Collected Poems
Contents
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- Three Poems
- Dominion p. 15
- The Voyage p. 35
- To a Friend in the Wilderness p. 47
- Notes p. 58
- Strange Rendezvous — Poems 1929–1941 — with additions
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[Strange Rendezvous] p. 61
- Jack the Ripper p. 61
- Full Fathom Five p. 62
- To a Millionaire p. 63
- Yes Please Gentlemen p. 64
- Lines For a Rebel p. 66
- Remembered Cowardice
- The Builders p. 67
- Milton
- Good and Ill p. 68
- Disquisition on Death p. 69
- A Naked Girl Swimming p. 75
- Night Song p. 76
- Tapu
- Song For a Woman p. 77
- Well Known and Well Loved
- Epithalamium p. 78
- Love Song p. 80
- Poem p. 81
- The Cave p. 82
- A Farewell p. 83
- Wild Love
- The Revenge p. 86
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Country Pleasures p. 87
- [section] p. 87
- Landscape with Figures
- Deserted Farmyard p. 88
- On Entering a New Abode p. 89
- Winter Night p. 90
- Love in the Night p. 91
- Empty House
- Gall p. 93
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Additional Poems p. 97
- Europe 1945 p. 97
- For an Amulet
- The Encounter p. 98
- Song
- The Estuary p. 99
- Now
- Logos p. 100
- Song for a Girl
- Noon Song p. 101
- Sea-Wind and Setting Sun
- Tom's a-Cold p. 102
- Epitaph
- In Enemy Territory p. 103
- To Daphnis and Chloe in the Park
- Solitude p. 105
- The Fallen p. 106
- I'm Older than You, Please Listen p. 107
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci p. 108
- Terms of Appointment p. 109
- Song at Summer's End p. 110
- To an Expatriate
- Mr Pyrites p. 111
- Beggar to Burgher p. 112
- The Woman to her Lover p. 113
- Laughter
- The Power and the Glory p. 114
- Any Poet to his Mistress
- Americo-Anglican
- On a Promising Politician p. 115
- The Demagogue
- On an Intellectual
- Lunch-Hour Concert
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[Strange Rendezvous] p. 61
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The Rakehelly Man p. 117
- The Rakehelly Man p. 119
- Walking on my Feet p. 121
- Latter-Day Love-Song p. 123
- Away From It All p. 124
- My Pretty Maid
- Hymn of Peace p. 125
- Modern Love p. 126
- Boarding House p. 127
- Laughter p. 128
- Cupid p. 129
- The Impetuous Lover
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Poetry Harbinger p. 131
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[Poetry Harbinger] p. 133
- Not Understood * p. 133
- Glum Summer p. 134
- Elegy at Month's End p. 135
- Kowhai Poem p. 136
- On a Bacchic Poet
- Jack and Jill p. 137
- The Enchanted Garden
- Grande Chatelaine p. 139
- Deep South
- To a Fiend in the Wilderness p. 140
- 2000 A.D p. 141
- Conversation Piece p. 142
- To an American Tourist at Whakarewarewa p. 143
- Reflection on the Recollection of First Hearing 'William Tell' Overture (Arr. for Military Band) Played at the Age of Nine by the Royal Artillery Band in the Band Stand at the Auckland Exhibition 1913
- As Man to Man p. 144
- Poem Addressed to Mr Robert Lowry on the Occasion of the Birth of his Fourth Daughter
- The Secret Maiden
- To a Literary Joker, on Another p. 145
- Poem on the Advantages of Living at the Remuera End of the North Shore
- The Hon. Mrs Tweedscantie p. 146
- Idyll
- Ikon p. 147
- The Little Fishes
- Poeta Nascitur Non Fit
- God Bless the Electric Shaver, Friend of Man p. 148
- Philosophy For Beginners
- The Bars and Gripes
- Political Jotting
- Bluestocking p. 149
- Euphues
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Uncollected p. 150
- The Sea p. 150
- Mr Fairburn to his Bibliographer p. 152
- On a Bachelor Bishop p. 153
- The County p. 154
- Note on the State Literary Fund
- On R. A. K. Mason p. 155
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[Poetry Harbinger] p. 133
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The Disadvantages of Being Dead p. 157
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[The Disadvantages of Being Dead] p. 159
- The Disadvantages of Being Dead p. 159
- Now that You've Found the Way, You Must Come and See us Again p. 160
- Hymn of Peace p. 161
- Oh —! Oh Hang! p. 162
- Footnote to Matthew X, 29 p. 163
- Coal Comfort
- The Ends of Man p. 164
- Political Science p. 165
- The Tourist
- To my Butcher p. 166
- The 105 Per Cent Loaf p. 167
- Matchless Beauty p. 168
- Song of the Open Road p. 169
- A Phoenix in the Fowl-Run
- Bredon Hill p. 171
- The Most Unkindest Cut p. 172
- Talking of Talking
- Reverie in Rat Week p. 173
- News from the World p. 174
- Any Book-of-the-Month Club
- A Note on the Depressing Effect of Abdominal Disturbances
- Down on my Luck p. 175
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Horse Pansies p. 176
- [introduction] p. 176
- It's my Laugh or Yours
- An Old Tale Re-Told p. 177
- Roll Out the Knightcart — A Ballad for the Times
- Sociological Jotting p. 179
- It's been Keeping me Awake in the Afternoons
- We've Got the 'Herald' in the Morning and the 'Star' at Night
- An Open Invitation to all Decent, Tea-drinking New Zealanders—Take Glover Apart! p. 180
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[The Disadvantages of Being Dead] p. 159
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He Shall Not Rise p. 181
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Later Poems p. 183
- Wandering Willie's Song p. 183
- All I have Desired p. 184
- The Runner — by A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn
- Diogenes p. 185
- Amarantus p. 186
- Odysseus
- Evening p. 187
- Night on the Water p. 188
- The Stoic
- Odysseus
- Tea-Tree p. 191
- The Pomegranate Tree p. 192
- The Old Man p. 193
- Dead Man's Tale p. 194
- An Old Woman — by A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn
- In the Younger Land p. 195
- Kowhai
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Early Poems p. 196
- Cold June p. 196
- Twilight
- For a Young Girl p. 197
- The Sun has Spread his Shining Wings
- Rhyme p. 198
- Kings and Queens
- The Flowers p. 199
- After p. 200
- Song
- Hellas p. 201
- Near a Growing Town
- A Woman in the Street p. 202
- Wish
- Release — by A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn p. 203
- The Old Bridge p. 204
- The Seasons
- Sunflowers p. 205
- Apple Trees
- Blind p. 206
- Autumn Piece p. 207
- Pagan Prayer
- Nightfall — by A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn p. 208
- Earth and Sea p. 209
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Love Poems p. 211
- Change p. 211
- Meeting
- Song at Dawn p. 212
- When She Speaks — by A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn
- Song p. 213
- Since that Zenophila
- The End
- The Lover Grows Old p. 214
- After-Times p. 215
- Choice
- Winds p. 216
- Return — by A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. D. Fairburn
- Loss p. 217
- Byways of Love
- Let us Make an End p. 219
- He Shall Not Rise — Rhyme of the Dead Self p. 220
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Later Poems p. 183
- Three Poems