Poems and Songs

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: Henry Kendall In Year : 1903

Book Language: English

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Biographical Note
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

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. - Summary by From the Introduction