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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALUMINIUM, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At aramoana across the bay from the albatross nest
Last Line: And the songs sung in their praise far more persuasive
Subject(s): New Zealand


AMERICAN TELEVISION IN NEW ZEALAND, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wisely new zealanders have chosen
Last Line: And drip in our fires after all, die with us
Subject(s): New Zealand


ANTHROPOLOGY, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a room in the otago museum
Last Line: Like chickens or cannibals returned to eden, whooping
Subject(s): New Zealand


ASYLUM AT SEACLIFF, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not the first entombed there, with view
Last Line: Even a smile, sang out thanks for the tip
Subject(s): New Zealand


AT DEAD HORSE PINCH, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing at dead horse pinch
Last Line: At dead horse pinch, on a summer-winter day
Subject(s): New Zealand


AT MOMENTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In early spring, she writes to her lover
Last Line: As maoris did at moments of danger.
Subject(s): Nature; New Zealand - Maoris; Spring


AT THE HOME OF JAMES K BAXTER, NEW ZEALAND POET, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a bay that would be thought lonely
Last Line: Those white knuckles drumming
Subject(s): New Zealand


AUCKLAND, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Confess you hid in the skirts of babylon
Last Line: To poets, lovers, and the houseless poor
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand


BY AN AUSTRAL RIVER: AUSTRALIA'S PROPHECY; AN ANGLER'S REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The line whirs inward on the reel
Last Line: "has ""something worth!"" to show."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Zealand; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


COASTAL FARMLET, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want a coastal farmlet
Last Line: While tangy sweet gooseberries glow
Subject(s): New Zealand


CROSS IN NEW ZEALAND, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Bearing his cross, which has travelled round
Last Line: Greece, india, new zealand these past months -- but no wheel
Subject(s): New Zealand


DAY WITH BAXTER: HIS HOME IN NEW ZEALAND, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quite sober on sunday we stood on the cliff
Last Line: Sat around him -- sipping a last tea with their master
Subject(s): New Zealand


DIARY ENTRY IN NEW ZEALAND, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over too much tea with lawrence, the possibility
Last Line: It ws once, back in america, in a gentler time
Subject(s): Diaries; New Zealand


DUNEDIN IN THE GLOAMING, by JESSIE MACKAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a black enamoured king whispering low
Subject(s): Dunedin, New Zealand


EMPIRE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a program out here on the tellie
Last Line: And I look down amazed there is no blood on my hands
Subject(s): New Zealand


ENCOUNTER AT SHAKY BRIDGE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On our way back from shaky bridge
Subject(s): New Zealand


FAREWELL TO NEW ZEALAND, by WYNFORD VAUGHAN-THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Super-suburbia of the southern seas
Last Line: I've seen the catch, and here's my partiing crack - %it's under-sized; for god's sake throw it back!
Subject(s): New Zealand; Travel


FARTHER ALONG, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No progress since the age of five
Last Line: Their big feet trample grapes still
Subject(s): New Zealand


FEATHER, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the park we stoop for the feathers of gulls
Last Line: And yet, is not this feather on sunday from heaven
Subject(s): New Zealand


GIANT BIRD THAT COULD NOT FLY AWAY FROM HIS DESTINY, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gazing at the skeleton of the giant moa
Last Line: But this time without the great bird for companion
Subject(s): New Zealand


GRIEF, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And what about those who accuse you
Last Line: Should thus be light as dust, as ash upon us
Subject(s): New Zealand


GRIEF IS NOT FOR THE GAME OF WITS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finding a spray of baby's breath
Last Line: Our apples derive from the small bitter crab
Subject(s): New Zealand


HAMILTON, by MARIE E. J. PITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild and wet, and windy wet falls the night.
Subject(s): Hamilton, New Zealand


HARBOUR CONE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What we had in mind when we came
Last Line: And we grieve when she goes into darkness
Subject(s): New Zealand


HEMI, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nightmare of many a father
Last Line: Bringing a gift of great moa egg
Subject(s): New Zealand


HILLTOP, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Climb a hill and what do you see
Last Line: You do what you can, which is kneel
Subject(s): New Zealand


IMPROVED ENOCH ARDEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Philip ray and enoch arden
Last Line: "by next mail to alfred tenny / son m. P., isle of wight"
Subject(s): Australia;new Zealand


INSTEAD OF AN INTERVIEW, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills, I told them; and water, and the clear air
Last Line: By going back to look, after thirteen years, %have I made myself for the first time an exile?
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Homecoming; New Zealand; Travel


KARMA, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gold rush soon
Last Line: We both fit %amazing
Subject(s): New Zealand


LANDFALL IN THE UNKNOWN SEAS, by ALLEN CURNOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Simply by sailing in a new direction
Last Line: The stain of blood that writes an island story
Subject(s): Explorers; New Zealand; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659)


LAW, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amazing how the least shadow
Last Line: And even the brief shadow obeys
Subject(s): New Zealand


LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On england's shore I saw a pensive band
Last Line: Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep!
Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


MAORI JESUS, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the maori jesus
Last Line: Sat on the earth from then till now
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): New Zealand - Maoris


MORNING WET, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go on and get wet in the rain
Last Line: Go on, my love, and get wet
Subject(s): New Zealand


MOVING IN AND OUT OF THE I-THOU, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We move in and out
Last Line: Lifting gourd cups to our lips
Subject(s): New Zealand


MUSEUM, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Business as usual, no doubt
Last Line: Or hesitate, you're dead from just one blow
Subject(s): New Zealand


NEAR GREEN SLOPES, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black slits in amber, picture-window eyes
Last Line: Next time we'll bring a tin can to feed him
Subject(s): New Zealand


