Victoria University of Wellington Library
Collected Poems
Contents
Contents
Foreword
by Denis Glover
11
Three Poems
13
Dominion, The Voyage
, and
To a Friend in the Wilderness
Dominion
15
Utopia
15
Album Leaves
21
Imperial
21
Back Street
22
One Race, One Flag
23
Wedding Group
24
Stages of History
24
The Possessor
26
Conversation in the Bush
26
Elements
27
Dialogue
30
Struggle in a Mirror
33
The Voyage
35
To a Friend in the Wilderness
47
Strange Rendezvous
59
Jack the Ripper
61
Full Fathom Five
62
To a Millionaire
63
Yes Please Gentlemen
64
Lines For a Rebel
66
Remembered Cowardice
66
The Builders
67
Milton
67
Good and Ill
68
Disquisition on Death
69
A Naked Girl Swimming
75
Night Song
76
Tapu
76
Song For a Woman
77
Well Known and Well Loved
77
Epithalamium
78
Love Song
80
Poem
81
The Cave
82
A Farewell
83
Wild Love
83
The Revenge
86
Country Pleasures
87
Landscape With Figures
87
Deserted Farmyard
88
On Entering a New Abode
89
Winter Night
90
Love in the Night
91
Empty House
91
Gall
93
Epitaph for a Trilogist
93
Street Scene
93
On a Democratic Representative
95
The Rationalist
95
Niemeyer
95
On a Georgian Lady Poet
95
Epitaph for a Public Man
96
For the Gravestone of a Politician
96
Additional Poems
97
Europe 1945
97
For an Amulet
97
The Encounter
98
Song
98
The Estuary
99
Now
99
Logos
100
Song for a Girl
100
Noon Song
101
Sea-Wind and Setting Sun
101
Tom's a-Cold
102
Epitaph
102
In Enemy Territory
103
To Daphnis and Chloe in the Park
103
Solitude
105
The Fallen
106
I'm Older Than You, Please Listen
107
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
108
Terms of Appointment
109
Song at Summer's End
110
To An Expatriate
110
Mr Pyrites
111
Beggar to Burgher
112
The Woman to her Lover
113
Laughter
113
The Power and the Glory
114
Any Poet to his Mistress
114
Americo-Anglican
114
On a Promising Politician
115
The Demagogue
115
On An Intellectual
115
Lunch-hour Concert
115
The Rakehelly Man
117
Walking on my Feet
121
Latter-day Love-song
123
Away from It All
124
My Pretty Maid
124
Hymn of Peace
125
Modern Love
126
Boarding House
127
Laughter
128
Cupid
129
The Impetuous Lover
129
Poetry Harbinger
131
Not Understood
133
Glum Summer
134
Elegy at Month's End
135
Kowhai Poem
136
On a Bacchic Poet
136
Jack and Jill
137
The Enchanted Garden
137
Grande Chatelaine
139
Deep South
139
To A Fiend In The Wilderness
140
2,000 A.D.
141
Conversation Piece
142
To an American Tourist at Whakarewarewa
143
William Tell
143
As Man To Man
144
Poem Addressed to Mr Robert Lowry
144
The Secret Maiden
144
To a Literary Joker, On Another
145
Poem On the Advantages Of Living at the Remuera End of the North Shore
145
The Honorable Mrs Tweedscantie
146
Idyll
146
Ikon
147
The Little Fishes
147
Poeta Nascitur Non Fit
147
God Bless the Electric Shaver, Friend of Man
148
Philosophy for Beginners
148
The Bars and Gripes
148
Political Jotting
148
Bluestocking
149
Euphues
149
Uncollected
150
The Sea
150
Mr Fairburn to his Bibliographer
152
On a Bachelor Bishop
153
The County
154
Note on the State Literary Fund
154
On R. A. K. Mason
155
The Disadvantages of Being Dead
157
Now That You've Found the Way, You Must Come and See Us Again
160
Hymn of Peace
161
Oh—! Oh Hang!
162
Footnote to Matthew x, 29
163
Coal Comfort
163
The Ends of Man
164
Political Science
165
The Tourist
165
To my Butcher
166
The 105 per cent Loaf
167
Matchless Beauty
168
Song of the Open Road
169
A Phoenix in the Fowl-Run
169
Bredon Hill
171
The Most Unkindest Cut
172
Talking of Talking
172
Reverie in Rat Week
173
News from the World
174
Any Book-of-the-Month Club
174
A Note on the Depressing Effect of Abdominal Disturbances
174
Down on my Luck
175
Horse Pansies
176
It's My Laugh or Yours
176
An Old Tale Re-told
177
Roll out the Knightcart
177
Sociological Jotting
179
It's Been Keeping Me Awake in the Afternoons
179
We've Got the 'Herald' in the Morning and the 'Star' at Night
179
Take Glover Apart
180
He Shall Not Rise
181
Later Poems
183
Wandering Willie's Song
183
All I Have Desired
184
The Runner
184
Diogenes
185
Amarantus
186
Odysseus
186
Evening
187
Night on the Water
188
The Stoic
188
Odysseus
188
Tea-Tree
191
The Pomegranate Tree
192
The Old Man
193
Dead Man's Tale
194
An Old Woman
194
In the Younger Land
195
Kowhai
195
Early Poems
196
Cold June
196
Twilight
196
For a Young Girl
197
The Sun has Spread his Shining Wings
197
Rhyme
198
Kings and Queens
198
The Flowers
199
After
200
Song
200
Hellas
201
Near a Growing Town
201
A Woman in the Street
202
Wish
202
Release
203
The Old Bridge
204
The Seasons
204
Sunflowers
205
Apple Trees
205
Blind
206
Autumn Peace
207
Pagan Prayer
207
Nightfall
208
Earth and Sea
209
Love Poems
211
Change
211
Meeting
211
Song at Dawn
212
When She Speaks
212
Song
213
Since That Zenophila
213
The End
213
The Lover Grows Old
214
After-times
215
Choice
215
Winds
216
Return
216
Loss
217
Byways of Love
217
Let Us Make an End
219
He Shall Not Rise
220
Rhyme of the Dead Self
220