Lehmann Geoffrey - Australian poetry since 1788

GEOFFREY LEHMANN has published seven collections of his poetry and a Selected Poems and Collected Poems . He has edited two anthologies of Australian comic verse, and co-edited (with Robert Gray) two previous anthologies of Australian poetry. He has also published a novel, two childrens books and Australian Primitive Painters, a book of art criticism. Lehmann was the first Australian poet to be published by the London publishing house Faber & Faber. He has been a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. He continues to write as a literary reviewer for The Australian newspaper and his poems are widely published, most recently in The New Yorker.

He has been a lawyer, specialising in corporate tax, was a partner of the international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, co-author of the five editions of Lehmann & Colemans Taxation Law in Australia, and chairman of the Australian Tax Research Foundation. ROBERT GRAY has published eight books of poetry, has written a prize-winning memoir, The Land I Came Through Last (2008), has edited the poetry of John Shaw Neilson and the journals of the painter John Olsen, and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the National Poetry Prize of the Adelaide Arts Festival, the NSW Premiers Award, the Victorian Premiers Award, the Age Book of the Year for poetry, and the Patrick White Award. His work was a set text for the final high-school examinations in New South Wales and Victoria for many years. There have been book-length translations of his poetry published in China, Germany and the Netherlands, and a selected edition and several other volumes of his work have appeared in the UK. He has been a writer-in-residence in Japan, Germany, China, and Italy, and made reading tours of Germany, the UK and Ireland. Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay WHERE Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, And with wide arms the indignant storm repels; High on a rock amid the troubled air Hope stood sublime, and waved her golden hair; Calmed with her rosy smile the tossing deep, And with sweet accents charmed the winds to sleep; To each wild plain she stretched her snowy hand, High-waving wood, and sea-encircled strand. Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay WHERE Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, And with wide arms the indignant storm repels; High on a rock amid the troubled air Hope stood sublime, and waved her golden hair; Calmed with her rosy smile the tossing deep, And with sweet accents charmed the winds to sleep; To each wild plain she stretched her snowy hand, High-waving wood, and sea-encircled strand.

Hear me, she cried, ye rising realms! record Times opening scenes, and Truths prophetic word. There shall broad streets their stately walls extend, The circus widen, and the crescent bend; There, rayed from cities oer the cultured land, Shall bright canals, and solid roads expand. There the proud arch, colossus-like, bestride Yon glittering streams, and bound the chasing tide; Embellished villas crown the landscape-scene, Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between. There shall tall spires, and dome-capped towers ascend, And piers and quays their massy structures blend; While with each breeze approaching vessels glide, And northern treasures dance on every tide! Then ceased the nymph tumultuous echoes roar, And Joys loud voice was heard from shore to shore Her graceful steps descending pressed the plain, And Peace, and Art, and Labour, joined her train. Erasmus Darwin, 1789 Edited by GEOFFREY LEHMANN & ROBERT GRAY A UNSW Press bookPublished by University of New South Wales Press Ltd University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA www.unswpress.com.au in this collection, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray 2011 in individual poems, the poet or their estate First published 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission.

Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Australian poetry since 1788: [electronic resource]/ edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray. ISBN: 9781742241098 (epub) ISBN: 9781742245669 (epdf) ISBN: 9781742243412 (Kindle) Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Australian poetry. Other Authors/Contributors: Lehmann, Geoffrey, 1940 Gray, Robert. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australian Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australian Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

CONTENTS Two Aboriginal Songs Van Diemens Land Botany Bay The Wild Colonial Boy Botany Bay Courtship A Convicts Lament on the Death of Captain Logan Dawn and Sunrise in the Snowy Mountains A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest Lost in the Bush A Coast View A Basket of Summer Fruit A Flight of Wild Ducks The Old Bullock Dray Gold-fields Girls The Queer Ways of Australia The Old Keg of Rum The Old Bark Hut from Ye Wearie Wayfarer The Sick Stock Rider From the Wreck Prefatory Sonnets Bellbirds The Last of His Tribe Bullocky Bill The Schoolhouse on the Plain from A Dream of Venice Despair Influence The Physical Conscience A Promise Stringy-bark and Green-hide The Banks of the Condamine How McDougal Topped the Score from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordons Poems Where the Pelican Builds New Country A Curious Reminiscence My Sundowner Dreams Anacreon Bannerman of the Dandenong Click Go the Shears How We Drove the Trotter Who Stole the Ponies? A Bad Break! The Shearers Cook Mulligans Shanty A Matter of Knack The Spider by the Gwydir The Man from Snowy River Clancy of the Overflow The Travelling Post Office Saltbush Bill How Gilbert Died A Bush Christening Waltzing Matilda Santa Claus in the Bush The Bosss Wife Eve Song Dedicatory from Swans at Night The Hunter of the Black The Myall in Prison The Waradgery Tribe Nurse No Long Grief The Brucedale Scandal Nationality West by North Again Whos Riding Old Harlequin Now? At Devlins Siding Where the Dead Men Lie Andys Gone with Cattle The Roaring Days Ballad of the Drover The Teams Middletons Rouseabout The Captain of the Push Sweeney The Lights of Cobb & Co The Slip Rails and the Spur The Shakedown on the Floor The Bastard from the Bush Emus The Whalers Pig A Bush Night A Wildflower by the Way Solitude The Township Lights Harry Morant The Death of Ben Hall Aubade The grand cortge Let us go down, the long dead night is done The years that go to make me man The Wanderer O white wind, numbing the world I said, This misery must end A Balloon Tragedy The St. Singer Outcast Glue-Pot The Yachts of Hobart A Rough Restaurant Jam Factory The Flying Rat An Aged Mans Hideous Escapade Behind the Curtain of My Art Tumbler Pigeons Lines on a Jam Tin The Dog Car A Poets Reply The Posey Queen The Sundowner Break of Day 10 Limericks You, and Yellow Air Loves Coming Nimitybelle May The Hour of the Parting The Orange Tree Schoolgirls Hastening The Evening is the Morning Love in Absence Eva Has Gone Concerning Little Waitresses The Winter Sundown The Birds Go By The Diver Sunday Evening The Ways of the Wildflower Say This for Love That Day at Boiling Downs Bush Courtin The Intro The Play An Old Master Hist! Song of the Rain Colombine I Blow My Pipes June Morning The Watchers The Mouse Ambuscade Enigma Said Hanrahan 1914