Classic and Contemporary Poets

DONALD DAVIE

Poems found: 415

ADMIRAL TO HIS LADY

AFTER AN ACCIDENT

AFTER THE CALAMITOUS CONVOY (JULY 1942)

AFTER THE MATCH

AGAINST CONFIDENCES

AGAVE IN THE WIND

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; FOR KENNETH MILLAR (ROSS MACDONALD)

AMONG ARTISAN'S HOUSES

AND OUR ETERNAL HOME'

ANGLICAN LADY; IN MEMORIAM MARGARET HINE

ARS POETICA; IN MEMORIAM MICHAEL AYRTON, SCULPTOR

ARTICULACY. HINTS FROM THE KORAN

ARTIFEX IN EXTREMIS; IN MEMORIAM HOWARD WARSHAW

AT KNARESBOROUGH

AT THE CAFE PARNASSE; FOR TURNER CASSITY

AT THE CRADLE OF GENIUS

AT THE SYNOD IN ST. PATRICK'S

AUTUMN IMAGINED

BACK OF AFFLUENCE

BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT

BEHIND THE NORTH WIND

BEING ANGRY WITH GOD

BELFAST ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON

BENT BACK AND UPWARDS, OVER

BERKSHIRE; FOR MICHAEL HAMBURGER

BLANK OF THE WALL; AFTER ST-J. PERSE

BOLYAI, THE GEOMETER

BOWING THE HEAD

BREAK; AFTER PASTERNAK

BRIDE OF REASON

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

BY THE ROAD TO UPPER MIDHOPE

CATULLUS ON FRIENDSHIP

CHERRY RIPE; ON A PAINTING BY JAN GRIS

CHRISTIAN HERO (J.H. LEFROY, CANADA, 1843-44)

CHRISTMAS SYLLABICS FOR A WIFE

CHURCH MILITANT

CHURCH OF IRELAND; FOR BARBARA HAYLEY

COLD SPRING IN ESSEX

COMMODORE BARRY

CONDITIONED AIR

CONDITIONED AIR

CORNWALL (TREASURE ISLAND)

CORRIB. AN EMBLEM

DANCING MEASURES

DEATH IN THE WEST

DEATH OF A PAINTER; IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM PARTRIDGE

DEATH OF A VOICE; AFTER PASTERNAK AND TO HIM

DEMI-EXILE. HOWTH

DEPRAVITY; TWO SERMONS: 1. AMERICANS: FOR THEIR BICENTENNIAL

DEPRAVITY; TWO SERMONS: 2. ST. PAUL'S REVISITED

DERBYSHIRE TURF

DISSENTIENT VOICE: 1. A BAPTIST CHILDHOOD

DISSENTIENT VOICE: 2. DISSENT. A FABLE

DISSENTIENT VOICE: 3. PORTRAIT OF ARTIST AS FARMYARD FOWL

DISSENTIENT VOICE: 4. A GATHERED CHURCH

DUBLIN GEORGIAN

DUBLIN GEORGIAN (2)

DULE OF A DEWSBURY MATRON

EIGHT YEARS AFTER

ELECT; BATTLE OF BRITAIN SUNDAY, RAF GATOW, BERLIN

EMIGRANT, TO THE RECEDING SHORE; FOR SHADE OF HERBERT READ

ENGLISH REVENANT

ENLIGHTENMENT COMES, IT FALLS

EPISTLE. TO ENRIQUE CARACCIOLO TREJO (ESSEX)

EQUESTRIAN SESTINA

EVENING ON THE BOYNE

EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE

EXPECTING SILENCE

EZRA POUND IN PISA

FATHER, THE CAVALIER

FELICITY'S FOURTH ORDER

FOLIATE CAPITAL: ALL

FOR AN AGE OF PLASTICS PLYMOUTH

FOR DOREEN. A VOICE FROM THE GARDEN

FORESTS OF LITHUANIA, SELS.

