Madeleine L'Engle may find, in common with the rest of the human race, that she has trouble predicting the heart's weather. Her gift is rather that of second sight, in-sight which can describe, in universal terms or small but vivid details, life's stars and storms, its high-pressure systems and jet streams of love and anger, joy and despair, heat and cold. This is a true meteorology, observed and expressed with power and clarity by a poet who is in touch with God, man, and the universal weather.

Contents:
- Within This Strange and Quickened Dust
- To a Long Loved Love: 1
- To a Long Loved Love: 2
- To a Long Loved Love: 3
- To a Long Loved Love: 4
- To a Long Loved Love: 5
- To a Long Loved Love: 6
- To a Long Loved Love: 7
- Epiphany
- Lovers Apart
- Lines After Sir Thomas Browne
- Lines After Herbert: Rondel
- Epidaurus: the Theatre: an Actor Muses
- The Mermaid
- The Parrot
- The Animals Do Judge
- Burn, Charity
- Shout Joy!
- The Guests of Abraham
- Jacob: Ballade
- Moses
- David
- Song from the Fiery Furnace
- From St. Luke's Hospital (1)
- From St. Luke's Hospital (2)
- From St. Luke's Hospital (3)
- Abraham's Child
- Tree at Christmas
- Annunciation
- After Annunciation
- Like Every Newborn
- The Risk of Birth, Christmas, 1973
- The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold
- Fire by Fire
- Act III, Scene ii
- The Sea Bishop
- The Dragon
- The Phoenix
- The Sea Monster
- Instruments
- Body, the Black Horse and the White
- Word
- ...Set to the Music of the Spheres
- For M.S.J., 20th June, 1968
- For Dana: 4th November
- Charlotte Rebecca Jones, 22 August, 1969
- Charlotte
- Epithalamion
- Crosswicks
- O Sapientia
- O Simplicitas
- God's Beast
- The Tenth Hour
- Pentecost
- Corinth
- Ready for Silence
- Advent, 1971
- Come, Lord Jesus
- Come, Let Us Gather
- At Communion
- Martha
- Temper My Intemperance
- Sonnet After Thomas
- For Ascension Day, 1967
- After the Saturday Liturgy at Montfort
- Star Light
- Ascension, 1969
- Confession Shortly Before the Forty-Eighth Birthday
- Testament
- Sonnet, Trinity 18