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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, 241217
2: A Death in the Bush The hut was built of bark and shrunken slabs, 218711
3: A Hyde Park Larrikin You may have heard of Proclus, sir, 108970
4: A Living Poet He knows the sweet vexation in the strife 14679
5: A Mountain Spring Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet 14787
6: A Reward Because a steadfast flame of clear intent 14709
7: A Spanish Love Song From Andalusian gardens I bring the rose and rue, 40762
8: Aboriginal Death-Song Feet of the flying, and fierce 401052
9: Achan Hath he not followed a star through the darkness, 321048
10: After Many Years The song that once I dreamed about, 80963
11: After Parting I cannot tell what change hath come to you 14688
12: After the Hunt Underneath the windy mountain walls 19963
13: Aileen A splendid sun betwixt the trees 661014
14: Alfred Tennyson The silvery dimness of a happy dream 14672
15: Amongst the Roses I walked through a Forest, beneath the hot noon, 221011
16: Arakoon LO! in storms, the triple-headed 48800
17: Araluen River, myrtle rimmed, and set 64977
18: Araluen Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep 40948
19: Astarte Across the dripping ridges, O, look, luxurious night! 40880
20: At Dusk At dusk, like flowers that shun the day, 401081
21: At Euroma They built his mound of the rough, red ground, 32692
22: At Her Window To-night a strong south wind in thunder sings 781046
23: At Long Bay Five years ago! you cannot choose 60717
24: Attila What though his feet were shod with sharp, fierce flame, 14715
25: Australia Vindex Who cometh from fields of the south 48636
26: Australian War Song Men have said that ye were sleeping 48899
27: Basil Moss Sing, mountain-wind, thy strong, superior song 167863
28: Bell-Birds By channels of coolness the echoes are calling, 42893
29: Bellambi’s Maid Amongst the thunder-splintered caves 36914
30: Bells Beyond the Forest Wild-eyed woodlands, here I rest me, underneath the gaunt and ghastly trees; 40878
31: Beyond Kerguelen Down in the South, by the waste without sail on it, 84669
32: Bill the Bullock-Driver The leaders of millions, the lords of the lands, 92896
33: Billy Vickers No song is this of leaf and bird, 104997
34: Black Kate Kate, they say, is seventeen 72894
35: Black Lizzie The gloved and jewelled bards who sing 116629
36: Blue Mountain Pioneers The dauntless three! For twenty days and nights 18897
37: Bob Singer of songs of the hills 112862
38: By a River By red-ripe mouth and brown, luxurious eyes 14701
39: By the Cliffs of the Sea In a far-away glen of the hills, 84881
40: By the Sea The caves of the sea have been troubled to-day 18810
41: Campaspe Turn from the ways of this Woman! Campaspe we call her by name 42660
42: Camped by the Creek All day a strong sun has been drinking 56758
43: Caroline Chisholm The priests and the Levites went forth, to feast at the courts of the Kings; 28726
44: Charles Harpur Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, 56642
45: Christmas Creek Phantom streams were in the distance mocking lights of lake and pool 50873
46: Clari Too cold, O my brother, too cold for my wife 18857
47: Cleone Sing her a song of the sun: 32667
48: Coogee Sing the song of wave-worn Coogee, Coogee in the distance white, 48695
49: Cooranbean Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of men 48897
50: Cui Bono? A clamour by day and a whisper by night, 56685
51: Daniel Henry Deniehy Take the harp, but very softly for our brother touch the strings: 30924
52: Dante and Virgil When lost Francesca sobbed her broken tale 14684
53: Daphne Daphne! Ladon’s daughter, Daphne! Set thyself in silver light, 36912
54: Dedication - Leaves from Australian Forests To her who, cast with me in trying days, 18843
55: Deniehy’s Dream Just when the western light Flickered out dim, 40650
56: Deniehy’s Lament Spirit of Loveliness! Heart of my heart! 16687
57: Doubting A brother wandered forth with me, 60905
58: Drowned at Sea Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves, 33924
59: Dungog Here, pent about by office walls 84728
60: Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four I hear no footfall beating through the dark, 52671
61: Elijah Into that good old Hebrew’s soul sublime 78654
62: Ella with the Shining Hair Through many a fragrant cedar grove 60848
63: Ellen Ray A quiet song for Ellen The patient Ellen Ray, 32655
64: Etheline The heart that once was rich with light, 48880
65: Euroclydon On the storm-cloven Cape 90849
66: Euterpe Child of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me, 40623
67: Euterpe All hail to thee, Sound! Since the time 213702
68: Evening Hymn The crag-pent breezes sob and moan where hidden waters glide; 24862
69: Extempore Lines A morning crowns the Western hill, 40893
70: Fainting by the Way Swarthy wastelands, wide and woodless, glittering miles and miles away, 64936
71: Faith in God Have faith in God. For whosoever lists 36769
72: Footfalls The embers were blinking and clinking away, 45928
73: For Ever Out of the body for ever, Wearily sobbing, “Oh, whither?” 68682
74: Foreshadowings Fifteen miles and then the harbour! Here we cannot choose but stand, 56653
75: Frank Denz In the roar of the storm, in the wild bitter voice of the tempest-whipped sea, 56958
76: From the Forests Where in a green, moist, myrtle dell 48689
