An Anthology of Australian Verse

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

James Lister Cuthbertson. [reprise]

• Ode to Apollo
  • Periodical (Melbourne)

Notes on the Poems

Biographical Notes