# An Anthology of Australian Verse

Introduction
William Charles Wentworth.
Charles Harpur.
* Love
* Words
* A Coast View
** "Poems"
William Forster.
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.
Thomas Alexander Browne (`Rolf Boldrewood').
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.
Patrick Moloney.
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.
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.
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.
Arthur Patchett Martin.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen.
Victor James Daley.
* Players
** Periodical (Sydney, 1900)
* Anna
** Periodical (Sydney, 1902)
* The Night Ride
** Manuscript
Alice Werner.
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.
John Sandes.
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.
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.
William Gay.
* Primroses
** "Christ on Olympus, and other Poems"
* To M.
* Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
** "Sonnets"
Edward Dyson.
Dowell O'Reilly.
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.
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.
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.
Ernest Currie.
George Charles Whitney.
James Lister Cuthbertson. [reprise]
Notes on the Poems
Biographical Notes
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