Sea talk -- A song for Scotland -- Inheritance-- My house -- The curtain -- A Boy's Saturday Night -- Boys Among rock pools -- The startled hare -- At the Loch of strathbeg -- The town -- Kinnaird Head -- For Hugh MacDiarmind -- 1. The wine tower -- 2. Tower and Castle -- 3. the castle turned lighthouse -- A land without myth -- Sea Talk -- Death Mask of a fisherman -- For Voyagers -- In momory of a submarine officer -- Epilogue -- Robin in the city -- Robins -- Snowdrops in March -- To a child -- A child crying -- A young girl -- Voyage we to islands -- Homage to El Greco -- A Departure -- Jute Spinner -- Eptaph for one who promised well and failed -- The sculptor -- After Eden -- Envoi -- A man of inconsequent build & other poems -- A man of Inconsequent build -- Family group -- Tom -- 1. Tom and his toys -- 2. Tom on the beach -- 3. Tom in bed -- 4. Tom Discovers -- Boys -- 1. In a crowd 2. Seen Distant -- Fool and cat -- The trinity -- Proteus -- Song for Elizabeth -- Perfection -- 66 south street, St. Andrews -- An old and new ruin -- A gateway to the sea (1) -- St. Andrews, June, 1946 -- Good wishes for a departure - In praise of Henry Moore's 'pink and green sleepers' -- An Island and seals -- The Rowan tree -- Sumburgh Heid -- The old fisherman -- Late Springs this north -- Fingal's cave -- Valediction for 1944 -- The seaman, an Epilogue -- The Helmsman -- The singers -- Gateway to the sea (2) -- Fisherman's cliff houses -- Cheery Sam -- Landscapes and Figures -- The Island -- Aberdeen, the Granite City -- Praising Aderdeenshire Farmers -- Houses & other poems -- Visitaions from a war-time childhood -- The red sky -- Child on the beach -- The child and the sea -- 1. The betrayal -- 2. She rebukes the sea -- Blind old man -- Butterfly -- Explorers -- Shetland -- Two love stories -- Sonnet for St. Francis: 1965 -- Philosopher -- Old Carlo -- Second class passenger -- Leaving casa Macleod -- Fire and Earth -- Tree -- Intrusion -- Street Conversation -- Sketch of Poet -- Homage to Hugh MacDiarmid -- After the death of Martin Luther King -- De Stael's Wall -- Laotian Peasant shot -- Against a wall -- Three love poems for my wife -- 1. Touch -- 2. Tower on Cliff Top -- 3. Love in Age -- Visit in winter -- Boarding house, Arran -- Coach tour and locals -- A Pigeon's Feather -- Camelia in the snow -- Look the other way -- The word -- 1. The search -- 2. The word in the high rise flats, Easterhouse -- 3. The word -- Winter bird -- Quixote in a windmill -- Autobiography -- Reflection at sixty -- Transplant -- Municipal comment -- Houses -- Home -- 1. Key -- 2. The big room -- 3. The bedroom -- 4. The study -- 5. The nursery -- Making a poem -- notes and glossary