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Henry Kendall

April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Birthday Trifle Here in this gold-green evening end, 241165
2: A Death in the Bush The hut was built of bark and shrunken slabs, 218665
3: A Hyde Park Larrikin You may have heard of Proclus, sir, 108934
4: A Living Poet He knows the sweet vexation in the strife 14642
5: A Mountain Spring Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet 14739
6: A Reward Because a steadfast flame of clear intent 14655
7: A Spanish Love Song From Andalusian gardens I bring the rose and rue, 40717
8: Aboriginal Death-Song Feet of the flying, and fierce 401001
9: Achan Hath he not followed a star through the darkness, 32997
10: After Many Years The song that once I dreamed about, 80926
11: After Parting I cannot tell what change hath come to you 14634
12: After the Hunt Underneath the windy mountain walls 19924
13: Aileen A splendid sun betwixt the trees 66953
14: Alfred Tennyson The silvery dimness of a happy dream 14623
15: Amongst the Roses I walked through a Forest, beneath the hot noon, 22969
16: Arakoon LO! in storms, the triple-headed 48680
17: Araluen River, myrtle rimmed, and set 64921
18: Araluen Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep 40892
19: Astarte Across the dripping ridges, O, look, luxurious night! 40823
20: At Dusk At dusk, like flowers that shun the day, 401014
21: At Euroma They built his mound of the rough, red ground, 32645
22: At Her Window To-night a strong south wind in thunder sings 78991
23: At Long Bay Five years ago! you cannot choose 60672
24: Attila What though his feet were shod with sharp, fierce flame, 14663
25: Australia Vindex Who cometh from fields of the south 48595
26: Australian War Song Men have said that ye were sleeping 48865
27: Basil Moss Sing, mountain-wind, thy strong, superior song 167816
28: Bell-Birds By channels of coolness the echoes are calling, 42781
29: Bellambi’s Maid Amongst the thunder-splintered caves 36865
30: Bells Beyond the Forest Wild-eyed woodlands, here I rest me, underneath the gaunt and ghastly trees; 40837
31: Beyond Kerguelen Down in the South, by the waste without sail on it, 84632
32: Bill the Bullock-Driver The leaders of millions, the lords of the lands, 92851
33: Billy Vickers No song is this of leaf and bird, 104885
34: Black Kate Kate, they say, is seventeen 72857
35: Black Lizzie The gloved and jewelled bards who sing 116597
36: Blue Mountain Pioneers The dauntless three! For twenty days and nights 18859
37: Bob Singer of songs of the hills 112822
38: By a River By red-ripe mouth and brown, luxurious eyes 14655
39: By the Cliffs of the Sea In a far-away glen of the hills, 84841
40: By the Sea The caves of the sea have been troubled to-day 18696
41: Campaspe Turn from the ways of this Woman! Campaspe we call her by name 42614
42: Camped by the Creek All day a strong sun has been drinking 56692
43: Caroline Chisholm The priests and the Levites went forth, to feast at the courts of the Kings; 28677
44: Charles Harpur Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, 56599
45: Christmas Creek Phantom streams were in the distance mocking lights of lake and pool 50827
46: Clari Too cold, O my brother, too cold for my wife 18813
47: Cleone Sing her a song of the sun: 32622
48: Coogee Sing the song of wave-worn Coogee, Coogee in the distance white, 48646
49: Cooranbean Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of men 48841
50: Cui Bono? A clamour by day and a whisper by night, 56634
51: Daniel Henry Deniehy Take the harp, but very softly for our brother touch the strings: 30891
52: Dante and Virgil When lost Francesca sobbed her broken tale 14647
53: Daphne Daphne! Ladon’s daughter, Daphne! Set thyself in silver light, 36864
54: Dedication - Leaves from Australian Forests To her who, cast with me in trying days, 18801
55: Deniehy’s Dream Just when the western light Flickered out dim, 40607
56: Deniehy’s Lament Spirit of Loveliness! Heart of my heart! 16633
57: Doubting A brother wandered forth with me, 60853
58: Drowned at Sea Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves, 33883
59: Dungog Here, pent about by office walls 84682
60: Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four I hear no footfall beating through the dark, 52634
61: Elijah Into that good old Hebrew’s soul sublime 78607
62: Ella with the Shining Hair Through many a fragrant cedar grove 60804
63: Ellen Ray A quiet song for Ellen The patient Ellen Ray, 32602
64: Etheline The heart that once was rich with light, 48830
65: Euroclydon On the storm-cloven Cape 90805
66: Euterpe Child of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me, 40576
67: Euterpe All hail to thee, Sound! Since the time 213635
68: Evening Hymn The crag-pent breezes sob and moan where hidden waters glide; 24818
69: Extempore Lines A morning crowns the Western hill, 40851
70: Fainting by the Way Swarthy wastelands, wide and woodless, glittering miles and miles away, 64884
71: Faith in God Have faith in God. For whosoever lists 36721
72: Footfalls The embers were blinking and clinking away, 45881
73: For Ever Out of the body for ever, Wearily sobbing, “Oh, whither?” 68637
74: Foreshadowings Fifteen miles and then the harbour! Here we cannot choose but stand, 56617
75: Frank Denz In the roar of the storm, in the wild bitter voice of the tempest-whipped sea, 56918
76: From the Forests Where in a green, moist, myrtle dell 48648
