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The Dogma of Christ & Other Essays on Religion, Psychology & Culture
Erich Fromm

Collected Poems

Collected Poems - Robert W. Maslen, Mervyn Peake List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction, by R. W. Maslen
A Note on the Text
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--Birth of Day
--Vikings
--Coloured Money
--If I Could See, Not Surfaces
--Palais de Danse
--Rhondda Valley
--Heaven Hires Me
--The Metal Bird
--The Cocky Walkers
--Poplar
--These Eyes Have Noosed a Hundred Hills
--Mané Katz
--Two Seasons
--Autumn: The lit mosaic of the wood
--The Crystal
--To Maeve: You walk unaware
--Poem: Body and head and arms and throat and hands
--How Foreign to the Spirit's Early Beauty
--Sing I the Fickle, Fit-for-Nothing Fellows
--El Greco
--Spring
--Watch, Here and Now . . .
--Au Moulin Joyeux
--Van Gogh
--I, While the Gods Laugh, the World's Vortex Am
--Epstein's Adam
--Burgled Beauty
--September 1939
--We Are the Haunted People
--She Whose Body Was in Pain
--Now Are Gathering in the Skies
--Where Skidded Only in the Upper Air
--The Boy
--The World
--The Women of the World Inhabit Her
--O Heart-Beats
--Sensitive Head
--The Sands Were Frosty When the Soul Appeared
--I Could Sit Here an Age-Long of Green Light
--Dreams
--Where Got I These Two Eyes that Plunder Storm
--I, Like an Insect on the Stainéd Glass
--Swung through Dead Aeons
--Autumn: There is a surge of stillness bred
--Eagle
--The Sap of Sorrow Mounts This Rootless Tree
--Moon
--No Creed Shall Bind Me to a Sapless Bole
--As Over the Embankment
--Blake
--Fame Is My Tawdry Goal
--Often, in the Evenings
--I Am Almost Drunken
--Balance
--The Torch
--Stand with Me
--I Sing a Hatred of the Black Machine
--Lit, Every Stage
--She Does Not Know
--Life Beat Another Rhythm
--Oh Sprightly and Lightly
--What is That against the Sky?
--Oh I Must End This War within My Heart
--Beauty, What Are You?
--The Modelles
--I Found Myself Walking
--Along with Everything Else
--Am I to Say Goodbye to Trees and Leaves?
--To All Things Solid as to All Things Flat
--When God Had Pared His Fingernails
--For All Your Deadly Implications
--O She Has Walked All Lands There Are
--Grottoed beneath Your Ribs Our Babe Lay Thriving
--In the Fabric of This Love
--May 1940
--Troop Train
--Fort Darland
--In the Lion's Yellow Eyes
--Every Gesture Every Eyelid's
--Leave Train
--The Shapes
--To a Scarecrow Gunner
--From the Hot Chaos of the Many Habitations
--Rather than a Little Pain
--The Two Fraternities
--With People, So with Trees
--Onetime my Notes Would Dance
--London, 1941
--The Sullen Accents Told of Doom
--Before Man's Bravery I Bow My Head
--The Spadesmen
--The Craters
--They Move with Me, My War-Ghosts
--Had Each a Voice, What Would His Fingers Cry
--What Is It Muffles the Ascending Moment?
--I Am For Ever With Me
--The Sounds
--The Colt
--The Burning Boy
--Is There No Love Can Link Us?
--Swan Arrogant
--London Buses
--A Reverie of Bone
--Suddenly, Walking along the Open Road
--They Loom Enormous
--Maeve
--What Can I Ever Offer You
--O, This Estrangement Forms a Distance Vaster
--An April Radiance of White Light Dances
--May 1942
--Blue as the Indigo and Fabulous Storm
--Curl Up in the Great Window Seat
--Digging a Trench I Found a Heart-Shaped Stone
--Absent from You Where Is There Corn and Wine?
--I am the Slung Stone that No Target Has
--If I Would Stay What Men Call Sane
--Poem: Taller than life, deployed along the shallows
--The Glassblowers
--Dead Rat
--For Maeve: You are the maeve of me
--Tides
--Because Last Night My Child Clung to My Neck
