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An Anthology of Australian Verse

by Bertram Stevens

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Australasia
  4. 4Love
  5. 5Words
  6. 6A Coast View
  7. 7`The Love in Her Eyes Lay Sleeping’
  8. 8`Through Pleasant Paths’
  9. 9Personality
  10. 10Love in a Cottage
  11. 11A Song for the Night
  12. 12Superstites Rosae
  13. 13Soul Ferry
  14. 14The Buried Chief
  15. 15Thomas Alexander Browne (`Rolf Boldrewood’)
  16. 16A Dedication
  17. 17Thora’s Song
  18. 18The Sick Stock-rider
  19. 19Prefatory Sonnets
  20. 20September in Australia
  21. 21Rose Lorraine
  22. 22To a Mountain
  23. 23Araluen
  24. 24After Many Years
  25. 25Hy-Brasil
  26. 26Outre Mer
  27. 27The Song of Tigilau
  28. 28Melbourne
  29. 29An Invitation
  30. 30A Maori Girl’s Song
  31. 31The Dominion of Australia
  32. 32The Dark Companion
  33. 33Day
  34. 34Night
  35. 35Not Understood
  36. 36Spirit of Song
  37. 37What of the Night?
  38. 38Good-bye
  39. 39The Virgin Martyr
  40. 40Honour
  41. 41Despair
  42. 42Faith
  43. 43The Clematis
  44. 44Quis Separabit?
  45. 45My Queen of Dreams
  46. 46Where the Pelican Builds
  47. 47New Country
  48. 48No Message
  49. 49Happy Days
  50. 50To a Cabbage Rose
  51. 51Fairyland
  52. 52A Winter Daybreak
  53. 53The Lark’s Song
  54. 54Dead Leaves
  55. 55Isolation
  56. 56Ishmonie
  57. 57Immortality
  58. 58Heredity
  59. 59A Ballade of Wattle Blossom
  60. 60A Song
  61. 61Australia Federata
  62. 62At Cape Schanck
  63. 63Wattle and Myrtle
  64. 64The Australian Sunrise
  65. 65Australia to England
  66. 66Bushland
  67. 67Under the Wattle
  68. 68Players
  69. 69Anna
  70. 70The Night Ride
  71. 71Bannerman of the Dandenong
  72. 72An Australian Girl
  73. 73A Song of Sydney
  74. 74Something
  75. 75Gordon’s Grave
  76. 76To A. L. Gordon
  77. 77Love and Death
  78. 78Absence
  79. 79A Riverina Road
  80. 80A Girl’s Grave
  81. 81`With Death’s Prophetic Ear’
  82. 82To a Wave
  83. 83Bread and Wine
  84. 84An Australian Symphony
  85. 85A Nocturne
  86. 86A Pastoral
  87. 87The Women of the West
  88. 88`What Look Hath She?’
  89. 89Saturday Night
  90. 90`Resurgam’
  91. 91Distant Authors
  92. 92Happy Creek
  93. 93A Country Village
  94. 94Flinders
  95. 95The Chatelaine
  96. 96Chaucer
  97. 97White Paper
  98. 98Splitting
  99. 99Home-woe
  100. 100A Ballad of the Last King of Thule
  101. 101A Fragment
  102. 102Andrew Barton Paterson (`Banjo’)
  103. 103Clancy of the Overflow
  104. 104Black Swans
  105. 105The Travelling Post Office
  106. 106The Old Australian Ways
  107. 107By the Grey Gulf-Water
  108. 108The Grey Company
  109. 109A Folk Song
  110. 110Dunedin in the Gloaming
  111. 111The Burial of Sir John Mackenzie
  112. 112Andy’s Gone With Cattle
  113. 113Out Back
  114. 114The Star of Australasia
  115. 115Middleton’s Rouseabout
  116. 116The Vagabond
  117. 117The Sliprails and the Spur
  118. 118Sunset
  119. 119The Sea
  120. 120To Poesy
  121. 121An Old Bush Road
  122. 122A Woman’s Mood
  123. 123Twenty Gallons of Sleep
  124. 124A Confession
  125. 125To an Old Grammar
  126. 126William Gay
  127. 127To M.
  128. 128Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
  129. 129The Old Whim Horse
  130. 130The Sea-Maiden
  131. 131Love’s Treasure House
  132. 132The Sea to the Shell
  133. 133The Silent Tide
  134. 134The Watch on Deck
  135. 135Autumn
  136. 136A Little Ghost
  137. 137Good-Night
  138. 138Love’s Substitute
  139. 139Our Duty
  140. 140The Wardens of the Seas
  141. 141Queensland Opal
  142. 142Wind o’ the Autumn
  143. 143Daffodils
  144. 144A Queen of Yore
  145. 145Drought
  146. 146The Shadow on the Blind
  147. 147The House of the Commonwealth
  148. 148The Lotus-Flower
  149. 149An Old Colonist’s Reverie
  150. 150Romance
  151. 151Poppies
  152. 152The Sea Maid
  153. 153Home
  154. 154Wilfred
  155. 155Bayswater, W.
  156. 156Bond Street
  157. 157A Trembling Star
  158. 158`Oh, If That Rainbow Up There!’
  159. 159Soft, Low and Sweet
  160. 160Maui Victor
  161. 161In London
  162. 162Laudabunt Alii
  163. 163Sunset
  164. 164James Lister Cuthbertson. [Reprise] — Ode to Apollo
  165. 165Notes on the Poems
  166. 166Biographical Notes
  167. 167Some Notes on This Etext

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