77: Galatea A silver slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses, 32989
78: Geraldine My head is filled with olden rhymes beside this moaning sea, 18941
79: Ghost Glen Shut your ears, stranger, or turn from Ghost Glen now, 48906
80: God Help Our Men at Sea The wild night comes like an owl to its lair, 45999
81: Harps We Love The harp we love hath a royal burst! 12933
82: Heath from the Highlands Here, where the great hills fall away 72952
83: How the Melbourne Cup was Won In the beams of a beautiful day, 541179
84: Hunted Down Two years had the tiger, whose shape was that of a sinister man, 56671
85: Hy-Brasil Daughter,” said the ancient father, pausing by the evening sea, 60749
86: Hymn of Praise Encompassed by the psalm of hill and stream, 24945
87: Illa Creek A strong sea-wind flies up and sings 40744
88: In Hyde Park They come from the highways of labour, 48646
89: In Memoriam - Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse The grand, authentic songs that roll 136640
90: In Memoriam - Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse Shall he, on whom the fair lord, Delphicus, 48650
91: In Memoriam. - A. L. Gordon. At rest! Hard by the margin of that sea 56715
92: In Memory of Edward Butler A voice of grave, deep emphasis 88926
93: In Memory of John Fairfax Because this man fulfilled his days, 64935
94: In the Depths of a Forest In the depths of a Forest secluded and wild, 12847
95: In the Valley Said the yellow-haired Spirit of Spring 40681
96: James Lionel Michael Be his rest the rest he sought: Calm and deep. 60695
97: Jim the Splitter The bard who is singing of Wollombi Jim 90669
98: John Bede Polding With reverent eyes and bowed, uncovered head, 96693
99: John Dunmore Lang The song that is last of the many 321031
100: Kiama Towards the hills of Jamberoo 70967
101: Kiama Revisited We stood by the window and hearkened 88692
102: King Saul at Gilboa With noise of battle and the dust of fray, 152679
103: Kingsborough A waving of hats and of hands, 104717
104: Kooroora The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark, 40973
105: Laura If Laura lady of the flower-soft face 14667
106: Leichhardt Lordly harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep, 601036
107: Lilith Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing 54970
108: Lost in the Flood When God drave the ruthless waters 36670
109: Lurline As you glided and glided before us that time, 24988
110: Manasseh Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the son 127655
111: Mary Rivers Path beside the silver waters, flashing in October’s sun 48644
112: Merope Far in the ways of the hyaline wastes in the face of the splendid 48934
113: Mooni Ah, to be by Mooni now, Where the great dark hills of wonder, 117699
114: Morning in the Bush (A Juvenile Fragment.) Above the skirts of yellow clouds, 961006
115: Moss on a Wall Dim dreams it hath of singing ways, 48687
116: Mount Erebus (A Fragment) A mighty theatre of snow and fire, 55709
117: Mountain Moss It lies amongst the sleeping stones, 40694
118: Mountains Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines, 64947
119: Names Upon a Stone Across bleak widths of broken sea 72978
120: Narrara Creek From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms, 1872 80963
121: Ned the Larrikin A song that is bitter with grief a ballad as pale as the light 50672
122: Ogyges Stand out, swift-footed leaders of the horns, 120701
123: Oh, Tell Me, Ye Breezes Oh, tell me, ye breezes that spring from the west, 16940
124: On a Baby Buried by the Hawkesbury A grace that was lent for a very few hours, 16903
125: On a Cattle Track Where the strength of dry thunder splits hill-rocks asunder, 48634
126: On a Spanish Cathedral Deep under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod, 64867
127: On a Street I dread that street its haggard face 104883
128: On the Paroo As when the strong stream of a wintering sea 92689
129: Orara The strong sob of the chafing stream 72877
130: Our Jack Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night, 84658
131: Outre Mer I see, as one in dreaming, 36632
132: Passing Away The spirit of beautiful faces, 54625
133: Persia I am writing this song at the close 72882
134: Peter the Piccaninny He has a name which can’t be brought 108948
135: Prefatory Sonnets I purposed once to take my pen and write, 28793
136: Pytheas Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea 60719
137: Rest Sometimes we feel so spent for want of rest, 14632
138: Rizpah Said one who led the spears of swarthy Gad, 62667
139: Robert Parkes High travelling winds by royal hill 104799
140: Rose Lorraine Sweet water-moons, blown into lights 56793
141: Rover No classic warrior tempts my pen 144791
142: Safi Strong pinions bore Safi, the dreamer, 84891
143: Sedan Another battle! and the sounds have rolled 14637
144: September in Australia Grey winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest, 64875
145: Silent Tears What bitter sorrow courses down 24882
146: Sitting by the Fire Ah! the solace in the sitting, 40675
147: Sitting by the Fire Barren age and withered World! Oh! the dying leaves, 85832
148: Song of the Cattle-Hunters While the morning light beams on the fern-matted streams, 22774
149: Song of the Shingle-Splitters In dark wild woods, where the lone owl broods 48859
