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The Poetry of South Africa

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.

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