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Kendrick Smithyman:
Index of titles to Collected Poems [D]


Compiled by Peter Simpson. Corrected 6/3/97


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1 September 1921
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1832
1900\New Year’s eve 1911/12: a local history
1912
2 Auckland and 2 Otago led the way over...
27 January
395


A birthday garland (4 parts)
A birthday poem
A bit of nostalgia for Mac
A chip of marble
A conjuring
A declaration
A divination
A good warm cave Plato for your neighbour
A happening down the coast
A Jacobean afterdinner storyA letter to James Ensor from the CPR
A letter to Paul Peel from the CNR
A little marriage song for Emily
A note on the social arts
A passage to India
A penny for any old guy
A postcard to Perdita
A promised land, land of friendly roads...
A quarrel after Yeats
A quarter to eleven
A regular at the Rising Sun
A riddle at Christmas
A sad country
A scene and a birth
A short story somehow wanting depth of field
A showing forth by day of the Nankeen Kestrel
A sketch in autumn
A song from Ceres
A song of experience
A song of innocence
A sort of citizens designed for oils
A suburban garland for K Sinclair Kt
A tax of islands
A thing remembered
A time of day when all bean flowers
A view of Farm Cove, Sydney, 1874
A view of Immanuel's land
A wedding song
A winter darling
A work of El Greco
About being in love
About Queen’s Park
About setting a jar on a hill
About valuing and the cote de beaune
About verbs
Abreast of the times: a documentary
Act of Homage
Active service
Adaptable
After
After battle
After Hakluyt
After Ondra Lysohorsky
After the armistice
After the last examiners’ meeting
After Vereeniging
After Zhivago
Air for two voices
Airport
Alarm without excursion
Albert park
Alec 1
Alec 2
Alice: about Rose
Alisdair
All Hallows Eve
All these very long centuries my cousin
Allegory sonnet
Allery
Always the stranger
American primitives
An Anglican curate: J Uppingham
An appetite for reality
An Artic wind
an arrow one shade more to right or left
An ordinary day beyond Kaitaia
Animal Studies
Annunciation waltz
Another
Another apology to Coelia
Any day now
Anzac ceremony
Anzac day
Apologia
Appassionata
Appointment in Samara
Armentieres
Armistice
Arrival at noon
Arse upward man thumps bitching into light
Aspects of January at half past four
At a tempest
At Loon Lake or not far from it
At Oak Bay
At that point
At the end of the world
At the far end of the garden
At the Grammar school memorial
At Ti Point
At your one sounding shell
At your right hand
Atlantis may be six feet under
ATUA WERA
August at the cirque d’hiver
August struck out compelling
Aunt Agnes
Aunt Elsie
Auto/Biographies
Autumn elms


Back
Back black gulls
Background music 1 & 2
Backwaters
Ballad of the lagged mouse
Bard
Baucke
Bauernhochzeit
Bay
Bayleys Beach
Beachhaven
Being estranged
Belladonna and others
Below Kariori
Below Wheneuapai
Beside that worm cold manhauling sea
Beside the harbour
Bestiary piece
Between two seas
Beggaring the term
Biography
Birdman
Bit players
Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
Blackberry moonlight for Don
Blackleg
Blind date at the glow worm caves
Blue reef heron
Bone over my shoulder
Boston
Boston Road
Boxing day or something
Breaking in hill country
Bream Bay
Brief history of western opera: the horse
Brief history of western philosophy: the bicycle
Budget concertina
Building programme
Burning
Burying the pensioner
Bussing
By the end of September 1912 the best...


Cabaret
Cadavers?
Cahier de minuit
Called to the colours
Called to their colours
Calling the roll
Candidates should attempt to answer all questions
Capitalists and victims of, say...
Care to see some family snapshots?
Carol
Cartography an inexact science
Cascade
Case histories
Case of Mrs F.T.
Cathay
Cave Canem
Centaurs, nymphs
Charles with a growing family wanting
Cheque to your king’s children
Christ Church yard 1984
Cigar store Indian, 1927
Circus at the barber’s shop
City hall
Clair de lune
Climbing in the Himalaya
Closedown
Closing the chocolate factory
Coastal
Cold song
Cold war
Colville
Come all ye for one happening
Come Sunday come Monday
Coming home
Commentary
Communicating
Communion
Community studies (5)
Comus
Concerning Alice
Concourse
Concurbat me
Conference
Confession of a NZ opium eater
Conflict of law
Conflicts, comrade, and reconcilings
Congress
Consequences
CONSIDERATIONS
Consider, Riemke...
Constitution Hill and thereabouts (4)
Cookham church yard
Coromandel
Cotton
Country town
Cousin Emily and the night visitor
Covenanting
Cranes
Crossroads
Cutty Sark


