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MORRIS COX


A Selection of
Poetry and Prose
1934 – 1971





Introductory Note on the Sources

for the Texts & Acknowledgements


by Bradford Haas





THE FOUR ELEMENTS (1934):



Earth

Air

Fire

Water



THE WHIRLIGIG by Morris Cox:


A 10,000 Word History of a Book

No One has Heard of or Cares About

by Bradford Haas



poems from THE WHIRLIGIG and Other Poems (pub. 1954):

from section 1: Nature as She Sings (1934-37):

Skylark-Loft

Skylark*

Agelong Night

Little Bond Song


from section 4: Rags, Bones and Bodies (1940):

Sunrise

Sunset

The Strange Woman with the Honeycomb Lips

The Little GodSpell

Egypt Nevermore

On the Spur

The Prodigal Son

Eve and the Snake


section 5 (complete): Silver Bells and Cockle Shells (1945):

[dedication and description]

Night

Early Morning

First Love

Time’s Nick

Love’s Promise

Muddle

Winter Cold

Silver Bells and Cockle Shells

Spring Song

As I Lay . . .

The Garden

Love’s Quickening

The Spell

New Birth

Waiting

The Rescue

Mind-Pictures

The Death

A Fear

Boredom

His Work

The Dream

Autumn

Bare Bones Shall Burgeon Soon



Yule Gammon



(written 1941, printed 1957)


stories from THE DEVIL’S CHIMNEY (1952)

Author’s Introduction

Parcel

Minding the Baby

Firewood

Table


pieces published in WORLD REVIEW (1951-53):

The Funeral (short story)

Painted Sculpture (essay)


from INTIMIDATIONS OF MORTALITY (1966):

Miss Charlotte*

No Truth and Empty Nutshells

The Legacy

Men are All Alike


from 14 TRIADS (1967):

Triad 6

Triad 11


from FORMAT 3 (1967):

A Dialogue for National Folk Week


from FORMAT 4 (1967):

Old Lady

Flower Maiden

Weedypuss Raikes

Ritual Murder in Hyde Park


from FORMAT 5 (1968):

Perfection

Gossip

Behind the Scenes

Two Worlds

Then and Now


from FORMAT 6 (1968):

Another Day in London

Epitaph of a Soap King

Encounter

His Child’s Brain Ever

Haunted Pool

For Sale

Still Life

Byword


from FORMAT 7 (1969):

Haute Couture

Anti-Creator

Outcasts

Consequence

Ennui

Rain

Dream

Mental Excercises

Tenet for an Artist


from SOLSTICE 9 (1969):

Ballet


from 100 UNTITLED POEMS (1969-70), published in FORMAT 9:

78 [half awake]

81 [mad weather]

83 [the moment holds the need]

87 [false prophet]

89 [with an empty cradle hanging from life’s tree]

91 [O Eostre!]

92 [full moon]

95 [eaves of the roof]

97 [in the morning]


from POEMS 1970-1971:

Ezra Pound

Wm Wordsworth

Band in the Park

Conversation Piece


Virtual Facsimiles

About the GOGMAGOG Virtual Facsimiles

Mummers’ Fool (1937; pub 1965)

The Slumbering Virgin (1938; pub 1958)

The Warrior and the Maiden (1964; pub 1967/8)

9 Poems From Nature
(1937; originally pub 1959)