150: Sonnets - Elizabeth Barrett Browning A lofty Type of all her sex, I ween, 14628
151: Sonnets - Sir Walter Scott The Bard of ancient lore! Like one forlorn, 14629
152: Sonnets - To N. D. Stenhouse, Esq. Dark days have passed, but you who taught me then 638
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, 14643
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,” 14635
155: Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook - III - The Spot Where Cook Landed Chaotic crags are huddled east and west 14598
156: Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook - IV - Sutherland’s Grave Tis holy ground! The silent silver lights 14657
157: Stanzas The sunsets fall and the sunsets fade, 12826
158: Sunset It is better, O day, that you go to your rest, 32888
159: Sutherland’s Grave All night long the sea out yonder all night long the wailful sea, 26669
160: Sydney Exhibition Cantata Songs of morning, with your breath 72817
161: Sydney Harbour Where Hornby, like a mighty fallen star, 50813
162: Syrinx A heap of low, dark, rocky coast, 40648
163: Tanna Shades of my father, the hour is approaching. 40826
164: The Austral Months The first fair month! In singing Summer’s sphere 172847
165: The Australian Emigrant How dazzling the sunbeams awoke on the spray, 40816
166: The Ballad of Tanna She knelt by the dead, in her passionate grief, 32883
167: The Barcoo (The Squatters’ Song) From the runs of the Narran, wide-dotted with sheep, 26822
168: The Bereaved One She sleeps and I see through a shadowy haze, 24656
169: The Curlew Song The viewless blast flies moaning past, 55803
170: The Curse of Mother Flood Wizened the wood is, and wan is the way through it; 84791
171: The Earth Laments for Day There’s music wafting on the air, 36787
172: The Far Future Australia, advancing with rapid winged stride, 321103
173: The Fate of the Explorers (A Fragment) Set your face toward the darkness tell of deserts weird and wide, 77782
174: The Girl I Left Behind Me With sweet Regret—(the dearest thing that Yesterday has left us) 20808
175: The Glen of Arrawatta A sky of wind! And while these fitful gusts 204654
176: The Helmsman Like one who meets a staggering blow, 67658
177: The Hut by the Black Swamp Now comes the fierce north-easter, bound 70796
178: The Ivy on the Wall The verdant ivy clings around 24818
179: The Last of His Tribe He crouches, and buries his face on his knees, 35651
180: The Late W. V. Wild, Esq. Sad faces came round, and I dreamily said 40863
181: The Maid of Gerringong Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast, 90804
182: The Melbourne International Exhibition Brothers from far-away lands, 82837
183: The Merchant Ship The sun o’er the waters was throwing 136828
184: The Muse of Australia Where the pines with the eagles are nestled in rifts, 16899
185: The Old Year It passed like the breath of the night-wind away, 16928
186: The Opossum-Hunters Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting 36759
187: The Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door The night grows dark, and weird, and cold; and thick drops patter on the pane; 32949
188: The River and the Hill And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep, 33848
189: The Song of Arda Low as a lute, my love, beneath the call 44646
190: The Stanza of Childe Harold Who framed the stanza of Childe Harold? He 14663
191: The Sydney International Exhibition Now, while Orion, flaming south, doth set 286883
192: The Voice in the Wild Oak Twelve years ago, when I could face 1872 95854
193: The Voyage of Telegonus Ill fares it with the man whose lips are set 203590
194: The Wail in the Native Oak Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine, 64898
195: The Warrigal The Warrigal’s lair is pent in bare, 48900
196: The Waterfall The song of the water Doomed ever to roam, 64698
197: The Wild Kangaroo The rain-clouds have gone to the deep 60852
198: To A handmaid to the genius of thy song 14606
199: To ---- Ah, often do I wait and watch, 36628
200: To a Mountain To thee, O father of the stately peaks, 83652
201: To Charles Harpur I would sit at your feet for long days, 24612
202: To Damascus Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beat 52583
203: To Henry Halloran You know I left my forest home full loth, 44635
204: To Miss Annie Hopkins Beneath the shelter of the bush, 16650
205: To My Brother, Basil E. Kendall To-night the sea sends up a gulf-like sound, 14782
206: To the Spirit of Music The cool grass blowing in a breeze 128827
207: Ulmarra Alone alone! With a heart like a stone, 40866
208: Under the Figtree Like drifts of balm from cedared glens, those darling memories come, 24967
209: Urara Euroka, go over the tops of the hill, 48854
210: Waiting and Wishing I loiter by this surging sea, 27879
211: Wamberal Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet with greenness clings, 40661
212: Watching Like a beautiful face looking ever at me 42859
213: When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass When underneath the brown dead grass 32796
214: William Bede Dalley That love of letters which is as the light 32835
215: Wollongong Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the time 50852




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Henry Clarence Kendall was an important nineteenth century Australian poet.


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