"Les Murray's anthology of four early Australian poets reaches back in time from Fivefathers, his collection of five Australian poets of the earlier twentieth century. Hell and After contains substantial selections of the work of McNamara (1811-1880), and three poets from the second half of the nineteenth century. The social reformer Mary Gilmore (1865-1962) grew up in the bush and her poems are vivid evocations of colonial life. John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942), a poet of great lyricism and humour, spent most of his life in poverty as a manual labourer, and Lesbia Harford (1891-1927), was a radical activist who worked as a factory machinist and servant."--BOOK JACKET.

Les Murray is the author of Subhuman Redneck Poems, which received the T.S. Eliot Prize for the best collection of poetry of 1996. He was awarded The Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999.

Introduction

xi

Francis McNamara

The Convict's Arrival

3

(2)

Labouring with the Hoe 4 A Petition from the A.A. Co. Flocks at Peels River in Behalf of the Irish Bard

5

(3)

[For the Company Underground]

8

(2)

A Petition from the Chain Gang at Newcastle to Captain Furlong the Superintendent

10

(2)

A Convict's Tour to Hell

12

(6)

A Dialogue Between Two Hibernians in Botany Bay

18

(4)

[Epigram of Introduction]

22

(1)

The Seizure of the Cyprus Brig in Recherche Bay, Aug. 1829

22

(3)

[Epigram on Beef]

25

(1)

Farewell to Tasmania

25

(4)

Mary Gilmore

When Myall Creek Was New

29

(1)

I Am the Idle

30

(1)

Eva Has Gone

30

(2)

Eternal Claim

32

(1)

The Linen for Pillow...

32

(1)

Judged

33

(1)

The Rue Tree

34

(1)

These?

34

(1)

In Poverty and Toil

35

(1)

The Truest Mate

36

(1)

[As late as the 1870's...]

37

(1)

The Forest Prayed

37

(1)

The Coming

38

(1)

Outcast

38

(1)

All Souls

39

(1)

Heritage

39

(1)

Awakened

40

(1)

The Kiss

40

(1)

The Babe

41

(1)

Fourteen Men

41

(1)

The Tenancy

42

(1)

Of Certain Critics

42

(1)

The Gift

43

(1)

Never Admit the Pain

43

(1)

The Harvesters

43

(1)

The Saturday Tub

44

(1)

Bones in a Poet

45

(1)

Old Botany Bay

45

(1)

[The kangaroos were patriarchal...]

46

(1)

The Little Shoes that Died

47

(1)

Eve-Song

47

(1)

The Road

48

(1)

Somehow We Missed Each Other

48

(1)

Second-hand Beds

49

(1)

Famous

50

(1)

Nationality

50

(1)

In Wesleyan Days, Wagga Wagga

51

(3)

The Road to Gunning

54

(1)

Verdicts

54

(5)

John Sham Neilson

The Crane is My Neighbour

59

(1)

The Gentle Water Bird

59

(2)

The Flautist

61

(1)

To a Runaway Sound

62

(1)

For the Little Boys Out of Heaven

62

(1)

The Ballad of Remembrance

63

(2)

The Poor, Poor Country

65

(1)

The Lad Who Started Out

66

(1)

The Child Being There

67

(1)

Love in Absence

68

(1)

The Hour of the Parting

68

(1)

Love's Coming

69

(1)

To a Lodging-House Canary

69

(1)

The Sweetening of the Year

70

(1)

A Limerick

70

(1)

The Soldier is Home

71

(1)

Stony Town

72

(1)

Stephen Foster

72

(1)

Tell Summer that I Died

73

(1)

The Hen in the Bushes

73

(2)

The Moon Was Seven Days Down

75

(2)

Schoolgirls I Listening

77

(1)

The Orange Tree

78

(1)

In the Dim Counties

79

(1)

You, and Yellow Air

80

(1)

Sheedy Was Dying

81

(1)

May

82

(1)

Song Be Delicate

83

(1)

The Prince Has Been into the Lane

84

(1)

The Sundowner

84

(2)

The Happy Thief

86

(1)

From a Coffin

86

(1)

In the Long Gown

86

(1)

To a Blonde Typist

87

(2)

You Cannot Go Down to the Spring

89

(1)

Lament for Laddie

89

(1)

Take Down the Fiddle, Karl!

