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The Map and the Clock

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by Carol Ann Duffy


  Sackville-West, Vita (1892–1962) 378

  Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967) 352, 353, 354

  Scovell, E. J. (1907–99) 457

  Seager, Jane (fl.1589) 80

  Sempill, Francis (c.1616–82) 143

  Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103

  Shapcott, Jo (b.1954) 621

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) 239, 240

  Sidney, Philip (1554–86) 90, 93

  Singer, Elizabeth (1674–1737) 173

  Sitwell, Edith (1887–1964) 404, 405

  Smart, Christopher (1722–71) 185

  Smith, Charlotte (1749–1806) 195

  Smith, Stevie (1902–71) 452, 453

  Spenser, Edmund (c.1552–99) 84

  Stevenson, Anne (b.1933) 562

  Stuart, Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–87) 82

  Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745) 167

  Taliesin (fl.6th c.) 11

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–92) 263, 266, 268

  Thomas, Dylan (1914–53) 435, 437, 441

  Thomas, Edward (1878–1917) 340, 341, 343, 344

  Thomas, R. S. (1913–2000) 500, 502

  Thomson, Derick (1921–2012) 178

  Tobin, Barry 398

  Tonks, Rosemary (1928–2014) 477, 478

  Townsend Warner, Sylvia (1893–1978) 442

  Vaughan, Henry (1621–95) 150, 151, 153

  Waller, Edmund (1606–84) 141

  Wedderburn, James (d.1553), John (d.1554) and Robert (d.1557) 83

  Whitney, Isabella (1553–1603) 81

  Wickham, Anna (1884–1947) 351

  Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900) 311

  Williams, Gwyn (1904–90) 155

  Williams, Hugo (b.1944) 579

  Williams, Rowan (b.1950) 446

  Williams, Waldo (1904–71) 456

  Williams Parry, Robert (1884–1956) 398

  Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771–1855) 231

  Wordsworth, William (1770–1850) 227, 229

  Wright, Kit (b.1944) 586

  Wright, Mehetabel (1697–1750) 179

  Wroth, Lady Mary (1586–c.1652) 122, 123

  Wyatt, Thomas (1503–42) 75

  Yeats, W. B. (1869–1939) 321, 322, 323, 324, 326

  INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

  A— B— on the learned Bartholo Sylva 78

  A child at Brighton has been left to drown 334

  A drear, wind-weary afternoon 336

  A hundred yards from the peak, while the bells 398

  A hunner funnels bleezin’, reekin’ 248

  A single thought which benefits and harms me 82

  A soldier passed me in the freshly fallen snow 408

  A sweet disorder in the dress 127

  A wall of forest looms above 29

  A weekday haar 627

  According to Dineen, a Gael unsurpassed 620

  Achill Woman, The 584

  Addiction to an Old Mattress 477

  Adlestrop 340

  Advice to Lovers 27

  Ae Fond Kiss 213

  Ae fond kiss, and then we sever 213

  Æthelstan, the King, ruler of earls 13

  After a Journey 294

  After the dread tales and red yarns of the Line 359

  Ah, he was a grand man 583

  Akond of Swat, The 287

  Alas! for all the pretty women who marry dull men 351

  Alas! how dismal is my Tale 202

  Alas, my love, they knocked you down 73

  Alas! Poor Queen 389

  Alien 595

  All Day it has Rained … 426

  All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors 426

  All night I clatter upon my creed 67

  Already someone’s set their dogs among the swans 667

  An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king 239

  An omnibus across the bridge 311

  And are ye sure the news is true 181

  And now they turn poor poetry outdoors 421

  And so, strangely enough, to Florida 663

  And They Call It Lovely Derry 663

  Angry Summer, The 392

  Anne Donne 442

  Another Westminster Bridge 661

  Answer to another persuading a Lady to Marriage, An 160

  Anthem for Doomed Youth 360

  Antony and Cleopatra 99

  Are you to say goodnight 491

  Argument of His Book, The 124

  As for you loud Greenock long ropeworking 494

  As I did the washing one day 63

  As I was walking all alane 140

  As the poor end of each dead day drew near 422

  As you plaited the harvest bow 552

  At the top of a low hill 538

  Aubade (‘It’s all the same to morning what it dawns on’) 619

  Aubade (‘Jane, Jane’) 404

  August 1914 355

  Auld Mither Scotlan’ 250

  Avarice 130

  Back Bedroom 387

  Back in the same room that an hour ago 654

  Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990 589

  Ballad of Persse O’Reilly, The 378

  Ballad which Anne Askew Made and Sang when She was in Newgate, The 76

  Ballade of Genuine Concern 334

  Ballade of Liquid Refreshment 339

  Barn Owl 515

  Battle of Brunanburh, The 13

  Battle of Inverlochy, The 132

  Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay 281

  Because I turned up from Bombay 622

  Because they would not let you ford the river Jordan 633

  Bede’s Death Song 11

  Bee Meeting, The 473

  Before the journey that awaits us all 11

  Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode 338

  Begin 564

  Begin again to the summoning birds 564

  Belfast Confetti 592

  Bells of Rhymney, The 391

  Bent double, like old beggars under sacks 363

  Beowulf 6

  Between now and then, I will offer you 466

  Between plunging valleys, on a bareback of hill 540

  Bird in the House, A 533

  ‘Birdsong from a willow tree’ 12

  Birdsong from a willow tree 12

  Birthnight, The 337

  Black Friday 471

  Blackberrying 476

  Blackbird of Derrycairn, The 64

  Blackbird of Glanmore, The 554

  Blackwater 648

  Blue Jacket, The 388

  Blue Song 144

  Boasts of Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, The 527

  Bonnie Broukit Bairn, The 386

  Bonnie Charlie’s now awa 219

  Brag, sweet tenor bull 483

  Breach in the Wall, The 73

  Break of Day in the Trenches 356

  Briggflatts 483

  Bright Field, The 500

  Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss 150

  ‘Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art’ 256

  Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art 256

  Brightening brightness, alone on the road, she appears 171

  Bring Us in Good Ale 68

  Bring us in good ale, and bring us in good ale 68

  Brither Worm 463

  Brothers 138

  Busy old fool, unruly sun 116

  ‘But why do you go?’ said the lady, while both sate under the yew 259

  Butter 519

  By this title, the book declares itself, and the amount of riches that it conceals 78

  Caedmon’s Hymn 3

  Caller Oysters 196

  Camp, The 209

  Canedolia 513

  Canker’d, cursed creature, crabbed, corbit kittle 77

  Canoe 432

  Carrickfergus 417

  Cascando 393

  Cauld are the ghaisties in yon kirkyaird 465

  Celia, Celia 483

  Charge of the Light Brigade, The 266

  Childhoo
d 399

  Child’s Story, The 531

  Christmas Carol, A 278

  Christmas Robin, The 444

  Cock Robbin 192

  Cold, cold, chill tonight is wide Moylurg 25

  ‘Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best’ 123

  Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best 123

  ‘Come into the garden, Maud’ 263

  Come into the garden, Maud 263

  Come live with me, and be my love 96

  Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy 117

  Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will, A 81

  Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 227

  Convergence of the Twain, The 297

  Corinna’s Going a-Maying 124

  Correspondence between Mr Harrison in Newcastle and Mr Sholto Peach Harrison in Hull 452

