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The Poems of Henry Kendall?by Henry Kendall [Native-born Australian Poet -- 1841-1882.]
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This edition of Kendall contains: (i) The poems included in the three volumes published during the author's lifetime;?(ii) Those not reprinted by Kendall, but included in the collected editions of 1886, 1890 and 1903; (iii) Early pieces not hitherto reprinted; (iv) Poems, now first printed, from the Kendall MSS. in the Mitchell Library, the use of which has been kindly permitted by the Trustees. Certain topical skits and other pieces of no value have been omitted.
The Poems of Henry Kendall?With biographical note by Bertram Stevens
Contents
Poems and Songs
The Muse of Australia?Mountains?Kiama?Etheline?Aileen?Kooroora?Fainting by the Way?Song of the Cattle-Hunters?Footfalls?God Help Our Men at Sea?Sitting by the Fire?Bellambi's Maid?The Curlew Song?The Ballad of Tanna?The Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door?Urara?Evening Hymn?Stanzas?The Wail in the Native Oak?Harps We Love?Waiting and Wishing?The Wild Kangaroo?Clari?Wollongong?Ella with the Shining Hair?The Barcoo?Bells Beyond the Forest?Ulmarra?The Maid of Gerringong?Watching?The Opossum-Hunters?In the Depths of a Forest?To Charles Harpur?The River and the Hill?The Fate of the Explorers?Lurline?Under the Figtree?Drowned at Sea?Morning in the Bush?The Girl I Left Behind Me?Amongst the Roses?Sunset?Doubting?Geraldine?Achan
Leaves from Australian Forests
Dedication?Prefatory Sonnets?The Hut by the Black Swamp?September in Australia?Ghost Glen?Daphne?The Warrigal?Euroclydon?Araluen?At Euroma?Illa Creek?Moss on a Wall?Campaspe?On a Cattle Track?To Damascus?Bell-Birds?A Death in the Bush?A Spanish Love Song?The Last of His Tribe?Arakoon?The Voyage of Telegonus?Sitting by the Fire?Cleone?Charles Harpur?Coogee?Ogyges?By the Sea?King Saul at Gilboa?In the Valley?Twelve Sonnets --?A Mountain Spring?Laura?By a River?Attila?A Reward?To ----?The Stanza of Childe Harold?A Living Poet?Dante and Virgil?Rest?After Parting?Alfred Tennyson?Sutherland's Grave?Syrinx?On the Paroo?Faith in God?Mountain Moss?The Glen of Arrawatta?Euterpe?Ellen Ray?At Dusk?Safi?Daniel Henry Deniehy?Merope?After the Hunt?Rose Lorraine
Songs from the Mountains
To a Mountain?Mary Rivers?Kingsborough?Beyond Kerguelen?Black Lizzie?Hy-Brasil?Jim the Splitter?Mooni?Pytheas?Bill the Bullock-Driver?Cooranbean?When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass?The Voice in the Wild Oak?Billy Vickers?Persia?Lilith?Bob?Peter the Piccaninny?Narrara Creek?In Memory of John Fairfax?Araluen?The Sydney International Exhibition?Christmas Creek?Orara?The Curse of Mother Flood?On a Spanish Cathedral?Rover?The Melbourne International Exhibition?By the Cliffs of the Sea?Galatea?Black Kate?A Hyde Park Larrikin?Names Upon a Stone?Leichhardt?After Many Years
Early Poems, 1859-70
The Merchant Ship?Oh, Tell Me, Ye Breezes?The Far Future?Silent Tears?Extempore Lines?The Old Year?Tanna?The Earth Laments for Day?The Late W. V. Wild, Esq.?Astarte?Australian War Song?The Ivy on the Wall?The Australian Emigrant?To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall?The Waterfall?The Song of Arda?The Helmsman?To Miss Annie Hopkins?Foreshadowings?Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook?To Henry Halloran?Lost in the Flood?Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four?To ----?At Long Bay?For Ever?Sonnets?The Bereaved One?Dungog?Deniehy's Lament?Deniehy's Dream?Cui Bono??In Hyde Park?Australia Vindex?Ned the Larrikin?~In Memoriam~ -- Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse?Rizpah?Kiama Revisited?Passing Away?James Lionel Michael?Elijah?Manasseh?Caroline Chisholm?Mount Erebus?Our Jack?Camped by the Creek?Euterpe?Sedan
Other Poems, 1871-82
Adam Lindsay Gordon?In Memory of Edward Butler?How the Melbourne Cup was Won?Blue Mountain Pioneers?Robert Parkes?At Her Window?William Bede Dalley?To the Spirit of Music?John Dunmore Lang?On a Baby Buried by the Hawkesbury?Song of the Shingle-Splitters?On a Street?Heath from the Highlands?The Austral Months?Aboriginal Death-Song?Sydney Harbour?A Birthday Trifle?Frank Denz?Sydney Exhibition Cantata?Hymn of Praise?Basil Moss?Hunted Down?Wamberal?~In Memoriam~ -- Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse?From the Forests?John Bede Polding?Outre Mer
Biographical Note
Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his -- Adam Lindsay Gordon, of English parentage and education,?and Charles Harpur, born in Australia a generation earlier than Kendall. Harpur's work, though lacking vitality, shows fitful gleams of poetic fire suggestive of greater achievement had the circumstances of his life been more favourable. Kendall, whose lot was scarcely more fortunate, is a true singer; his songs remain, and are likely long to remain, attractive to poetry lovers.
The poet's grandfather, Thomas Kendall, a Lincolnshire schoolmaster, met the Revd. Samuel Marsden when the latter was in England seeking assistants for his projected missionary work in New Zealand. Kendall offered his services to the Church Missionary Society of London and came out to Sydney in 1809. Five years later he was sent to the Bay of Islands as a lay missionary, holding also?the first magistrate's commission issued for New Zealand.?He soon made friends with the Maoris and learnt their language well enough to compile a primer in pidgin-Maori, `A Korao no New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's First Book', which George Howe printed for Marsden at Sydney in 1815. In 1820 Thomas Kendall went to England?with some Maori chiefs, and while there helped Professor Lee, of Cambridge, to "fix" the Maori language -- the outcome of their work being Lee and Kendall's `Grammar