POETRY IN Volume 1 From the Ballads to Brennan

Poetry in Australia VOLUME I

FROM THE BALLADS TO BRENNAN

chosen by T. INGLIS MOORE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley and Los Angeles 1965 University of California Prest Berkeley and Lot Angelet California

All Rights Reterved

Printed in Australi» ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOR permission to reprint poems in this anthology the pub- lishers' special thanks are due to Lothian Book Publishing Co. and Mrs Constance Robertson for poems by Shaw Neil- son from Collected Poems; also to Lothian Book Publish- ing Co. for poems by Bernard O'Dowd from Collected Poems-, and also to the Bulletin in which many of the poems and bush ballads were first printed. The extract from Charles Harpur's "The Temple of Infamy" is printed from an un- published MS in the Mitchell Library, by courtesy of the Trustees. Acknowledgment is due to the Trustees of the estate of William Baylebridge for the poems from Life's Testament and Love Redeemed. The publishers of other copyright poems, together with the titles of the poems and of the books from which they have been selected, are listed below. Angus & Robertson Ltd: "The Coachman's Yarn" by E. J. Brady {Australian Bush Ballads)-, "Let Us Go Down, the Long Dead Night Is Done", "I Saw My Life as Whitest Flame", "The Years That Go to Make Me Man", "My Heart Was Wandering in the Sands", "Fire in the Heavens, and Fire along the Hills", "The Anguish'd Doubt Broods over Eden", extracts from "Lilith", "Interlude: The Casement", "How Old Is My Heart", "I Cry to You as I Pass Your Windows", "Come Out, Come Out, Ye Souls That Serve", "O Desolate Eves", "The Land I Came thro' Last", and "I Said, This Misery Must End" by {The Verse of Christopher Brennan)-, "Elegy on an Australian Schoolboy" by Zora Cross {Elegy on an Australian School- boy)-, "He Could Have Found His Way" by Kathleen Dalziel { 7955); "The Play" by C. J. Den-

v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS nis (The Sentimental Bio 1(e); "Song of the Captured Woman", "The Evening Gleam", and "Mortality" by James Devaney (Poems); "Red Jack" by Mary Durack (Australian Bush Ballads); "Cleaning Up" by Edward Dyson (Rhymes from the Mines); "Emus", "Lovers", "Lichen", "Lion", "Communal", "Flesh" and "Cubes" by Mary Fullerton ("E") (Moles Do So Little With Their Privacy), and "In- spiration" (The Wonder and the Apple); "Anzac Cove", "In the Trench", "These Men", and "The Jester in the Trench" by Leon Gellert (Songs of a Campaign); "Eve-song", "Never Admit the Pain", "Nurse No Long Grief", "The Baying Hounds", "Swans at Night", "Old Botany Bay", "The Shep- herd", "The Myall in Prison", "The Waradgery Tribe", "The Song of the Woman-drawer", "The Tenancy" by Mary Gil- more (Selected Verse), and "The Pear-tree" and "Nation- ality" (Fourteen Men); "The Cicada" by H. M. Green (Aus- tralian Poetry 1943); "West of Alice" by W. E. Harney (Australian Poetry 1954); "Said Hanrahan" and "Tangmal- angaloo" by "John O'Brien" (P. J. Hartigan) (Around the Boree Log); "Ballad of the ", "Talbragar", "The Teams", and "The Sliprails and the Spur" by (Poetical Worlds of Henry Lawson); "Desert Claypan" by Frederick T. Macartney (Selected Poems); "Colombine", "Muse-Haunted", "I Blow My Pipes", "Ambuscade", "Mad Marjory", "The Uncouth Knight", "Joan of Arc", "June Morning", "Evening", "Song of the Rain", "Enigma", "The Mouse", and "Camden Magpie" by Hugh McCrae (The Best Poems of Hugh McCrae); "Fancy Dress" by Dorothea Mac- kellar (Fancy Dress); "The Crane is My Neighbour", "Beauty Imposes", "The Poor Can Feed the Birds", and "The Sundowner" by (Beauty Imposes), and "Straw- berries in November" and "The Cool Cool Country" (Un- published Poems); "From the Gulf" and "How the Fire Queen Crossed the Swamp" by Will Ogilvie (Fair Girls and

vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Gray Horses), and "The Death of Ben Hall" (Australian Bush Ballads)-, "Sea-grief" by Dowell O'Reilly {The Prose and Verse of Dowell O'Reilly)-, "The Man from Snowy River", "The Man from Ironbark", "", "A Bushman's Song", "Clancy of the Overflow" and "Waltz- ing Matilda" by A. B. Paterson (Collected Verse); "The Camp Within the West" and "The Fisher" by {Poems); "What the Red-Haired Bo'sun Said", "After John- son's Dance", "Irish Lords", and "Old John Bax" by Charles H. Souter {The Mallee Fire)-, "On a Shining Silver Morn- ing", "My Love is the Voice of a Song", and "Danny's Woo- ing" by David McKee Wright {An Irish Heart). Australasian Authors' Agency: "Lofty Lane" by Edwin Gerard {Australian Light Horse Ballads and Rhymes); "My Country" by Dorothea Mackellar {The Closed Door). Australasian Book Co. and Allans Music (Australia) Pty Ltd: "The Bushrangers", "Morgan", and "My Old Black Billy" by Edward Harrington {The Swagless Swaggie). The Bulletin Co.: "Lost and Given Over" by E. J. Brady {The Way of Many Waters). Citizens of Leeton: "Whalan of Waitin' a While" by J. W. Gordon ("Jim Grahame") {Under Wide Skies). J. M. Dent Ltd: "Buffalo Creek" by J. Le Gay Brereton {Swags Upl). H. T. Dwight: extract from Mamba, the Bright-Eyed by G. G. McCrae. Dymock's Book Arcade: "The Reaper" by L. H. Allen {Araby and Other Poems)-, "Bill the Whaler" by Will Law- son {Bill the Whaler). J. Endacott: "Faithless" by Louis Lavater {Blue Days and Grey Days), and "Mopoke" {This Green Mor- tality)-, "The Farmer Remembers the Somme" by Vance Palmer {The Camp). vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Euston Press, London: "The Mother" by Nettie Palmer {Shadowy Paths). Gordon & Gotch Ltd: "Where the Pelican Builds" by Mary Hannay Foott (Where the Pelican Builds). Wm. Heinemann Ltd: "Faith" and extract from "On Aus- tralian Hills" by Ada Cambridge {The Hand in the Dark). Frank Johnson: "Artemis" by Dulcie Deamer {Messalina). T. Werner Laurie Ltd: "My Mate Bill" and "A Ballad of " ("Sam Holt") by G. H. Gibson {lronbar\ Splinters from the Australian Bush). Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd: "Dusk in the Domain" by Dorothea Mackellar {Dreamharbour). Lothian Book Publishing Co.: "The Shearer's Wife" by Louis Esson {Bells and Bees); "Thredbo River" by Sydney Jephcott {Penetralia); "A Gallop of Fire" by Marie E. J. Pitt {Selected Poems). University Press: "Beauty and Terror", "Day's End", "Experience", "He Had Served Eighty Masters", "Revolution", and "This Way Only" by Lesbia Harford {Poems). H. E. Stone, Adelaide: "The Skylark's Nest" and "Poet and Peasant" by R. H. Long {Verses). Tyrrell's Pty Ltd: "Fine Clay" by Winifred Shaw {The Aspen Tree). E. A. Vidler: "Sunset" and "Marlowe" by Arthur Bayldon {The Eagles). Vision Press: "Budding Spring" by Jack Lindsay {Poetry in Australia 1923). Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd: "The Australian" by Arthur H. Adams {Collected Verses).

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