Unpublished Poems
This category includes 5 volumes of poems never previously published:
Vol 1 Pebbles on the Beach 1918-1926 “Dedicated to my father who first taught me delight in words.”
Vol 2 The Boat in the Farmyard and other poetry 1925-1926 “Dedicated to my mother, who first taught me the value of friendship.”
Vol 3 Driftwood and Seawrack 1926-27 “Dedicated to my aunt, who first taught me the delight of music.”
Vol 4 Putting out to sea and other poems 1927-8 “Dedicated to Arthur Kinrade.”
Vol 5 Seaspell and other poems 1928-30 “Dedicated to the girls I left behind me!”
List of titles of all poems in the category sorted by volume number and then alphabetically by poem title:
- Vol 1: Pebbles on the Beach
- A Ballad of Christmas
- A Last Wish
- A Pig for Sale
- A Simple Country Prayer
- A Wet Day
- At the Top of the House
- Butterfly
- Dawn
- Death of Mary
- Doreen to her Brother
- Erystain Promenade
- Fallen Tree
- Folklore
- Funeral Hymn of the Water Bull
- Grandfather Clock
- Hale’s Fire
- Humble Lover
- I Remember a Maiden
- I Saw Thee Weep
- If He Sees Not
- If We Despair
- Insects and Other Creatures
- Inspiration
- Last Chapter of ‘Ecclesiastes’
- Lucernia: First Song
- Lucernia: Second Song
- Mannanin Beg’s Isle
- Milk Maid Annie
- Nocturne
- Noel
- On the Death of an Uncle
- Paraphrase of the 23rd Psalm
- Pebbles on the Beach
- Prologue to a Drama (the King speaks)
- Reverie
- Rosemary
- Shingle
- Silver Lune: First Song
- Silver Lune: Second Song
- Silver Lune: Third Song
- Sleeping Muse
- Songs of the Night
- Steinnery
- Sunday Afternoon Walk
- Sunrise
- Swing in the Barn
- Th’oul Bachelor
- The Ballamoar
- The Crippled Singer
- The Empty House
- The Haunted House
- The Old Man of Barrule
- The Passing of Balder
- The Preacher
- The Primrose
- The Princess: First Song
- The Princess: More Songs
- The Princess: Last Song
- The Ship and the Man: 1. The Ship
- The Ship and the Man: 2. The Main
- The Ship and the Man: 3. The Redemption
- The Toy Cannon
- The Wolf Rocks
- To a Bee
- To a Nightingale
- To Castletown in a Stiff-Cart
- Visitors
- Whether or no
- Vol 2: The Boat in the Farmyard and other poetry
- A Rainy Day
- Anna Moyra
- Broken Bell
- Called I Thee Fair
- Castle Rushen
- Close of Day
- Cupid at Play
- December
- Deep in the Memories of Long Ago
- Early Morning – I General
- Early Morning in the Country- II
- Early Morning in the Snow – IV
- Early Morning in the Town – III
- Elegy in a Dismal Schoolroom
- Erystain after Rain
- Failure
- Fire Fancies
- Foxdale Eve
- Foxdale Stream
- From the Lowliest
- House Fever
- Isle of Man
- Lament for a Language
- Lines in Spenserian Stanza
- Lines to a Little Boy on Christmas Day
- Love’s Fever
- Man’s Limitations
- Morn from the East
- Mountain Tarn
- Noble Sixth Form
- November
- October
- Odelet
- On Hearing Spohr
- On Reaching my Seventeenth Birthday
- On the Passing of One Unknown
- Our Baby
- Paraphrase of Psalm 47
- Paraphrase of the Hundredth Psalm
- Peel Castle
- Puny Man
- Sixth Form Dirge
- Solace
- Storm along Castletown Front
- Summer Night
- The Boat in the Farmyard
- The Choosing
- The Dead Son
- The Epitaph
- The Lay of a Lost Bard
- The Man of Maths
- The Marsh
- The Pioneer
- The Rainbow
- The Sunset
- The Tramp’s Bed – I
- The Tramp’s Bed – II
- The Twelve thirty Express
- The Wail of the Dalton Sufferers
- To a Jackdaw
- To Death
- To Her
- To Keats
- To Mary
- To Shakespeare
