Kendrick Smithyman: Contents of Collected Poems [D]
1943-50
| 1951-55 | 1956-60
| 1965-69 | 1970-79
| 1980-84 | 1985-87
| 1988-89 | 1990-95
II 1951-55
1951
No penny for the guy*
For the primipara
On first looking into Grantly Dick
Read
Love song*
Elegy against a latter day: A.L.S. 1879-1945*
Generation
Paihia
remembered (18)*
in memoriam Gunner Stemlock
quo fas et gloria ducunt
a round of angles
Ramsgate (1)
Ramsgate (2)
Ramsgate (3)
Christchurch
Herald Island (1)
Herald Island (2)
Herald Island (3)
Herald Island (4)
Herald Island (5)
Indolent evening, a sun sauntering off
Take spider as omen
Risible Eros, leaguered at the last
Herald Island (6)
Troy burned buries again in smoking cloud
Left alone the dead and the unborn
At your one sounding shell*
Journey towards Easter (2)*
Fitzgerald’s death (9)
Ogilvie returns to his wife
Georgina, as Sybil
Castlreagh, as himself
Frescati remembered
Pamela goes into exile
The Duchess at her toilet
His delirium
Tony
Matthew Dowling, fellow prisoner
Occasions (10)*
Country town*
Pioneers
Dropping the tree
First sermon on the
Auckland Van Dyk
Second Sermon on the Auckland van Dyk
Third sermon to the text of the Auckland van Dyk
Vision by Mather’s farm*
Mulcahy’s complaint
Be found by every daystep*
Cold song
The morning watch*
Jeremy Webb arraigns the state of man (9)
American primitives (2)
Night walkers
Voyage to Laputa*
Submission
Northern story*
Beachhaven*
Reconstruction
Incident at Matauri*
Cahiers de minuit*
Sigh for a crooked Caesar*
Songs from Holbein’s Dance of Death
Beside that wormcold manhauling sea
A tax of islands
Responsibility*
A note on the social arts*
New settlers*
Of death by water (8)*
1952
Reflections on siting Utopia
Field study, an epilogue
Terminus*
The art of Florio*
Exequy: of the enduring city (6)
The potter
The Gunner’s Report
The Lieutenant on leave
The Observer
The Lieutenant returns to his unit
The Gunner’s goodbyes to his girl
The feast of pentecost
1953
Negative of negation*
Now, if only now*
Day of advent*
Infantry story*
Seawrack
Taradedol, dones
Sentimenal piece for our lost youth*
Wave*
Two backward looks for Mister C (2)*
Another apology to Coelia
To Livia
For Molly McAlister*
Serenade*
Open city
A birthday garland (4)
Recitative and
Adam’s air
May tree variations on themes of Stanley Spencer
Prospector
Cathay*
Jig
Conflict
of law
Perspectives of the dance
Exile, old style
Precincts of the marble faun*
Viewing the swans*
Wallflowers
After Hakluyt
Responsibilities of the critic
Burying the pensioner
Mister Virgil in his latter days*
Mister Macnever
Under the green willow
The victims*
Mulgrave, on the fish*
Now darkness swims
its stream
Kemp’s passing*
Friar Lawrence’s farewell*
1954
The dean’s night song
Tam Lin pursued*
Tradition, the individual talent*
Thinking of Otto Petterson*
Small piece in form of prayer
A Jacobean afterdinner story
Gusty day at the typewriter
The invaders, a perspective*
Widow’s walk*
Foreign service
Lines for the gay deceiver*
Opening the
heirloom
Fragment from a dynastic comedy
1832*
Something childish*
Kermesse*
Tent show on
the green*
At your right hand*
Two aubades (2)*
Lantern in the moon (6)* [aka Incidental music for The Dream]
Philostrate
Bottom
Quartet: Peasblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed
Two voices from the flies
The fifth act of Duke Theseus
Producer to his Puck
1955
Remarkable flight of twenty phoenix birds*
Cousin Emily and the night visitor*
Just an evening in the ranges*
Sonnet tenderly towards morning*
Hint for
the incomplete angler*
Continue to 1956-60
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