Kowhai Gold

Contents

Contents

Eileen Duggan Page
     Saint Peter 1
     And at the End 2
     The Legend of the Cuckoo (from New Zealand Bird Songs) 3
     The Last Look 4
     Plagiarism 4
     Annunciation 5
     "Had it Been You" 5
     Lo, How the Butterfly 6
     The Dead Queen 7
     Praise 8
     The Sea Gipsy 8
     Any Small Nation 10
     A New Zealand Christmas 11
     A Maori Lullaby (from Poems) 12
     Swamp-Land (from Poems) 13
     The Last Song (from Poems) 13
O. N. Gillespie
     The Sheep-Stealer (from Night and Morning) 14
     The Singer (from Night and Morning) 16
     Evensong (from Night and Morning) 18
     Transmutation (from Night and Morning) 19
     The Reformer (from Night and Morning) 20
     Colour (from Night and Morning) 21
     The Court of Arches (from Night and Morning) 22
Katherine Mansfield
     Loneliness (from Poems) 24
     The Sea Child (from Poems) 25
     Sea Song (from Poems) 25
     The Town Between the Hills (from Poems) 27
     Voices of the Air (from Poems) 29
     Sanary (from Poems) 30
     To L. H. B., 1894-1915 (from Poems) 31
     There is a Solemn Wind To-night (from Poems) 31
     Out in the Garden (from Poems) 32
     Fairy Tale (from Poems) 32
     Sorrowing Love (from Poems) 33
A. R. D. Fairburn
     Release 34
     When She Speaks 35
     Return 36
     Old Woman 37
     Nightfall 37
     The Runner 39
Alison Grant
     Shub-Ad, the Queen 40
     I gathered all my Treasure 42
     To Pan 43
     Song for Barbara 44
     Dorothea at the Piano 45
     Loyalty 45
     And Shall I Suffer Deepest Woe? 46
     Aged Four 47
     Convalescent 47
     Spring Passing 48
     Frailty 49
     The Sun-Worshipper 49
     Red and White 50
J. C. Beaglehole
     Molecular Theory 52
     To a Fairy 53
     The Climber 54
     Despondency 55
     The Cathedral 55
     British Museum 56
     In the Cotswolds 57
Una Currie
     In the Manner of Li-Po 57
     From a Train 58
     The Mother 59
     Mirage 59
     Trees 60
     Any Lover 61
Bartlett Adamson
     Adventure (from Twelve Sonnets) 62
     Space (from Twelve Sonnets) 62
     Glory (from Twelve Sonnets) 63
     Roses (from Twelve Sonnets) 63
Mona Tracy
     Akaroa 64
     The Coal Hulks 66
Seaforth Mackenzie
     A Leaf from a Fly-Book 68
     A Northern Song 69
     The Quest of the Sancgreal 70
Doreen Price
     Exile 70
     I Love 71
     The Pool 72
     Night 73
     Spring 73
Robin Hyde
     Half-Moon 74
     Road's End 75
     Division (from The Desolate Star) 76
     The Trees (from The Desolate Star) 77
     Paris in Troy 78
     Galleons 79
     Ghosts (from The Desolate Star) 80
     Perdita 81
     Rain 82
Ishbel Veitch
     Vision 83
     Loss 83
     Light 84
     Autumn 85
     Pain 85
     Quest 86
Helena Henderson
     La Vieillesse 87
     Earth Hold Him 88
     Grey Days 89
     Requital 90
     Heaven 91
Quentin Pope
     Reality 92
     Sonnet for Elizabeth 94
     Retrospect 95
Helen Glen Turner
     The Sea Hath Taken 96
     God Rest Michael 97
     Lament 98
     The Return 98
R. A. K. Mason
     The Beggar (from The Beggar) 99
     After Death (from The Beggar) 100
Marna Service
     Blue Magic (from Blue Magic) 101
     The Fairy Horse (from Blue Magic) 102
     Song (from Blue Magic) 102
Jessie Mackay
     The Noosing of the Sun-God (from Land of the Morning) 103
     Slumber Song (from Land of the Morning) 107
Alan Mulgan
     Dead Timber (from The English of the Line) 108
     Soldier Settlement 110
Boyce Bowden
     Silverstream (from Wellington Verses) 112
     Wet Weather (from Wellington Verses) 114
     Wellington Lights (from Wellington Verses) 116
Alice A. Kenny
     The Parting 117
     Columbine's House 118
Dick Harris
     At Night (from Poems) 119
     Rondel (from Poems) 120
     Ships That Pass (from Poems) 121
Molly Howden
     I Have an Endless Joy (from Green Violets) 122
     Lullaby (from Green Violets) 123
     Escape (from Green Violets) 123
D. M. Ross
     The Shining Cuckoo (from Stars in the Mist) 124
     Marooned (from Stars in the Mist) 124
     The Flight (from Stars in the Mist) 125
David McKee Wright
     The Kissing of Pegeen (from An Irish Heart) 126
     The Singers (from An Irish Heart) 128
Ida Withers
     Questionings 129
Will Lawson
     The Mails (from The Red West Road) 130
     The Red West Road (from The Red West Road) 133
Betty Riddell
     Old Man 134
     The Cripple 135
Arnold Wall
     A Time Will Come (from London Lost) 136
     The Wit 137
S. M. Sunley
     Adventure 138
     Lullaby 138
M. H. Poynter
     Gulls at Sunset 139
     Spiders' Webs 140
C. A. Marris
     Miracles 140
Mary Pumphrey
     Though Inland Far We Be 141
R. F. Fortune
     The Last Choice 142
T. H. E. Schröder
     The Street 143
Eric Lee Palmer
     The Phœnician 144
Mary Heath
     Housewife Sonnet 146
Hubert Church
     Chant 147
Toni McGrath
     Chinese Ivory 149
Ivy Gibbs
     The Thrush 150
Isabel Maud Peacocke
     The Round Pond at Midnight 152
P. W. Robertson
     Invocation 154
Charles Stuart Perry
     Ghosts. 155
S. August
     I Would Have Songs 155
C. H. Winter
     Treasures 156
Betty Knell
     Inventory (from As The Story Goes) 156
Marjory Nicholls
     Depression (from A Venture in Verse) 158
Lilla Gormhuille McKay
     Mountain Night 159
Rena Dillon Macintosh
     The Gipsy Girl and the Moon 159
C. A. Gordon-Cumming
     At the Door 161
B. E. Baughan
     The Hill (from Shingle Short) 162
Frank Morton
     Triolet (from Laughter and Tears) 166
Winifred S. Tennant
     Embers 166
Alexa Stevens
     Garden Piece 167
Arthur H. Adams
     Sydney 168

Every vowel in Maori words is pronounced separately and receives the same quality as in Italian. The stress usually falls upon the first and alternate syllables.