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Ballad and Lyrical Poems [by John Shaw Neilson, 1923]

29 May 2022 · 4 Comments

[Editor: This book of poetry by John Shaw Neilson was published in 1923.]

The front cover of Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), by John Shaw Neilson
The front cover of Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), by John Shaw Neilson



The title page of Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), by John Shaw Neilson
The title page of Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), by John Shaw Neilson

Ballad and Lyrical Poems

by

John Shaw Neilson


Contents.

[Preface.]
All the World’s a Lolly-shop
Along a River
As Far as My Heart can Go
At the End of Spring
Break of Day
Child of Tears
Dear Little Cottage
Dolly’s Offering
For a Child
For a Little Girl’s Birthday
Green Singer
Heard at Mulcahy’s
Heart of Spring!
Her Eyes
He was the Christ
His Love was Burned Away
Hour of Parting
Inland Born
In the Dim Counties
In the Street
It is the Last
Julie Callaway
Little White Girl
Love’s Coming
Lowan’s Nest
Maggie Tulliver
May
Meeting of Sighs
O, Lady of the Dazzling Flowers!
Old Granny Sullivan
Old Nell Dickerson
Old Violin
Pale Neighbour
Petticoat Green
Ride Him Away
Roses Three
School Girls Hastening
Sheedy was Dying
Show Me the Song
Song Be Delicate
Surely God was a Lover
The Child We Lost
“The Day is Thine”
The Dream is Deep
The Eleventh Moon
The Evening is the Morning
The Eyes of Little Charlotte
The Girl with the Black Hair
The Heart Longs
The Hour is Lost
The Land where I was Born
The Lover Sings
The Loving Tree
The Luckless Bard to the Flying Blossom
The Orange Tree
The Petticoat Plays
The Quarrel with the Neighbour
The Sacrifice
The Scent o’ the Lover
The Song and the Bird
The Sun is Up
The Unlovely Player
The Wedding in September
The White Flowers Came
The Woman of Ireland
’Tis the White Plum Tree
To a Blue Flower
To a School-Girl
’Twas in the Early Summer Time
Under a Kurrajong
When Kisses are as Strawberries
You, and Yellow Air

The Bookfellow in Australia

Copyright
Published November, 1923

A number of the verses herein were published in “Heart of Spring,” 1919.

Websdale, Shoosmith Ltd.
117 Clarence Street
Sydney



Source:
John Shaw Neilson, Ballad and Lyrical Poems, Sydney: The Bookfellow in Australia, 1923

Editor’s notes:
The Preface was not included in the original list of contents, but has been included here so as to enable convenient access.

All of the poetry in Ballad and Lyrical Poems was included in Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934), except for five poems:
1) “The Day is Thine”
2) Heard at Mulcahy’s
3) The Heart Longs
4) He was the Christ
5) O, Lady of the Dazzling Flowers
“Heard at Mulcahy’s” and “He was the Christ” were not published in any of John Shaw Neilson’s other collections of poetry.
“Along a River” was included in Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, but under the title of “A Bush Scene”.
“Lowan’s Nest” was included in Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, but under the title of “At a Lowan’s Nest”.

There were some minor differences in the titles of three of the poems, compared to John Shaw Neilson’s other collections of poetry:
1) Heart of Spring! (other versions did not include an exclamation mark).
2) Hour of Parting (other versions were called “The Hour of the Parting”).
3) You, and Yellow Air (other versions did not include a comma).

The poem “Old Nell Dickerson” (pages 25-27) includes an error on the last line of the second-last stanza (on page 27); it reads “that no one every knew”, whereas it should read “that no one ever knew”.

The list of contents was arranged in alphabetical order, rather than in order of appearance in the book. The poems appeared in the following order (page numbers are given in brackets):