Dance
Dark lady
David
Day of advent
De Flores
Death in Venice: Diaghilev
Death of a hero
Death of a stuntman 1985
Deconstructing
Demolishing the farmhouse
Demolition: building the university
Der doppelganger
Descending Quebec Road
Determinants
Devolving rainbows
Did you hear? did you hear?
Difficult evidence
Dirge for two clavichords and bowler hat
Discharging
Disdvantages
Diversifying
Dog
Doing time
Doll Tearsheet's farewell
Dominions day
Donal at fourteen
Donizetti, the last act
Double exposure
Double sonnet
Dreams where is no winter
Dreams, responsibilities
Dressing up
Dried out station
Driving
Dropping the tree
Dvorak Quintet No 3 in E flat major
Dwarf with a billiard cue


Early days
East Coast
Easter Sunday
Eating
Eating Out
Eclipse
Ed Gus
Editing texts
Educating Father
Educating: the getting of wisdom
ELDERS
Election night
Elegies, legends
Elegy against a latter day
Emblems a casual shire
End of day
End of year
Enrolment week
Entrepreneurs
Environs of Grange Park with figures
Epithalamial pieces on 3/R
Equestrienne
Etchings and aquatints
Evangelist
Even the blustering surge forgot to rave
Everything that lives is holy
Exchange
Exchanging cards
Excursion
Exequy of the enduring city
Exile old style
Extending family
Extinction of lost word


Fabling
Faded view of the founder
Fair weather song
Falling tide
Familiar girl dear native habit
Faring: to Forrest Scott on his retiring
Farmers
Father’s opium war
Father wrote to Lyttelton
Father...
Faustus
February spills the creeks
Felled macrocarpas
Felton Matthew's journal
Festivals
Festschrift
Field study
Field theory above Ahipara
Fifth month
Film show in a paddock
Fin de la belle epoque
First meeting
First sermon on the Auckland Van Dyk
Fish Flesh and Good Red Herring
Fitting out
Fitzgerald’s death
Five Frog Pieces
Flamineo
Fleece
Fletchers Bay
Flight of fancy
Floundering
Footnote to a comon folly
For Andries
For Harriet and Scott marrying
For her found at my side
For Molly McAlister
For Paki
For the birthday of Prof K Sinclair
For the lover of quartets and the jazzman
For the Mozart bicentenary (6 parts)
For the primepara
For the record
For the record
For the record: the Chapman fortieth
For the wedding day of Jonathan and Jillian Bennet at Oxford
Foreign service
Forthcoming
Fortune hunting
Found poem (Birdsong to page 100)
Founding the provinces: a centenary pageant
Four brothers and their niece and Balkan states
Four flights of fancy
Four shots from one campaign (4)
Four stanzas No wider than a room
Fragment
Fragment from a dynastic comedy
Frank
Frauenliebe und leben
Freedom,. 1945
Freeways
Friar Lawrence's farewell
Friday night
From a war to a war
From flood being upheld
From the city where men are
From the Club
From their fond shore
From Waiwera Flying to Palmerston
Full moon


Gannet
Gardeners
Garrison 1
Garrison 2
Gathering the toheroa
Gatsby’s suite for unaccompanied cello
Generation
Gerontion
Gesture of homage to Paul Kane
Getting bearings
Getting to sleep
Ghost town
Gift of tongues
Give this baby rose a name
Gnomic poem
God rest you merry at halloween in Hamilton, Ontario
Going
Going to the cape
Going up
Going up and down
Goldleaf, goatskin, armour
Good beasts to compose
Grafton Gully
Grandfather, life and death
Grave by Grafton
Graveyard of the elephant
Great Aunt Anne
Group
Growing up
Gulf
Gusty day at the typewriter
Guthrie-Smith’s Tutira. midmorning


Hail
Hand of fortune
Harassing the virgin
Harkness
Harry Holland
Hayrake
He
He travels fastest who travels alone
Heads
Heat
Henderson
Herd
Here, there
Heresiarch
Hermione recovered
High in late afternoon a dove
High noon and after
High Romance
High wind at Wheturangi
Hill
Hill country image
Hint for the incomplete angler
Hitching
Hole in the ground
Home for the foreign wars
Homing
Horses for courses
Horsetrading: stallions
Horsing about
Housing Scheme
How is she loved that I should call her mine
How little did it need to end it all
How moaning and mourning...
How should I say?
How to deal with winter
How to dispose of Ajax
How to get things into focus after Wordsworth
How to get to Dollarton in 1969 and untie useful knots
How to make
How to make a mountain in six modes
Hungering summer
Hurricane Weather


