Poems in chronological order



Windmill Hill. A Poem by Mr Piggott
Skenfrith Threnody
The Antiquaries
Ballade to a Prehistorian
The Field Club Member
Congress of archaeological societies
Tea with a mystic
Evening in Ipswich
An epistle to Peggy. Christmas 1938
At Longford, October 1939
Fads and fancies
Dedication, Dec. 1939
Christmas Guard 1939
The mind of man
A song about piscinas
Lines written in a Wareham pub
.......December 1940

Field-club nostalgia
Henley 1941
Then Arthur fought . . .
Cairo
The tortoise
January in Delhi
Malta
Stromboli
The voyagers
Western Himalayas/Lahoul
Cock-crowing
The totems
For Paul the Deacon:
.......Monte Cassino AD 790

When shall we laugh?
Letter from India (for CMP)
Calcutta
Calcutta miscellany
Bohemond's tomb
Round clump
To REMW
To a young soldier
The Fire among the Ruins
Soldiers making tea
Hold to the past
North Indian landscape
The storm
Indian nocturne
Homebound convoy
Kilchoman churchyard
Landscape—Western Isles
Before thunder
Wessex harvest
London: Dance Tune for a
.......Summer Night

Release in October
Rycote Chapel
The country walk
The explorers
Glass houses
Clondalkin
The Western edges
County Mayo
Peacocks at Creech
Winter landscape 1946
Now that the killing is over
North Uist
The Lincs Lad
To a fellow-scholar,
....... on re-reading Candide

On Hadrian's Wall
Mundus patet
The Spring Visit
The Epigraphist's Funeral
Miniworks
The scarecrow/The Image of Man
Ballade of great affection
Ane New Scots Ballat
The Scottish Summer School
Homer
The Flyting of Jacksoun and Broun
Ballade of a twenty-first birthday
Ballade to a learned lady
Youth and age in Great King Street
Address Congratulatory
Marlborough revisited
The Hero
Inverness
The wood and the trees
Responses in the Cathedral
To Anna

Small works


Dans le restaurant
On Britain's Crisis
Lecturing on the Palaeolithic:
....... Edinburgh 1946

Salt for Byzantium
South American Idyll
Three Wise Men
To a musician