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

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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)