| Description | One large red hardback notebook inscribed "7.5.88" on inside front cover.
Contains the following poem drafts, which mostly appear in 'The young man of Cury' (first lines also given where title of poem unclear): 'Changeling', 'What Happened', 'Superstitions', 'What Sailors Say', 'The young man of Cury', 'Quarterjacks', 'Annabel-Emily', 'Dreamt Last Night', 'Little Lizzie Ivory', 'Can't think' (first line: "Can't think what they're doing said Sally Mouse"), 'Dear Me', 'Simples and Samples', 'Dream Poem' (also called 'I have not seen this house before'), 'When I went up to Avignon', 'Send for Solomon Fingergreen', 'Somebody' (also called 'What', first line: "What's that noise on the roof, mother?", 'Trim-and-Tall', 'Turnstone', 'Peter's fingers' (also called 'I went abroad in the Peter-boat', first line: "I went abroad in the Peter-boat"), 'Time' (first line: "Where do you ride, horseman"), 'All day Saturday', 'Who's that up there?' (first line: "Who's that up there?"), 'Aireymouse', 'Sphinx' (also called 'Out in the desert'), 'Darford Warbler', 'Fremington', 'Riverside' (also called 'What my mother told me' and 'When I was born at Riverside'), 'How the Sea', 'I saw Charlie Chaplin', 'Don't wake yo Lord Hazey', 'Rise up, Jenny', 'Houseleek', 'Venton Ham', 'Frost on the flower', 'When the garage mechanic' (first line: "When the garage mechanic take my old car"), 'The Song of Kruger the Cat', 'Python on Piccolo' (also called 'Pyton on Piano', 'Prince Ivo', 'Tuesday Monday' (first line: "Tuesday Monday"), 'I want to be Monday' (first line: "'I want to be Monday,' said Friday"), 'The Birthday Photograph', 'Cherry Tree' and other poems with no obvious title.
Also contains poems drafts from 'Bringing in the Holly', mostly towards the end of the volume: 'Christmas at Les Baux', 'Bring home the holly', 'Parson's Lea, 'Three Kings' (also called 'Legend of St Nicholas') |