Poetry Codex

Victorian

Rev. H. H. Dugmore

1810–1896

Rev. H. H. Dugmore (Henry Hare Dugmore, 1810–1896, Wesleyan missionary in the Eastern Cape) is one of the named contributors to The Poetry of South Africa, collected and arranged by A. Wilmot (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Cape Town: J. C. Juta & Co., 1887), an anthology of verse from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Transvaal.

This archive holds 18 poems printed under this name in that volume, in Wilmot’s spelling. His pieces carry datelines such as Stormberg (1874) and the English Channel (1859), and several are set at Cove Rock and Bathurst in the Eastern Cape. Dates are those of a standard reference.

Poems (18)

  1. The Volunteers of England
  2. The Dear Old Land
  3. The Funeral in the Abbey
  4. A Farewell to English Friends
  5. A Missionary’s Last Farewell to England
  6. A Reminiscence of 1820
  7. Past and Present
  8. A South African Wilderness
  9. A Sunrise Thought at “Cove Rock”
  10. An Ocean Sunset
  11. A Sight from the Shore
  12. The Thunderstorm at Bathurst
  13. A Morning Wish for a Friend
  14. A Night Thought
  15. The Little Shell at Cove Rock
  16. A Tribute of Sympathy to the Defenders of Glen Lynden
  17. The Colours of the First 24th
  18. Our Boys

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