Poetry Codex

Victorian

Adam Lindsay Gordon

1833–1870

Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870) was an Anglo-Australian poet, born in the Azores and educated in England, who emigrated to South Australia in 1853 and worked as a mounted trooper, horse-breaker and steeplechase rider.

He published Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867) and Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870), and died by his own hand at Brighton, Victoria.

Poems (50)

  1. A Dedication
  2. Thora's Song
  3. The Sick Stock-rider
  4. Podas Okus
  5. Gone
  6. Unshriven
  7. Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad in Eight Fyttes
  8. Borrow'd Plumes
  9. Pastor Cum
  10. A Legend of Madrid
  11. Fauconshawe
  12. Rippling Water
  13. Cui Bono
  14. Bellona
  15. The Song of the Surf
  16. Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs
  17. Confiteor
  18. Sunlight on the Sea
  19. Delilah
  20. From Lightning and Tempest
  21. Wormwood and Nightshade
  22. Ars Longa
  23. The Last Leap
  24. Quare Fatigasti
  25. Hippodromania; or, Whiffs from the Pipe
  26. The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger
  27. The Swimmer
  28. From the Wreck
  29. No Name
  30. Wolf and Hound
  31. De Te
  32. How we Beat the Favourite
  33. Doubtful Dreams
  34. The Rhyme of Joyous Garde
  35. The Three Friends
  36. A Song of Autumn
  37. The Romance of Britomarte
  38. Laudamus
  39. A Basket of Flowers
  40. A Fragment
  41. To My Sister
  42. The Old Leaven
  43. An Exile's Farewell
  44. Early Adieux
  45. A Hunting Song
  46. To a Proud Beauty
  47. Thick-headed Thoughts
  48. By Wood and Wold
  49. Finis Exoptatus
  50. After the Quarrel

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