I have not signed
Icarus
Idyll
Idyll
If I stepped outside
Illicit cargo
Imitations of Neruda
Imperial vistas
In 1989 of Satan, Adam and the Laocoon plate
In July
In kingly state how baring
In memoriam
In Ontario
In our manner of speaking
In the antipodes
In the black forest 1908
In transit
In transit
Incentives, drives
Incident at Matauri
Indians
Infantry story
Inheritance
Inlet
Inscrutable Chinese
Intersecting plains
Invasion is not expected just yet
Invitation
Invocation
Island discourse
Island recollection
Isle of pines
Issue


Jack Banner washes his hands of the city
Jack Lee now
Janice
January Tenting
Jeremy Webb arraigns the state of man
Jewel song
Jig
John 17 8-10
Journey towards Easter
July 1922
Just an evening in the ranges
Just one April morning by the channel


Kawhia holiday (4)
Keeping in touch
Kemp's passing
Kermesse
King Solomon’s mines
Kingfisher
Kingfisher song
Kirititehere
Kismet
Kissing Tom
Klynham
Knickknack folksong
Knitting
Knowing they slip
Kobiku


Lady as swan
Lady likely to be for burning
Lake Ohia
Lament for a North Island land association
Landscape with figures
Language arts
Lantern in the moon (6 parts)
Larkfall, thunder
Last at Te Atatu
Last but one
Later
Later afternoon, Hamilton, Ontario
Latest of the day
Legal fiction
Legend of Sara’s gully
Levertov's hypocrite women
Life styles: Shoal Bay and precincts
Like sighing it renews
Lilia in a red cloak
Lines for Mrs Jarvis Thurston
Lines for the gay deceiver
Little egret
Little oration for being a little dead
Live or die
Lived
Lived by the strangers
Liverpool Street
Living in sin
Living the literary life at some distance
Lodge
Loitering with intent
London, San Francisco
Looking at Picture Post
Looking backwards
Looking backwards
Looks as though...
Loose knot of song, columbine fugue
Losers dimension?
Love song (Dear lively one)
Lunch with Lindsay’s father
Lyric on a sour note


Mackaness waking
Magnifying a Pastorale
Making sense
Malcolm Lowry walking beside
Maria’s story
Marina
Market piece, Waterloo
Marking essays
Marking man
Marking time with Seth Thomas
Marriage songs
Massey’s cossacks
Matthew Scott Allen, from a white cat
Max
Maytree variations on themes of Stanley Spencer
Meeting Feodor first
Meeting Feodor three
Memorial for Flicker
Mephisto’s serenade
Michael at fifty
Midday and after
Mimesis
Miranda and Ferdinand
Mirror prospect
Misdering: an ancient history (?)
Miss Emily [1]
Miss Emily [2]
Miss Emily [3]
Miss Emily [4]
Miss Emily [5]
Mission
Mister Larkin's nocturnal
Mister Macnever
Mister Nakamura
Mister Segedin's sons
Mister Virgil in his latter days
Mneme
Modal
Money went out as well...
Monodies for
Moonrise
Moonshine from an upstairs window
Mornings and places
Motivated (9.5.95)
Mountain stop
Mourn fool and we kiss
Movement
Movements for coastal voices
Mower: Ruapekapeka
Mr Moriarty and the ferry
Mulcahy's complaint
Mulgrave on the fish
Muriwai 1957
My old man on relief work helped build...
My old man said follow the band don’t...
My portrait 1945 for Mum


Nadi
National park
Nature note
Near Mahurangi
Near the customs house
Negative of negation
Neighbourhoods
Neuve Eglise
New settlers
New Years day
News flash
Newsreels
Night in August
Night walkers
Nightingales
Nine days
No penny for the guy
Nor bear a miracle
North and west
Northern story
Not a poem for armistice day
Not altogether a fiction
Not as strangers do with hat in hand
Not being born on Malaita
Not beyond hearing
Not Maria's story
Not teaching only being taught
Not to say much, not much to say
Nothing ventured nothing gained 3
Notturno
Nouns without shadows
Now darkness swims its stream
Now look in your own eyes
Now, if only now
Not a birthday poem