- Tom Brown
- Whispering Spirits
- Written in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems
- Written on the Fly-leaf of William Cowper’s Poems
- Written on the Last Page of a Book of Keats’s Poems
- Vol 3: Driftwood & Seawrack
- A Time for Everything
- A Wedding
- Cobbler Cain
- Desultory Verses
- Eleven Days
- From the Gallery
- Gno Yh Noo: Prologue
- How I Carried A.G. from Douglas to Castletown
- In Retrospect
- In the Beginning
- Inscription for Paddy’s Tomb
- Iowemma: Canto I
- Iowemma: Canto II
- Iowemma: Canto III
- Iowemma: Canto IV
- Katrina and Ramion
- Lines for Albums
- Nine Limericks
- Nocturnal Incident
- On a Gamp that Belonged to the Pompous Dook
- Outings
- Paradise Recalled
- Puncsetawny
- Songs of Nature
- Sundays
- The Blacksmith
- The Game’s Slave
- The Gay Caballero
- The Lesser Lamp
- The Lure of the Wireless
- The Master and the Students
- The Parable of the Trees
- The Poet’s Calendar
- The Removal
- The Rocks at Peel
- The Scene Lad
- The Tavern Tales: Prologue
- The Tavern Tales: The Squire’s Tale
- The Villain Biff Smith
- We Fear Thy Words
- Yn Tarroo Ushtey: Prologue
- Yn Tarroo Ushtey: The Water Bull
- Vol 4: Putting Out to Sea & Other Poems
- Amen
- Ballagrainey in the Trees
- Castle Rushen
- Collegia – Ode 1: Westminster
- Collegia – Ode 2: Darling George
- Collegia – Ode 3: Knock, Knock, Knock!
- Collegia – Ode 5: On Receiving an Extra Exam
- Collegia – Ode 6: The Training
- Collegia – Ode 7: The Spring
- Collegia – Ode 8: Untidy Gale
- Collegia – Ode 9: Nous Mangeons
- Collegia – Ode 10: One Little Month
- Collegia – Ode 11: Dejection and Hope
- Collegia – Ode 12: Artie’s Remedie
- Collegia – Ode 13: September 19th, 1927
- Collegia – Ode 14: Laundry Night
- Collegia – Ode 15: On the Broadcasting
- Collegia – Ode 16: The Library
- Collegia – Ode 17: The Last Post
- Collegia – Ode 18: The Chemistry Lab
- Collegia – Ode 19: The Return
- Collegia – Ode 20: Artie and Willie
- Collegia – Ode 21: Lullaby
- Collegia – Ode 22: Why are We Here?
- Collegia – Ode 23: The Dream
- Collegia – Ode 24: The First Morning
- Collegia – Ode 25: I Thought of Thee
- Collegia – Ode 26: I Plucked an Apple
- Collegia – Ode 27: The Face
- Collegia – Ode 28: Graue Aash
- Collegia – Ode 29: Memories
- Collegia – Ode 30: To Bed
- Collegia – Ode 31: Accents
- Collegia – Ode 32: Usual Toil
- Collegia – Ode 33: Songs from a Dream
- Collegia – Ode 34: Knocking Up
- Collegia – Ode 35: Libby League
- Collegia – Ode 36: Study
- Collegia – Ode 37: Hard is the Way of the Wicked
- Collegia – Ode 38: Another Fine Day
- Collegia – Ode 40: The Rub-It-Out or ‘Ome I Came
- Collegia – Ode 41: Liverish Limericks
- Collegia – Ode 42: May Day
- Collegia – Ode 43: After Tea-time
- Collegia – Ode 44: Abou’ Ben Heppell
- Collegia – Ode 45: The Child of the Storm
- Collegia – Ode 46: Bluster
- Collegia – Ode 47: The Killer
- Courage
- Death of Haig
- Full Tide
- Good Friday
- Grammar
- Morning in Spring
- Mud
- On a Favourite Bold-gus splashed with the Mud of the Grammar School
- Padjer (Prayer)
- Premonition
- Putting Out to Sea
- Reck We His Cat
- Term End
- The Bell
- The Cross by the Sea
- The End of the World
- The Isle of the Sea
- The Laugh and the Smile
- The Mochyn Dhoo
- The Night I Dreamed
- The Sarcastic Master
- The Sculptor’s Lament
- The Song of the Gun
- The Song of the Maiden
- The Unchanging Earth
- To –
- To Georgina
- To Pippa
- Who Nose?