77: Galatea A silver slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses, 32932
78: Geraldine My head is filled with olden rhymes beside this moaning sea, 18888
79: Ghost Glen Shut your ears, stranger, or turn from Ghost Glen now, 48860
80: God Help Our Men at Sea The wild night comes like an owl to its lair, 45958
81: Harps We Love The harp we love hath a royal burst! 12897
82: Heath from the Highlands Here, where the great hills fall away 72910
83: How the Melbourne Cup was Won In the beams of a beautiful day, 541132
84: Hunted Down Two years had the tiger, whose shape was that of a sinister man, 56637
85: Hy-Brasil Daughter,” said the ancient father, pausing by the evening sea, 60702
86: Hymn of Praise Encompassed by the psalm of hill and stream, 24903
87: Illa Creek A strong sea-wind flies up and sings 40696
88: In Hyde Park They come from the highways of labour, 48600
89: In Memoriam - Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse The grand, authentic songs that roll 136610
90: In Memoriam - Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse Shall he, on whom the fair lord, Delphicus, 48617
91: In Memoriam. - A. L. Gordon. At rest! Hard by the margin of that sea 56672
92: In Memory of Edward Butler A voice of grave, deep emphasis 88889
93: In Memory of John Fairfax Because this man fulfilled his days, 64901
94: In the Depths of a Forest In the depths of a Forest secluded and wild, 12807
95: In the Valley Said the yellow-haired Spirit of Spring 40635
96: James Lionel Michael Be his rest the rest he sought: Calm and deep. 60651
97: Jim the Splitter The bard who is singing of Wollombi Jim 90633
98: John Bede Polding With reverent eyes and bowed, uncovered head, 96650
99: John Dunmore Lang The song that is last of the many 32988
100: Kiama Towards the hills of Jamberoo 70919
101: Kiama Revisited We stood by the window and hearkened 88644
102: King Saul at Gilboa With noise of battle and the dust of fray, 152642
103: Kingsborough A waving of hats and of hands, 104669
104: Kooroora The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark, 40931
105: Laura If Laura lady of the flower-soft face 14617
106: Leichhardt Lordly harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep, 60979
107: Lilith Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing 54920
108: Lost in the Flood When God drave the ruthless waters 36629
109: Lurline As you glided and glided before us that time, 24938
110: Manasseh Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the son 127612
111: Mary Rivers Path beside the silver waters, flashing in October’s sun 48606
112: Merope Far in the ways of the hyaline wastes in the face of the splendid 48881
113: Mooni Ah, to be by Mooni now, Where the great dark hills of wonder, 117648
114: Morning in the Bush (A Juvenile Fragment.) Above the skirts of yellow clouds, 96955
115: Moss on a Wall Dim dreams it hath of singing ways, 48649
116: Mount Erebus (A Fragment) A mighty theatre of snow and fire, 55650
117: Mountain Moss It lies amongst the sleeping stones, 40652
118: Mountains Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines, 64900
119: Names Upon a Stone Across bleak widths of broken sea 72930
120: Narrara Creek From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms, 1872 80914
121: Ned the Larrikin A song that is bitter with grief a ballad as pale as the light 50636
122: Ogyges Stand out, swift-footed leaders of the horns, 120656
123: Oh, Tell Me, Ye Breezes Oh, tell me, ye breezes that spring from the west, 16895
124: On a Baby Buried by the Hawkesbury A grace that was lent for a very few hours, 16860
125: On a Cattle Track Where the strength of dry thunder splits hill-rocks asunder, 48601
126: On a Spanish Cathedral Deep under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod, 64827
127: On a Street I dread that street its haggard face 104835
128: On the Paroo As when the strong stream of a wintering sea 92644
129: Orara The strong sob of the chafing stream 72829
130: Our Jack Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night, 84605
131: Outre Mer I see, as one in dreaming, 36579
132: Passing Away The spirit of beautiful faces, 54589
133: Persia I am writing this song at the close 72829
134: Peter the Piccaninny He has a name which can’t be brought 108836
135: Prefatory Sonnets I purposed once to take my pen and write, 28750
136: Pytheas Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea 60660
137: Rest Sometimes we feel so spent for want of rest, 14588
138: Rizpah Said one who led the spears of swarthy Gad, 62617
139: Robert Parkes High travelling winds by royal hill 104766
140: Rose Lorraine Sweet water-moons, blown into lights 56750
141: Rover No classic warrior tempts my pen 144750
142: Safi Strong pinions bore Safi, the dreamer, 84835
143: Sedan Another battle! and the sounds have rolled 14588
144: September in Australia Grey winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest, 64813
145: Silent Tears What bitter sorrow courses down 24836
146: Sitting by the Fire Ah! the solace in the sitting, 40631
147: Sitting by the Fire Barren age and withered World! Oh! the dying leaves, 85772
148: Song of the Cattle-Hunters While the morning light beams on the fern-matted streams, 22736
149: Song of the Shingle-Splitters In dark wild woods, where the lone owl broods 48820
150: Sonnets - Elizabeth Barrett Browning A lofty Type of all her sex, I ween, 14594
151: Sonnets - Sir Walter Scott The Bard of ancient lore! Like one forlorn, 14589