90

(1)

The Power of the Bells

91

(1)

To the Red Lory

92

(1)

Uncle to a Pirate

92

(2)

The Bard and the Lizard

94

(1)

Dolly's Offering

95

(1)

The Eleventh Moon

96

(1)

Surely God Was a Lover

97

(1)

The Poor Can Feed the Birds

97

(1)

The Smoker Parrot

98

(2)

Lesbia Harford

[I dreamt last night]

100

(1)

[If I had six white horses]

100

(1)

Little Ships

100

(1)

[I count the days until I sec you, dear]

101

(1)

[I can't feel the sunshine]

101

(1)

[My mission in the world]

102

(1)

Day's End

102

(1)

[Ours was a friendship in secret, my dear]

103

(1)

[Somebody brought in lilac]

103

(1)

Deliverance Through Art

103

(1)

The Folk I Love

104

(1)

[Oh, oh, Rosalie]

104

(1)

[All day long]

105

(1)

Fatherless

106

(1)

Lawstudent and Coach

106

(2)

Machinists Talking

108

(1)

The Invisible People

109

(1)

Closing Time: Public Library

109

(1)

Machinist's Song

109

(1)

Periodicity

110

(1)

[This evening I'm alone]

110

(1)

[I was sad]

111

(1)

[All through the day at my machine]

111

(1)

[Sometimes I wish that I were Helen-fair]

112

(1)

[Sometimes I am too tired]

112

(1)

[My lovely pixie, my good companion]

112

(1)

[Into old rhyme]

113

(1)

[The love I look for]

113

(1)

[He has a fairy wife]

114

(1)

[Those must be masts of ships the gazer sees]

114

(1)

[I have golden shoes]

115

(1)

[Now I've been three days]

115

(1)

[I found an orchid in the valley fair]

116

(1)

[I love to see]

116

(1)

Skirt Machinist

117

(1)

[I'm like all lovers]

117

(1)

[I used to be afraid]

118

(1)

Body and Soul

119

(1)

A Blouse Machinist

119

(1)

An Improver

120

(1)

[Once I thought my love]

120

(1)

[Pink eucalyptus flowers]

121

(1)

[I came to live in Sophia Street]

121

(1)

[Today is rebels' day]

121

(1)

[To look across at Moira]

122

(1)

Street Music

122

(1)

[I dreamt last night of happy home-comings]

123

(1)

[The happiest of love's moments]

123

(1)

[The people have drunk the wine of peace]

123

(1)

Girl's Love

124

(1)

[I must be dreaming through the days]

124

(1)

[When I get up to light the fire]

125

(1)

[Today, in class]

125

(1)

[I bought a red hat]

126

(1)

Miss Mary Fairfax

126

(1)

Whenever I think of you]

126

(1)

A Strike Rhyme

127

(1)

[In this little school]

127

(1)

Inventory

128

(1)

A Parlourmaid

128

(1)

Sercet Scene Little Lonsdale St

129

(1)

[I'd like to spend long hours at home]

130

(1)

[I had a lover who betrayed me]

131

(1)

[A way of making friends]

131

(1)

The Psychological Craze

131

(1)

Lovers Parted

132

(1)

'All Knowledge...'

133

(1)

[How funny it would be]

133

(1)

[Pat wasn't Pat]

134

(1)

[A bunch of lilac and a storm of hail]

134

(1)

[O you, dear trees]

134

(1)

[Last night, in a dream]

135

(1)

White Sunshine

135

(1)

Flowers and Light

135

(1)

Pruning Flowering Gums

136

(1)

Polytheist

137

(1)

'Love is not love...'

138

(1)

The Moonlit Room

138

(1)

A Meaning Learnt

139

(1)

The Wife

139

(1)

Raiment

140

(1)

[When I am articled]

140

(1)

[When my lover]

141

(1)

[I read a statement]

142

(1)

[I am no mystic. All the ways of God I

142

(1)

A Prayer to Saint Rosa

143

(1)

Bibliography

144

(1)

Index of Titles

145

(5)

Index of First Lines

150

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