An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920

Edited by John Kinsella

TABLE of CONTENTS

Nedlands, W.A. The University of Western Australia Library

2007

Acknowledgements Thanks to the English Department at Kenyon College, the Office of the Provost at Kenyon College, and the Kenyon College Library (Consort, OhioLink, Interlibrary Loan); to the Landscape and Language Centre at Edith Cowan University; to Toby Burrows at the Scholars' Centre, Reid Library, University of Western Australia; to the Battye Library, Western Australia; to the Flinder's Library, Sydney; special thanks to the SETIS website at Sydney University Library; to Nicholas Pounder, Sydney; to Serendipity Books, Perth; to Greg at Imprints Bookshop, Adelaide; to Mainly Books, Perth; and special thanks to Andy Grace, my hardworking, hard-typing research assistant and good friend at Kenyon College. I would also like to acknowledge the indigenous people of Australia as the custodial keepers of the land-mass known as “Australia”, and to indicate my respect for their cultures and traditions. This Anthology is published in electronic form by the University of Western Australia Library. Copyright in the selection and arrangement: John Kinsella.

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Table of Contents Part One Erasmus Darwin Visit of Hope to Sydney-Cove, near Botany-Bay George Carter

True Patriots All

Henry Carter Prologue. By a Gentleman of Leicester John Grant Verses Written to Lewin, the Entomologist, 1805 Anonymous (either George Howe or Reverend Samuel Marsden)

A Gardening Poem of 1809

Michael Massey Robinson

Ode (For His Majesty’s Birth Day.)

An Ode

Ode (For The Queen’s Birthday, 1816.)

Song (To Celebrate the Anniversary of the Establishment of the Colony)

Barron Field

Botany-Bay Flowers

On Reading the Controversy Between Lord Byron and Mr. Bowles

Sonnet on Affixing a Tablet to the Memory of Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks Against the Rock of Their First Landing in Botany Bay

Sonnet on Visiting the Spot Where Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks First Landed in Botany Bay

The Kangaroo

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Richard Whately There is a Place in Distant Seas

William Charles Wentworth

Australasia

Impromptu

Anonymous To the Editor, Sydney Gazette “T.K.” Australia; or the Exile

Mary Leman Grimstone

On Visiting the Cemetery at Hobart Town John Dunmore Lang

Colonial Nomenclature

D’Entrecasteaux’ Channel,Van Dieman’s Land Sadoean Ballad No. 3

Sonnet

Anonymous

Botany Bay Flowers

“Rusticus”

Of All the Flowers That Sweetly Blow Charles Tompson An Elegy on Winter in Argyleshire

Ode V. to Sylvia

Retrospect; Or, A Review of my Scholastic Days

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“L.” To The Swan

Anonymous

A New Song

“Q.”

A Hot Day in Sydney The Tothersider and the Perthite

Anonymous

Genuine Botany Bay Eclogues No. 1 Australian Courtship Anonymous

Botany Bay, A New Song

Anonymous

Van Diemen’s Land

Eliza Hamilton Dunlop

The Aboriginal Mother

The Aboriginal Father

James Knox

Transplanted Trees Charles M’Donald An Address

Miss Sarah Collins

Lament

Francis MacNamara

(‘Frank the Poet’)

A Convict’s Tour to Hell

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A petition from the chain gang at Newcastle to Captain Furlong the superintendent praying him to dismiss a scourger named Duffy from the cookhouse and appoint a man in his room. Farewell to Tasmania

Labouring With the Hoe

The Seizure of Cyprus Brig in Recherche Bay, Aug., 1829

Epigram of Introduction

Anonymous

Paddy Malone In Australia

Robert Gray

The Regatta Anonymous Jack Donahue and His Gang Anonymous

Moreton Bay

George J. Macdonald

On a Movement of Beethoven’s

Lines to a Steamboat

Fidelia Hill

Adelaide

Recollections

Anonymous Testimony to Gawler Henry Parkes Solitude

A Beauteous Terrorist

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PART TWO

Charles Harpur

A Basket of Summer Fruit

A Flight of Wild Ducks

A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest

A Storm in the Mountains

VIII. Collins VII. Gray

CXXIX Poetry and Prose

The Creek of the Four Graves

The Drunkard

Richard Howitt

To The Daisy

Tullamarine Anonymous Scraps from a Bushman’s Note Book G.F. Pickering The Bushman’s Grave

‘Auster’

The Tasmanian Aborigine’s Lament and Remonstrance When in Sight of His Native Land from Flinders Island Daniel Henry Deniehy To His Wife Amans Amare Caroline Leakey

