Chapter I: Front Matter

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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"