* Wounded Thammuz (1942)
    * The Swarming of the Bees (1948)
    * The Forsaken Garden: An Anthology of Poetry 1824-1909 (1950), edited with David Wright
    * New Poems (1953)
    * Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse(1953), edited with David Wright
    * A Charm Against the Toothace (1954)
    * Selected Poems (1965)
    * Penguin Modern Poets 20(1972), co editor
    * Artorius: A Heroic Poem in Four Books and Eight Episodes (1974)
    * The Watchman's Flute (1978)
    * Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat (1979), translated with Peter Avery
    * Selected Poems of Thomas Gray (1981), editor
    * Naming the Beasts (1982)
    * The Immolation of Aleph (1985)
    * Cat's Parnassus (1987), Aldgate Press. ISBN 1-870841-00-X
    * Collected Poems 1942-1987 (1988), Carcanet Press
    * Time Pieces (1988), Hearing Eye. ISBN 1-870841-02-6
    * A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas (1988)
    * Selected Poems (1990)
    * Sweet-Apple Earth (1993)
    * Hindsights : An Autobiography (1994)
    * Galileo's Salad (1996)
    * The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs (1998), edited by A.T. Tolley
    * The Sound of Light (1999)
    * The Poems of Sulpicia (2000), translator
    * The Return of the Cranes (2002)
    * Pigs Might Fly (2005)