O Sion’s daughter, where art thou?
Obituary
Occasions
Occupied country
October ferry to Swartz Bay
Of a late summer night
Of death by water
Of herself
Of marrying 1 and 2
Of Rapunzel and others
Of separation
Of sorts
Of valuing, Fabius...
Off again to Ithaca
Off to the Trenches
Offering to a local figure
Old folks at the home
Old wives tales (5)
Ole
On a theme of Thomas Mann
On first looking into Grantly Dick Reed
On that beach
On the road to Dunkirk
One night stand
One of the Marais clan talking
One of the Maritz clan
One Sunday about the Long River
Only
Ontario Pictures
Open city
Opening the heirloom
Or a cliff fall
Original sin a suburban prospect
Other worlds
Our beautiful inheritance
Out of air, of season
Out of sight
Outlooks
Outsider
Over Lethbridge
Overnighting
Overseas posting
Oystercatcher


Paihia remembered
Palm wine
Papeete
Parable of two talents
Parables (3)
Paradise gaining
Partisan journey
Partygoing in London (Ont)
Pasiphae’s daughters
Passion fruit
Pasternak: the making of a poet
Pasternak: themes and variations
Pastoral
Paul Nash: an elegy
Peach
Pearl
Peehi/Best
Pelham
Perhaps not the same Marais
Perhaps parable, perhaps politics
Perhaps the same Maritz
Period of adjustment
Perseus
Perspectives of the dance
Pests
Peter Dane retiring
Peter Durey’s story
Peter Quince
Piece after another style
Piece needing a title something like A Moveable Feast
Pieces
Pigeons without grass, alas
Pilot 1943
Pink house
Pioneers
Pivoting
Place
Play of flutes
Playing
Plover
Plus ca change ce n’est pas la meme chose
Pluvian
Poem against imperialism
Poem against imperialist
Poem for a winter birth
Poem: of the ruins
Point of debate
Poor futile...orpington
Porcupine fish
Port
Portrait of artist as incendiarist
Portrait of the observer
Portrait of the artist as a bachelor
Poul and people and picture
Precincts of the marble faun
Presented words, prescribed characters
Pressing north
Prisoners
Private eyes
Problems and temptations of a practised art
Problems and temptations of commerce
Problems and temptations of responsibility
Problems and temptations of the world
Procession 1970 Progress another name for corruption
Projections, transparencies
Promise
Proposition
Propositions about jelly beans
Prospect from Kingston
Prospect of Elizabeth S with rooster at Albany
Prospector
Prothalamial
Publishing
Puriri trees at Ti Point
Pygmalion’s defence


Quidditas


Ralph
Rays
re: Ffulk
Reading nation: Wellington in 1969 revisited
Reading Quasimodo
Reading the maps an academic exercise
Reciprocals
Recitative and Adam's heir
Reconstruction
Recovering
Recovering
Recruits 1899
Reduce the poem to one just word
Reflections on sighting Utopia
Refugee album
Regardless
Remarkable flight of twenty phoenix birds
Remember Friday
Reminiscence
Repatriation
Report, interim
Requiem
Research project
Resort
Responsibilities of the critic
Responsibility
Resume
Resume
Resumed between a sorrow and a shadow
Resuming
Retrospect
Retrospective show, Auckland painting
Return to exile
Returning
Revisiting VE day
Rinaua/Lindauer
Rite de paysage
Ritualists
Roger Oppenheim: a memorial photograph
Rounding the Horn
Route 8 through Galt


Sail
Salt
Salut au monde
Saturday July 2
Saturday night
Scanning
Schooling
Science fiction
Scratchmark
Screenplays 1/2/3
Sealers and whalers
Seawrack
Second Sermon on the Auckland van Dyk
Semantics
Sentimental piece for lost youth
Serenade
Serviceman’s complaint
Seven days leave
Seventy years
Sharp mid year ago
Shibboleth
Shining cuckoo
Shock treatment
Should death sing each
Should this blood sing
Shylock
Side issue
Sigh for a crooked Caesar
Signs
Signs of times
Silent movies
Similarities
Simple Ode
Sir Bors to the back country
Site
Six Contredanses
Sixteen
Skateboarding with Lewis Carroll
Skyward well wishing my words
Slow flame
Small piece performed for prayer
Small port
Small sonata
Smoke where there’s fire
Snapshots from the pigbreeder's gazette
Society
Soft toys in several sorts of clothes
Solitary cell, Kingston
Solstice
Some have places
Someone explodes his sight
Something childish
Something in the air
Somewhere inside
Song after supper
Song of indifferent planets
Song with an attitude
Song: In a fashion holy
Songs for Holbein's Dance of Death
Sonnet in a return
Sonnet tenderly towards morning
Sonnets for migrants
South along Route 1
Southerly
Southwest of summer
Speak me a truth more sombre
Speaking to the youngest
Spring meeting
Spring pause
Stabat at Sinclairs
Stanza about metaphor
Stargazing
Statement of fact after Reds
Static...
Still life
Still life with worms
Stories about wooden keyboards
Stormalong
Strandloopers
Street corner preachers
Strelitzia
Strike
Submission
Suburb of Friday, July
Suitable intervals
Summer’s lease
Summer of ‘82
Sunday morning
Supposes
Surveillance or the homely agony...
Survivors
Susan in a fur coat
Swimming early evening
Sylvia
Sympathies


