Poems are presented by first line, in the order in
which they occur in the book. For an alphabetical
list, go here.

1. From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
   
2. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
   
3. Leave your home behind, lad, (The Recruit)
   
4. Wake: the silver dusk returning (Reveille)
   
5. Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
   
6. When the lad for longing sighs,
   
7. When smoke stood up from Ludlow,
   
8. Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
   
9. On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
   
10. The Sun at noon to higher air, (March)
    
11. On your midnight pallet lying,
    
12. When I watch the living meet,
    
13. When I was one-and-twenty
    
14. There pass the careless people
    
15. Look not in my eyes, for fear
    
16. It nods and curtseys and recovers
    
17. Twice a week the winter thorough
    
18. Oh, when I was in love with you
    
19. The time you won your town the race (To An Athlete Dying Young)
    
20. Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
    
21. In summertime on Bredon (Bredon Hill)
    
22. The street sounds to the soldiers' tread,
    
23. The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair,
    
24. Say, lad, have you things to do?
    
25. This time of year a twelvemonth past,
    
26. Along the field as we came by
    
27. Is my team ploughing,
    
28. High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam (The Welch Marches)
    
29. 'Tis spring; come out to ramble (The Lent Lily)
    
30. Others, I am not the first,
    
31. On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
    
32. From far, from eve and morning
    
33. If truth in hearts that perish
    
34. "Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? (The New Mistress)
    
35. On the idle hill of summer,
    
36. White in the moon the long road lies,
    
37. As through the wild green hills of Wyre
    
38. The winds out of the west land blow,
    
39. 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town
    
40. Into my heart an air that kills
    
41. In my own shire, if I was sad,
    
42. Once in the wind of morning
    
43. When I meet the morning beam, (The Immortal Part)
    
44. Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?
    
45. If by chance your eye offend you,
    
46. Bring, in this timeless grave to throw,
    
47. "Here the hangman stops his cart: (The Carpenter's Son)
    
48. Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    
49. Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly:
    
50. In valleys of springs and rivers (Clunton and Clunbury)
    
51. Loitering with a vacant eye
    
52. Far in a western brookland
    
53. The lad came to the door at night (The True Lover)
    
54. With rue my heart is laden
    
55. Westward on the high-hilled plains
    
56. "Far I hear the bugle blow (The Day of Battle)
    
57. You smile upon your friend to-day,
    
58. When I came last to Ludlow
    
59. The star-filled seas are smooth to-night (When I Came Last to Portland)
    
60. Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    
61. The vane on Hughley steeple (Hughley Steeple)
    
62. "Terence, this is stupid stuff:
    
63. I hoed and trenched and weeded,

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