An Anthology of Australian Verse

This etext was prepared by Alan. R. Light (alight@vnet.net,
formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text, the original was (manually) entered twice and electronically compared.
An Anthology of Australian Verse Edited by Bertram Stevens
Dedicated to DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL, Esq. Sydney
Preface
The Editor has endeavoured to make this selection representative of the best short poems written by Australians or inspired by Australian scenery and conditions of life, — Australian in this connection being used to include New Zealand. The arrangement is as nearly as possible chronological; and the appendix contains brief biographical particulars of the authors, together with notes which may be useful to readers outside Australia.
The Editor thanks Messrs. H. H. Champion, Henry Gyles Turner, E. B. Loughran, A. Brazier and Walter Murdoch (Melbourne), Mr. Sydney Jephcott (Upper Murray, Vic.), Mr. Fred. Johns (Adelaide), Mr. Thomas Cottle (Auckland), Mr. J. C. Andersen (Christchurch), Messrs. David Scott Mitchell, Alfred Lee, A. W. Jose, and J. Le Gay Brereton (Sydney), for their generous help. Mr. Douglas Sladen's anthologies, Messrs. Turner and Sutherland's Development of Australian Literature , and `The Bulletin' have also furnished much useful information.
Contents
Introduction
William Charles Wentworth. Australasia Australasia: a Poem
Charles Harpur. Love Words A Coast View Poems
William Forster. `The Love in her Eyes lay Sleeping' Midas