Poems
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# | author | title | date | First line |
| 1.
| Longley, Michael | A HEADSTONE |
1966-1972
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It told us, through the histories it lacked,
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| 2.
| Longley, Michael | ALTERA CITHERA |
1966-1972
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A change of tune, then,
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| 3.
| Longley, Michael | A NATIVITY |
1966-1972
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He will be welcome to
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| 4.
| Longley, Michael | A PERSONAL STATEMENT |
1963-1966
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Since you, Mind, think to diagnose
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| 5.
| Longley, Michael | A SLIGHT ADULTERY |
1963-1966
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Because we sleep apart these nights
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| 6.
| Longley, Michael | A WORKING HOLIDAY |
1963-1966
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Water through the window, the light and shade
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| 7.
| Longley, Michael | BADGER |
1966-1972
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Pushing the wedge of his body
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| 8.
| Longley, Michael | BARRACUDA |
1966-1972
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It's the wading on skeleton's legs
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| 9.
| Longley, Michael | CAMOUFLAGE |
1963-1966
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Our towns decayed, our gardens overgrown,
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| 10.
| Longley, Michael | CARAVAN |
1966-1972
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A rickety chimney suggests
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| 11.
| Longley, Michael | CASUALITY |
1966-1972
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Its decline was gradual.
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| 12.
| Longley, Michael | CHRISTOPHER AT BIRTH |
1963-1966
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Your uncle, totem and curator bends
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| 13.
| Longley, Michael | CHRISTOPHER AT BIRTH |
1966-1972
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Your uncle, totem and curator bends
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| 14.
| Longley, Michael | CHRISTOPHER AT BIRTH |
1963-1966
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Your uncle, totem and curator bends
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| 15.
| Longley, Michael | CIRCE |
1963-1966
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The cries of the shipwrecked enter my head.
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| 16.
| Longley, Michael | DR. JOHNSON ON THE HEBRIDES |
1963-1966
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The Hebridean gales mere sycophants,
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| 17.
| Longley, Michael | DR. JOHNSON ON THE HEBRIDES |
1966-1972
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The Hebridean gales mere sycophants,
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| 18.
| Longley, Michael | DR JOHNSON DYING |
1966-1972
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"...an imagining that the dropsical
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| 19.
| Longley, Michael | ELEGY FOR FATS WALLER |
1963-1966
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Lighting up, lest all our hearts should break,
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| 20.
| Longley, Michael | EMILY DICKINSON |
1966-1972
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Emily Dickinson, I think of you
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| 21.
| Longley, Michael | EN ROUTE |
1963-1966
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Amateur witches and professional virgins,
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| 22.
| Longley, Michael | EPITHALAMION WALLER |
1963-1966
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These are the small hours when
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| 23.
| Longley, Michael | FANNY HILL |
1966-1972
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And yet, who could tidy away
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| 24.
| Longley, Michael | FREEZE-UP |
1963-1966
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The freeze-up annexes the sea even,
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| 25.
| Longley, Michael | GATHERING MUSHROOMS |
1966-1972
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Exhaled at dawn with the cattle's breath
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| 26.
| Longley, Michael | GATHERING MUSHROOMS |
1966-1972
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Exhaled at dawn with the cattle's breath
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| 27.
| Longley, Michael | HEDGEHOG |
1966-1972
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To begin with, the hedgehog does not
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| 28.
| Longley, Michael | HER MIME OF THE LAME SEAGULL |
1963-1966
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Some things come too soon for words,
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| 29.
| Longley, Michael | HOMAGE TO BUSTER KEATON |
1966-1972
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You are sheriff of our town -
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| 30.
| Longley, Michael | IN A CONVENT CEMETARY |
1966-1972
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Although they've been gone for ages
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| 31.
| Longley, Michael | IN MEMORIAM |
1966-1972
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My father, let no similes eclipse
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| 32.
| Longley, Michael | IN MEMORIAM |
1963-1966
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My father, let no similes eclipse
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| 33.
| Longley, Michael | JOURNEY OUT OF ESSEX |
1966-1972
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Or, John Clare's Escape
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| 34.
