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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 representativeof the best short poems written by Australians or inspired byAustralian scenery and conditions of life, — "Australian" in this connectionbeing used to include New Zealand. The arrangement isas nearly as possible chronological; and the appendix containsbrief biographical particulars of the authors, together with noteswhich 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" (Melbo