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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