English Wild Flowers

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The Prisoners’ Hospital, Van Diemen’s Land Charles R. Thatcher Dick Briggs from Australia

The New-Chum Swell

The Queer Ways of Australia Anonymous

Me and My Dog

Anonymous

The Stringybark Cockatoo Andrew Wotherspoon

Lines

Anonymous Untitled Anonymous

Brave Ben Hall

Anonymous

The Wild Colonial Boy

Anonymous

The Old Keg Of Rum

Anonymous

They’ve All Got a Mate but Me

Caroline Carleton

Fragmentary Lines Written in the Cemetery

Lines On the Suicide of a Young Lady

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Wild Flowers of Australia

James Lionel Michael

Memory

Anonymous

The Free Selector

Henry Kendall

A Death in the Bush

Aboriginal Death-Song

Bell Birds

Charles Harpur

Lilith

On a Street

The Last of His Tribe

The Hut by the Black Swamp

The Warrigal

Adam Lindsay Gordon

No Name

The Sick Stockrider

Valedictory Poem

John Le Gay Brereton

Kretschmann

Open Speech

Unborn

Menie Parkes

Our Darling’s Lover

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Edgar George Williams

Canberra in 1867

Bertha Boyd

Daniel in the Lion’s Den

Elizabeth Deborah Brockman

On Receiving From England A Bunch of Dried Wild Flowers

The Cedars To England Ministering Ralph Delaney Old Scotland J. Swain Carol of the Reapers John Boyle O’Reilly

The Dukite Snake

M.C. (Catherine Edith Macaulay Martin)

My Love Gave Me

“Silent Jim”

“Whitefellow”

On the Death of the Aboriginal Cricketer John Taylor

PART THREE

Elizabeth Julia McKeahnie

In Memory of Mr. Kenneth Cameron

J. Brenchley

Odorous Melbourne

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Henry E. Clay

Blackboy Hill “Sylvanus” (William Forster) The Devil and the Governor Arthur Patchett Martin A Bush Study, A La Watteau A Romance in the Rough

My Cousin from Pall Mall

‘Australie’ (Emily Manning) From the Clyde to Braidwood Anonymous

The Old Bullock Dray

Charles Frederic Chubb

An Ode to Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight

Alexander Russell

An Australian Drought On the Port Elliot Rocks, S.A.

Douglas B.W. Sladen

To The Australian Eleven Under the Wattle

Keighley Goodchild

The Mechanic’s Song Francis Adams Post-Mortem

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“Rolf Boldrewood” (T.A. Browne) The Bushman’s Lullaby Marcus Clarke An Australian Paean—1876 In a Lady’s Album Anonymous How Long, O Lord! Anonymous

Lousy Harry

Mrs. J. A. Bode

Lubra

Mary Hannay Foott

Where the Pelican Builds

In the Land of Dreams

Happy Days

In Time of Drought

New Country

John Hood

The Death of the Native Chief Robert Lowe The Price of Freedom Song of the Squatters I Song of the Squatters II Anonymous

Botany Bay

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John Farrell Australia

Ada Cambridge

Contentment

The Future Verdict

Vows

An Old Doll

Craven-Heart

Desire

Drunk

Fashion

Individuality

Influence

Outcast

The Mob

Wasted

Ethel Castilla An Australian Girl Alpha Crucis

Trucanini’s Dirge

Margaret Thomas Adam Lindsay Gordon

Frank Penn-Smith

A Deserted Clearing

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Anonymous

Who Cares for Nothing George Essex Evans

The Women of the West

From Loraine

Toowoomba

Sydney Jephcott

In the Morning

“Frederick” North Brisbane Advance Inez K. Hyland Disloyalty F.C.B. Vosper The New Woman

Edward Dyson

Struck It at Last

Arthur Bayldon

Crabs Night-Silence Barcroft Boake

Where the Dead Men Lie

Christopher Brennan

[The point of noon is past, outside: light is asleep; . .] [There is a far-off thrill that troubles me: . .]

[Was it the sun that broke my dream . .]

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[She is the night: all horror is of her . .]

[This is of Lilith, by her Hebrew name . .]

[Thus in her hour of wrath, o'er Adam's head . .] 1908

[Come out, come out, ye souls that serve, why will ye die? . .]

[Dawns of the world, how I have known you all, . .]

[Each day I see the long ships coming into port . .]

[How old is my heart, how old is my heart, . .]

[I am driven everywhere from a clinging home, . .]

[I cry to you as I pass your windows in the dusk; . .]

