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An Anthology of Australian Verse?Edited by Bertram Stevens
Dedicated to?DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL, Esq.?Sydney
Preface
The Editor has endeavoured to make this selection representative of the best short poems written by Australians or inspired by Australian scenery and conditions of life, -- "Australian" in this connection being used to include New Zealand. The arrangement is?as nearly as possible chronological; and the appendix contains brief biographical particulars of the authors, together with notes which may be useful to readers outside Australia.
The Editor thanks Messrs. H. H. Champion, Henry Gyles Turner, E. B. Loughran, A. Brazier and Walter Murdoch (Melbourne),?Mr. Sydney Jephcott (Upper Murray, Vic.), Mr. Fred. Johns (Adelaide), Mr. Thomas Cottle (Auckland), Mr. J. C. Andersen (Christchurch), Messrs. David Scott Mitchell, Alfred Lee, A. W. Jose,?and J. Le Gay Brereton (Sydney), for their generous help.?Mr. Douglas Sladen's anthologies, Messrs. Turner and Sutherland's "Development of Australian Literature", and `The Bulletin' have also furnished much useful information.
Contents
Introduction
William Charles Wentworth.?Australasia
"Australasia: a Poem"
Charles Harpur.?Love?Words?A Coast View
"Poems"
William Forster.?`The Love in her Eyes lay Sleeping'
"Midas"
James Lionel Michael.?`Through Pleasant Paths'
"John Cumberland"?Personality
Periodical (Sydney, 1858)
Daniel Henry Deniehy.?Love in a Cottage?A Song for the Night
Periodical (Sydney, 1847)
Richard Rowe.?Superstites Rosae?Soul Ferry
"Peter 'Possum's Portfolio"
Sir Henry Parkes.?The Buried Chief
"Fragmentary Thoughts"
Thomas Alexander Browne (`Rolf Boldrewood').?Perdita
"Old Melbourne Memories"
Adam Lindsay Gordon.?A Dedication
"Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes"?Thora's Song
"Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric"?The Sick Stock-rider
"Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes"
Henry Kendall.?Prefatory Sonnets?September in Australia?Rose Lorraine
"Leaves from Australian Forests"?To a Mountain?Araluen?After Many Years?Hy-Brasil
"Songs from the Mountains"?Outre Mer
"Poems"
Marcus Clarke.?The Song of Tigilau
"Austral Edition of the collected Works of Marcus Clarke"
Patrick Moloney.?Melbourne
"An Easter Omelette" (Melbourne, 1879)
Alfred Domett.?An Invitation?A Maori Girl's Song
"Ranolf and Amohia"
James Brunton Stephens.?The Dominion of Australia?The Dark Companion
"Miscellaneous Poems"?Day?Night
"Convict Once"
Thomas Bracken.?Not Understood?Spirit of Song
"Musings in Maoriland"
Ada Cambridge.?What of the Night??Good-bye?The Virgin Martyr?Honour?Despair?Faith
Manuscript
Alexander Bathgate.?The Clematis
"Far South Fancies"
Philip Joseph Holdsworth.?Quis Separabit?
Manuscript?My Queen of Dreams
"Station Hunting on the Warrego"
Mary Hannay Foott.?Where the Pelican Builds?New Country?No Message?Happy Days
"Morna Lee and other Poems"
Henry Lea Twisleton.?To a Cabbage Rose
"Poems"
Mrs. James Glenny Wilson.?Fairyland?A Winter Daybreak?The Lark's Song
"A Book of Verses"
Edward Booth Loughran.?Dead Leaves?Isolation?Ishmonie
"'Neath Austral Skies"
John Liddell Kelly.?Immortality?Heredity
"Heather and Fern"
Robert Richardson.?A Ballade of Wattle Blossom?A Song
"Willow and Wattle"
James Lister Cuthbertson.?Australia Federata?At Cape Schanck
"Barwon Ballads"?Wattle and Myrtle
Periodical (Melbourne)?The Australian Sunrise
Periodical (Geelong)
John Farrell.?Australia to England
Periodical (Sydney, 1897)
Arthur Patchett Martin.?Bushland
"The Withered Jester, and other Verses"
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen.?Under the Wattle
Periodical (1888)
Victor James Daley.?Players
Periodical (Sydney, 1900)?Anna
