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
- James Lister Cuthbertson. [reprise]
Ode to Apollo
Periodical (Melbourne)
Notes on the Poems
Biographical Notes
Some Notes on the etext