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Subject: NEW ZEALAND Matches Found: 76 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 |
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