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Katherine Mansfield's Poetry, by title

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  • A Day in Bed
    I wish I had not got a cold,
    The wind is big and wild,
    30 lines, 3 comments
  • A Few Rules for Beginners
    Babies must not eat the coal
    And they must not make grimaces,
    15 lines, 6 comments
  • A Fine Day
    After all the rain, the sun
    Shines on hill and grassy mead;
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • A Joyful Song Of Five
    Come, let us all sing very high
    And all sing very loud
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • A Little Boy's Dream
    To and fro, to and fro
    In my little boat I go
    31 lines, 2 comments
  • A Little Girl's Prayer
    Grant me the moment, the lovely moment
    That I may lean forth to see
    25 lines, 2 comments
  • A New Hymn
    Sing a song of men's pyjamas,
    Half-past-six has got a pair,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Across The Red Sky
    Across the red sky two birds flying,
    Flying with drooping wings.
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Autumn Song
    Now's the time when children's noses
    All become as red as roses
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Butterfly Laughter
    In the middle of our porridge plates
    There was a blue butterfly painted
    13 lines, 4 comments
  • Camomile Tea
    Outside the sky is light with stars;
    There's a hollow roaring from the sea.
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • Countrywomen
    These be two
    Countrywomen.
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Covering Wings
    Love! Love! Your tenderness,
    Your beautiful, watchful ways
    39 lines, 1 comment
  • Deaf House Agent
    That deaf old man
    With his hand to his ear--
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child
    Shadow children, thin and small,
    Now the day is left behind,
    45 lines, 1 comment
  • Fairy Tale
    Now this is the story of Olaf
    Who ages and ages ago
    70 lines, 1 comment
  • Fairy Tale (2)
    Now folds the Tree of Day its perfect flowers,
    And every bloom becomes a bud again,
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Firelight
    Playing in the fire and twilight together,
    My little son and I,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Grown- Up Talk
    Half-Past-Six and I were talking
    In a very grown-up way;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • In the Rangitaki Valley

    valley of waving broom,
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Jangling Memory
    Heavens above! here's an old tie of your--
    Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground.
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Loneliness
    Now it is Loneliness who comes at night
    Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed.
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • Night-Scented Stock
    White, white in the milky night
    The moon danced over a tree.
    40 lines
  • Now I Am a Plant, a Weed
    Now I am a plant, a weed,
    Bending and swinging
    28 lines
  • On a Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary
    Baby Babbles--only one,
    Now to sit up has begun.
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Opposites
    The Half-Soled-Boots-With-Toecaps-Child
    Walked out into the street
    50 lines, 1 comment
  • Out in the Garden
    Out in the garden,
    Out in the windy, swinging dark,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Sanary
    Her little hot room looked over the bay
    Through a stiff palisade of glinting palms,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • Sea
    The Sea called--I lay on the rocks and said:
    "I am come."
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • Sea Song
    I will think no more of the sea!
    Of the big green waves
    51 lines, 1 comment
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