Title

Collected poems / Ruth Dallas.

Author

Dallas, Ruth.

Publication

Dunedin, New Zealand : University of Otago Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

203 p.; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Poems

Alternative Title

Poems

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• New Zealand poetry > 20th century
• Pastoral poetry
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century

Genre/Form

New Zealand poetry – 20th century.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Country Road -- The Picnic -- In the Park -- Deserted Beach -- Milking before Dawn -- Autumn Garden -- Winter Hedge -- The Worlds' Centre -- Grandmother and Child -- Clear Sky -- The Land -- Man from the Hills -- Tinker, Tailor -- The Ship -- The Wave to Come -- Tui -- Return -- Entering Beech Forest -- Woman at a Window -- A House-sale -- Deep in the Hills -- Farmyard -- Song -- Morning Thaw -- Sea and Bush -- Growing Pains -- The Boy on the Rock -- Autumn Landscape -- A Striped Shell -- Elegy in Spring -- Under Beech Trees -- The Boy -- A Tea-shop -- Autumn, 1951 -- River-paddocks -- Letter to a Chinese Poet -- Six Songs -- The Turning Wheel -- Singing in the Back-yard -- Frost at Night -- The Sea -- Winter Solstice -- Snowfall -- Evening -- Song for a Guitar -- Rain -- Crocus -- Dial -- Lines -- Branches -- North Wind -- September -- Among Old Houses -- A Pioneer Cottage -- The Magnolia Grove -- Spring Day -- Viewing the Cherry Blossom -- Sunday Afternoon -- As the Days Lengthen -- Night Piece -- Broom -- On the Road -- Pines -- The Pool -- Fields in Midsummer -- The Orchard, February -- Wild Plum -- April Breeze -- A Letter -- Rainy Sunday -- In Day Becalmed -- Afternoon in May -- Winter Dusk -- Envoy -- Shadow Show -- Harbour -- A Fisherman -- Moods of a Day -- The Berry Pickers -- Lazarus -- In the Dead Woman's House -- An Office Cyclamen -- New -- A Girl's Song -- What a Man Does with his Strength -- Jolly Shepherd -- Brush Strokes -- Fossil Ferns -- Pioneer Blues -- Windswept Trees -- In the Giant's Castle -- Driftwood -- At the Door -- A Boy Fishing -- The Nurseryman -- The Irishwoman -- Girl with a Guitar: Words for Music -- Interval -- The Fairground -- Faces in the Street -- Seedling -- Prayer -- A Fly -- At the Heads -- The Building -- In the Garden and out of it -- Still Life -- South and North of the City -- Pot/Poem -- Fruit Country -- Night -- The Enchanted Prince -- In Central Otago -- The Almond Hedge -- Kyeburn Diggings -- Pickers Wanted -- Down the Harbour -- Black-backed Gulls -- A Warm Evening -- Old Engines -- Kate, Sweet Kate -- Night Rain -- Looking from a Window -- Living with a Cabbage-tree -- In the University Library -- The Lamp -- Encounter -- Unripe Damson -- Bush Country -- House Unoccupied -- The Weather Clock -- An Abstract Painting -- Tune for a Descant Recorder -- Saturday Afternoon -- The Wind at Night -- Haiku -- Snow -- On Reading Love Poems -- Old Barns -- Black on White -- First Meeting -- Dreaming of the Dead -- Out and About -- Photographs of Pioneer Women -- Pioneer Woman with Ferrets -- Eleven Old Men -- An Old Woman Thinks of Death -- School Slates -- Guy Fawkes, Immigrant -- Buying Bamboo -- A Ball of String -- A Blue Flower -- The Falling House -- Listening to Delius -- Last Letter -- New Year -- Mr. Hoffman -- Japonica in Rain -- A New Dress -- Silver -- Close-up of a Daisy -- Listening to a Schubert Song -- Horse, Earthenware -- Pigeon's Haiku -- The Leopard -- Golden Pheasant and Mirror -- Girl with Pitcher -- An Apparition -- Violets -- On the Bridge -- A Coat -- A Cockle -- Jenny's Song -- Making Poems -- Riding the Planet Earth -- Overcast -- Telemachus with a Transistor -- Iceland Poppies -- Peacocks -- Sparrows -- Albatross Chick -- Falcon -- Haiku -- Song in Summer -- The Moon Rises Twice -- Jackinabox -- Reverie.

ISBN

1877133868

OCLC

44789765

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library