A complete collection of all the early poems of Robert Wynne-Simmons, written between the ages of 9 and 19, including the cycle of six poems entitled "Six Watches of the Night" and the three "Poems from the Abyss". The collection takes you from his nine-year old poetry "The Pride of Salam", "Civilisation", "Optimism" and "Pessimism", through to "The Book of Ages", which was the last poem written in his teens.