Francis Webb Collected Poems by Davidson, Toby -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Table of Contents COLLECTED POEMS INTRODUCTION EARLY POEMS 1940–47

The Hero of the Plain A Sunrise Australian Night Retreat Palace of Dreams Moonlight Night Swimming To a Poet Cap and Bells Idyll A Tip for Saturday Compliments of the Audience Images in Winter Middle Harbour An Old Record Bridgehead The Mountains Vancouver by Rail The Hulks at Noumea Poem for Easter Disaster Bay This Runner Vase Painter At Twofold Bay from Leichhardt Pantomime

A DRUM FOR BEN BOYD 1948

A Drum for Ben Boyd

LEICHHARDT IN THEATRE 1952

Leichhardt in Theatre The Day of the Statue Morgan’s Country Serenade to the Favourite Movie-actress For My Grandfather from Disaster Bay The Explorer’s Wife Melville at Woods Hole For Ethel The Telescopes On First Hearing a Cuckoo The Gunner Dawn Wind on the Islands Henry Lawson Report on the Title Bout from A View of Montreal

POEMS 1950–52

Foreword Along the Peninsula The Runner Nuriootpa

BIRTHDAY 1953

The Canticle Port Phillip Night Galston Laid Off Tallis to Vaughan Williams Vlamingh and Rottnest Island Achilles and the Woman Ball’s Head Again The Stations Towards the Land of the Composer The Song of a New Australian Cross Country End of the Picnic First Watch, Spencer’s Gulf Birthday

SOCRATES AND OTHER POEMS 1961

Socrates The Yellowhammer From the Cold Bells of St Peter Mancroft Gale Force Light To a Doctor The Sea Ballerina: Coppelia Beeston Regis Stendhal The Brain-washers Five Days Old Poet A Death at Winson Green The Chalice Hospital Night Electric October Mousehold Heath Eyre All Alone

THE GHOST OF THE COCK 1964

Gustav Mahler Ephpheta Canobolas Cocktails after the Ceremony Senor Hirsch and the God Around Costessey On Some Lines of John Barbour Song of Hunger Brahms at Bruckner’s Funeral Argument with the Sunday Times Note to a Freudian Clouds Legionary Ants Derelict Church Back Street in Calcutta On the Forgotten Artist Kookaburra on Television Ward Two The Ghost of the Cock On Going Free Nessun Dorma

LATE POEMS 1969–73

St Therese and the Child Incident Before Two Girls Rondo Burleske: Mahler’s Ninth Sturt and the Vultures Lament for St Maria Goretti

UNFINISHED WORKS

Hetherset Episode Untitled

AUTHOR’S NOTES NOTES ON THE POEMS INDEX

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