James K. Baxter : the selected poems / edited by John Weir.

Poems.

Machine-generated: The Early Years: Dunedin and Christchurch 1945-1949: High Country Weather -- Lie deep, my love -- Blow, wind of fruitfulness -- Returned Soldier -- The Bay -- Sea Noon -- Naseby -- Elegy for my Father's Father -- Let Time be still -- Tunnel Beach -- Haast Pass -- Letter to Noel Ginn II -- To my Father -- Thrushes -- Elegy for an Unknown Soldier -- The Cave -- Farmhand -- Virginia Lake -- Rocket Show -- Wild Bees -- Venetian Blinds -- The Morgue -- The Wellington Years and a Visit to India 1950-1965: Poem in the Matukituki Valley -- Thoughts of a Dying Calvinist -- The Fallen House -- Boscastle -- In the Lecture Room -- Tarras Moon -- Book of the Dead -- The Bad Young Man -- Portrait of a Poet -- The Homecoming -- Never No More -- The Book of Hours -- The Journey -- Seraphion -- Jack the Swagger's Song -- Elegy at the Year's End -- Lament for Barney Flanagan -- Letter to Australia -- The Woman on the Stair -- Heard in a Sod Chimney -- The Fisherman -- Crossing Cook Strait -- A Rope for Harry Fat -- In fires of no return -- By the Dry Cardrona -- At Hokianga -- Pyrrha -- Green Figs at Table -- At Akitio -- Howrah Bridge -- School Days -- Eioko -- At the Tomb of Theseus -- Be Happy in Bed -- Mandrakes for Supper -- Elephanta -- Sisyphus -- A Prospect of Old Age -- Footnote to Antony and Cleopatra -- Ballad of Calvary Street -- Evidence at the Witch Trials -- Christchurch 1948 -- Obsequy for Dylan Thomas -- Winter -- To Jacquie -- Makara Beach -- On the Death of her Body -- Election 1960 -- The Sixties -- Ballad of John Silent -- Brown Bone -- Brighton -- At Taieri Mouth -- Ballade of the Happy Bureaucrat -- Bushed -- Christmas 1943 -- A Family Photograph 1939 -- Concrete Grady at the Saturday Novena -- The Tree -- The Boys -- At Serrieres -- The Hollow Place -- The Cold Hub -- The Last Judgement Martyrdom -- The Buried Stream -- On Reading Yevtushenko Waipatiki Beach -- An Ode to the Reigning Monarch on the of Her Majesty's Visit to Pig Island -- Shingle Beach Poem -- Occasion -- The Farm -- Then -- East Coast Journey -- The Watch -- New Zealand -- Pig Island Letters -- Letter to Robert Burns -- Seven Year Old Poet -- Tomcat -- At Days Bay -- The Ballad of Grady's Dream -- High Wind at Hokio -- Postman -- Thoughts of a Remuera Housewife -- Great-Uncles and Great-Aunts -- To a Print of Queen Victoria -- A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar -- The Gunner's Lament -- The Strike -- The Lion Skin -- Return to Dunedin 1966-1968: On Possessing the Burns Fellowship 1966 -- The Kraken -- Dunedin Habits -- The Monument -- At Wanaka -- The Maori Jesus -- A View from Duffy's Farm -- The Muse -- The River [Nothing as broad as] -- Daughter -- To my Father in Spring -- from Words to Lay a Strong Ghost: The Party -- The Wound -- The Rock -- The Flower -- At Queenstown -- At the Franz Josef Glacier -- At the Fox Glacier Hotel -- Mother and Son -- At Kuri Bush -- At Brighton Bay -- The Bridge -- The Titan -- To speak truly -- Home Pleasures -- Man, You Will Be Dust -- Fitz Drives Home the Spigot -- Afternoon Walk -- At Rakiura -- Winter River -- Grandfather -- The River [My brother started the boat engine] -- The Wheel -- At Naseby -- Winter Sea -- Reflections at Lowburn Ferry -- The Jar -- Winter Poem to my Wife -- Discovery -- A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting -- To Mate With -- Tangi -- The Flame -- The Instruments -- The Child -- Cleaning up After the Party -- The Fear of Change -- The Sailor -- The Seed-Givers -- Rhadamanthus -- Summer 1967 -- The Millstones -- The Bluegums -- The Caryatids -- The Victim -- The Doctrine -- Instruction -- Here -- Dunedin Morning -- Letter from the Mountains -- The Garland -- Bacchante -- The Gale -- The Searchers -- The Black Star -- The Seals -- The Bargain -- Poem against Comfort -- The Serpent -- Words for a Poet -- Epilogue for Ian -- Seances -- The Hero -- The Bohemians -- Mining Town -- The Eccentrics -- Letter to Sam Hunt -- To Patric Carey -- Valediction -- The Jerusalem Years 1969-1972: Ballad of the Stonegut Sugar Works -- Ballad of the Junkies and the Fuzz -- The Labyrinth -- The Rocks -- from Jerusalem Sonnets -- The Black Book Song -- Song for Sakyamuni -- Winter Monologue -- The Ikons -- In Praise of the Taniwha -- Conversation in a Garden -- News from a Pacified Area -- Getting Stoned on the Night Air -- Morning in Jerusalem -- Ballad of the Third Boobhead -- Ballad of Pigeon Park -- He Waiata mo Te Kare -- from Autumn Testament -- Ferry from Lyttelton -- Torso I -- Torso II -- Letter to Peter Olds -- from Five Sestinas -- The Dark Welcome -- Sestina of the River Road -- In Times of Trouble among Nations -- The Return [When I go among the trees] -- The Tiredness of Me and Heraldes -- [Moss on plum branches] -- [A pair of sandals] -- Ode to Auckland.