Poetry in Australia, Volume I

From the Ballads to Brennan

T. Inglis Moore

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520331211
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520331228
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Poetry in Australia, Volume 1: From the Ballads to Brennan offers a comprehensive exploration of Australian poetry from its colonial beginnings to the early 20th century. This anthology showcases the evolution of a distinct Australian literary voice, blending the rich traditions of English romanticism with indigenous realism. Divided into five thematic sections—folk songs and ballads, the colonial age, bush ballads, poets of the 1890s, and early 20th-century poets—it captures the cultural and historical transitions shaping the nation's poetic identity. With selections that balance literary merit and historical significance, the volume includes both the raw vigor of bush ballads and the nuanced works of poets like Harpur, Kendall, and Brennan. It highlights the dual influences of England's literary tradition and the challenges of expressing the untamed Australian landscape. This anthology breaks from traditional collections by broadening its scope to include narrative verse, humor, satire, and popular balladry, reflecting the unique character of Australian poetry. The editor's detailed contextual analysis underscores how poets navigated the colonial struggle of adapting English poetic forms to an alien environment, creating a language and style that resonated with their new world. Works by pioneers like Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Lawson exemplify the movement toward independence from colonial dependence, ultimately culminating in a mature, distinctively Australian poetic tradition. This volume not only chronicles the artistic journey of Australian poetry but also celebrates its enduring vitality and cultural significance. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Jim Jones
• Botany Bay
• A Convict’s Lament on the Death of Captain Logan
• The “Waterwitch”
• The Settler’s Lament
• The Old Bulloch Dray
• The Old Keg of Rum
• The Old Bark Hut
• The Wild Colonial Boy
• Brave Donahue
• Look Out Belo tv I
• The Broken-down Digger
• The Golden Gullies of the Palmer
• The Broken-down Squatter
• The Numerella Shore
• Cocoes of Bungaree
• The Overlander
• The Dying Stocfynan
• Bullocty Bill
• Clicłk Go the Shears, Boys
• The Banins of the Condamine
• On the Road to Gundagai
• The Shearer’s Song
• Flash Jack from Gundagai
• Australia’s on the Wallaby
• Me and My Dog
• The Ramble-eer
• Waltzing Matilda
• From Australasia
• Songs of the Squatters No. I
• 1818-1882 From The Devil and the Governor
• 1813-1868 A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest
• Words
• From The Creete of the Four Graves
• From The Tower of the Dream
• Love Sonnets, VIII
• From The Temple of Infamy [satirizing W. C. Wentworth and Robert Lowe]
• From Mâmba the Bright-eyed
• 1833-1870 The Sick Stockrider
• A Dedication
• From The Rhyme of Joyous Garde
• The Dominion of Australia (A FORECAST, 1877)
• My Other Chinee Cook
• Orara
• Bell-birds
• September in Australia
• Beyond Kerguelen
• The Last of His Tribe
• Jim the Splitter
• Traith
• From On Australian Hills
• Where the Pelican Builds
• How McDougal Topped the Score
• My Mate Bill
• A Ballad of Queensland (Sam Holt) “Over-landing” Jim apostrophizeth his quondam mate, who hath made his pile, and gone home:
• A Racing Eight
• Daley’s Dorg Wattle
• The Man from Snowy River
• The Man from Ironbark
• A Bush Christening
• A Bushman’s Song
• Clancy of the Overflow
• What the Red-haired Bo’sun Said
• After Johnsons Dance
• Irish Lords
• Old John Bax
• Cleaning Up
• Where the Dead Men Lie
• Ballad of the Drover
• Andy’s Gone with Cattle
• Talbragar
• The Teams
• The Sliprails and the Spur
• From the Gulf
• Hou/ the Fire Queen Crossed the Swamp
• The Death of Ben Hall
• Lost and Given Over
• The Coachman’s Yarn
• Whalan of Waitin a While
• Bill the Whaler
• The Play
• Said Hanrahan
• Tangmalangaloo
• 1891- Lofty Lane
• West of Alice
• The Bushrangers
• Morgan
• My Old Black Billy
• Red Jack
• In a Wine Cellar
• Drcams
• Tamerlane
• The Ascetic
• Tenth
• From Night
• Narcissus and Some Tadpoles Scene I. THE RED PAGE ROOM.
• G. ESSEX EVANS 1863-1909 The Women of the West
• Thredbo River
• Sunset
• Marlowe
• The Crazy World
• Sea-grief
• From Young Democracy
• The Cow
• From The Bush
• Australia
• From Alma Venus
• Mopoke
• 'Faithless
• The Camp Within the West
• The Fisher
• Emus
• Lovers
• Lichen
• Lion
• Communal
• Flesh
• Cubes
• Inspiration
• From Darlk Rosaleen*
• IX
• Dannys Wooing
• 1869-1948 A Gallop of Fire
• Let Us Go Down, the Long Dead Night Is Done
• I Saw My Life as Whitest Flame
• The Years That Go to Ma(c 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 (viii)
• Adam to Lilith
• Lilith on the Fate of Man
• Interlude: The Casement
• How Old Is My Heart
• 1 Cry to You as I Pass Your Windows
• Come Out, Come Out, Ne Souls That Serve
• O Desolate Eves
• The Land I Came Thro’ Last
• I Said, This Misery Must End
• Bufiate Crcc,
• Song Be Delicate
• Love’s Coming
• Beauty Imposes
• Break of Day
• Strawberries in November
• The Orange Tree
• To a School-girl
• May
• ’Tis the White Plum Tree
• The Poor Can Feed the Birds
• To a Blue Flower
• The Crane is My Neighbour
• The Sundowner
• The Cool, Cool Country
• 1873-1936 The Australian
• 1874-1948 The Skylarks Nest
• Poet and Peasant
• 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
• Camden Magpie
• The Shearers Wife
• The Reaper
• The Cicada
• From Life’s Testament:
• VI
• VIII
• XI
• XIII
• WILLIAM BAYLEBRIDGE (WILLIAM BLOCKSIDGE) XVII
• XXXII
• LXXXII
• LXXXVIII
• 1885- My Country
• Fancy Dress
• Dusk in the Domain
• 1885- The Mother
• The Farmer Remembers the Somme
• 1887- Desert Claypan
• From Elegy on an Australian Schoolboy
• Soflg of the Captured Woman
• The Evening Gleam
• Mortality
• Artcmis
• Beauty and Terror
• Revolution
• Days End
• Experience
• He Had Served Eighty Masters
• This Way Only
• 1881- He Could Have Found His Way
• Anzac Cove
• In the Trench
• These Men
• The Jester in the Trench
• Budding Spring
• 1905Fine Clay
• 1865-1962 Eve-song
• Never Admit the Pain
• Nurse No Long Grief
• The Baying Hounds
• From Swans at Hight
• Old Botany Bay
• The Shepherd
• The Myall in Prison
• The Waradgery Tribe
• The Song of the Woman-drawer
• From The Disinherited
• The Pear-tree
• The Tenancy
• Nationality
• INDEX OF AUTHORS
• INDEX OF TITLES
• INDEX OF FIRST LINES