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Persephone in Winter


 

 

Contents
HYMN TO IO
THE ENGLISH RIDER
THE FALLOW LAND
JUDAS
DEFEAT
THE OLD SWORDSMAN
MEETING IN SARRAS
POSSESSIONS
LINES TO AN UNKNOWN POET
WRITTEN IN COLD
PRAYER OF A WOMAN
THE HUNT
SARAH
THE AWAITED
PERSEPHONE IN WINTER
IN A SILENT HOUSE
CHRYSANTHEMUM
JOSEPH’S LILIES
MEMORIAL HYMNS
THE BUBBLE FOUNTAIN
ASTOLAT
IN THE LANE
THE PALADINS
IN A GLASS, DARKLY
EDEN GATES
TRUCE ON THE ARK
CHARMIAN 
FAREWELL TO STARS 
SLUM DAWNING 
THEY CONSIDER THE CRUCIFIXION 
IRISH EMIGRANT
THE GARDEN 
THE APPLE GIRL 
PARAHA
ARIA WITH INSECTS
FOREDOOMED 
BLACK EASTER 
FORGIVENESS
ULTIMA THULE
HANMER WOODS
MIRACLES 
BLUECAP
OLD WOMAN 
THE ROSEMARY TREE
THE SONG OF LOST CAUSES 
DIVISION 
SINGING
THIRST
A SONG OF MOKOIA
MARK ANTONY
THE CORN CHILD
THE WRITING ON THE ROCK
AUTUMNAL GARDEN
RED BERRIES
THE DRYAD
THE DWELLING
BLACKBERRIES 
ORCHIDS
THE DEAD FOLK
THE PAGE-BOY’S SONG
RAIN IN THE NIGHT
TROUBADOUR
THE KARAKA TREES 
LEAR’S SONG
PERDITA
HAUNTED GARDEN
THE LOYALIST
GRAVEN ON EXCALIBUR
THERSITES
FIELDS
ROAD’S END
THE BETROTHAL
SHEEPFOLD
EREMITE
LEASE OUT NO PITY
THE AWAKENER 
LISTENING
RAIN 
CRUCIFIX
THE LONELY HEART
THE WILD FLOWER
MODERN
POLITICIAN
CROONER
AT CASTOR BAY
THE BALANCE
L’ENVOI
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Acknowledgments:
Poems in this book were originally published by
Hurst & Blackett, London 1937 


This is an nzepc transcription of the original edition.


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Last updated 25 September, 2003