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Collected Poems

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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 page break
      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 page break
      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 page break
      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 page break
      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 page break
      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

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