sentences:  Before coming to Australia Stephens had done a little writing for popular magazines, and in 1871 his first volume of poems, "Convict Once", was published by Macmillan and Company, which immediately proclaimed him to be an Australian poet of importance.In 1873 a long poem, "The Godolphin Arabian", was published.These were followed by "The Black Gin and other Poems", 1873, and "Miscellaneous Poems", 1880.