  Cousin Coat 618

  Crossing the Bar 268

  Daft-Days, The 199

  Dead ponies 472

  ‘Dear, if you change, I’ll never choose again’ 65

  Dear, if you change, I’ll never choose again 65

  Dearest, it was a night 337

  Death is the cook of nature, and we find 158

  Death Song for Owain ab Urien 11

  Deceptions? 499

  Delight in Disorder 127

  ‘Derry I cherish ever’ 33

  Derry I cherish ever 33

  Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer, The 93

  Design or Chance makes others wive 141

  Desire in Spring 407

  Dinogad’s smock is pied, pied 3

  Disabled 361

  Do you hear the bells 447

  Doubt of Future Foes, The 78

  Dover Beach 277

  Downfall of Charing Cross, The 161

  Dreams of a Summer Night 568

  Drink to me, only, with thine eyes 111

  Driving the perfect length of Ireland 596

  Drowned Blackbird, The 164

  Ducks 382

  Dulce et Decorum Est 363

  Dulled by the slow glare of the yellow bulb 429

  Durham 26

  D’ye ken the big village of Balmaquhapple 222

  Earth has not anything to show more fair 227

  Easter, 1916 324

  Echo 90

  Eden Rock 505

  Eh’ve wurkt oot a poetic map o thi warld 642

  Electric Poly-Olbion, The 658

  Elegy for the Welsh Dead, in the Falkland Islands, 1982 545

  Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed 117

  Elevation 643

  Elm Decline, The 503

  End of Clonmacnois, The 24

  Ends Meet 448

  Englan Voice 559

  England in 1819 239

  Epic 456

  Epiphany 542

  Epithalamion 528

  Ernie Morgan found him, a small 515

  Everyone Sang 353

  Everyone suddenly burst out singing 353

  Exile 20

  Extra Helpings 575

  Faerie Queene, The 84

  Fair rocks, goodly rivers, sweet woods, when shall I see peace? Peace 90

  Falling Asleep 354

  Far spread the moory ground, a level scene 244

  Farmer’s Bride, The 327

  Father in the Railway Buffet 539

  Feeding Ducks 497

  Felix Randal 299

  Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? my duty all ended 299

  Fern Hill 435

  Fired Pot, The 351

  First Time In 359

  Five years have past; five summers, with the length 229

  Flea, The 115

  Floating Island 231

  Flood Before and After 645

  Flying over Wales, suspended 643

  Football at Slack 540

  For a Child Expected 469

  For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent 185

  Forbear, bold youth, all’s Heaven here 160

  Forty boys on benches with their quills 588

  Fox, The 398

  Friends Departed 153

  From Dublin to Ramallah 633

  From the Irish 620

  From this high quarried ledge I see 428

  From troubles of the world 382

  Frost at Midnight 232

  Full Moon 378

  gaelic is alive 578

  Gather ye rose-buds while ye may 128

  General Prologue, The 42

  General, The 353

  Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn 124

  Ghaisties 465

  Ghosts in New Houses 420

  Girl’s Hair, A 59

  Glamoured, The 171

  Glance, The 131

  go and glimpse the lovely inattentive water 661

  God send euerie Preist ane wyfe 83

  God send euerie Preist ane wyfe 83

  God, consider the soul’s need 11

  God’s Grandeur 300

  Gododdin, The 9

  Godspeed our flashy myths that last five minutes 658

  Going, Going 523

  Gone are the drab monosyllabic days 443

  ‘Good-morning; good-morning!’ the General said 353

  Green Grow the Rashes 215

  Green grow the rashes, O 215

  Green Man’s Last Will and Testament, The 506

  Greenock at Night I Find You 494

  Greensleeves was all my joy 119

  Grey Eye Weeping, A 170

  Grief 257

  Grief fills the room up of my absent child 98

  Guttural Muse, The 553

  Had we but world enough, and time, 146

  Haddock Fishermen 521

  Half a league, half a league 266

  Hamnavoe Market 519

  Hampstead: the Horse Chestnut Trees 538

  Handbag 561

  Hannaker Mill 335

  Happy are men who yet before they are killed 364

  Happy the man, whose wish and care 177

