Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Asterisks indicate poems first published in successive editions of John Betjemans' Collected Poems from 1958 onwards. They have been positioned according to their period of composition.
• Introduction
• From Mount Zion (1932)
• Death in Leamington
• The 'Varsity Student's Rag
• For Nineteenth Century Burials
• Croydon
• Westgate-on-Sea
• The Wykehamist
• The Sandemanian Meeting House in Highbury Quadrant
• From Continued Dew (1937)
• The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
• Slough
• Love in a Valley
• An Impoverished Irish Peer
• City
• Dorset
• Exeter
• The Death of King George V
• The Heart of Thomas Hardy*
• Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London
• The Flight from Bootle
• From Old Lights for New Chancels (1940)
• A Shropshire Lad
• Upper Lambourne
• Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden
• Holy Trinity Sloane Street
• On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal
• Trebetherick
• Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus Stop
• Sir John Piers
• Myfanwy
• Myfanwy at Oxford
• Senex
• Olney Hymns
• On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
• Saint Cadoc
• Blackfriards
• From New Bats in the Old Belfries (1945)
• Henley-on-Thames
• Parliament Hill Fields
• A Subaltern's Love-Song
• Bristol
• A Lincolnshire Tale
• An Archaeologial Picnic
• May-Day Song for North Oxford
• Before Invasion, 1940
• Ireland with Emily
• Margate 1940
• Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm
• In a bath Teashop
• Before the Anaesthetic, or a Real Fright
• Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
• The Irish Unionists Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922
• In Memory of Basil, Maquess of Dufferin and Ava
• South London Sketch 1944
• South London Sketch 1844
• From Selected Poems (1948)
• Indoor Games near Newbury
• St Saviour's Aberdeen Park, Highbury London, N
• North Coast Recollections
• The Town Clerk's Views *
• From a Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
• Harrow-on-the-Hill
• Sunday Morning, Kings Cambridge
• The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
• Essex
• House of Rest
• Middlesex
• Seaside Gold
• IM Walter Ramsden, ob March 26, 1947 Pembroke College Oxford
• Late-Flowering Lust
• Sun and Fun
• Degvonshire Street, W1
• Business Girls
• The Cottage Hospital
• Remorse
• The Old Liberals
• The Village Inn
• Station Syren
• Hunter Trials
• How to get on in Society
• From Poems in the Porch (1954)
• Diary of a church mouse
• Poems Written after 1954
• Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
• Falst Security
• Eunice
• Thoughts on the Diary of a Nobody
• Pershore Station
• Lord Cozens Hardy
• Variation on a Theme by Newbolt
• Inevitable
• NW5 & N6
• From High and Low (1966)
• Preface to High and Low
• Tregardock
• Winter Seascape
• Old Friends
• Uffington
• The Small Towns of Ireland
• Ireland's Ownor the Burial of Thomas Moore
• Anglo-CatholCongresses
• In Wiesden Churchyard
• Autumn 1964
• Monody on the Death of a Platonic Bank Clerk
• Five o'clock Shadow
• A Russell Flint
• Perp, Revival i' the North
• Agricultural Caress
• Narcissue
• The Cockney Amorist
• Harvest Hymn
• Inexpensive Progress
• Mortality
• Reproof Deserved, or after the Lecture
• Cricket Master
• From a Nip in the Air (1974)
• On Leaving Wantage 1972
• Alderhot Crematorium
• The Newest Bath Guide
• Hearts Together
• In Memory of George Whitby, Architect
• The Costa Blanca
• Executive
• Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican
• Meditation on a Constable Picture
• County
• Greek Orthodox
• Dilton Marsh Halt
• Loneliness
• Back from Australia
• Shattered Image
• Fruit
• Inalnd Waterway
• For Patrick,
• The Last Laugh
• Notes