--Poem: My arms are rivers heavy with raw flood
--The Three
--The Consumptive. Belsen 1945
--This German Pinewood
--The World is Broken without Love
--Yet Who to Love Returning
--Victims
--Poem: Remote, that baleful head of his
--All Eden Was Then Girdled by My Arms
--The Vastest Things Are Those We May Not Learn
--Poem: It is at times of half-light that I find
--Each Day We Live Is a Glass Room
--As a Great Town Draws the Eccentrics In
--Conscious that Greatness Has Its Tinder Here
--The Restaurant
--If Trees Gushed Blood
--When the Heart Cries in Love
--What is that Noise in the Shaking Trees?
--Neither to Captain nor be Captained, I
--Crumbles the Crested Scroll
--Wayward O World and Unpredictable
--O Love, the World's Solution
--When Tiger-Men Sat Their Mercurial Coursers
--This Field is Dim with Sheaves
--Brave Lies Conspiring in the Three-Hued Flag
--Are We Not the Richer?
--The Pit-Boy's Lung Is Black
--Crisis
--It Is the Malady
--At My Inmost Heart Is Fear
--This Is the Darkness
--I Cannot Find It in Me to Be Gay
--There Is No Difference between Night and Day
--The Heart Holds Memories Older than the Mind's
--Lug Out Your Spirit from Its Cage of Clay
--There Is an Aristocracy of Love
--Poem: How dangerous a thing
--Into the Sky All Men Must Turn Their Eyes
--And I Thought You beside Me
--Into the Dusky Well
--Satan
--Features Forgo Their Power
--Let Dreams Be Absolute
--The Birch Saplings
--His Head and Hands Were Built for Sin
--I Have Become Less Clay than Hazel-Rod
--Cold Island! The Splenetic Air
--Rembrandt
--Victoria Station. 6.58 p.m.
--Half-Light
--How Shall I Find Me
--Let the Result Be What It May
--Sark; Evening
--That Phoenix Hour
--Robert Frost
--The Wings
--Written About a Piece of Paper when About to Draw
--As Battle Closes In My Body Stoops
--When All Is Said and Done
--Possessionless, O Leveret
--Love So Imperilled Is
--Love's House
--The Flag Half-Masted Is a People's Poem
--Love, I Had Thought It Rocklike
--Swans Die and a Tower Falls
--And Are You Then Love's Spokesman in the Bone?
--For Ever through Love's Weather Wandering
--The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
--To the Illegitimate of War
--Truths Have no Separate Fires but from Their Welding
--Poem: He moves along the bleak, penumbral shire
--An Ugly Crow Sits Hunched on Jackson's Heart
--Poem: As much himself is he as Caliban
--Snow in Sark
--Poem: The paper is breathless
--Conceit
--Out of the Chaos of My Doubt
--To Live at All Is Miracle Enough
--The Old Grey Donkey
--As the Kite that Soars
--Poem: What panther stalks tonight
--The Rebels
--Poem: With power supernal dowered
--And Then I Heard Her Speak
--The Flight
--As I Watched between Two Forests
--Heads Float about Me
--Swallow the Sky
--Coarse as the Sun Is Blatant
--Through the Voluminous Foliage of the Mind
--On Fishing Up a Marble Head
--Poem: That lance of light that slid across the dark
--Poem: When I was wounded
--Poem: Out of the overlapping
--Poem: As though it were not his, he throws his body
--Break Through Naked
--Poem: Thunder the Christ of it
--Hail! Tommy-Two-Legs
--Great Hulk down the Astonished Waters Drifting
--For Maeve: Now, with the rain about her
--An Armful of Roses
--I Cross the Narrow Bridges to Her Love
--My Malady Is This
--At Such an Hour as This
--Staring in Madness
--For God's Sake Draw the Blind
--A Presage of Death
--The Eclipse
--Lies! Lies! It Is All Lies and Nothing Else
--Love Is an Angry Weather
--O Love, the Steeplejack
--She Lies in Candlelight
--Than Paper and a Pen

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Index of Titles
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