The Map and the Clock
Page 50
‘This living hand, now warm and capable’ 251
This living hand, now warm and capable 251
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle 103
Thou tyrant, whom I will not name 179
Thoughts after Ruskin 509
Three Summers since I chose a maid 327
Through my gold-tinted Gucci sunglasses 658
Thrush, The 45
Thus fared I through a frith . where flowers were many 136
Tilth 443
’Tis bad enough in man or woman 180
To a Conscript of 1940 408
To a Cuckoo at Coolanlough 596
To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train 399
To a Ladye 61
To a very young Gentleman at a Dancing-School 173
To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name 108
To hear a dripping water tap in a house 499
To His Coy Mistress 146
To my Daughter Catherine on Ashwednesday 1645, finding her weeping at prayers, because I would not consent to her fasting 149
To my sister Sian 461
To My Wife at Midnight 491
To Queen Elizabeth 80
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us 108
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time 128
To the Women of the Merrie England Coffee Houses, Huddersfield 651
Toad 498
Toad and the Mouse, The 57
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday 422
Tonight at Noon 481
Tonight at noon 481
Tonight, grave sir, both my poor house, and I 106
Trees are Down, The 332
Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest’s Parlour 583
Twa Corbies, The 140
’Twas in heaven pronounced, and ’twas muttered in hell 211
Undone, undone the lawyers are 161
‘Unrelated Incidents’ – No. 3 587
Upon a time, as Aesop makes report 57
Upon the grass no longer hangs the dew 217
Us 668
Verses in Italian and French, written by the Queen of Scots to the Queen of England 82
Verses Said to be Written on the Union 167
Village of Balmaquhapple, The 222
Villain, The 336
Visionary, The 269
Voices moving about in the quiet house 354
Walking swiftly with a dreadful duchess 453
Walrus and the Carpenter, The 290
Wartime Dawn, A 429
Washing Day 189
Waste Land, The 374
Water (‘If I were called in’) 523
Water (‘On hot summer mornings my aunt set glasses’) 517
Waterfall, The 151
Way Through the Woods, The 316
We could have crossed the road but hesitated 401
We must uprise O my people. Though 468
We passed each other, turned and stopped for half an hour, then went our way 329
We stood by a pond that winter day 296
Wedlock: A Satire 179
Week-night Service 397
Well, I am thinking this may be my last 432
w’en mi jus’ come to Landan toun 614
‘Western wind, when wilt thou blow?’ 73
Western wind, when wilt thou blow 73
Wha wadna be in love 143
What are you doing here, ghost, among these urns 539
What happier fortune can one find 20
What in our lives is burnt 355
What Is a Man? 456
What is it men in women do require 209
What is living? Finding a great hall 456
What is this that roareth thus 312
What passing bells for those who die as cattle 360
What shall I give my daughter the younger 343
What shall I give? 343
What the Gardener Said to Mrs Traill 421
What time is it 502
When A. and R. men hit the street 589
When all this is over, said the swineherd 578
When daisies pied and violets blue 100
‘When first my way to fair I took’ 314
When first my way to fair I took 314
When first thy sweet and gracious eye 131
When I am Reading 534
When I am reading 534
When I am sad and weary 483
When I Grow Up 579
When I grow up I want to have a bad leg 579
When I looked up, the black man was there 639
When I Was Fair and Young 79
When I was fair and young, then favour graced me 79
When I was small and they talked about love I laughed 531
When in April the sweet showers fall 42
When men were all asleep the snow came flying 303
When Our Two Souls 257
When our two souls stand up erect and strong 257
When there comes a flower to the stingless nettle 388
When they came looking for trouble I bared my body 181
When Watling in his words that took but small delight 94
Whenas in silks my Julia goes 128
Whence are you, learning’s son 24
Where has my butter gone? The 519
Where the coastline doubles up on itself 648
While joy gave clouds the light of stars 336
Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers 473
Who did kill Cock Robbin 192
Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two 358
Who or why, or which, or what 287
why not merely the despaired of 393
Why should I blame her that she filled my days 323
Wife of Bath Speaks in Brixton Market, The 629
Wife Who Would a Wanton Be, The 67
Wife’s Lament, The 17
Wild Honey 445
Wild Swans at Coole, The 321
Will Ye No Come Back Again? 219
Willow Song 562
Wind 541
‘Wind fierce to-night’ 17
Wind fierce to-night 17
Winter Cold 25
Wish of Manchán of Liath, The 22
With the wasp at the innermost heart of a peach 283
With what deep murmurs through time’s silent stealth 151
Withdrawn for a little space from the confusion 357
Without my knowing it you are at the bottom of my mind 536
Woe to him who speaks ill of women 49
Woman of Llyn y Fan’s Call to Her Cattle, The 309
Women of Mumbles Head, The 636
Women reminded him of lilies and roses 509
Words 341
Writing Out of Doors 29
Written in Winter 237
Written near a port on a dark evening 195
Wulf 16
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves 97
Ye living lamps, by whose dear light 148
Yes. I remember Adlestrop 340
You Are at the Bottom of My Mind 536
You are my secret coat. You’re never dry 618
You that through all the dying summer 402
You, the man going along the road alone 445
You who opt for English ways 138
Zero 502
About the Editors
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford, England. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World’s Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.
Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff, Wales. National Poet of Wales 2008-2016, winner of the
Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2010) and the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award (2012), she is one of the best-known names in UK poetry today, as well as one of the most popular poets on the school curriculum. Poet, playwright, editor, translator, she is President of Ty Newydd writers’ centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her collections include Making Beds for the Dead (2004) and A Recipe for Water (2009); her Selected Poems appeared in 2016.
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