Introduction: Miklos Radnoti (1909‑1944)           9
Translators’ Note                                              13

Hail to the Sun! (8 Oct. 1929)                           21
Song of the Springtide Lovers (12 Nov. 1929)  23
After April Rain (18 Apr. 1930)                        25
Also, as Merciless (1933)                                 27
Keep Walking, You, Condemned to Death! (1936)   29
Yesterday and Today (25 November 1936)             31
Federico García Lorca (1937)                          33
Cartes Postales (7 Aug. - 7 Sept. 1937)           35
Twenty-eight Years (23 September 1937)        39
Marginal Note on the Prophet Habakkuk (6 October 1937)  45
Sleep! (2 November 1937)                              47
So Would This Be  (13 December 1937)         49
Hymn to Peace (9 February 1938)                   53
Peace, Horror (30 June 1938)                         57
Early Summer (4 June 1939)                           59
The Flames Flutter  (20 Dec. 1939)                 63
A Sky Full of Spume (8 June 1940)                 65
Rain Falls. It Dries Up  (30 January 1941)       69
A Flower of Revulsion (11 Feb. 1941)            73
Prologue to a “Monodrama” (Spring 1941)     75
Your Right Hand on the Nape of my Neck (6 April 1941)  85
In Your Two Arms (20 Apr. 1941)                 87
Cloudburst (2 July 1941)                                89
I Concealed You (20 Feb. 1942)                   91
All of a Sudden (20 Apr. 1942)                      93
Evening (1 June 1942)                                    95
Flower Song (25 Aug. 1942)                         97
Late October Hexameters (28 Sept. - 14 Nov. 1942)    99
Goats (12 Nov. 1942)                                 101
Still Life (late 1942 - early 1943)                 105
Tentative Ode (26 May 1943)                     107
Paris (14 Aug. 1943)                                   111
I Can’t Tell (17 Jan. 1944)                           117
Childhood (25 Jan. 1944)                            121
So He Couldn’t Bear It  (29 Feb. 1944)      123
O, Ancient Prisons (27 Mar. 1944)              127
Paper Scraps (20 April 1941)                      129
High on a Roisterous Palm Tree (5 Apr. 1944)      137
Neither Memory nor Magic Spells (30 Apr. 1944) 141
Fragment (19 May 1944)                             143

Eclogues (1938‑1944)

Spring Wakens: Prelude to the Eclogues (11 Apr. 1942)  147
First Eclogue (1938)                                 151
Second Eclogue (27 Apr. 1941)               157
Third Eclogue (12 June 1941)                   161
Fourth Eclogue (15 Mar. 1943)                165
Fifth Eclogue (21 Nov. 1943)                   171
(Sixth Eclogue is lost or never written)
Seventh Eclogue (July 1944)                     175
Eighth Eclogue (23 Aug. 1944)                 179

The Bor Notebook (1944)

Letter to His Wife (Aug. - Sept. 1944)      185
Root (8 Aug. 1944)                                  189
A la Recherche (17 Aug. 1944)                193
Razglednica (30 Aug. 1944)                     197
Forced March (15 Sept. 1944)                199
Razglednica (2) (6 Oct. 1944)                  201
Razglednica (3) (24 Oct. 1944)                203
Razglednica (4) (31 Oct. 1944)                205