[I sorrow for youth — ah, not for its wildness (would that were dead!) . .]

[O desolate eves along the way, how oft, . .]

[O tame heart, and why are you weary and cannot rest? . .]

[Once I could sit by the fire hourlong when the dripping eaves . .]

[The land I came thro' last was dumb with night, . .]

[What is there with you and me, that I may not forget . .]

[When window-lamps had dwindled, then I rose . .]

[You, at whose table I have sat, some distant eve . .]

[The yellow gas is fired from street to street . .]

[The winter eve is clear and chill:]

[Sweet silence after bells! . .]

‘Viator’ (Charles W. Andree Hayward) Along the Road to Cue

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Victor J. Daley Dreams In a Wine Cellar St. Francis II Tamerlane

The Woman at the Washtub

Villanelle

Anonymous

The Twentieth Century Girl

PART FOUR

Henry Ffrench Gillman

On Jezebel

R. Holt

Lachlan Jack

W.T. Goodge The Great Australian Adjective “The Boulder Bard” (“Willy-Willy”)

Ode to West Australia

Anonymous

One of the Has-beens

Henry Lawson

My Literary Friend

The Captain Of The Push

The Old Jimmy Woodser

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“Thistle” M.C. Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher)

The War and Other Things

A.B. Paterson

Song of the Artesian Water

Song Of The Wheat

The Angel's Kiss

Waltzing Matilda

Alfred George Stephens The Hanging Judge Brunton Stephens

On a Fork of Byron's

Furnley Maurice (Frank Wilmot)

Town Folk

The Agricultural Show, Flemington, Victoria Bernard O’Dowd Australia Envy The Asetic Call Martin Benson Threshing

Anonymous

Bringing Home The Cows

Anonymous

Dwell Not With Me

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Anonymous

Sunny New South Wales

Anonymous

Two Aboriginal Songs

Ernest Favenc Daybreak in the Desert In the Desert Louisa Lawson

A Child's Question

A Mother's Answer

Lines

The City Bird

George Gordon McCrae The Silence of the Bush

Life’s a Cigar

Edwin Greenslade Murphy (“Dryblower”)

The Smiths

The Lodes That Under-lie

The Rhymes That Our Hearts Can Read Frederic Manning

Grotesque

Leaves The Trenches William Baylebridge (William Blocksidge) “II” from Life’s Testament

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“XXXII” from Love Redeemed

Mary Fullerton (“E”)

Crows

Cubes Emus

Flesh

Lichen

Lovers

Modern Poets

Process

The Selector’s Wife

Dorothea Mackellar A Smoke Song

My Country

Frederick William Ophel A Mining Analogy

His Epitaph

Charles Souter Harvest Time Anonymous

McQuade’s Curse

Francis Kenna In the Bush Zora Berenice May Cross Elegy on an Australian Schoolboy

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Girl-Gladness

Love Sonnets

X. XV. XVII. XXI. XXV. XXVI. XXVIII. XXIX. XXXV. XLII. XLIV. XLIX. LIV. LVIII. LX.

Sonnets of Motherhood

VI. VIII. X. XXIV. XXVII. XXIX. XXXI.

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XL. XLV. Joseph Furphy

Elegy on Lincoln

John Shaw Neilson

In the Dim Counties

Love's Coming

May

Schoolgirls Hastening

Song Be Delicate

The Crane is My Neighbour

The Loving Tree

The Orange Tree

The Poor Can Feed the Birds

To a Blue Flower

Leon Gellert

‘If You Were Here’

A Night Attack

In the Trench

The Attack at Dawn

The Diggers

These Men

Blind!

The Brothers

Bluebeard’s First Wife

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The Jester in the Trench

The Wrecked Aeroplane

Mary Corringham On Observing a Bison at the Zoo James Picot To the Rosella in the Poinsettia Tree C. J. Dennis

Wheat

Lesbia Harford

XXIV A Bad Snap

XLIV An Improver

XXXVII Buddha in the Workroom

LXXIV

LXVI Periodicity

LXVII Pruning Flowering Gums

XLVII Revolution

XIII

XVI Learning Geography

XVII

XXX The Nuns and the Lilies

A. Bertha Crowther Our Home

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Appendices Appendix 1 : Robert Southey, Botany-Bay Eclogues Appendix 2 : L.E. Threlkeld, The Muses—Poetry Appendix 3 : Philip Cohen, Description of the “Gaboora” Appendix 4 : Thomas Brune and others Appendix 5 : Henry E. Clay, Two and Two Appendix 6 : Ludwig Becker, Ein Australisch’ Lied Works Cited

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