152: Sonnets - To N. D. Stenhouse, Esq. Dark days have passed, but you who taught me then 595
153: Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook - I - The First Attempt to Reach the Shore Where is the painter who shall paint for you, 14612
154: Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook - II - The Second Attempt, Opposed by Two of the Natives There were but two, and we were forty! Yet,” 14602
155: Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook - III - The Spot Where Cook Landed Chaotic crags are huddled east and west 14561
156: Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook - IV - Sutherland’s Grave Tis holy ground! The silent silver lights 14610
157: Stanzas The sunsets fall and the sunsets fade, 12779
158: Sunset It is better, O day, that you go to your rest, 32827
159: Sutherland’s Grave All night long the sea out yonder all night long the wailful sea, 26632
160: Sydney Exhibition Cantata Songs of morning, with your breath 72780
161: Sydney Harbour Where Hornby, like a mighty fallen star, 50759
162: Syrinx A heap of low, dark, rocky coast, 40584
163: Tanna Shades of my father, the hour is approaching. 40776
164: The Austral Months The first fair month! In singing Summer’s sphere 172785
165: The Australian Emigrant How dazzling the sunbeams awoke on the spray, 40766
166: The Ballad of Tanna She knelt by the dead, in her passionate grief, 32829
167: The Barcoo (The Squatters’ Song) From the runs of the Narran, wide-dotted with sheep, 26770
168: The Bereaved One She sleeps and I see through a shadowy haze, 24600
169: The Curlew Song The viewless blast flies moaning past, 55749
170: The Curse of Mother Flood Wizened the wood is, and wan is the way through it; 84742
171: The Earth Laments for Day There’s music wafting on the air, 36740
172: The Far Future Australia, advancing with rapid winged stride, 32961
173: The Fate of the Explorers (A Fragment) Set your face toward the darkness tell of deserts weird and wide, 77735
174: The Girl I Left Behind Me With sweet Regret—(the dearest thing that Yesterday has left us) 20760
175: The Glen of Arrawatta A sky of wind! And while these fitful gusts 204603
176: The Helmsman Like one who meets a staggering blow, 67599
177: The Hut by the Black Swamp Now comes the fierce north-easter, bound 70744
178: The Ivy on the Wall The verdant ivy clings around 24766
179: The Last of His Tribe He crouches, and buries his face on his knees, 35594
180: The Late W. V. Wild, Esq. Sad faces came round, and I dreamily said 40813
181: The Maid of Gerringong Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast, 90753
182: The Melbourne International Exhibition Brothers from far-away lands, 82782
183: The Merchant Ship The sun o’er the waters was throwing 136786
184: The Muse of Australia Where the pines with the eagles are nestled in rifts, 16856
185: The Old Year It passed like the breath of the night-wind away, 16869
186: The Opossum-Hunters Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting 36711
187: The Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door The night grows dark, and weird, and cold; and thick drops patter on the pane; 32896
188: The River and the Hill And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep, 33805
189: The Song of Arda Low as a lute, my love, beneath the call 44602
190: The Stanza of Childe Harold Who framed the stanza of Childe Harold? He 14589
191: The Sydney International Exhibition Now, while Orion, flaming south, doth set 286842
192: The Voice in the Wild Oak Twelve years ago, when I could face 1872 95809
193: The Voyage of Telegonus Ill fares it with the man whose lips are set 203543
194: The Wail in the Native Oak Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine, 64845
195: The Warrigal The Warrigal’s lair is pent in bare, 48839
196: The Waterfall The song of the water Doomed ever to roam, 64626
197: The Wild Kangaroo The rain-clouds have gone to the deep 60805
198: To A handmaid to the genius of thy song 14565
199: To ---- Ah, often do I wait and watch, 36590
200: To a Mountain To thee, O father of the stately peaks, 83610
201: To Charles Harpur I would sit at your feet for long days, 24582
202: To Damascus Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beat 52541
203: To Henry Halloran You know I left my forest home full loth, 44591
204: To Miss Annie Hopkins Beneath the shelter of the bush, 16609
205: To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall To-night the sea sends up a gulf-like sound, 14742
206: To the Spirit of Music The cool grass blowing in a breeze 128791
207: Ulmarra Alone alone! With a heart like a stone, 40809
208: Under the Figtree Like drifts of balm from cedared glens, those darling memories come, 24847
209: Urara Euroka, go over the tops of the hill, 48814
210: Waiting and Wishing I loiter by this surging sea, 27832
211: Wamberal Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet with greenness clings, 40612
212: Watching Like a beautiful face looking ever at me 42812
213: When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass When underneath the brown dead grass 32757
214: William Bede Dalley That love of letters which is as the light 32793
215: Wollongong Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the time 50801




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Henry Clarence Kendall was an important nineteenth century Australian poet.


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