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1 online resource (xxvii, 135 pages .) |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword ; Introduction; A Note on the Selection and Punctuation; 'I dreamt last night'; Little Ships; "Rather like an Amazon schooled "; 'When day is over'; Hero Worship; Geisha; 'This year I have seen autumn with new eyes'; A Grown Up Sister; In the Public Library; 'Ay, ay, ay, the lilies of the garden'; 'Oh hall of music, promise fair'; 'I must haul up prettiness'; 'Oh I wish that my hair were as satiny shiny'; 'People sometimes tease me, saying'; Adventurers; 'I count the days until I see you, dear' |
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'You work all day in the boiling sun''Some happy people can see and hear him daily'; 'I'm sorry I'm so young who love you, dear'; The Tyrant; 'Tall trees along the road'; 'Though I had lost my love'; God Speaks; 'You'll never love me'; 'On the grass in the oaktree shadow I lie'; 'Each day'; 'If thou shouldst change, -- become a god for me'; 'My darling boy' [I]; 'My darling boy' [II]; The Troop-ships; 'Sad trees, black and brown'; 'Once in the early morning'; Separation; 'I can't feel the sunshine'; After Rain; Summer Lightning; Birthday; A Soul in Flight; 'You, whom the grave cannot bind' |
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'Oh night, find shelter for him in thy robe'Noli Me Tangere; A la bien-aimée; 'Nay, dear, and must our friendship always be'; 'They say -- priests say -'; 'Oh, you have given me store of happy days'; Lie-a-bed; 'My mission in the world'; 'O lovely day'; Day's End; The Electric Tram to Kew; A Sophistical Argument; 'You are a dream woman'; 'Dearest, dearest'; 'Today they made a bonfire'; 'O Day and Night'; Development; Weekend at Mt. Dandenong; 'Verse wov'n of thought'; 'She hates the North wind'; 'You and I'; 'Oh you, my own, who have gone before'; 'Ours was a friendship in secret, my dear' |
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'Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes'The Dead Youth; 'O little year, cram full of duty'; 'The hot winds wake to life in the sweet daytime'; 'Somebody brought in lilac'; 'Now you are dead do you race the wind'; 'I have three loves who are all most dear'; 'I have years still in which to grow'; 'Raging winter wind'; 'Oh man is great. Be great. Seek loveliness'; Deliverance Through Art; 'Blind eyes have I'; To Leslie; Hecate's Due; The Silent Dead; 'How are the hours employed I spend with you'; 'Coloured scraps of paper'; 'Why does she put me to many indignities'; Rossetti's Sea-Spell |
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'I do hate the folk I love''Oh, oh Rosalie'; 'O city songs'; To an Idealist; 'To Plato's dictum'; 'All day long'; Ruffs for Hilda Esson; 'If you have loved a brave story'; 'O flame that bloweth with the wind'; 'Once I could say pretty things'; 'You are more fair than shadows are'; 'I dare not leave the splendid town'; The Immigrant; 'Child Sun'; 'Emmie, Emmie Adams'; 'Today when you went up the hill'; 'Today I saw'; 'Cherry plum blossom in an old tin jug'; 'Each morning I pass on my way to work'; 'I'd love to have you on a rainy day'; 'Sitting here daylong'; 'Green and blue'; Fatherless |
| Summary |
Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history. For decades, she was utterly forgotten, yet, when she died at 36, she left behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia. Harford's writing looks both forwards and backwards, blending Pre-Raphaelite influences and plain-speaking with unusual subtlety. At the same time, she was bound inextricably to the period in which she lived. War in Europe, changing attitudes to religion, the suffrage movement, and widespread social upheaval all helped make her one of the f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Australian poetry -- 20th century
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FICTION -- General.
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Australian poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dennis, Oliver, editor, writer of introduction
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| ISBN |
1742586767 |
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9781742586762 |
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