NEW ZEALAND, by W. R. WILLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rippling waters
Subject(s): New Zealand


NEW ZEALAND (FOR MONTE HOLCROFT), by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These unshaped islands, on the sawyer's bench
Last Line: Able at last to give with an open hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): New Zealand


NEW ZEALAND ELEGY, by MARY KAY RUMMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring
Last Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring
Subject(s): Boats; New Zealand; Sea Voyages


NOTORNIS: THE RARE AND ENDANGERED TAKAHE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We say good night
Last Line: Yes, he grieved for us all
Subject(s): New Zealand


ODE TO AUCKLAND, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Auckland, you great arsehole
Last Line: She opened her eyes and smiled
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand


OLD NEW ZEALAND (1642-1769), by JOHN LIDDELL KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fair lay the land and lonely, by white man's foot untrod
Subject(s): New Zealand


ON THE STEAMSHIP EARNSLAW, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two years scanning faces
Last Line: The black smoke roiling, uncoiling
Subject(s): New Zealand


ON THE TOMB OF GEORGE KING GIPANGO, MAORI CHIEFTAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath yon ancient yew tree's shade
Last Line: Revealed to him his precious love %and took him to the realms above
Subject(s): New Zealand - Maoris


OPEN ON SUNDAY, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he goes into the small store
Last Line: Harmless, before he left the small store
Subject(s): New Zealand


OUTING, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: These ruins reach to sea, continue
Last Line: Where, given time, they will think on the ruins they left
Subject(s): New Zealand


PARLIAMENT OF FOWLES, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kindergarten! Says lynn, who runs the store
Last Line: Biscuits, soap and tea. Then we stroll out to rain
Subject(s): New Zealand


PASSING THE OLD HOTELS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trailside inn or the bendigo
Last Line: Call out for lost mates %in the dark
Subject(s): New Zealand


PETRIFIED TREES AND ENVIRONS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Damn these trees of jade
Last Line: When they turn suddenly to stone, together
Subject(s): New Zealand


RANOLF AND AMOHIA, SELS., by ALFRED DOMETT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): New Zealand - Maoris; Travel


REPLY FROM NEW ZEALAND, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You ask me if I have any miracles to report
Last Line: I seek the unreachable island, you
Subject(s): New Zealand


RETROSPECT, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One looks as in a glass
Last Line: Her beauty again makes him weep
Subject(s): New Zealand


RETURNING FROM THE ANTIPODES, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father, moving on with bed and bureau tied
Subject(s): New Zealand


SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At balclutha in the south
Subject(s): New Zealand


SEWER GANG, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You just use the top of your lungs, said the man
Last Line: And every hazard hiding in sludge toward that magnet moon
Subject(s): New Zealand


SHIPS IN SYDNEY HARBOR, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cast ashore in australia
Last Line: And of all fragile empires ripe for ruin
Subject(s): New Zealand


SONG OF THE COLONISTS DEPARTING FOR NEW ZEALAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Steer, helmsman, till you steer our way
Last Line: We'll plough a smiling land.
Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


SPRINKLED WITH GRACE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the sky we could see it is calligraphy
Subject(s): New Zealand


STATION, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We had read of the station
Last Line: I seek the unreachable island, you
Subject(s): New Zealand


TEACHING THE SNOW, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Five minutes before class
Last Line: And for once the great lesson takes hold
Subject(s): New Zealand


THE NEW ZEALAND MISSIONARY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas night, and in his tent he lay
Last Line: "for christ, my master's sake."
Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; New Zealand


THE NEW ZEALANDER, by BEN KENDIM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Samothrace and imbros lie
Last Line: Tom, his brother, envied him.
Subject(s): New Zealand; World War I; First World War


THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen
Last Line: To seek the happy isles!
Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si


THREE SACRED BEINGS NEAR CURIO BAY, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A half hour's walk and we find sheep
Last Line: And yet, I think, far wiser than I
Subject(s): New Zealand


TOWARD THE SMILE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As baxter is not among us
Last Line: Surf of our love from their shores
Subject(s): New Zealand


TOYLAND, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my first weeks in a foreign land I always regard
Last Line: And blessed again and again by nothing but distance %the ethereal blue
Subject(s): New Zealand


TROTTER'S GORGE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a few months at the most we two prowl
Last Line: The once trembling pilgrim, the proud pioneer
Subject(s): New Zealand


TWO DREAMS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having travelled quite a bit, I had worked up dreams
Last Line: To my indian friends raising their thousands on heads of pins
Subject(s): New Zealand


VIGIL, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine one lifting a stone, or burning the log out
Last Line: When historians say: they vanished in an evil cloud
Subject(s): New Zealand


VOYAGE OUT: LIVERPOOL TO PORT CHALMERS, N.Z., 1863, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Peasoup and pork today and a little girl's dying
Last Line: But I never did think it would be like it is, what it is now
Subject(s): New Zealand


WARLIKE OF THE ISLES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wave may not foam nor wild wind sweep %where rest not the british dead
Subject(s): New Zealand - Maori Wars; Travel


WARRIORS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In an elegant home in new zealand, shown around
Last Line: Now and then honking at sheep
Subject(s): New Zealand


WINNERS AND LOSERS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of winners and losers we consider the maori girl
Last Line: Have retaken their land. The middle-aged lover seduces his wife
Subject(s): New Zealand


WOOL HIGHWAYS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I were a lamb or even a goat I'd object
Last Line: Wool highways all over the world
Subject(s): New Zealand


WORLD WAR II, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boys all over the world
Last Line: And that wimpering girl
Subject(s): New Zealand