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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