The Sun is Up (p. 11)
The Land where I was Born (pp. 12-13)
Along a River (p. 14)
The Song and the Bird (p. 15)
May (p. 16)
To a Blue Flower (p. 17)
Lowan’s Nest (p. 18)
Under a Kurrajong (p. 19)
Break of Day (p. 20)
At the End of Spring (p. 21)
The Wedding in September (pp. 22-24)
Old Nell Dickerson (pp. 25-27)
Inland Born (pp. 28-30)
Old Granny Sullivan (pp. 31-33)
Pale Neighbour (p. 34)
The Quarrel with the Neighbour (pp. 35-37)
Julie Callaway (pp. 38-39)
Sheedy was Dying (p. 40-41)
’Twas in the Early Summer Time (pp. 42-43)
The Eyes of Little Charlotte (pp. 44-45)
His Love was Burned Away (p. 46)
Heard at Mulcahy’s (p. 47)
The Loving Tree (pp. 48-49)
The Child We Lost (pp. 50-51)
It is the Last (pp. 52-53)
He was the Christ (p. 54)
For a Little Girl’s Birthday (p. 55)
When Kisses are as Strawberries (p. 56)
Her Eyes (p. 57)
School Girls Hastening (p. 58)
The Heart Longs (p. 59)
The Hour is Lost (p. 60)
Dear Little Cottage (p. 61)
The Girl with the Black Hair (p. 62)
As Far as My Heart can Go (p. 63)
O, Lady of the Dazzling Flowers! (p. 64)
The Sacrifice (p. 65)
All the World’s a Lolly-shop (pp. 66-67)
Dolly’s Offering (pp. 68-69)
Meeting of Sighs (p. 70)
In the Street (p. 71)
Maggie Tulliver (p. 72)
“The Day is Thine” (p. 73)
Little White Girl (p. 74)
Surely God was a Lover (p. 75)
To a School-Girl (p. 76)
The Luckless Bard to the Flying Blossom (p. 77)
Song Be Delicate (p. 78)
Green Singer (p. 79)
Petticoat Green (pp. 80-82)
’Tis the White Plum Tree (p. 83)
Love’s Coming (p. 84)
The Scent o’ the Lover (p. 85)
The Lover Sings (pp. 86-87)
You, and Yellow Air (pp. 88-89)
The Unlovely Player (p. 90)
The Eleventh Moon (p. 91)
The Evening is the Morning (pp. 92-93)
The Orange Tree (pp. 94-95)
Hour of Parting (p. 96)
In the Dim Counties (p. 97)
Child of Tears (p. 98)
Roses Three (p. 99)
The Petticoat Plays (pp. 100-101)
Show Me the Song (p. 102)
The White Flowers Came (p. 103)
The Woman of Ireland (pp. 104-105)
For a Child (p. 106)
Old Violin (p. 107)
Ride Him Away (pp. 108-109)
Heart of Spring! (p. 110)
The Dream is Deep (p. 111)

The A.G.S. logo (used by A. G. Stephens)
The A.G.S. logo (used by A. G. Stephens)
Page 112 (not numbered) displays the A.G.S. logo (used by A. G. Stephens), being two kookaburras on a branch.

A. G. Stephens was the proprietor of The Bookfellow, the publisher of this book.

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Raymond says

    29 May 2022 at 09:59

    Dear Ed: the footnote reference to A.G. (Alfred George) Stephens, prompts me to wonder if you might ever have considered entering website addresses in each posting for the relevant personages when they appear in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB). We are very fortunate here in Oz, that the ANU has made its contents freely available online as the ADBonline. Here is the home page for it:
    https://adb.anu.edu.au
    It has a good search facility which usually makes it fairly quick and easy to find the relevant person.
    Here is the hyperlink to the ADB entry for A.G. Stephens:
    https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stephens-alfred-george-8642

    And here is the hyperlink for John Shaw Neilson:
    https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/neilson-john-shaw-764

    A search there for The Bookfellow also brought up several hits.
    Hoping that this might be of assistance.
    Kind Regards. Raymond.

    Reply
    • IAC says

      29 May 2022 at 18:30

      That’s an interesting thought.
      The ADB is usually cited in the IAC biographies and brief biographical notes, including for A. G. Stephens and John Shaw Neilson.
      http://www.australianculture.org/alfred-george-stephens/
      http://www.australianculture.org/john-shaw-neilson/

      The ADB is a very useful resource, and your comment has prompted its addition (along with Obituaries Australia) to the Links page (something which probably should have been done a long time ago).
      http://www.australianculture.org/links/

      Reply
    • IAC says

      14 June 2022 at 22:03

      Following on from your suggestion, the ADB usage in the Editor’s Notes has commenced.
      See: https://www.australianculture.org/australia-in-palestine-1919/

      (ADB links may be added to older posts, although only if they are updated for another purpose, as it would be a big task to add ADB links to all relevant past posts.)

      Reply
      • raymond says

        14 June 2022 at 23:32

        Thank you so much dear Ed.
        Yes indeed: I can only imagine the huge job involved in going back, given the huge number of items which you post. Would not wish to take you away from that ongoing work on new postings. Always with gratitude. Raymond.

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