FOUNTAIN OF ARETHUSA

FOUNTAIN OF CYANE

FROM THE NEW WORLD; FOR PAUL RUSSELL-GEBBETT

G.M.B. (10.7.77)

GARDENS NO EMBLEMS

GARLAND FOR IVOR GURNEY

GARLAND FOR RONSARD

GEMONA-DEL-FRIULI, 1961-1976

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

GOD SAVES THE KING

GOLD OF DETAILS; AFTER PASTERNAK

GRACE IN THE FORE STREET; FOR ROY GOTTFRIED

GRAZIA DELEDDA, YOUNG

GRIPPING SERIAL

GRUDGING RESPECT

HARDNESS OF LIGHT

HAWKSHEAD AND DACHAU IN A CHRISTMAS GLASS

HEARING RUSSIAN SPOKEN

HEARING RUSSIAN SPOKEN

HEIGH-HO ON A WINTER AFTERNOON

HERE, LEFT ALONE AMONG

HERMES AND MR. SHAW

HIS THEMES (AFTER READING EDMOND JABES)

HOMAGE TO GEORGE WHITEFIELD (1714-1770)

HOMAGE TO JOHN L. STEPHENS

HOMAGE TO WILLIAM COWPER

HORAW CANONICAE

HUMANLY SPEAKING

HUNTINGDONSHIRE

HYPOCHONDRIAC LOGIC

I HAVE SAID, YE ARE GODS

IDYLL; AFTER GIORGIO BASSANI

IF I TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNINGS

IMPLACABLE! ALAS

IN CHOPIN'S GARDEN

IN THE STOPPING TRAIN

INDITING A GOOD MATTER

INTERVALS IN A BUSY LIFE

LADY COCHRANE; BEFORE THE HOUSE OF LORDS, 24 JULY 1862

LATE ANNIVERSARY

LETTER TO CURTIS BRADFORD

LIFE ENCOMPASSED

LIFE OF SERVICE

LIMITED ACHIEVEMENTS (PIRANESI, PRISONS, PLATE VI)

LINCOLNSHIRE; FOR KATHLEEN WILSON

LIVERPOOL EPISTLE; TO J.A. STEERS

LIVINGSHAYES (A TRADITION OF SILVERTON, DEVON)

LOOKING OUT FROM FERRARA; AFTER GIORGIO BASSANI

LOVE AND THE TIMES

LOVE-POEMS: FOR MAIRI MACINNNES

MACHINERIES OF SHAME

MAMERTINUS ON RHETORIC, A.D. 291

MANDELSTAM'S HOPE FOR THE BEST: 1. THE CASE AGAINST

MANDELSTAM'S HOPE FOR THE BEST: 2. SON OF ISAAC

MANDELSTAM'S HOPE FOR THE BEST: 3. HOPE NOT ABANDONED

MANDELSTAM'S HOPE FOR THE BEST: 4. SONNET

MANDELSTAM'S HOPE FOR THE BEST: 5. OF HIS ARMENIA

MANDELSTAM, ON DANTE

MEASURED TREAD; FOR KENNETH MILLAR DEAD

MEETING OF CULTURES

METEOROLOGIST, SEPTEMBER

METHOD. FOR RONALD GASKELL

MR. SHARP IN FLORENCE

MUSHROOM GATHERERS; AFTER MICKIEWICZ

MUSTERED INTO THE AVANT-GARDE

MY FATHER'S HONOUR

NASHVILLE MORNINGS

NEW YEAR WISHES FOR THE ENGLISH

NEW YORK IN AUGUST; AFTER PASTERNAK

NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN

NORTH & SOUTH; FOR EMILY GROSHOLZ, WHO ASKED ABOUT METRE

NORTH SEA, IN A SNOWSTORM

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

NORTHERN METRES; FOR TONY HARRISON IN FLORIDA

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

ON A PROPOSED CELEBRATION OF EZRA POUND; FOR CLIVE WILMER

ON BERTRAND RUSSELL'S PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY

ON EDMUND SPENSER'S HOUSE IN IRELAND

ON GENEROUS LINES

ON NOT DESERVING

ON SUTTON STRAND

ORIENTAL VISITOR

OUT OF EAST ANGLIA

OUT OF EAST ANGLIA

OXFORD; AFTER PASTERNAK

PACER IN THE FRESCO. JOHN THE BAPTIST

PASTOR ERRANTE'; FOR ROBERT PINSKY

PIETA; IN MEMORIAM DOUGLAS BROWN

POEM AS ABSTRACT

POET REDEEMED & DEAD

PORTLAND; AFTER PASTERNAK

PREOCCUPATION'S GIFT

PRIORY OF ST. SAVIOUR, GLENDALOUGH

PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES

RAIN ON SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND

RECOLLECTIONS OF GEORGE ORPEN IN LETTER TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND

RED ROCK OF UTAH

REFLECTIONS ON DEAFNESS; FOR KENNETH AND MARGARET MILLAR

REJOINDER TO A CRITIC

REJOINDER TO A CRITIC

REJOINDER TO A CRITIC

REMEMBERING THE THIRTIES

REMINDED OF BOUGAINVILLE; FOR HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL

REVENGE FOR LOVE

RIGHT WING SYMPATHIES

ROUSSEAU IN HIS DAY

RUTLAND; FOR GEORGE DEKKER

SAMUEL BECKETT'S DUBLIN

SAVANNAH; FOR ALEX HEARD, ADMINISTRATOR

SAW I NEVER THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN

SCULPTURE' OF RHYME

SCULPTURES IN HUNGARY

SCYTHIAN CHARIOTEERS

SEEING HER LEAVE

SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON

SEQUENCE FOR FRANCIS PARKMAN, SELS.

SEUR, NEAR BLOIS

SHORT RUN TO CAMBORNE

SILOAM; FOR CLYDE BINFIELD

SING UNTO THE LORD A NEW SONG

SIX EPISTLES TO EVA HESSE: 1

SIX EPISTLES TO EVA HESSE: 2

SIX EPISTLES TO EVA HESSE: 3

SIX EPISTLES TO EVA HESSE: 4

SIX EPISTLES TO EVA HESSE: 5

SIX EPISTLES TO EVA HESSE: 6

SO MAKE THEM MELT AS THE DISHOUSED SNAIL'

SOME FUTURE MOON; AFTER PASTERNAK

SOME SHIRES REVISITED: 1. NORFOLK

SOME SHIRES REVISITED: 2. DEVONSHIRE

SOME SHIRES REVISITED: 3. LEICESTERSHIRE

SOME SHIRES REVISITED: 4. STAFFORDSHIRE

SOME SHIRES REVISITED: 5. BEDFORDSHIRE

SORTING THE PERSONAE

SOUNDS OF A DEVON VILLAGE

STRATFORD ON AVON

SUMMER LIGHTNING; FOR SEAMUS HEANEY, IN IMITATION OF RONSARD

THANKS TO INDUSTRIAL ESSEX

THEIR RECTITUDE IS BEAUTY

THOU ART NEAR AT HAND, O LORD'

THOUGH DRY, NOT DRY

THREE MORAL DISCOVERIES

THROUGH BIFOCALS

TIME PASSING, BELOVED

TIME PASSING, BELOVED

TO A BROTHER IN THE MYSTERY; CIRCA 1290

TO A TEACHER OF FRENCH

TO AN AMERICAN CLASSICIST

TO CERTAIN ENGLISH POETS

TO HELEN KELLER

TO SCORCH OR FREEZE; THE THIRTY-NINETH PSALM, ADAPTED

TO THOM GUNN IN LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA

TREVENEN: 1. HIS RETURN (CHRISTMAS, 1780)

TREVENEN: 2. LIFE AND CONTACTS (1784-7)

TREVENEN: 3. HIS END (THE BATTLE OF VIBORG, 21 JUNE 1790)

TREVISO, THE PESCHERIA

TRIP TO HUNTSVILLE

TUNSTALL FOREST

TWILIGHT ON THE WASTE LANDS

TWO DEDICATIONS: 1. WIDE FRANCE

TWO DEDICATIONS: 2. BARNSLEY CRICKET CLUB

TWO FROM IRELAND: 1. 1969, IRELAND OF THE BOMBERS

TWO FROM IRELAND: 2. 1977, NEAR MULLINGER

TWO WINDOWS IN TASHKENT

UNDER A SKYLIGHT

UNDER ST. PAUL'S

UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH; FOR ANDREW LYTLE, AGED 80

VENEGEANCE IS MINE, SAITH THE LORD

VINDICATION OF JOVAN BABIC (BOSNIA 1915)

WARWICKSHIRE; FOR ROY FISHER

WATERFALL AT POWERSCOURT

WAY OUT. HOW THEY MUST HAVE

WEARING OF THE GREEN

WELL-FOUND POEM

WEST VIRGINIA'S AUBURN

WHERE DEPTHS ARE SURFACES

WILD BOAR CLOUGH

WIND AT PENISTONE

WINTER LANDSCAPE NEAR ELY

WINTER LANDSCAPES

WINTER'S TALENTS; FOR PETER SCUPHAM AND ROBERT WELLS

WOMBWELL ON STRIKE

WOODPIGEONS AT RAHENY

YORKSHIRE; OF GRACES

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