| Longley, Michael | KINGFISHER |
1966-1972
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A knife-thrower
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| 35.
| Longley, Michael | KLONDIKE |
1966-1972
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At one with the dusty prospectors
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| 36.
| Longley, Michael | LARES |
1966-1972
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Cut with a cross, they are propped
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| 37.
| Longley, Michael | LEAVING INISHMORE |
1963-1966
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Rain and sunlight and the boat between then
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| 38.
| Longley, Michael | MAN FRIDAY |
1966-1972
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So much is implied on that furthest strand -
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| 39.
| Longley, Michael | MAN FRIDAY |
1966-1972
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So much is implied on that furthest strand -
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| 40.
| Longley, Michael | MISCARRIAGE |
1966-1972
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A stunned cabin boy
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| 41.
| Longley, Michael | MOUNTAIN SWIM |
1966-1972
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Hill top and valley floor we sway between,
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| 42.
| Longley, Michael | NARCISSUS |
1966-1972
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Unweatherbeaten as the moon my face
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| 43.
| Longley, Michael | NAUSICAA |
1966-1972
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You scarcely raise a finger to the tide.
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| 44.
| Longley, Michael | NO CONTINUING CITY |
1963-1966
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My hands here, gentle where her breasts begin
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| 45.
| Longley, Michael | ORPHEUS |
1963-1966
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The drumlins roll like waves above it all.
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| 46.
| Longley, Michael | OUT OF THE SEA |
1966-1972
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The eggs are incubated
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| 47.
| Longley, Michael | PERSEPHONE |
1963-1966
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I see as through a skylight in my brain
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| 48.
| Longley, Michael | PERSEPHONE |
1966-1972
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I see as through skylight in my brain
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| 49.
| Longley, Michael | REMEMBRANCE DAY |
1966-1972
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Conveyed here in what ship of death
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| 50.
| Longley, Michael | REMEMBRANCE DAY |
1966-1972
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Conveyed here in what ship of death
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| 51.
| Longley, Michael | ROBIN |
1966-1972
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Its breast a warning,
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| 52.
| Longley, Michael | SAINT FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS |
1963-1966
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And, summing up, I think of when
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| 53.
| Longley, Michael | THE ADULTERER |
1966-1972
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I have laid my adulteries
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| 54.
| Longley, Michael | THE CENTAURS |
1963-1966
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The sergeant, an arrow in his back,
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| 55.
| Longley, Michael | THE FREEMARTIN |
1966-1972
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Comes into her own
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| 56.
| Longley, Michael | THE HEBRIDES |
1963-1966
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I shall have left these rocks within the week -
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| 57.
| Longley, Michael | THE HOUSEWIFE'S TESTAMENT |
1963-1966
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Sons and daughters, my irreconcilables,
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| 58.
| Longley, Michael | THE ISLAND |
1966-1972
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The one saddle and bit on the island
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| 59.
| Longley, Michael | THE JOURNEY |
1963-1966
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It is as though a journey were being made
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| 60.
| Longley, Michael | THE NORTH |
1966-1972
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There are no landmarks round here,
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| 61.
| Longley, Michael | THE ORNITHOLOGICAL SECTION |
1963-1966
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Birds, such heavenly bric-a-brac
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| 62.
| Longley, Michael | THE OSPREY |
1966-1972
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To whom certain water talents --
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| 63.
| Longley, Michael | THREE POSTHUMOUS PIECES |
1966-1972
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In lieu of my famous last words or
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| 64.
| Longley, Michael | TO BIX BEIDERBECKE |
1966-1972
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In hotel rooms, in digs you went to school.
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| 65.
| Longley, Michael | TO DEREK MAHON |
1963-1966
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You alone read every birthmark,
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| 66.
| Longley, Michael | TO EDNA |
1963-1966
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Ah,the image or the image's performance -
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| 67.
| Longley, Michael | TO THE POETS |
1966-1972
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The dying fall, the death spasm,
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| 68.
| Longley, Michael | WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS |
1963-1966
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Lighting up, lest all our hearts should break,
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