Manuscripts of Works by William Soutar

Gen 2005/1 ('Conflict', 55 ff.)

Contents: To the Spirit in the Sleeptime -- Flesh -- The Tree -- The Quest -- Acids -- The Sleepers -- The Door -- Evensong -- The Tryst -- The Stately Palace -- Moths -- Epitaph on a Potential Poet -- The Ghost -- The Thoughts of God -- Mind and Matter -- Autumn Nightfall -- Love’s Necessity -- In Excelsis -- Confession -- On a Poem -- On the Burial of a Young Maiden -- The Pleasant Isle -- On a Cold, Dead Beauty -- Frustration -- To Poets Lest They Grow Proud -- Address to my Dead Body -- Tide -- The Last Assault -- Recollection of First Love -- Sonnet: To Enrico Caruso -- The Immortals -- Dawn -- The Swan.

Gen 2005/2 ('Earth', 58 ff.)

Contents: To Earth -- The Happy Man -- To the Muse in Spring -- The Sleeper -- Ubiquity -- The Rainbow -- Among High Hills -- 'Peace upon Earth …' -- The Thrush -- The Cuckoo Comes through the Rain -- St Valentine’s Day -- Treasure -- The Grove upon the Hill -- Riches -- The Spider -- When the Young Die -- The Fiery Bird -- Sonnet on a Calm Spring Evening -- The Singing Bush -- Sonship -- For One Who Desired a Song -- On a Child Who Wept at my Departure -- A Blind Man in April -- A Desire during Illness -- Bias -- The Apotheosis -- The Old Yew -- The Lea -- The Ballad of the Bride -- For One Who Desired to See the End of the World -- The Planets -- Dirge -- On a Photograph -- The Kiss -- Epitaph.

Gen 2005/3 ('Quest', 62 ff.)

Contents: Quest -- The Return of the Cuckoo -- Civitas Dei -- The Silent Moment -- Vagabondage -- Man -- Reality -- On Dying amid the Sound of Bells -- Lost Youth -- Lust --In Autumn Days -- An Appeal -- Into Quiet Fields -- Microcosmos -- She Who Is Dead -- Body and Mind -- Egocentric -- An Old Woman -- The Race -- Anatomy -- The City -- To a Proud Mistress -- Life -- Be Thine Own World -- The Leper -- Beauty is Shy -- Sorrow of the World -- On Reading Othello in a Dispirited Mood -- On a Friend Dying -- Beauty -- Immortality -- Birthday -- A Moment for Desire -- Memory -- The Immortal City -- Return.

Gen 2005/4 ('Epigrams', 62 ff.)

Part 1. Miscellaneous Epigrams, I-LXXVII

On the Equality of Man -- On an Old Woman Who Drowned Herself -- On Wheazer, a Cornet Player -- Dreamless Sleep -- The Virgin -- On One Who Died When Scanning a Menu Card -- On a Beautiful Passerby -- The Hypochondriac -- Dawn -- On Chastising a Child -- Acids -- On Leech, a Physician -- The Traitor -- The Butterfly among the Flowers -- Life’s Day -- On a Cold, Dead Beauty -- A Wish -- Testament -- The Crow -- On a Professor of Psychology -- Uranoscopy -- Tide -- Somnium Vitae -- On a Moth -- On a Coiner -- For a Restrained Auto-Biography -- Contrariety -- On a Prehistoric Skull -- A Recollection of First Love -- Improviso -- Logic -- Postman’s Knock -- On an Argumentative Fundamentalist -- Night, November 5th -- On a Judge’s Witticism -- Miracles -- On One Who Writes on my Books -- Small Mercies -- On the Death of a Phlegmatic Young Lady -- The Anniversary -- Intangible -- Tarriance -- On Squill, a Mediocre Novelist -- Mars -- Autumn, November 11th -- The Runners -- On the Diary of a Famous Man -- Epitaph on a Vegetarian -- On Joanna Southcott -- Dreams -- The Flame -- On Playing the Instrument of a Dead Cellist -- On Mr High, a Lawyer -- Epitaph on a Racing Motorist -- On a Presbyterian Steeple -- On a Field Marshall -- On a Plain Girl Who Had Beautiful Legs -- On a Lie -- On Dreaming of a Dead Friend -- On a Man Who Wrote Prayers for a Child -- On a Mediocre Cellist -- On Hearing a Cuckoo Clock -- The Option -- On a Very Young Lady -- On a Still Born Infant -- Query -- Upon One Who Was Dying -- On Forgetting a Dream -- On the Discovery of my First Grey Hair -- Epitaph on a Fault Finder -- On a Miserly Minister -- On a Cantankerous Invalid -- On a Child Who Said She Loved Me -- On a Young Man -- Epitaph on a Politician -- On a Doctor Who Wrote upon Insomnia -- On a Child Who Weeps at my Departure.

Part II. On Poets and Poetry

Epitaph on a Potential Poet -- Epitaph on a Hack Poet -- The Suicide -- On a Lady who Wrote Verses for Christmas Cards -- On a Poem -- Epitaph on a Poetaster -- On a Bird -- The Poet to the Song Thrush -- The Poet -- Epitaph on a Clergyman -- Nec Rubor Est -- Potential Poet to the Spirit of Poetry -- To Poets Lest They Grow Proud -- On a Critic -- Epitaph on a Minor Poet Who Would Keep Good Company -- A Poet to his Barber -- A Poem -- The Criers -- On a Classical Poet -- On an Ugly Poet -- On Ream, a Poetaster -- On an Epigrammatist -- On a Poet Who Had a Very Poor Memory.

Gen 2005/6 (TS, 2 ff.)

Contents: Worker's Broadcast: 'Nation Shall Speak Peace unto Nation'.

Gen 2005/7 ('Three Epigrams', TS, 1 f.)

Contents: On Meeting One Who Had Been a Favourite Friend in Earliest Youth -- On a Man Who Was Befogged in an Argument -- On a Skull.

Gen 2005/8 ('Three Epigrams', TS, 1 f.)

Contents: On a Judge's Witticism at a Trial for Murder -- On Forgetting a Dream -- On a Professor at Psychology Who Swore at his Class.

Gen 2005/9 (TS, 1 f.)

Contents: The Airth Hings like a Keekin'-Gless.