The Poems of Henry Kendall / With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens
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With biographical note by Bertram Stevens.
Chapters (204)
- The Poems of Henry Kendall
- [Native-born Australian Poet—1841-1882.]
- Biographical Note
- POEMS AND SONGS
- Mountains
- Kiama
- Etheline
- Aileen
- Kooroora
- Fainting by the Way
- Song of the Cattle-Hunters
- Footfalls
- God Help Our Men at Sea
- Sitting by the Fire
- Bellambi's Maid
- The Curlew Song
- The Ballad of Tanna
- The Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door
- Urara
- Evening Hymn
- Stanzas
- The Wail in the Native Oak
- Harps We Love
- Waiting and Wishing
- The Wild Kangaroo
- Clari
- Wollongong
- Ella with the Shining Hair
- The Barcoo
- Bells Beyond the Forest
- Ulmarra
- The Maid of Gerringong
- Watching
- The Opossum-Hunters
- In the Depths of a Forest
- To Charles Harpur
- The River and the Hill
- The Fate of the Explorers
- Lurline
- Under the Figtree
- Drowned at Sea
- Morning in the Bush
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- Amongst the Roses
- Sunset
- Doubting
- Geraldine
- Achan
- LEAVES FROM AUSTRALIAN FORESTS
- Dedication
- Prefatory Sonnets
- The Hut by the Black Swamp
- September in Australia
- Ghost Glen
- Daphne
- The Warrigal
- Euroclydon
- Araluen
- At Euroma
- Illa Creek
- Moss on a Wall
- Campaspe
- On a Cattle Track
- To Damascus
- Bell-Birds
- A Death in the Bush
- A Spanish Love Song
- The Last of His Tribe
- Arakoon
- The Voyage of Telegonus
- Sitting by the Fire
- Cleone
- Charles Harpur
- Coogee
- Ogyges
- King Saul at Gilboa
- In the Valley
- Twelve Sonnets—
- Sutherland's Grave
- Syrinx
- On the Paroo
- Faith in God
- Mountain Moss
- The Glen of Arrawatta
- Euterpe
- Ellen Ray
- At Dusk
- Safi
- Daniel Henry Deniehy
- Merope
- After the Hunt
- Rose Lorraine
- SONGS FROM THE MOUNTAINS
- To a Mountain
- Mary Rivers
- Kingsborough
- Beyond Kerguelen
- Black Lizzie
- Hy-Brasil
- Jim the Splitter
- Mooni
- Pytheas
- Bill the Bullock-Driver
- Cooranbean
- When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass
- The Voice in the Wild Oak
- Billy Vickers
- Persia
- Lilith
- Bob
- Peter the Piccaninny
- Narrara Creek
- In Memory of John Fairfax
- Araluen
- The Sydney International Exhibition
- Christmas Creek
- Orara
- The Curse of Mother Flood
- On a Spanish Cathedral
- Rover
- The Melbourne International Exhibition
- Galatea
- Black Kate
- A Hyde Park Larrikin
- Names Upon a Stone
- Leichhardt
- After Many Years
- EARLY POEMS, 1859-70
- The Merchant Ship
- Oh, Tell Me, Ye Breezes
- The Far Future
- Silent Tears
- Extempore Lines
- The Old Year
- Tanna
- The Earth Laments for Day
- The Late W. V. Wild, Esq.
- Astarte
- Australian War Song
- The Ivy on the Wall
- The Australian Emigrant
- To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall
- The Waterfall
- The Song of Arda
- The Helmsman
- To Miss Annie Hopkins
- Foreshadowings
- Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook
- To Henry Halloran
- Lost in the Flood
- Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four
- To——
- At Long Bay
- For Ever
- Sonnets
- The Bereaved One
- Dungog
- Deniehy's Lament
- Deniehy's Dream
- Cui Bono?
- In Hyde Park
- Australia Vindex
- Ned the Larrikin
- In Memoriam—Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse
- Rizpah
- Kiama Revisited
- Passing Away
- James Lionel Michael
- Elijah
- Manasseh
- Caroline Chisholm
- Mount Erebus
- Our Jack
- Camped by the Creek
- Euterpe
- Sedan
- OTHER POEMS, 1871-82
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- In Memory of Edward Butler
- How the Melbourne Cup was Won
- Blue Mountain Pioneers
- Robert Parkes
- At Her Window
- William Bede Dalley
- To the Spirit of Music
- John Dunmore Lang
- On a Baby Buried by the Hawkesbury
- Song of the Shingle-Splitters
- On a Street
- Heath from the Highlands
- The Austral Months
- Aboriginal Death-Song
- Sydney Harbour
- A Birthday Trifle
- Frank Denz
- Sydney Exhibition Cantata
- Hymn of Praise
- Basil Moss
- Hunted Down
- Wamberal
- In Memoriam—Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse
- From the Forests
- John Bede Polding
- Outre Mer
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