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Victorian

Henry Kendall

1839–1882

Henry Kendall (1839–1882) was an Australian poet, born at Ulladulla, New South Wales, who worked as a clerk, a journalist and finally an inspector of forests.

His books include Poems and Songs (1862), Leaves from Australian Forests (1869) and Songs from the Mountains (1880).

Poems (210)

  1. Prefatory Sonnets
  2. September in Australia
  3. Rose Lorraine
  4. To a Mountain
  5. Araluen
  6. After Many Years
  7. Hy-Brasil
  8. Outre Mer
  9. The Muse of Australia
  10. Mountains
  11. Kiama
  12. Etheline
  13. Aileen
  14. Kooroora
  15. Fainting by the Way
  16. Song of the Cattle-Hunters
  17. Footfalls
  18. God Help Our Men at Sea
  19. Sitting by the Fire
  20. Bellambi's Maid
  21. The Curlew Song
  22. The Ballad of Tanna
  23. The Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door
  24. Urara
  25. Evening Hymn
  26. Stanzas
  27. The Wail in the Native Oak
  28. Harps We Love
  29. Waiting and Wishing
  30. The Wild Kangaroo
  31. Clari
  32. Wollongong
  33. Ella with the Shining Hair
  34. The Barcoo
  35. Bells Beyond the Forest
  36. Ulmarra
  37. The Maid of Gerringong
  38. Watching
  39. The Opossum-Hunters
  40. In the Depths of a Forest
  41. To Charles Harpur
  42. The River and the Hill
  43. The Fate of the Explorers
  44. Lurline
  45. Under the Figtree
  46. Drowned at Sea
  47. Morning in the Bush
  48. The Girl I Left Behind Me
  49. Amongst the Roses
  50. Sunset
  51. Doubting
  52. Geraldine
  53. Achan
  54. Dedication
  55. The Hut by the Black Swamp
  56. Ghost Glen
  57. Daphne
  58. The Warrigal
  59. Euroclydon
  60. Araluen
  61. At Euroma
  62. Illa Creek
  63. Moss on a Wall
  64. Campaspe
  65. On a Cattle Track
  66. To Damascus
  67. Bell-Birds
  68. A Death in the Bush
  69. A Spanish Love Song
  70. The Last of His Tribe
  71. Arakoon
  72. The Voyage of Telegonus
  73. Sitting by the Fire
  74. Cleone
  75. Charles Harpur
  76. Coogee
  77. Ogyges
  78. By the Sea
  79. King Saul at Gilboa
  80. In the Valley
  81. A Mountain Spring
  82. Laura
  83. By a River
  84. Attila
  85. A Reward
  86. To----
  87. The Stanza of Childe Harold
  88. A Living Poet
  89. Dante and Virgil
  90. Rest
  91. After Parting
  92. Alfred Tennyson
  93. Sutherland's Grave
  94. Syrinx
  95. On the Paroo
  96. Faith in God
  97. Mountain Moss
  98. The Glen of Arrawatta
  99. Euterpe
  100. Ellen Ray
  101. At Dusk
  102. Safi
  103. Daniel Henry Deniehy
  104. Merope
  105. After the Hunt
  106. Mary Rivers
  107. Kingsborough
  108. Beyond Kerguelen
  109. Black Lizzie
  110. Jim the Splitter
  111. Mooni
  112. Pytheas
  113. Bill the Bullock-Driver
  114. Cooranbean
  115. When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass
  116. The Voice in the Wild Oak
  117. Billy Vickers
  118. Persia
  119. Lilith
  120. Bob
  121. Peter the Piccaninny
  122. Narrara Creek
  123. In Memory of John Fairfax
  124. The Sydney International Exhibition
  125. Christmas Creek
  126. Orara
  127. The Curse of Mother Flood
  128. On a Spanish Cathedral
  129. Rover
  130. The Melbourne International Exhibition
  131. By the Cliffs of the Sea
  132. Galatea
  133. Black Kate
  134. A Hyde Park Larrikin
  135. Names Upon a Stone
  136. Leichhardt
  137. The Merchant Ship
  138. Oh, Tell Me, Ye Breezes
  139. The Far Future
  140. Silent Tears
  141. Extempore Lines
  142. The Old Year
  143. Tanna
  144. The Earth Laments for Day
  145. The Late W. V. Wild, Esq.
  146. Astarte
  147. Australian War Song
  148. The Ivy on the Wall
  149. The Australian Emigrant
  150. To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall
  151. The Waterfall
  152. The Song of Arda
  153. The Helmsman
  154. To Miss Annie Hopkins
  155. Foreshadowings
  156. Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook
  157. To Henry Halloran
  158. Lost in the Flood
  159. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four
  160. To----
  161. At Long Bay
  162. For Ever
  163. Sonnets
  164. The Bereaved One
  165. Dungog
  166. Deniehy's Lament
  167. Deniehy's Dream
  168. Cui Bono?
  169. In Hyde Park
  170. Australia Vindex
  171. Ned the Larrikin
  172. In Memoriam--Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse
  173. Rizpah
  174. Kiama Revisited
  175. Passing Away
  176. James Lionel Michael
  177. Elijah
  178. Manasseh
  179. Caroline Chisholm
  180. Mount Erebus
  181. Our Jack
  182. Camped by the Creek
  183. Euterpe
  184. Sedan
  185. Adam Lindsay Gordon
  186. In Memory of Edward Butler
  187. How the Melbourne Cup was Won
  188. Blue Mountain Pioneers
  189. Robert Parkes
  190. At Her Window
  191. William Bede Dalley
  192. To the Spirit of Music
  193. John Dunmore Lang
  194. On a Baby Buried by the Hawkesbury
  195. Song of the Shingle-Splitters
  196. On a Street
  197. Heath from the Highlands
  198. The Austral Months
  199. Aboriginal Death-Song
  200. Sydney Harbour
  201. A Birthday Trifle
  202. Frank Denz
  203. Sydney Exhibition Cantata
  204. Hymn of Praise
  205. Basil Moss
  206. Hunted Down
  207. Wamberal
  208. In Memoriam--Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse
  209. From the Forests
  210. John Bede Polding

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