Songs from the Mountains

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: Henry Kendall In Year : 1886

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Songs from the Mountains

To a Mountain
Mary Rivers
Kingsborough
Beyond Kerguelen
Black Lizzie
Hy-Brasil
Jim the Splitter
Mooni
Pytheas
Bill the Bullock-Driver
Cooranbean
When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass
The Voice in the Wild Oak
Billy Vickers
Persia
Lilith
Bob
Peter the Piccaninny
Narrara Creek
In Memory of John Fairfax
Araluen
The Sydney International Exhibition
Christmas Creek
Orara
The Curse of Mother Flood
On a Spanish Cathedral
Rover
The Melbourne International Exhibition
By the Cliffs of the Sea
Galatea
Black Kate
A Hyde Park Larrikin
Names Upon a Stone
Leichhardt
After Many Years

This is a volume of late poetry by Australian poet Henry Kendall, published in 1880. The poems in this volume are prime examples of the style for which Kendall was famous, describing the Australian nature and landscape in poetic detail. Wikipedia quotes the Sydney Mail writing: "Sad songs though many of them be, they are full of great thoughts and lofty aspirations. You may dislike them because they are not all chanted in unison with the bright noontide hymn; but you cannot deny that they are all of the music that floats high above the level of earthly grossness, and that sings, if sometimes among clouds, yet always far above the spires and mountains, although these are loftier than the level of the unbroken plains beneath." - Summary by Carolin