en = A&R MODERN POETSSELECTED POEMS Five Senses is Judith Wright's own selection of her best poems. This enlarged edition includes a selection of her most recent poems from The Other Half and from the concluding section, “Shadow”, of her Collected Poems 1942-1970. The collection includes all the poems by which she is best known and at the same time, in its comprehensive- ness, will give readers an opportunity of observing the way in which her talent has developed and of assessing and enjoying her poetry to date as a whole.By the same author Poems Tue Movinc Imace (1946) Woman To Man (1949) Tue Gatgway (1953) Tux Two Fmes (1955) Brans (1962) Sxrecrep Porms (Australian Poets Series, 1963). Tre Orner Har (1966) Coxrxrecrep Poems 1942-1970 (1971) Biography Tre Generations or Men (1959) Criticism Preoccupations in AusrraLian Poetry (1965) CONTENTS From Tus Movine Imack The Company of Lovers Bora Ring Blue Arab Trapped Dingo Remittance Man Soldier's Farm The Trains The Idler The Hawthom Hedge Nigger's Leap: New England Bullocky Brother and Sisters South of My Days The Surfer For New England The Moving Image: I. IL From Woman To Man Woman to Man Woman’s Song Woman to Child Conch-shell The Maker The Sisters Spring After War Camphor Laurel The Garden Page OD ON AM AWW woe em OW ON ARW PH 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33The World and the Child: I. IL. Night After Bushfire The Bull The Cycads The Twins Eli, Eli The Unborn: I. IL Night The Killer Metho Drinker The Old Prison Midnight Song in a Wine-bar Wonga Vine Flame-tree in a Quarry The Blind Man: I. The Dust in the Township II. Country Dance IIL. Lost Child IV. Blind Man’s Song From Tue Gareway Dark Gift Fire at Murdering Hut: I. The Grave Il. The Fire III. The Stone The Cedars Train Journey Myth Eroded Hills Old House Drought Year viii Flood Year Birds Old Man Lion Phaius Orchid Eden The Pool and the Star All Things Conspire The Flame-tree Legend The Cicadas Ishtar Full Moon Rhyme To a Child The Ancestors Two Songs for the World’s End: I, IL. The Lost Man The Traveller and the Angel The Gateway From Tus Two Fires The Two Fires The Precipice Return Searchlight Practice The Man Beneath the Tree For Precision Nameless Flower Breath Scribbly-gum Gum-trees Stripping Page 91 93 94 95 97 98 100Seven Songs for a Journey: L IL IIL Iv. Vv. vi. vu. Sanctuary At Cooloola Landscapes «+. and Mr Ferritt Flesh: I. The Hand II. The Body Ill. The Face The Cup An Old Man In Praise of Marriages Request to a Year Storm Song Wildflower Plain Carnarvon Range Brigalow Country Night The Prospector Canefields Country Sea-beach Mount Mary The Harp and the King The Peacock Extinct Birds Brush Turkey The Forest Five Senses From Brps Tue Forest Page 101 102 103 104 104 105 106 107 108 109 109 112 112 113, 116 117 118 119 120 121 121 123 129 130 131 135 136 The Nautilus Praise for the Earth QtoA The Lake Interplay Dry Storm A Child’s Nightmare Bachelor Uncle The Graves at Mill Point Old Woman’s Song Age to Youth The Beasts Double Image Judas in Modern Dress Vision Moth Reason and Unreason For My Daughter Naming the Stars Sports Field The Diver The Poet Reading Thomas Traherne The Morning of the Dead: I. The Meeting Il. The Interchange III. The End Poem and Audience Autumn Fires From Tue Oruer Harr The Other Half To Another Housewife Page 137 "138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 147 147 149 150 151 154 155 156 157 159 160 162 163 164 165 166 167 169 170 173 174Eve to Her Daughters Naked Girl and Mirror A Document New Guinea Legend: I. The Village IL. The People III. Aruako Speaks IV. He Walks in the Jungle V. The Girls Mock Him VI. Aruako Is Moved by Their Scorn VII. He Despairs of the Search VIII. The Moon Is Born IX. The Poet Boasts Turning Fifty From Cotectep Poems 1942-1970 Wings Halfway xii 175 177 179 180 181 183 183 184 184 185 186 186 188 191 192 Lost in a desolate country, I travelled far to find what only you could give me— the equal heart and mind that answer love in kind. And now while you lie sleeping, awake but not alone, I make this midnight blessing, because the years have grown to truths beyond my own. The heart can blaze with candour as though it housed a star; but this my midnight splendour is not my own to wear: it lights by what you are.