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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〃
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
An Anthology of Australian Verse
Introduction
As the literature of a country is； in certain respects；
a reflex of its character； it may be advisable to introduce this Anthology
with some account of the main circumstances which have affected
the production of Australian poetry。
Australia was first settled by the British a little more than a century ago；
so that we are still a young community。 The present population；
including that of New Zealand； is a little under five millions；
or about the same as that of London； it is chiefly scattered
along the coast and the few permanent waterways； and a vast central region
is but sparsely inhabited as yet。 All climates； from tropical to frigid；
are included within the continent； but the want of satisfactory watersheds
renders it peculiarly liable to long droughts and sudden floods。
The absence of those broad； outward signs of the changing seasons
which mark the pageant of the year in the old world is probably
a greater disadvantage than we are apt to suspect。 Here； too；
have existed hardly any of the conditions which obtained in older communities
where great literature arose。 There is no glamour of old Romance
about our early history； no shading off from the actual
into a dim region of myth and fable； our beginnings are clearly defined
and of an eminently prosaic character。 The early settlers were engaged
in a hand…to…hand struggle with nature； and in the establishment
of the primitive industries。 Their strenuous pioneering days
were followed by the feverish excitement of the go
