A collection of poems, including the sonnet sequence from which the title is derived. "First edition."

Portal; At the door of my adobe; Spring at the door; Pastoral; The Sowers; Buttercups; Queen Ann's Lace; Willow-mist; Sky-change; Lotuses; Absence; Lamentation; Narrow hands; The unwilling mind; Moon Fragrance; The moment; A wild thing; To an unreturning guest; Remembering; Echo II- Endion; Summer-Leaves; Hurt Child; Candlewicks; Traveller; Shaft; The wintry mind; As to moonlight; Reveille; St. George; To bed; Two stems; The edge III- Midnight; At his funeral; Pastime; Her town; Spring and a mother dead; Apple-blossoms; Where is my twin gone, where is my twin; One's own requiem; Cinerarium IV- Swinburne; Baudelaire; Rabelais; Housman V. O for a witless age; Caged flamigo; Grotesque; Iris; Dr. Fell; Episode of Decay; Moles; Bell-Wethers; Mexican Moon; The mummies of Guanajuato VI - After a rain at mokanshan; To a Chinese scholar; Bamboo; Processional; Christ in China VII - Against the cold: I.Who may safeguard his lips by testament II. Establish me in nether caverns III. The cold strikes through me now that morning comes IV. Now something strange has happened V. They have said that it is cold, but I know better VI. What was this care so interposed VII. The land had been an unbeloved sight VIII. Why, when I know how steadfast nature is IX. Flowers are undone if broken from their roots XII. Into my heart leap naked, O my love XIII. Spring has uncurled the petals from the ground XIV. I am too simple for those lesser ways XV. When in the morning I awake with you XVI. Summer, O summer, fill thy shadowy trees XVII. Having once entered if you then enjoin XVIII. The moon came up tonight a different way XIX. O blue-bird, leading ever on and on XX. Autumn is only winter in disguise

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