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Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon — Adam Lindsay Gordon

Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 256 pages

A collection of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, a nineteenth-century British-born Australian poet and steeple-chase rider. It includes bush ballads, lyrical verse and a dramatic lyric, among them the sequences Sea Spray and Smoke Drift and Bush Ballads & Galloping Rhymes. It is worth listening to for its vivid Australian landscapes, equestrian life and Gordon's earnest, musical voice.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. POEMS
  2. [British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet—1833-1870.]
  3. 1893 Edition
  4. IN MEMORIAM.
  5. PREFACE.
  6. GENERAL CONTENTS.
  7. SEA SPRAY AND SMOKE DRIFT
  8. Podas Okus
  9. Gone
  10. Unshriven
  11. Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes.
  12. Borrow'd Plumes
  13. A Legend of Madrid
  14. Fauconshawe
  15. Rippling Water
  16. Cui Bono
  17. Bellona
  18. The Song of the Surf
  19. Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs
  20. Confiteor
  21. Sunlight on the Sea
  22. Delilah
  23. From Lightning and Tempest
  24. Wormwood and Nightshade
  25. Ars Longa
  26. The Last Leap
  27. Quare Fatigasti
  28. HIPPODROMANIA; OR, WHIFFS FROM THE PIPE
  29. The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger
  30. BUSH BALLADS & GALLOPING RHYMES

and 27 more chapters

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