Alt Ref NoRST/9/24
TitleNotebook (hardbacked) containing manuscript poems in the hand of RST presented to his wife, Betty. Many are untitled and unpublished
DescriptionSide A
Page 1
Untitled poem “A smoking, swearing, drinking … has aimed true”
Page 2
Untitled poem “Thirty two years blind … keeping in unwearying repair”
Page 3
Untitled poem comprising of 2 stanzas “I loved her … I love this one more?”
Page 4
Untitled poem “She is my education … has been waiting to hear”
Page 5
Untitled poem “Late in bed, queen … of the consciousness she is loved”
Page 6
Untitled poem “Come to me always … of satisfied desire”
Page 7
Untitled poem comprising of 5 stanzas “I come to you … as we are, to us also love is born”
Pages 8-9
Untitled poem “There is a passion on the Border … claims to the imperviousness of her presence.”
Page 10
Untitled poem “No poems, they … to the one hundred fold.”
Page 11
Untitled poem “Travelling towards you … that it has arrived”
Page 12
Untitled poem “From long pondering of her … There is no specific.”
Page 13
Untitled poem comprising of 3 stanzas “No sun, no moon; … Thickening there like a frost.”
Page 14
Untitled poem comprising of 4 stanzas “Lady, you shame me. … but the endearments that escape you.”
Page 15
Untitled poem “Not known but familiar … yet all of them dear?”
Page 16
Untitled poem “She is life’s plenty, … the bloom it rubs off.”
Page 17
Untitled poem comprising of 6 stanzas “When does an acquaintance … mandatory defences and are welcome.”
Page 18
Untitled poem “What is anguish? It … its miracle of forgiveness.”
Page 19
Poem entitled “Afallon”
Page 20
Poem entitled “Voyages (For Lee McOwan)”
Page 21
Untitled poem “I don’t know … familiarity with contempt.”
Page 22
Poem entitled “Gwladus Ddu”
Page 23
Untitled poem comprising of 2 stanzas “The archer with time … a moment eternally overflowing.”
Page 24
Untitled poem comprising of 3 stanzas “The pool was wealthy with pearls … of sunlight, as though he were just born.”
Page 25
Untitled poem comprising of 3 stanzas “Jealous of his own son. … cure for the disease of thought.”
Page 26
Untitled poem (August 17th) “I knock, you open. … You should say, I say “Come””
Page 27
Untitled poem “Love in old age; … breath, murmuring an Amen.”
Page 28
Untitled poem consisting of 3 stanzas “A kiss quick … eavesdropping at the window.”
Page 29
Untitled poem “To pray was to cup … on in forgiveness’ sunrise.”
Page 30-31
Untitled poem “Three hundred + sixty five … getting anywhere faster.”
Page 32
Poem entitled “Er Cof: Bendigedig + Ach y fi”
Page 33
Untitled poem consisting of 3 stanzas (repeat of page 28) “A kiss quick … eavesdropping at the window.”
Page 34
Untitled poem “Night that to the stars … to me here ‘Close’.
Page 35
Untitled poem “Child, minx, siren … these days even to look.”
Page 36
Untitled poem “and with the dawn music … and the silence that comes after”
Pages 37-38
Untitled poem consisting of 7 stanzas “She does not inflict … as a feather does a droplet of dew.”
Page 39
Poem entitled “Dog”
Page 40
Untitled poem “Wanting for the tale to begin. … about a self that is an echo.”
Pages 41-42
Untitled poem comprising of 14 stanzas "It would be going up valleys ... change in its unchanging mirror.”
Page 43
Untitled poem “Easter. The grave clothes of winter … petrol, is covered with flowers.”
Page 44
Poem entitled “On Return from Dubai”
Page 45
Untitled poem “Dawn. The robin … happiness to make our own.”
Page 46
Untitled poem consisting of 3 stanzas “Butterfly movement … so beautifully to the forgiven.”
Page 47
Untitled poem “Always her eyes … the stroking of her infirm smile.”
Page 48
Poem entitled “The Verdict”
Page 49
Untitled poem "Those days I was wise ... no one had ever imagined existed before."
Page 50
Untitled poem “Rest a while … by puffing on speed.”
Page 51
Untitled poem comprising of 9 stanzas “At times there is this shadow … that is at the centre of its withdrawing.”
Page 52
Untitled poem “Unnoticed they withdraw … inclination of the unfledged thought.”
Page 53
Untitled poem “I saw it, a light … as one lost among flowers.”

Side B
Page 54
Poem entitled “Hiraeth”
Page 55
Untitled poem “Furniture is alive, too … into a withdrawing future.”
Page 56
Untitled poem “Nothing ever happens here … and that one unfaithful.”
Page 57
Untitled poem “You. I want to say … for its voyage out into the unknown.”
Page 58
Untitled poem consisting of 3 stanzas “Accuse me of sincerity … explaining divinity.”
Page 59
Untitled poem “The mirror takes me … appetite, no intestine.”
Page 60
Untitled poem comprising of 9 stanzas “Four of us, none of them. … by one of them is not very naice.”

Enclosed : Compliment slip from Antony Maitland to Jason [Walford Davies] and a note from Tony [Brown] to Ellen [Elen Wyn Simpson, Archivist] re. notebook
Date1990s
AcquisitionDonated by Antony Maitland, son-in-law of Betty Thomas, second wife of RST
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