covery 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

Biographical Note

Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from
the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of
Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his--Adam
Lindsay Gordon, of English parentage and education, and Charles Harpur,
born in Australia a generation earlier than Kendall. Harpur's work,
though lacking vitality, shows fitful gleams of poetic fire suggestive
of greater achievement had the circumstances of his life been more
favourable. Kendall, whose lot was scarcely more fortunate, is a true
singer; his songs remain, and are likely long to remain, attractive to
poetry lovers.

The poet's grandfather, Thomas Kendall, a Lincolnshire schoolmaster, met
the Revd. Samuel Marsden when the latter was in England seeking
assistants for his projected missionary work in New Zealand. Kendall
offered his services to the Church Missionary Society of London and came
out to Sydney in 1809. Five years later he was sent to the Bay of
Islands as a lay missionary, holding also the first magistrate's
commission issued for New Zealand. He soon made