Periodical (Sydney, 1902)?The Night Ride
Manuscript
Alice Werner.?Bannerman of the Dandenong
"A Time and Times"
Ethel Castilla.?An Australian Girl?A Song of Sydney
"The Australian Girl, and other Verses"
Francis William Lauderdale Adams.?Something?Gordon's Grave?To A. L. Gordon
"Poetical Works"?Love and Death
Manuscript
Thomas William Heney.?Absence
"In Middle Harbour, and other Verse"?A Riverina Road
Periodical (Sydney, 1891)
Patrick Edward Quinn.?A Girl's Grave
Periodical (Sydney, 1889)
John Sandes.?`With Death's Prophetic Ear'
"Ballads of Battle"
Inez K. Hyland.?To a Wave?Bread and Wine
"In Sunshine and in Shadow"
George Essex Evans.?An Australian Symphony?A Nocturne?A Pastoral
"Loraine, and other Verses"?The Women of the West
Periodical (Melbourne)
Mary Colborne-Veel.?`What Look hath She?'?Saturday Night?`Resurgam'
"The Fairest of the Angels, and other Verse"?Distant Authors
Periodical (London)
John Bernard O'Hara.?Happy Creek?A Country Village?Flinders
"Lyrics of Nature"
M. A. Sinclair.?The Chatelaine
Periodical (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Sydney Jephcott.?Chaucer?White Paper?Splitting
"The Secrets of the South"?Home-woe?A Ballad of the last King of Thule?A Fragment
Manuscript
Andrew Barton Paterson (`Banjo').?The Daylight is Dying?Clancy of the Overflow?Black Swans?The Travelling Post Office
"The Man from Snowy River"?The Old Australian Ways?By the Grey Gulf-Water
"Rio Grande's Last Race, and other Verses"
Jessie Mackay.?The Grey Company?A Folk Song?Dunedin in the Gloaming?The Burial of Sir John Mackenzie
Periodical (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Henry Lawson.?Andy's gone with Cattle?Out Back?The Star of Australasia?Middleton's Rouseabout?The Vagabond?The Sliprails and the Spur
"In the Days when the World was Wide, and other Verses"
Arthur Albert Dawson Bayldon.?Sunset?The Sea?To Poesy
"The Western Track, and other Verses"
Jennings Carmichael.?An Old Bush Road?A Woman's Mood
"Poems"
Agnes L. Storrie.?Twenty Gallons of Sleep?A Confession
"Poems"
Martha M. Simpson.?To an Old Grammar
Periodical (Sydney)
William Gay.?Primroses
"Christ on Olympus, and other Poems"?To M.?Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
"Sonnets"
Edward Dyson.?The Old Whim Horse
"Rhymes from the Mines, and other Lines"
Dowell O'Reilly.?The Sea-Maiden
Periodical (Sydney, 1895)
David MacDonald Ross.?Love's Treasure House?The Sea to the Shell?The Silent Tide?The Watch on Deck?Autumn
"The After Glow"
Mary Gilmore.?A Little Ghost
Periodical (Orange, N.S.W.)?Good-Night
Periodical (Brisbane)
Bernard O'Dowd.?Love's Substitute?Our Duty
Manuscript
Edwin James Brady.?The Wardens of the Seas
Manuscript
Will. H. Ogilvie.?Queensland Opal
Periodical (London)?Wind o' the Autumn
Periodical (London)?Daffodils
Periodical (Edinburgh)?A Queen of Yore
Periodical (Sydney)?Drought
Periodical (London)?The Shadow on the Blind
Periodical (London)
Roderic Quinn.?The House of the Commonwealth
Periodical (Sydney)?The Lotus-Flower
Manuscript
David McKee Wright.?An Old Colonist's Reverie
"Station Ballads, and other Verses"
Christopher John Brennan.?Romance
"XXI Poems: Towards the Source"?Poppies
Manuscript
John Le Gay Brereton.?The Sea Maid
"Oithona"?Home
"Sea and Sky"?Wilfred
Periodical (Sydney)
Arthur H. Adams.?Bayswater, W.
Manuscript?Bond Street
Periodical (London)
Ethel Turner.?A Trembling Star?`Oh, if that Rainbow up there!'
"Gum Leaves"
Johannes Carl Andersen.?Soft, Low and Sweet
"Songs Unsung"?Maui Victor
Periodical (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Dora Wilcox.?In London
"Verses from Maoriland"
Ernest Currie.?Laudabunt Alii
Periodical (Timaru, N.Z.)
George Charles Whitney.?Sunset
Manuscript
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