notting Hill Gate | p. 39 |
| Variation on a Theme by George Darley | p. 39 |
| The Timeless Nightingale | p. 40 |
| Mozart and Salieri | p. 42 |
| Song of the Death-Watch Beetle | p. 44 |
| Purkis | p. 44 |
| Bevis of Hampton | p. 45 |
| Old Mobb | p. 47 |
| Jankynmass | p. 48 |
| Simcox | p. 50 |
| A Crow in Bayswater | p. 51 |
| Hornbills in Northern Nigeria | p. 51 |
| The Watchman's Flute | p. 52 |
| Homage to J.S. Bach | p. 53 |
| Christus Natus Est | p. 54 |
| The Gifts | p. 54 |
| Golgotha | p. 55 |
| Broken Lyres | p. 55 |
| Celebration for a Birth | p. 56 |
| For Vernon Watkins 1906-1967 | p. 58 |
| Lyke-Wake Dirge, 8 September 1963 | p. 58 |
| An Elegy | p. 59 |
| Winter in Illyria | p. 60 |
| In Return for the Gift of a Pomander | p. 60 |
| To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence | p. 61 |
| Apologia for a Plastic Gnome | p. 62 |
| Send for Lord Timothy | p. 63 |
| The Frog and the Nightingale | p. 64 |
| Linnaeus Naming the Beasts | p. 64 |
| Wishes for the Months | p. 67 |
| Shelley's Balloon | p. 68 |
| For the Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of Winchester Cathedral | p. 68 |
| Christmas Poem | p. 69 |
| Poems for a Calendar | p. 70 |
| Further Adventures of Doctor Faustus | p. 73 |
| Casta Diva | p. 74 |
| The Hunt | p. 75 |
| Funeral Music for Charles Wrey Gardiner | p. 76 |
| Letter to David Wright | p. 77 |
| This is Your Poem | p. 78 |
| Greensleeves | p. 79 |
| The Green Man's Last Will and Testament | p. 80 |
| Fez | p. 81 |
| Bee-Easters in Tangier | p. 82 |
| Romulus | p. 82 |
| In the Sabine Hills | p. 83 |
| Saint Benedict at Subiaco | p. 85 |
| Saint Cuthbert and the Otter | p. 85 |
| Timur | p. 86 |
| A Pocket Life of William Shakespeare | p. 87 |
| Nixon, the Cheshire Prophet | p. 90 |
| House Spirits | p. 92 |
| Robert Herrick's Pig | p. 93 |
| Couperin at the Keyboard | p. 94 |
| La Cenerentola | p. 95 |
| The Log of the Beagle | p. 96 |
| Saint Francis Preaches to the Computers | p. 97 |
| All the Fun of the Fair | p. 99 |
| The Story of Orph | p. 100 |
| The Life and Poetical Remains of the Reverend Simon Simplex | p. 102 |
| The True History of Little Miss Muffet | p. 105 |
| The Frog's Return | p. 107 |
| Poem to be Written on a Cheque, for Charity | p. 109 |
| To Whom it May Concern | p. 109 |
| For George Barker at Seventy | p. 110 |
| In Memory of Fr. Geoffrey Curtis C.R. | p. 111 |
| Inscription for a Scented Garden for the Blind | p. 112 |
| A Little Zodiac | p. 112 |
| Two Fishes | p. 113 |
| Two Poems for the Epiphany | p. 113 |
| Before Dawn | p. 114 |
| from Theatre of Insects | p. 115 |
| from Bird's Plenary Session | p. 121 |
| The New Dance of Death | p. 135 |
| The Great Yahoo Revolution | p. 139 |
| Moving to Winter | p. 142 |
| On the Demolition of the Odeon Cinema, Westbourne Grove | p. 142 |
| Martinmas | p. 143 |
| Holy Innocent's Day | p. 143 |
| Four Dragons | p. 144 |
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