- Ye Desparynge Studente
- Vol 5: Sea Spell & Other Poems
- A Spirit in the Glens: Colby Glen
- Aalid
- Beautiful Night
- Blind Quest
- Carnival
- Collegia – Ode 48: First Play
- Collegia – Ode 49: There’s a Little Cottage
- Collegia – Ode 50: The Introduction or Crack a Rib
- Collegia – Ode 51: Alma Mater
- Collegia – Ode 52: My Room Mate
- Collegia – Ode 53: Crystal
- Collegia – Ode 54: Jenny
- Collegia – Ode 55: Molly
- Collegia – Ode 56: Ruth
- Collegia – Ode 57: Bubbles
- Collegia – Ode 58: Dayspring
- Collegia – Ode 59: Thoughts in the Library during a Shortage of Chairs
- Collegia – Ode 60: Lucid or Lurid?
- Collegia – Ode 61: A Spring Morn
- Collegia – Ode 62: Spring
- Collegia – Ode 63: Fog
- Collegia – Ode 64: A Morning Walk
- Collegia – Ode 64: Epistle to a Passer-by
- Collegia – Ode 65: The Smoke of my Soul
- Collegia – Ode 66: Epistle to Jock
- Collegia – Ode 68: Solace in Dreamland
- Collegia – Ode 69: Band Ballads
- Collegia – Ode 70: Livid Limericks
- Collegia – Ode 71: Food
- Collegia – Ode 72: Prinny’s Pursuit
- Collegia – Ode 73: Surface Tension
- Collegia – Ode 74: To the Cook
- Collegia – Ode 75: The Garden Party
- Collegia – Ode 77: The Doom
- Collegia – Ode 78: Serenade
- Collegia – Ode 79: Evening Chapel
- Collegia – Ode 79: London Rain
- Collegia – Ode 80: Foxdale Stream
- Collegia – Ode 81: The Portrayal of the Hideous Idol of Dunsany
- Collegia – Ode 82: My Days, My thoughts, My Hopes
- Collegia – Ode 83: The Saturdays of college
- Collegia – Ode 84: To Sleep
- Collegia – Ode 85: Doctor Richard
- Collegia – Ode 86: Home Thoughts from the City
- Collegia – Ode 87: To Arthur
- Collegia – Ode 88: Of One Remembered Wistfully
- Collegia – Ode 89: English Notes
- Eairy Dam
- First Snow
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 1: Saturday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 2: Sunday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 3: Monday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 4: Tuesday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 5: Wednesday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 6: Thursday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 7: Friday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 7: Saturday (Second)
- Fugitive Music
- Glenfaba Mill-Wheel
- Gorse Buds
- Illiam and Catreena
- Leaving
- Looking Back on Vectis
- Loss
- Lost Friend
- Mill-Wheel Hunt
- Morning
- New Year’s Day in the Glen
- Ode to the Island King
- Old Grandmothers’ Tales
- On the Finding of a Skeleton
- Returning at Night through the Glen
- Rizpah Rood and Tun
- Sea Call
- Sea Spell
- Sea Vision
- Shadow Falls
- Soil
- Stella Thoughts
- The Ballad of a Bell
- The End of the Twenties
- The Fisherman
- The Fishes in Dhy
- The Song of the Hermit
- To Browning
- Unless
- We Two
- Westminster Cathedral Tower