Poetry of South Africa

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Alexander Wilmot In Year : 1887

Book Language: English

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Preface
The Emigrants.
The Bechuana Boy
Afar in the Desert.
Evening Rambles
The Lion Hunt
The Lion and the Giraffe
The Desolate Valley
The Coranna
Song of the Wild Bushman
The Captive of Camal
The Brown Hunter's Song
The Bushman
The Cape of Storms
The Hottentot
The Caffer
The Ghona Widow's Lullaby
The Kosa
Makanna's Gathering
The Incantation
The Caffer Commando
The Rock of Reconcilement
The Forester of the Neutral Ground
The Emigrant's Cabin at the Cape
The Volunteers of England
The Dear Old Land
The Funeral in the Abbey
A Farewell to English Friends
A Missionary's Last Farewell to England
A Reminiscence of 1820
Past and Present
A South African Wilderness
A Sunrise Thought at "Cove Rock"
An Ocean Sunset
A Sight from the Shore
The Thunderstorm at Bathurst
A Morning Wish for a Friend
A Night Thought
The Little Shell at Cove Rock
A Tribute of Sympathy to the Defenders of Glen Lynden
The Colours of the First 24th
Our Boys
In the Drought Lands of South Africa
The Landing of the British Settlers of 1820
In The Country of Mankoraan
Drink
South Africa Rediviva
The Beautful Island of Dreams
Cape of Good Hope
Good Hope
Ode
After a Storm
Ammap and Griet
Sonnets of the Cape
The Faded Photograph
Eveleen
Farewell to Madeira
Farewell to Fifty-five
Lead, Kindly Light
Should It Be According to Thy Mind
To Graaff Reinet
Hymn
The Lament
My "Salted" Steed
A Romance from the Fields
The Flight of the Amakosa
An Idyl of a Prince
A Christmas Apparition
Freedom's Home
The Gallant "Teuton"
The Sunny Hills of Africa
The Southern Cross
Hon. William Porter, C.M.G
Ode on the British Settlers' Year of Jubilee
Dives Redivivus
The Burghers' Gathering
Storm in Tugela Valley, Natal
The Natal Gold Diggings
Nature
Contentment
Not Here
Revelation XXII
Ezekiel XLVII. 1-12
Change
Heavenly Friendship
Lines Written in an Album
The Defence of Rorke's Drift
Rorke's Drift
Before Ulundi
The Baron's Adventure
South African Courtship
The Better Land
Dolly
Going Home
The Oxford Bible
The Last Mission of the Sails
The Worn-out Sails
In Memoriam
Epitaph on a Diamond Digger
Afric's Greeting
Robert Godlinton
The Diamond Digger
The Last of the Bowkers
The Drunkard's Child
The Angel's Message
The "Churl" of the Period; and Another
Welcome
Precepts for Young and Old
Be Kind to One Another
Paddy's Love Symptoms
Proverbial Philosophy of Humbug
Platteklip Cascade
The Port Elizabeth Pyramid
In Memoriam
Lord! What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him!
The Rhyme of the Ox-wagon
The Cape of Good Hope
The Erythrina Tree'

Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1879. Here he collects poetry from various sources in the Cape Colony, Natal, and the Transvaal. Summary by Larry Wilson.