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This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'.

"The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a stirring and adventurous life, it is not to be wondered at if they are unequal or unfinished. The astonishment of those who knew the man, and can gauge the capacity of this city [Melbourne] to foster poetic instinct, is that such work was ever produced here at all. Intensely nervous, and feeling much of that shame at the exercise of the higher intelligence which besets those who are known to be renowned in field sports, Gordon produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them anonymously to magazines. It was not until he discovered one morning that everybody knew a couplet or two of "How we Beat the Favourite" that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a versemaker. The success of his republished "collected" poems gave him courage, and the unreserved praise which greeted "Bush Ballads" should have urged him to forget or to conquer those evil promptings which, unhappily, brought about his untimely death.' - Summary from the Preface.
Note: The dramas (fragment of the Road to Avernus and Ashtaroth) have been left out of this volume.

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Preface, by Marcus Clarke (Larry Wilson)
In Memoriam, by Henry Kendall (Larry Wilson)
Podas Okus (Michele McFarland)
Gone (George Allen)
Unshriven (George Allen)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte I (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte II (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte III (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte IV (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte V (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VI (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VII (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VIII (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Borrow'd Plumes (Jack Albert)
A Legend of Madrid (Michele Fry)
Fauconshawe (Michele McFarland)
Rippling Water (Gaby)
Cui Bono (Diana Schmidt)
Bellona (Diana Schmidt)
The Song of the Surf (Amanda Tekell)
Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs (Michele McFarland)
Confiteor (Anusha Iyer)
Sunlight on the Sea (Gaby)
Delilah (Sonia)
From Lightning and Tempest (Isabel Thiel)
Wormwood and Nightshade (Ryan Finch)
Ars Longa (Michele McFarland)
The Last Leap (Anusha Iyer)
Quare Fatigasti (Anusha Iyer)
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part I (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part II (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part III (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part IV (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Hippodromania, or, Whiffs from the Pipe, Part V (Crln Yldz Ksr)
The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger (Sonia)
A Dedication (Jack Albert)
The Sick Stockrider (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
The Swimmer (John Burlinson (1950-2024))
From the Wreck (Anusha Iyer)
No Name (Chris Bunn)
Wolf and Hound (J. Olpecre)
De Te (realisticspeakers)
How we Beat the Favourite (Diana Schmidt)
Doubtful Dreams (Jack Albert)
The Rhyme of Joyous Garde (Phil Benson)
Thora's Song (Jargoniel)
The Three Friends (Jack Albert)
A Song of Autumn (Julia Niedermaier)
Laudamus (Phil Benson)
A Basket of Flowers (Julia Niedermaier)
A Fragment (Ryan Finch)
To My Sister (Julia Niedermaier)
'The Old Leaven' (Phil Benson)
An Exile's Farewell (Newgatenovelist)
'Early Adieux' (Julia Niedermaier)
A Hunting Song (Diana Schmidt)
To a Proud Beauty (Jack Albert)
Thick-headed Thoughts (Sonia)
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