



Produced by Alan R. Light





THE POEMS OF HENRY KENDALL

by Henry Kendall

[Native-born Australian Poet--1841-1882.]





[Note on text:
Lines longer than 78 characters have been broken according to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces.  A few obvious errors
have been corrected.]





This edition of Kendall contains:  (i)  The poems included in
the three volumes published during the author's lifetime;
(ii)  Those not reprinted by Kendall, but included in the collected editions
of 1886, 1890 and 1903; (iii)  Early pieces not hitherto reprinted;
(iv)  Poems, now first printed, from the Kendall MSS. in the Mitchell Library,
the use of which has been kindly permitted by the Trustees.
Certain topical skits and other pieces of no value have been omitted.


With biographical note by Bertram Stevens





Contents



         Poems and Songs

     The Muse of Australia
     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
     By the Sea
     King Saul at Gilboa
     In the Valley
     Twelve Sonnets--
      A Mountain Spring
      Laura
      By a River
      Attila
      A Reward
      To----
      The Stanza of Childe Harold
      A Living Poet
      Dante and Virgil
      Rest
      After Parting
      Alfred Tennyson
     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
     By the Cliffs of the Sea
     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 Em