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Jacobite Song 9

Lord Derwentwater’s Rose

Venice Glasses: I

Catterline

Macnaughtan’s Bookshop, Haddington Place, Edinburgh

Black Isle Madrigal

Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale

Venice Glasses: II

Arctic Elegy

74 degrees North: a dialogue at a grave

The Early Christian Monuments of Wales

Lastness, or Rory’s Apple

Venice Glasses: III

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Secret Theatres

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Dialogue at Kloster Eldena

Evenings under the Lime Tree

Mr Dowland’s Midnight

September Castles

Dialogue in Autumn

London Blues

Prayer to the Virgin on a Winter Night

Con Sordino

Against the Vanity of the Poets

Pryde’s Ghost

The Supper