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The Poetry of South Africa

by Alexander Wilmot

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Poems
  3. 3The Bechuana Boy
  4. 4Afar in the Desert
  5. 5Evening Rambles
  6. 6The Lion Hunt
  7. 7The Lion and the Giraffe
  8. 8The Desolate Valley
  9. 9The Coranna
  10. 10Song of the Wild Bushman
  11. 11The Captive of Camalú
  12. 12The Brown Hunter’s Song
  13. 13The Bushman
  14. 14The Cape of Storms
  15. 15The Hottentot
  16. 16The Caffer
  17. 17The Ghona Widow’s Lullaby
  18. 18The Kosa
  19. 19Makanna’s Gathering
  20. 20The Incantation
  21. 21The Caffer Commando
  22. 22The Rock of Reconcilement
  23. 23The Forester of the Neutral Ground — A South African Border Ballad
  24. 24The Emigrant’s Cabin at the Cape — An Epistle in Rhyme
  25. 25The Volunteers of England. By a Colonist
  26. 26“The Dear Old Land”
  27. 27The Funeral in the Abbey
  28. 28A Farewell to English Friends
  29. 29A Missionary’s Last Farewell to England
  30. 30A Reminiscence of 1820
  31. 31Past and Present
  32. 32A South African Wilderness
  33. 33A Sunrise Thought at “Cove Rock”
  34. 34An Ocean Sunset
  35. 35A Sight From the Shore
  36. 36The Thunderstorm at Bathurst
  37. 37A Morning Wish for a Friend
  38. 38A Night Thought
  39. 39The Little Shell at Cove Rock
  40. 40A Tribute of Sympathy to the Defenders of Glen Lynden
  41. 41The Colours of the First 24th — Respectfully Dedicated to the Survi…
  42. 42Our Boys
  43. 43In the Drought Lands of South Africa — The Rain
  44. 44In the Country of Mankoraan. (North of the Vaal River, December, 18…
  45. 45Drink
  46. 46South Africa Rediviva
  47. 47The Beautful Island of Dreams
  48. 48Cape of Good Hope
  49. 49Good Hope
  50. 50ODE. (From Horace — Lib. Ii. Od. 18.)
  51. 51After a Storm
  52. 52Ammap and Griet — A Legend of the ’Nosop
  53. 53Sonnets of the Cape
  54. 54The Faded Photograph. To My Friend, David C — , Bath, Somersetshire
  55. 55Eveleen
  56. 56Farewell to Madeira
  57. 57Farewell to Fifty-five
  58. 58“Lead, Kindly Light”
  59. 59“Should It Be According to Thy Mind.” — (Job XXXIV 33.)
  60. 60To Graaff Reinet
  61. 61Hymn. Written During the Zulu War
  62. 62The Lament of the Gutter Lately Filled Up by an Unpoetical Municipa…
  63. 63My “Salted” Steed
  64. 64A Romance From the Fields — A Colonial Ballad
  65. 65The Flight of the Amakosa — A Rifle Corps Legend
  66. 66An Idyl of a Prince. (Not After Tennyson.)
  67. 67A Christmas Apparition — A Bil-Ious Legend
  68. 68Freedom’s Home
  69. 69The Gallant “Teuton”
  70. 70The Sunny Hills of Africa
  71. 71The Southern Cross — An Ode
  72. 72Hon. William Porter, C.M.G. — An Elegy
  73. 73Ode on the British Settlers’ Year of Jubilee — Nam Qui Hœc Dicunt,…
  74. 74Dives Redivivus
  75. 75The Burghers’ Gathering
  76. 76Storm in Tugela Valley, Natal
  77. 77The Natal Gold Diggings. To Greenhorns
  78. 78Nature — A Day on the Hills, in Natal
  79. 79Contentment. For My Mother
  80. 80Not Here
  81. 81Revelation Xxii — Versified
  82. 82Ezekiel XLVII. 1-12
  83. 83Change
  84. 84Heavenly Friendship
  85. 85Lines Written in an Album
  86. 86The Defence of Rorke’s Drift — January 22-23, 1879
  87. 87“Rorke’s Drift.” — January 22, 1879
  88. 88Before Ulundi
  89. 89The Baron’s Adventure. (A Fact.)
  90. 90South African Courtship
  91. 91The Better Land. After Shemans
  92. 92“Dolly.” — A Remembrance
  93. 93Going Home. From the Transvaal to England
  94. 94The Oxford Bible. On Worn-Out Sails Being Used as Material for the…
  95. 95The Last Mission of the Sails
  96. 96The Worn-Out Sails
  97. 97In Memoriam
  98. 98Epitaph on a Diamond Digger
  99. 99Afric’s Greeting to Her Royal Highness Alexandra, Princess of Wales…
  100. 100Robert Godlinton
  101. 101The Diamond Digger. On Finding His First Large Diamond — (From the…
  102. 102The Last of the Bowkers — A Dirge
  103. 103The Drunkard’s Child — Founded on One of J. B. Gough’s Thrilling An…
  104. 104The Angel’s Message
  105. 105The “Churl” of the Period; and Another — A Legend of the Past, Pres…
  106. 106Welcome
  107. 107Precepts for Young and Old
  108. 108Be Kind to One Another
  109. 109Paddy’s Love Symptoms. For Music
  110. 110Proverbial Philosophy of Humbug
  111. 111Platteklip Cascade
  112. 112The Port Elizabeth Pyramid
  113. 113“In Memoriam.” — The Rev. R. Templeton, Who Died in the Zuurberg Fo…
  114. 114“Lord! What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him!”
  115. 115The Rhyme of the Ox-Wagon. (A Modest Pendant to Pringle’s “Afar in…
  116. 116The Cape of Good Hope — A Patriotic Song
  117. 117The Erythrina Tree — A Carol of the Woods

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