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Heart of Spring

John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was nine years of age. The boy had little schooling and early went to work in the hard way of the Bush.

His poems were long meditated and slowly brought to utterance. His equipment was a few books well conned, and the strong blood and high heart of his Scottish ancestry.

(From the Book's Preface)

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Preface (Kay Williams)
Heart of Spring! (Alan Mapstone)
Green Singer (mleigh)
Song Be Delicate (Enneos88)
Petticoat Green (Louise Poulsom)
Greeting (lapoveca)
The Land Where I Was Born (Alan Mapstone)
The Sun Is Up (Larry Wilson)
Pale Neighbour (Cassandra)
To A Blue Flower (Alan Mapstone)
Old Nell Dickerson (Cassandra)
Bush Scene (Alan Mapstone)
Julie Callaway (mleigh)
Lowan's Nest (Bruce Kachuk)
Old Granny Sullivan (Alan Mapstone)
May (Louise Poulsom)
Maggie Tulliver (Alan Mapstone)
Break of Day (lapoveca)
Little Dead Milliner (Larry Wilson)
"The Day Is Thine" (Bruce Kachuk)
Sheedy Was Dying (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Eyes of Little Charlotte (Katrina Dixon)
Meeting of Sighs (Rebecca Eden Walker)
Old Violin (Larry Wilson)
Love's Coming (Andrew Gaunce)
The Lover Sings (Bruce Kachuk)
The Girl With The Black Hair (Andrew Gaunce)
'Twas In The Early Summer Time (Alan Mapstone)
As Far As My Heart Can Go (John Pederson)
Her Eyes (John Pederson)
The Heart Longs (John Pederson)
The Hour Is Lost (Andrew Gaunce)
Surely God Was A Lover (Larry Wilson)
You, And Yellow Air (Louise Poulsom)
Dear Little Cottage (Rebecca Eden Walker)
Roses Three (cadwallader)
The Sacrifice (Larry Wilson)
Little White Girl (lapoveca)
In The Street (Andrew Gaunce)
Child of Tears (Larry Wilson)
The Petticoat Plays (SmilingJade)
The Loving Tree (Larry Wilson)
Inland Born (SmilingJade)
The Child We Lost (mleigh)
Under A Kurrajong (Larry Wilson)
The Luckless Bard To The Flying Blossom (Larry Wilson)
From A Coffin (cadwallader)
All The World's A Lolly-Shop (mleigh)
It Is The Last (yaumixx)
The White Flowers Came (Bruce Kachuk)
The Wedding In September (mleigh)
The Hour of the Parting (Bruce Kachuk)
O, Lady of the Dazzling Flowers! (Larry Wilson)
The Song and the Bird (Larry Wilson)
The Scent O' The Lover (mamatiff82)
At The End Of Spring (Louise Poulsom)
For A Child (Larry Wilson)
The Dream Is Deep (Larry Wilson)
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