| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Poems (1928) | 3 |
| Paid on Both Sides | 18 |
| Uncollected Poems 1925-30 | 36 |
| Poems (1930) | 52 |
| Poems (1933) | 78 |
| The Orators | 85 |
| The Dance of Death | 123 |
| The Dog Beneath the Skin | 126 |
| Look, Stranger! | 145 |
| Uncollected Poems 1930-36 | 178 |
| The Ascent of F6 | 193 |
| Letters from Iceland | 202 |
| Alfred | 225 |
| Hadrian's Wall | 227 |
| Journey to a War | 230 |
| On the Frontier | 245 |
| Another Time | 249 |
| Uncollected Poems 1937-39 | 296 |
| The Dark Valley | 305 |
| Paul Bunyan | 308 |
| The Double Man | 319 |
| For the Time Being | 345 |
| The Sea and the Mirror | 356 |
| The Age of Anxiety | 369 |
| Poems first published in the Collected Poetry (1945) | 388 |
| Nones | 405 |
| Uncollected Poems 1940-48 | 431 |
| The Rake's Progress | 436 |
| Delia | 440 |
| The Shield of Achilles | 443 |
| Homage to Clio | 463 |
| Elegy for Young Lovers | 481 |
| About the House | 484 |
| The Bassarids | 504 |
| City Without Walls | 508 |
| Academic Graffiti | 527 |
| Epistle to a Godson | 529 |
| Thank You, Fog | 544 |
| Uncollected Poems 1949-73 | 554 |
| Index of Titles and First Lines | 558 |
| General Index | 575 |
