Includes index.

Conversation among the ruins -- Winter landscape, with rooks -- Pursuit -- Bucolics -- Tale of a tub -- Southern sunrise -- Channel crossing -- Prospect -- The Queen's complaint -- Ode for Ted -- Firesong -- Song for a summer's day -- Two sisters of Persephone -- Vanity fair -- Strumpet song -- Tinker Jack and the tidy wives -- Faun -- Street song -- Letter to a purist -- Soliloquy of the solipsist -- Dialogue between ghost and priest -- The glutton -- Monologue at 3 a.m. -- Miss Drake proceeds to supper -- Recantation -- The shrike -- Alicante lullaby -- Dream with clam-diggers -- Wreath for a bridal -- Epitaph for fire and flower -- Fiesta melons -- The goring -- The beggars -- Spider -- Spinster -- Rhyme -- Departure -- Maudlin -- Resolve -- Landowners -- Ella Mason and her eleven cats -- Crystal gazer -- November graveyard -- Black rook in rainy weather -- \tThe snowman on the moor -- Mayflower -- Sow -- The everlasting Monday -- Hardcastle crags -- The thin people -- On the difficulty of conjuring up a dryad -- On the plethora of dryads -- The other two -- The lady and the earthenware head -- All the dead dears -- Natural history -- Two views of Withens -- The Great Carbuncle -- Words for a nursery -- The disquieting Muses -- Night shift -- Ouija -- On the decline of Oracles -- Snakecharmer -- A lesson in vengeance -- Virgin in a tree -- Perseus: the triumph of wit over suffering -- Battle-scene from the comic operatic fantasy the seafarer -- Yadwigha, on a red couch, among lilies -- A winter's tale -- Above the Oxbow -- Memoirs of a spinach-picker -- The ghost's leavetaking -- Sculptor -- Full fathom five -- Lorelei -- Mussel hunter at Rock Harbor -- Moonrise -- Frog Autumn -- In Midas' country -- Incommunicado -- Child's park stones -- Owl -- Whiteness I remember -- Fable of the rhododendron stealers -- The death of myth-making -- Green Rock, Winthrop Bay -- The companionable ills -- I want, I want -- Poems, potatoes -- The times are tidy -- The bull of Bendylaw -- The eye-mote -- Point Shirley -- Goatsucker -- Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows -- A winter ship -- Aftermath -- Two views of a cadaver room -- Suicide off Egg Rock -- The ravaged face -- Metaphors -- Electra on Azalea path -- The beekeeper's daughter -- The hermit at Outermost House -- Man in black -- Old ladies' home -- The net-menders -- Magnolia Shoals -- The sleepers -- Yaddo: the grand manor -- Medallion -- The manor garden -- Blue moles -- Dark wood, dark water -- Polly's tree -- The colossus -- Private ground -- Who -- Dark house -- Maenad -- The beast -- Flute notes from a reedy pond -- Witch burning -- The stones -- The burnt-out spa -- Mushrooms -- You're -- The hanging man -- Stillborn -- On deck -- Sleep in the Mojave Desert -- Two campers in Cloud country -- Leaving early -- Love letter -- Magi -- Candles -- A life -- Waking in winter -- Parliament hill fields -- Whitsun -- Zoo keeper's wife -- Face lift -- Morning song -- Barren woman -- Heavy women -- In plaster -- Tulips -- I am vertical -- Insomniac -- Widow -- Stars over the Dordogne -- The rival -- Wuthering Heights -- Blackberrying -- Finisterre -- The surgeon at 2 a.m. -- Last words -- The moon and the yew tree -- Mirror -- The babysitters -- New year on Dartmoor -- Three women: a poem for three voices -- Little fugue -- An appearance -- Crossing the water -- Among the narcissi -- Pheasant -- Elm -- The rabbit catcher -- Event -- Apprehensions -- Berck-plage -- The other -- Words heard, by accident, over the phone -- Poppies in July -- Burning the letters -- For a fatherless son -- A birthday present -- The detective -- The courage of shutting-up -- The bee meeting -- The arrival of the bee box -- Stings -- The swarm -- Wintering -- A secret -- The applicant -- Daddy -- Medusa -- The jailer -- Lesbos -- Stopped dead -- Fever 103* -- Amnesiac -- Lyonnesse -- Cut -- By candlelight -- The tour -- Ariel -- \tPoppies in October -- Nick and the candlestick -- Purdah -- Lady Lazarus -- The couriers -- Getting there -- The night dances -- Gulliver -- Thalidomide -- Letter in November -- Death & Co. -- Years -- The fearful -- Mary's song -- Winter trees -- Brasilia -- Childless woman -- Eavesdropper -- Sheep in fog -- The Munich mannequins -- Totem -- Child -- Paralytic -- Gigolo -- Mystic -- Kindness -- Words -- Contusion -- Balloons -- Edge -- Bitter strawberries -- Family reunion -- Female author -- April 18 -- Gold mouths cry -- Dirge for a joker -- To Eva descending the stair -- Cinderella -- Jilted -- sonnet: To Eva -- Bluebeard -- Aquatic nocturne -- Notes to a neophyte -- Metamorphoses of the moon -- Dialogue en route -- To a jilted lover -- The dream -- sonnet: To time -- The trial of man -- April aubade -- Go get the goodly squab -- Trio of love songs -- Lament -- Doomsday -- Moonsong at morning -- Doom of exiles -- The dispossessed -- Admonitions -- Never try to trick me with a kiss -- The dead -- Danse macabre -- Circus in three rings -- Prologue to spring -- Song for a revolutionary love -- Sonnet to Satan -- A sorcerer bids farewell to seem -- Midsummer mobile -- On looking into the eyes of a demon lover -- Insolent storm strikes at the skull -- Denouement -- Two lovers and a beachcomber by the Real Sea -- Black pine tree in an orange light -- Terminal -- Love is a parallax -- Aerialist -- Morning in the hospital solarium -- The Princess and the goblins -- Touch and go -- Temper of time -- Epitaph in three parts.

Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1982.