from Hamlet in Autumn (1972) For John Maclean, Headmaster, and Classical and Gaelic Scholar
Dear Hamlet
How often I feel like you from Russian Poem
For Keats
Gaelic Songs
In the Chinese Restaurant
Give Me Your Hand
Christmas, 1971
In the Time of the Useless Pity
Everything Is Silent
This Goodbye
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from Love Poems and Elegies (1972) ‘You told me once’ 105 On Looking at the Dead 106 ‘Of the uncomplicated dairy girl’ 108 At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival 109
from Penguin Modern Poets 21 (1972) Jean Brodie’s Children 110 If You Are About to Die Now 111 from The White Air of March 113
from Orpheus and Other Poems (1974) from Orpheus 114
from The Permanent Island (1975) Eight Songs for a New Ceilidh 117 When We Were Young 120 Freud 121 The White Swan 122
