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John Shaw Neilson

29 July 2014 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This article provides links to poems by, and to some biographical information about, John Shaw Neilson.]

John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson was born in Penola, South Australia, on 22 February 1872.

He died in Melbourne, of heart disease, on 12 May 1942.

Books by John Shaw Neilson:
[Books published during his lifetime, arranged by year]
[1916]: Old Granny Sullivan, Sydney: The Bookfellow
1919: Heart of Spring, Sydney: The Bookfellow in Sydney
1923: Ballad and Lyrical Poems, Sydney: Bookfellow in Australia
1923: New Poems, [Sydney]: The Bookfellow in Australia
1934: Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, Melbourne: Lothian Book Publishing Company [edited by R. H. Croll]
1938: Beauty Imposes: Some Recent Verse, Sydney: Angus & Robertson

John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson
Selected poetry by John Shaw Neilson:
All the World’s a Lolly-Shop [CP, HS]
* Along a River [see: “Bush Scene”]
April Weather [CP]
As Far as My Heart Can Go [CP, HS]
* At a Lowan’s Nest [see: “Lowan’s Nest”]
At the End of Spring [CP, HS]
The Ballad of Remembrance [CP]
The Bard and the Lizard [CP]
Beauty Imposes [BI]
The Birds Go By [CP]
The Blue Wren in the Hop-Bush [CP]
Break of Day [CP, HS]
Bush Scene [CP, HS]
The Child Being There [CP]
Child of Tears [CP, HS]
The Child We Lost [CP, HS]
Colour Yourself for a Man [CP]
The Crane is My Neighbour [BI]
“The Day is Thine” [HS]
Dear Little Cottage [CP, HS]
Dolly’s Offering [CP]
The Dream is Deep [CP, HS]
The Eleventh Moon [CP]
The Evening is the Morning [CP]
The Eyes of Little Charlotte [CP, HS]
The Flight of the Weary [CP]
For a Child [CP, HS]
For a Little Girl’s Birthday [CP]
From a Coffin [CP, HS]
The Gentle Water Bird [CP]
The Girl with the Black Hair [CP, HS]
Golden Fugitive [BI]
The Good Season [CP]
Green Lover [CP]
Green Singer [CP, HS]
Greeting [CP, HS]
Half a Life Back [CP]
The Heart Longs [HS]
Heart of Spring [CP, HS]
The Hen in the Bushes [CP]
Her Eyes [CP, HS]
He Saw the Jig [BI]
He Sold Himself to the Daisies [CP]
His Love was Burned Away [CP]
The Hour is Lost [CP, HS]
The Hour of the Parting [CP, HS]
Inland Born [CP, HS]
In the Dim Counties [CP]
In the Street [CP, HS]
The Irish Welcome [CP]
I Spoke to the Violet [BI]
It is the Last [CP, HS]
Julie Callaway [CP, HS]
The Lad Who Started Out [CP]
Lament for Early Buttercups [CP]
The Land Where I Was Born [CP, HS]
Little Dead Milliner [HS]
Little White Girl [CP, HS]
The Long Week-end [BI]
Love in Absence [CP]
The Lover Sings [CP, HS]
Love’s Coming [CP, HS]
The Loving Tree [CP, HS]
Lowan’s Nest [CP, HS]
The Luckless Bard to the Flying Blossom [CP, HS]
Maggie Tulliver [CP, HS]
The Magpie in the Moonlight [CP]
May [CP, HS]
Meeting of Sighs [CP, HS]
The Moon was Seven Days Down [CP]
Native Companions Dancing [CP]
O, Lady of the Dazzling Flowers [HS]
Old Granny Sullivan [CP, HS]
Old Nell Dickerson [CP, HS]
Old Violin [CP, HS]
The Orange Tree [CP]
Out to the Green Fields [CP]
Pale Neighbour [CP, HS]
Petticoat Green [CP, HS]
The Petticoat Plays [CP, HS]
The Poor Can Feed the Birds [BI]
The Poor, Poor Country [CP]
The Quarrel with the Neighbour [CP]
Ride Him Away [CP]
The Road to the Hospital [BI]
Roses Three [CP, HS]
The Sacrifice [CP, HS]
The Scent o’ the Lover [CP, HS]
Schoolgirls Hastening [CP]
Sheedy was Dying [CP, HS]
Show Me the Song [CP]
The Soldier is Home [CP]
The Song and the Bird [CP, HS]
Song Be Delicate [CP, HS]
Song for a Honeymoon [CP]
So Sweet a Mouth Had She [CP]
Stephen Foster [CP]
The Stolen Lament [CP]
Stony Town [CP]
Sunday Evening [BI]
The Sundowner [BI]
The Sun is Up [CP, HS]
Surely God was a Lover [CP, HS]
The Sweetening of the Year [CP]
The Theme Eternal [BI]
Those Shaded Eyes [CP]
The Time of Tumult [BI]
’Tis the White Plum Tree [CP]
To a Blue Flower [CP, HS]
To a Lodging-House Canary [CP]
To an Early-Flowering Almond [CP]
To a School-Girl [CP]
To a Sea Curlew [1942]
’Twas in the Early Summer Time [CP, HS]
Uncle to a Pirate [BI]
Under a Kurrajong [CP, HS]
The Unlovely Player [CP]
The Vine that is a Friend [BI]
The Wedding in September [CP, HS]
When Kisses are as Strawberries [CP]
The Whistling Jack [CP]
The White Flowers Came [CP, HS]
The Winter Sundown [CP]
The Woman of Ireland [CP]
You and Yellow Air [CP, HS]

All of the poetry in Heart of Spring (1919) was included in Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934), except for four poems:
1) Little Dead Milliner
2) O, Lady of the Dazzling Flowers
3) “The Day is Thine”
4) The Heart Longs

* “Bush Scene” was included in Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, but under the title of “Along a River”.
* “Lowan’s Nest” was included in Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson, but under the title of “At a Lowan’s Nest”.

Further information:
Hugh Anderson, “Neilson, John Shaw (1872–1942)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (accessed 25 September 2014)
Shaw Neilson, Wikipedia (accessed 25 September 2014)

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