The Annotated Collected Poems

by Edna Longley

Cuckoo, The 1

  Dark Forest, The 1

  Digging (‘Today I think’) 1

  Digging (‘What matter makes my spade’) 1

  Dream, A 1

  Early one morning 1

  February Afternoon 1

  Fifty Faggots 1

  First known when lost 1

  For These 1

  Gallows, The 1

  Gentleman, A 1

  Glory, The 1

  Gone, gone again 1

  Good-night 1

  Green Roads, The 1

  Gypsy, The 1

  Haymaking 1

  Head and Bottle 1

  Health 1

  Hollow Wood, The 1

  ‘Home’ (‘Fair was the morning’) 1

  Home (‘Not the end’) 1

  Home (‘Often I had gone’) 1

  House and Man 1

  How at once 1

  Huxter, The 1

  I built myself a house of glass 1

  If I should ever by chance 1

  If I were to own 1

  I may come near loving you 1

  I never saw that land before 1

  In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) 1

  Interval 1

  It rains 1

  It was upon 1

  July 1

  Lane, The 1

  Liberty 1

  Lights Out 1

  Like the touch of rain 1

  Lob 1

  Lofty Sky, The 1

  Lovers 1

  Man and Dog 1

  Manor Farm, The 1

  March 1

  March the Third 1

  May 1 2

  Melancholy 1

  Mill-Pond, The 1

  Mill-Water, The 1

  Mountain Chapel, The 1

  New House, The 1

  New Year, The 1

  No one cares less than I 1

  No one so much as you 1

  November 1

  October 1

  Old Man 1

  Old Song I, An 1

  Old Song II, An 1

  Other, The 1

  Out in the dark 1

  Over the Hills 1

  Owl, The 1

  Parting 1

  Path, The 1

  Penny Whistle, The 1

  Private, A 1

  Rain 1

  Roads 1

  Sedge-Warblers 1

  She dotes 1

  Sheiling, The 1

  Signpost, The 1

  Snow 1

  Some eyes condemn 1

  Song 1

  Source, The 1

  Sowing 1

  Swedes 1

  Tale, A 1

  Tall Nettles 1

  Tears 1

  That girl’s clear eyes 1

  Thaw 1

  The clouds that are so light 1

  The long small room 1

  There’s nothing like the sun 1

  There was a time 1

  The sorrow of true love 1

  The sun used to shine 1

  This is no case of petty right or wrong 1

  Those things that poets said 1

  Thrush, The 1

  Tonight 1

  Trumpet, The 1

  Two Houses 1

  Two Pewits 1

  Under the Woods 1

  Unknown, The 1

  Unknown Bird, The 1

  Up in the Wind 1

  Wasp Trap, The 1

  Watchers, The 1

  What shall I give? 1

  What will they do? 1

  When first 1

  When he should laugh 1

  When we two walked 1

  Will you come? 1

  Wind and Mist 1

  Wind’s Song, The 1

  Women he liked 1

  Word, The 1

  Words 1

  Copyright

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  Introduction, notes and all editorial material

  copyright © Edna Longley 2008

  First published 2008 by

  Bloodaxe Books Ltd,

  Highgreen,

  Tarset,

  Northumberland NE48 1RP.

  This ebook edition first published in 2012.

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  Cover design: Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce.

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  ISBN: 978 1 78037 001 9 ebook