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Title: The Poems of Henry Kendall

Author: Henry Kendall

Posting Date: August 2, 2008 [EBook #962]
Release Date: July, 1997

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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