Henry Kendall's Poetry, by written

• Beyond Kerguelen

  DOWN in the South, by the waste without sail on it—
  Far from the zone of the blossom and tree—

  90 lines
• Camped By The Creek

  "All day a strong sun has been drinking
  The ponds in the Wattletree Glen;

  58 lines
• Mountain Moss

  IT LIES amongst the sleeping stones,
      Far down the hidden mountain glade;

  48 lines
• The Glen of Arrawatta

  A SKY of wind! And while these fitful gusts
  Are beating round the windows in the cold,

  222 lines
• At Dusk

  AT DUSK, like flowers that shun the day,
      Shy thoughts from dim recesses break,

  48 lines
• Sutherland’s Grave

  ALL NIGHT long the sea out yonder—all night long the wailful sea,
  Vext of winds and many thunders, seeketh rest unceasingly!

  26 lines
• Syrinx

  A HEAP of low, dark, rocky coast,
      Unknown to foot or feather!

  48 lines
• On the Paroo

  AS WHEN the strong stream of a wintering sea
  Rolls round our coast, with bodeful breaks of storm,

  98 lines
• Euterpe

  CHILD of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me,
  Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of t

  42 lines
• Merope

  FAR in the ways of the hyaline wastes—in the face of the splendid
  Six of the sisters—the star-dowered sisters ineffably bright,

  47 lines
• Names Upon a Stone: (Inscribed to G. L. Fagan, Esq.)

  ACROSS bleak widths of broken sea
      A fierce north-easter breaks,

  79 lines
• Leichhardt

  LORDLY harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep,
  Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the fathers weep!

  64 lines
• The Sydney International Exhibition

  Now, while Orion, flaming south, doth set
  A shining foot on hills of wind and wet—

  292 lines
• The Melbourne International Exhibition

  Brothers from far-away lands,
      Sons of the fathers of fame,

  110 lines
• On a Spanish Cathedral

  DEEP under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod,
  I pause in a luminous, still, magnificent temple of God!

  70 lines
• Rover

  NO classic warrior tempts my pen
      To fill with verse these pages—

  178 lines
• Galatea

  A SILVER slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses,
  And fiery cones, and sultry spurs, and swarthy pits and passes!

  46 lines
• At Long Bay

  FIVE years ago! you cannot choose
      But know the face of change,

  73 lines
• Euterpe: A Cantanta

  Argument.
  Hail to thee, Sound!—The power of Euterpe in all the scenes of life—

  315 lines
• Faith in God

  HAVE faith in God. For whosoever lists
      To calm conviction in these days of strife,

  43 lines
• Dungog

  HERE, pent about by office walls
      And barren eyes all day,

  103 lines
• Caroline Chisholm

  THE PRIESTS and the Levites went forth, to feast at the courts of the Kings;
  They were vain of their greatness and worth, and gladde

  33 lines
• Cui Bono?

  A CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night,
      And the Summer comes—with the shining noons,

  68 lines
• Deniehy’s Dream

  JUST when the western light
      Flickered out dim,

  43 lines
• Deniehy’s Lament

  SPIRIT of Loveliness! Heart of my heart!
  Flying so far from me, Heart of my heart!

  18 lines
• The Earth Laments for Day

  THERE’S music wafting on the air,
      The evening winds are sighing

  40 lines
• Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four

  I HEAR no footfall beating through the dark,
      A lonely gust is loitering at the pane;

  63 lines
• Elijah

  INTO that good old Hebrew’s soul sublime
  The spirit of the wilderness had passed;

  79 lines
• Extempore Lines

  A MORNING crowns the Western hill,
      A day begins to reign,

  43 lines
• The Far Future

  AUSTRALIA, advancing with rapid winged stride,
  Shall plant among nations her banners in pride,

  36 lines

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