Table of Contents
Preface 7
Book 1
1 A Tree 9
2 The Soil 10
3 Rejection 12
4 Resolution 12
5 May Blossom 13
6 A Penitential Psalm 14
7 The Root of Lion (Version IV) 15
8 Noli me tangere 16
9-10 Never Tell Me 16
11 Manuscript Materials 18
12 Il Mare 19
13 'Lo vers mi porta, Corona' 20
14 'Lo (and 53) The Idiot's Guide 20
15 The Pilgrim 21
16 The Silver 22
17 The Spindle 23
18 Flight 23
19 The Skylight 25
20 A Prayer for Iacopo 26
21 Beechenhurst 27
22 To Catch a Thief 28
23 A Stream Still Flows 31
24 Quotations of Places 37
25 The Cat 39
26 One More Informal Anecdote 39
27 The Temple, or The Rock 40
28 Rock-Paper-Scissors 41
29 The Song of Solomon 42
30 2 Kings 22 42
31 The Summer Fly 43
32 A Penitential Psalm 44
33 The Firmament 45
34 1 Samuel 21-22 46
35 Who Is My Enemy? 47
36 Lark in the Morning 48
37 Salt of the Earth 49
38 A Penitential Psalm 49
39 The Sojourner 50
40 The Second Self 52
41 John 13:18 52
Book 2
Sons of Korah I-VIII
42 A Song inside the Night 53
43 Dear Inmost Soul 54
44 Dear Friend 55
45 The Song of Unborn Singers 57
46 The Stranger's Refuge 57
47 A Murmuring Song 58
48 Illuminated Manuscript 59
49 Vain Trust 59
Asaph I
50 Inside Our Common Eye 60
51 A Penitential Psalm 61
52 1 Samuel 21-22 62
53 The Chrysalis 63
54 1 Samuel 23 64
55 A Jeremiad 65
56 The Dove 66
57 1 Samuel 24 66
58 Our Desert Ignorance 67
59 Where I Shall Wander 68
60 Agony in the Garden 69
61,62, and 63 Crenellations 70
64 The Blind Process of Grace 72
65 Above Allusion 74
66 The Heart Is Made of Earth 75
67 Let the People Praise You, O God 75
68 No Return to the Land of Youth 76
69 Hygieia 77
70 Wolves A-Howling 79
71 David of the White Rock 80
72 The Climbing of Snowdon 81
(The Space between) 72 and 73 83
Book 3
Asaph II-XII
73 Into My Dark Imagining 84
74 All Naves 84
75 Say, It Is Not So 85
76 Vow, and Pay 86
77 The Cave 86
78 The Lost Ballad 87
79 Ruination 88
80 The True Vine 89
81 'And you shall love' 90
82 The Feast of the Gods 91
83 'I cannot bring myself 92
Sons of Korah IX-X
84 The Swallow 93
85 Early Flowers 94
86 In Fear and Trembling 95
Sons of Korah XI-XII:
87 The City 96
88 Affliction 96
89 Tondo 97
Book 4
90 Someone Else's Epigraph 99
91 Is God among Us Here, or Not? 100
92 The Gourd 101
93 The Reservoir 101
94 A Dialogue of Self and Psalm 102
95 Pastoral with a Horse-Chestnut Tree 103
96 Bas-Relief 104
97 Nymphaeum 104
98 On the Flood Plain 105
99 On a Solomonic Scale 106
100 Magnificat 107
101 Inside the Tympanum 107
102 The Sparrow 108
103 Archaism 109
104 The Song of the Rising Sun 110
105 Panel 111
106 Companion 112
Book 5
107 Before the Sons of Men 113
108 Loot 115
109 Two-for-One 116
110 Hapax Legomenon 118
111 The Stone-Fly 119
112 Later Commentary 119
113 Magnificat 120
114 The Order of the Psalms 120
115 Montagne Sainte-Victoire 121
116 The Oracles of God 122
117 Extravagant Doxology 123
118 The Stone Set at Naught 123
119 Alepk, Beth, Gimel, Daleth 125
Songs of Ascents
120 Transfiguration 131
121 Eyes Unseen 131
122 Old Red Sandstone 132
123 'As lively pupils' 132
124 The Brave Little Tailor 133
125 Their Old Rifugio 134
126 'I read a Psalm and I am like' 134
127 At the Limits of the Eye 135
128 Inclusio 136
129 The Light of the World 136
130 A Penitential Psalm 137
131 A Simile 138
132 Ephrata 139
133 'Deep calleth unto Deep' 139
134 Finisterre 140
135 Chryselephantine 141
136 ;I' ho già fatto un gozzo in questo stento' 141
137 Pseudepigrapha 142
138 The Song of the Frog 144
139 In San Luigi dei Francesi 145
140 One Click 146
141 Delicacies of this Fat Age 146
142 De Antro Nympharum 147
143 A Penitential Psalm 148
144 The Prophet Daniel 149
145 Hermes 150
146 The Rainbow Hallelujah 151
147 Celestial Spheres of Mistletoe Hallelujah 152
148 A Photophobic Man Hallelujah 153
149 Stained Glass Hallelujah 154
150 The Firmament Hallelujah 155
Acknowledgements 157
