Our favourite poems : New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems / introduction by Iain Sharp.

"This book contains 100 of New Zealand's favourite poems, chosen from all over the world and voted for in a national poll. These are poems that New Zealanders genuinely treasure, both high-brow and popular, traditional and contemporary, and while this anthology is firmly rooted in New Zealand, it retains a strong international flavour"--Back cover.

Introduction / Iain Sharp -- Rain / Hone Tuwhare -- The magpies / Denis Glover -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- Daffodils / William Wordsworth -- The Highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- A drowning / Charlotte Trevella -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Counting the cent / Trudi Sutcliffe -- High country weather / James K. Baxter -- from Twelve songs / W.H. Auden -- No ordinary sun / Hone Tuwhare -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- The tyger / William Blake -- On the ning nang song / Spike Milligan -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- He wishes for the cloths of Heaven / William Butler Yeats -- Remember / Christina Rossetti -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Warning / Jenny Joseph -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The Lady of Shalott / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Bubble trouble / Margaret Mahy -- Misty tree / Jennifer Hutchison -- Wild daisies / Bub Bridger -- Poem in the Matukituki Valley / James K. Baxter -- from The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- In Flanders Fields / John McCrae -- The listeners / Walter de la Mare -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- I carry your heart with me (I carry it in) / E.E. Cummings -- Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc -- Leisure / William Henry Davies -- Cargoes ; Sea-fever / John Masefield -- Kubla khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Milking before dawn / Ruth Dallas -- Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Throughout life / L.E. Scott -- Phenomenal woman / Maya Angelou -- The man from Snowy River / A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The raven / Edgar Allen Poe -- Upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- from Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barret Browning -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- The Maori Jesus / James K. Baxter -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Matilda / Hilaire Belloc -- Anthem for a doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- Sonnet 18 / William Shakespeare -- The man from Ironbark / A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson -- Like lamplight / Brian Turner -- Erebus voices / Bill Manhire -- from The ballad of reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde -- To autumn / John Keats -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot -- Ballad of Calvary Street / James K. Baxter -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden -- This be the verse / Philip Larken -- The donkey / G.K. Chesterton -- To a mouse / Robert Burns -- Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth / Pam Ayres -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Greedyguts / Kit Wright -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- from Arawata Bill / Denis Glover -- Desiderata / Max Ehrmann -- Little gidding / T.S. Eliot -- Porirua Friday night / Sam Hunt -- A smuggler's song / Rudyard Kipling -- The slave's dream / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman -- Arou ben adhem / Leigh Hunt -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Farmhand / James K. Baxter -- Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- High flight (an airman's ectasy) / John Gillespie Magee -- He waiata mo to kare / James K. Baxter -- Night mail / W.H. Auden -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- Forgetfulness / Billy Collins -- Disobedience / A.A. Milne -- Late song / Lauris Edmond -- Deep in the hills / Ruth Dallas -- Mothers, love your sons / Gleen Colquhoun -- Four bow-wow poems / Sam Hunt -- Not understood / Thomas Bracken -- At lunchtime / Roger McGough -- Acknowledgements -- Index of poets -- Index of first lines.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and indexes.