Tam Lin pursued
Tanning
Taradedoldones
Te Kopuru
Te Rangi Hiroa/Buck
Telephone fault
Telephoning
Telling stories
Telling the true tale
Temperature, lighting, humidity controlled
Tent show on the green
Tern
Testimonial
Texts
The art of Florio
The bay 1942
The beaver doesn’t give a damn
The bee tree
The blind mountain
The boss at Dreketi
The bride waking
The cloud, the man, the dream
The condition of spring
The dean’s night song?
The elephant
The exploration to relate
The feast of pentecost
The first time and at last
The green world
The hanging judge
The invaders a perspective
The journey
The knife edge
The last day of March
The last Moriori
The leg of mutton nude
The lovers
The man who wrote short stories
The morepork
The morning watch
The simple life in New Zealand 1886
The sisters
The southern variation: a salute and farewell
The spaceman’s complaint
The spirit of St Louis
The suffering witness
The thing itself
The trouble with my I
The victims
The village, retrospective view
The visiting professor’s reception
The weeping face
The wisdom of Marcus Aurelius
The year failed into misery
Theatre piece
Theatrum orbis
Theme
Then
Things a young person should know...
Thinking of Otto Petterson
Third sermon to the text of the Auckland van Dyk
Thirsting
This blonde girl: air with variation
This isn’t right
Three guesses, and the Boston Symphony Hall
Three turns on fortune's wheel
Through smouldering brazen morning
Through the Panama
Thursday afternoons at college
Time in your maiden head
Timothy
To keep one's powder dry
To be absent without leave
To be found by every day step
To get together to know one another
To guide infirm misgiving
To Livia
To Mary Stanley
To Point Chevalier or even further
To set the scene
To shame not one of you
To talk of something...
Today with anchors
Tom Bedlam’s salute
Tom Young
Tomarata
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day in Hamilton, Ontario
Tourism
Toys
Trace elements
Tradition and the individual talent
Travelling
Travelling
Travelling south
Treypelev
Trio
Trophies
Trout quintet
Tune for the recorder
Turning tables
Tutorials
Two aubades
Two backward looks for Mister C
Two sitting late at night


Uncle Arthur
Uncle Basil
Underwater pieces
Unsuitable positions
Untitled
untold tales
Up Yonge Street [1]
Up Yonge Street [2]
Up Yonge Street [3]
Up Yonge Street [4]
Upriver


Valkyries
Venice preseved
Version of Kingston
Veterans of the foreign wars
Viewing the swans
Vignettes of the Maori wars
Viking
Vilanelle
Vindice
Vision
Vision by Mather’s farm
Visiting hours and il re pastore
Visiting Pasternak
Visiting the first floor
Visitor
Visitor two
Voyage to Laputa


Waikato railstop
Wairarapa
Waitomo
Waiwera
Waking to sirens in winter
Walk past those houses on a Sunday morning
Walk, boy, that soft ground softly
Walking campus
Walking towards Carmel
Wallflowers
Wanting
War diary
Wave
Waverley
Wayside
WeTravellers to a modest city
We are all guilty
Wednesday
Welcoming new members
Whale song when a boy
What angel wrestling
What do I get from the estate?
What more dear than I tell
What the night said
What we saw pathetically
Whatever became
Where Waikawau stream comes out
White faced heron
Whitest of all wealthy rabbits
Who gathered samphire
Whoever
Widows walk
Wild goats
Wind rider
Windsurfers board riders wetsuit people
With no
With strong slow motion to calm caverns swept
Without misgiving
Witnessing
Wo ist der schnee
Woman who rode away
Words for Bill Pearson
Words for Mister Music
Work for idle hands
Works of hands 1, 2, and downtown
Wounded clown (after Rouault)
Wounds of love
Writing letters
Wry billed plover


Yellow book blue movie
Yes (C) K.S.
You grave sad silence
Young Henry Young


Zoo


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Last updated 11 May 2001