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Collected Poems

Collected Poems - John Betjeman Introduction

Mount Zion (1932)
--Death in Leamington
--Hymn
--The 'Varsity Students' Rag
--The City
--An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn
--For Nineteenth-Century Burials
--Camberley
--Croydon
--Westgate-on-Sea
--The Wykehamist
--The Sandemanian meeting-house in Highbury Quadrant

Continual Dew (1937)
--The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
--Distant View of a Provincial Town
--Slough
--Clash went the Billiard Balls
--Love in a Valley
--An Impoverished Irish Peer
--Our Padre
--Exchange of Livings
--Undenominational
--City
--A Hike on the Downs
--Dorset
--Calvinistic Evensong
--Exeter
--Death of King George V
--The Heart of Thomas Hardy
--Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London
--The Flight from Bootle
--Public House Drunk

Old Lights for New Chancels (1940)
--Cheltenham
--A Shropshire Lad
--Upper Lambourne
--Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden
--Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
--On Seeing an Old Poet in the Café Royal
--An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828
--Trebetherick
--Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus-stop
--Group Life: Letchworth
--Bristol and Clifton
--Sir John Piers
--Myfanwy
--Myfanwy at Oxford
--Lake District
--In Westminster Abbey
--Senex
--Olney Hymns
--On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
--Saint Cadoc
--Blackfriars

New Bats in Old Belfries (1945)
--Henley-on-Thames
--Parliament Hill Fields
--A Subaltern's Love Song
--Bristol
--On an Old-Fashioned Water-Colour of Oxford
--A Lincolnshire Tale
--St. Barnabas, Oxford
--An Archaeological Picnic
--May-Day Song for North Oxford
--Before Invasion, 1940
--Ireland with Emily
--Margate, 1940
--Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm
--The Planster's Vision
--In a Bath Teashop
--Before the Anaesthetic, or A Real Fright
--On Hearing the Full Peal of Ten Bells from Christ Church, Swindon, Wilts.
--Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
--East Anglian Bathe
--Sunday Afternoon Service in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall
--The Irish Unionist's Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922
--In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
--South London Sketch, 1944
--South London Sketch, 1844

Selected Poems (1948)
--Indoor Games near Newbury
--St. Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N.
--Beside the Seaside
--North Coast Recollections
--A Lincolnshire Church
--The Town Clerk's Views

A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
--Harrow-on-the-Hill
--Verses Turned
--Sunday Morning, King's Cambridge
--Christmas
--The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
--Church of England thoughts
--Essex
--Huxley Hall
--House of Rest
--Middlesex
--Seaside Golf
--I. M. Walter Ramsden, ob. March 26, 1947, Pembroke College, Oxford
--Norfolk
--The Metropolitan Railway
--Late-Flowering Lust
--Sun and Fun
--Original Sin on the Sussex Coast
--Devonshire Street W.1
--The Cottage Hospital
--A Child Ill
--Business Girls
--Remorse
--The Old Liberals
--Greenaway
--The Olympic Girl
--The Dear Old Village
--The Village Inn
--Station Syren
--Hunter Trials
--A Literary Discovery
--How to Get On in Society
--Variations on a Theme by T. W. Rolleston

Poems in the Porch (1954)
--Diary of a Church Mouse

Poems Written After 1954
--Wantage Bells
--Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
--False Security
--Eunice
--Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station
--Thoughts on The Diary of a Nobody
--Longfellow's Visit to Venice
--Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order
--Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class
--Hertfordshire
--Lord Cozens Hardy
--Variation on a Theme by Newbolt
--Inevitable
--N.W.5 & N.6
--From the Great Western
--In the Public Gardens

High and Low (1966)
--Preface to High and Low
--Cornish Cliffs
--Tregardock
--By the Ninth Green, St. Enodoc
--Winter Seascape
--Old Friends
--A Bay in Anglesey
--A Lament for Moira McCavendish
--The Small Towns of Ireland
--Ireland's Own
--Great Central Railway
--Matlock Bath
--An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield
--Lines Written to Martyn Skinner
--Uffington
--Anglo-Catholic Congresses
--In Willesden Churchyard
--The Commander
--Autumn 1964
--The Hon. Sec.
--Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk
--Good-bye
--Five o'Clock Shadow
--A Russell Flint
--Perp. Revival i' the North
--Agricultural Caress
--Narcissus
--The Cockney Amorist
--Harvest Hymn
--Meditation on the A30
--Inexpensive Progress
--Mortality
--Reproof Deserved
--Caprice
--Cricket Master

A Nip in the Air (1974)
--On Leaving Wantage 1972
--On a Painting by Julius Olsson R.A.
--Beaumaris, December 21, 1963
--Hearts Together
--Aldershot Crematorium
--The Newest Bath Guide
--In Memory of George Whitby, Architect
--Delectable Duchy
--The Costa Blanca
--Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican
--Executive
--Meditation on a Constable Picture
--A Wembley Lad
--County
--Greek Orthodox
--Dilton Marsh Halt
--Loneliness
--Back from Australia
--The Manor House, Hale, near Liverpool
--Shattered Image
--A Ballad of the Investiture 1969
--14 November, 1973
--A Mind's Journey to Diss
--Fruit
--Inland Waterway
--For Patrick, aetat: LXX
--The Last Laugh

Uncollected Poems (1982)
--1940
--Interior Decorator (London Magazine 1964)
--The Lift Man
--Archibald
--The Retired Postal Clerk
--Cheshire
--Advertising Pays
--Dumbleton Hall
--Thoughts on a Train
--Shetland 1973
--To the Crazy Gang
--Kegans
--Henley Regatta 1902
--1930 Commercial Style
--Guilt
--A Romance
--Advent 1955
--The Old Land Dog
--Before the Lecture
--The Parochial Church Council
--The Shires
--An Ecumenical Invitation
--The Conversion of St Paul (The Listener 1955)
--St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street Hill
--Woman Driver
--The Ballad of George R. Sims (New Statesman 1968)
--Civilized Woman
--To Stuart Piggot, 1975
--Chelsea 1977

Additional Poems
--The Friends of the Cathedral (from Poems in the Porch, 1954)
--The Empty Pew (1948)

Summoned By Bells
--I Before MCMXIV
--II The Dawn of Guilt
--III Highgate
--IV Cornwall in Childhood
--V Private School
--VI London
--VII Marlborough
--VIII Cornwall in Adolescence
--IX The Opening World

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