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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 page x
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 page xi
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 page xii
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 page xiii
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 page xiv
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 page xv
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 page xvi
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.