Contents Foreword

Poem of Lewis

from The Long River (1955)

‘Some days were running legs’

from The White Noon (1959)

Statement by a Responsible Spinster

For the Unknown Seamen of the 1939–45 War

The Window

Buried in Iona Churchyard

from Thistles and Roses (1961) Old Woman

Luss Village

A Note on Puritans

Dying is not Setting Out

Girl with Orange Sunshade

Sunday Morning Walk

By Ferry to the Island

Culloden and After

A Young Highland Girl Studying Poetry

from Lilac, Snow and Shadow

Home

from Deer on the High Hills (1962) Deer on the High Hills

from The Law and the Grace (1965) Old Woman

Two Girls Singing

Lenin

The Argument

Johnson in the Highlands

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