The Poems of Henry Kendall / With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens
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
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 friends with the Maoris and learnt their language well enough to compile a primer in pidgin-Maori, 'A Korao no New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's First Book', which George Howe printed for Marsden at Sydney in 1815. In 1820 Thomas Kendall went to England with some Maori chiefs, and while there helped Professor Lee, of Cambridge, to fix the Maori language—the outcome of their work being Lee and Kendall's 'Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand', published in the same year.
Henry Kendall
The Poems of Henry Kendall
[Native-born Australian Poet—1841-1882.]
Contents
Biographical Note
POEMS AND SONGS
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
LEAVES FROM AUSTRALIAN FORESTS
Dedication
Prefatory Sonnets
The Hut by the Black Swamp
September in Australia
Ghost Glen
Daphne
The Warrigal
Euroclydon
Araluen
At Euroma
Illa Creek
Moss on a Wall
Campaspe
On a Cattle Track
To Damascus
Bell-Birds
A Death in the Bush
A Spanish Love Song
The Last of His Tribe
Arakoon
The Voyage of Telegonus
Sitting by the Fire
Cleone
Charles Harpur
Coogee
Ogyges
King Saul at Gilboa
In the Valley
Twelve Sonnets—
Sutherland's Grave
Syrinx
On the Paroo
Faith in God
Mountain Moss
The Glen of Arrawatta
Euterpe
Ellen Ray
At Dusk
Safi
Daniel Henry Deniehy
Merope
After the Hunt
Rose Lorraine
SONGS FROM THE MOUNTAINS
To a Mountain
Mary Rivers
Kingsborough
Beyond Kerguelen
Black Lizzie
Hy-Brasil
Jim the Splitter
Mooni
Pytheas
Bill the Bullock-Driver
Cooranbean
When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass
The Voice in the Wild Oak
Billy Vickers
Persia
Lilith
Bob
Peter the Piccaninny
Narrara Creek
In Memory of John Fairfax
Araluen
The Sydney International Exhibition
Christmas Creek
Orara
The Curse of Mother Flood
On a Spanish Cathedral
Rover
The Melbourne International Exhibition
Galatea
Black Kate
A Hyde Park Larrikin
Names Upon a Stone
Leichhardt
After Many Years
EARLY POEMS, 1859-70
The Merchant Ship
Oh, Tell Me, Ye Breezes
The Far Future
Silent Tears
Extempore Lines
The Old Year
Tanna
The Earth Laments for Day
The Late W. V. Wild, Esq.
Astarte
Australian War Song
The Ivy on the Wall
The Australian Emigrant
To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall
The Waterfall
The Song of Arda
The Helmsman
To Miss Annie Hopkins
Foreshadowings
Sonnets on the Discovery 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
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
From the Forests
John Bede Polding
Outre Mer