“adam lindsay gordon”

Includes 'Sea Spray' and 'Smoke Drift', 'Bush Ballads and 'Galloping Rhymes', and 'Astaroth' - a dramatic lyric.... More

Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. He was just over 20 when he arrived at Adelaide in 1853. He took up horse-breaking and made a reputation as a rider over hurdles. Several times he either won or was placed in local hurdle races and steeplechases. In 1857 ... More

1913. The only Australian poet to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner in Westminister Abbey in London, Gordon committed suicide on Brighton Beach in Melbourne the day after the publication of his poems in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. This volume contains Sea Spray and Smoke Drift; the ... More

He Who His Appetite Stints And Curbs, Shut Up In The Northern Wing, With His Rye-bread Flavoured With Bitter Herbs, And His Draught From The Tasteless Spring, Good Sooth, He Is But A Sorry Clown. There Are Some Good Things Upon Earth -- Pleasure And Power And Fair Renown, And Wisdom Of Worldly Worth... More

With Short, Sharp, Violent Lights Made Vivid, To Southward Far As The Sight Can Roam, Only The Swirl Of The Surges Livid, The Seas That Climb And The Surfs That Comb. Only The Crag And The Cliff To Nor'ward, And The Rocks Receding, And Reefs Flung Forward, And Waifs Wreck'd Seaward And Wasted Shorew... More

Adieu to kindred hearts and home, To pleasure, joy, and mirth, A fitter foot than mine to roam Could scarcely tread the earth; For they are now so few indeed (Not more than three in all).... More

Oh the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harness'd in the hall, And he left his lady's bower, and he sought the eastern tower, And he lifted cloak and weapon from the wall.... More