  Hark! ’tis the twanging horn o’er yonder bridge 188

  Harmonious powers with nature work 231

  Harvest Bow, The 552

  Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty 378

  Have you seen Hugh 15

  Hay Making 217

  He disappeared in the dead of winter 414

  He Liked the Dead 422

  He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark 361

  Heart of the Wood, The 35

  Henry V 101

  ‘Here dead lie we because we did not choose’ 315

  Here dead lie we because we did not choose 315

  Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn 344

  Here the seagulls stay in off the Lough all day 666

  Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost 294

  ‘Hey Jude’ was the longest single, up to that time 628

  His stature was not very tall 93

  Hóireann o 144

  Holy Thursday 208

  Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 270

  How brave is the hunter who nobly will dare 306

  How comes it, Flora, that, whenever we 280

  ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’ 258

  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 258

  How foolish the man 23

  ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’ 99

  How like a winter hath my absence been 99

  How the Wild South East was Lost 586

  Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore 195

  Hurrahing in Harvest 301

  I am homesick now for middle age, as then 457

  I am Taliesin 34

  I am walking backwards into the future like a Greek 565

  I can feel the tug 550

  I have lived in important places, times 456

  I have lived it, and lived it 478

  I have met them at close of day 324

  I have never returned 595

  I have seen the sun
break through 500

  I keep the queen, she is long in my hand 665

  I know that I shall meet my fate 326

  I lay in in London 442

  I love the cradle songs the mothers sing 407

  I love to rise in a summer morn 207

  I may be smelly and I may be old 452

  I mind o’ the Ponnage Pule 400

  I pick a daimen icker from the thrave 511

  I prepare – an prepare well – fe Englan 559

  I remember rooms that have had their part 333

  I saw a garden, full of blossoming trees 41

  I saw a lang worm snoove throu the space atween twa stanes 463

  ‘I saw eternity the other night’ 150

  I saw eternity the other night 150

  I Shall Vote Labour 480

  I shall vote Labour because 480

  I sing my own true story, tell my travels 20

  ‘I sing of a maiden’ 62

  I sing of a maiden beyond compare 62

  I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers 124

  I sing this poem full of grief 17

  I swear 622

  I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless 257

  I think someone might write an elegy 597

  I think someone might write an elegy 597

  I thought it would last my time 523

  I thought of you tonight, a leanbh, lying there in your long barrow 598

  I used to think that grown-up people chose 399

  I wad ha’e gi’en him my lips tae kiss 388

  ‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’ 302

  I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day 302

  I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries 417

  I Was Not There 526

  I went down to the railway 562

  I went out to the hazel wood 322

  I wish, O son of the Living God, ancient eternal King 22

  ‘If all the world were paper’ 162

  If all the world were paper 162

  If I were called in 523

  If you ask me, us takes in undulations 668

  I’m Neutral 464

  I’m standing here inside my skin 621

  I’m wearin’ awa’, John 220

  Immigrant 564

  In a ragged spinney (scheduled 506

  In a solitude of the sea 297

  In Belfast 666

  In Defence of Women 49

  In Hospital: Poona (I) 425

  In Memory of W. B. Yeats 414

  In merry old England, it once was a rule 186

  In my Craft or Sullen Art 441

  In my craft or sullen art 441

 

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