Poetry Codex

Victorian

William Selwyn

dates not given by Wilmot

William Selwyn 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 11 poems printed under this name in that volume, in Wilmot’s spelling. His pieces are mostly dated from Port Elizabeth, between 1855 and 1886. Dates are not given by Wilmot and are not supplied here.

Poems (11)

  1. Farewell to Fifty-Five
  2. “Lead, Kindly Light”
  3. “Should It Be According to Thy Mind”
  4. To Graaff Reinet
  5. Hymn
  6. The Lament of the Gutter
  7. The Port Elizabeth Pyramid
  8. In Memoriam (Templeton)
  9. “Lord! What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him!”
  10. The Rhyme of the Ox-Wagon
  11. The Cape of Good Hope

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