Gordon, "Thora's Song": First printed in `The Australasian'
under the title of "Frustra".
Gordon, "The Sick Stock-rider": First appeared in `The Colonial Monthly'
without the final stanza here printed, which was preserved
by Mr. J. J. Shillinglaw.
Kendall, "Prefatory Sonnets": The phrase -- "tormented and awry
with passion" -- also appears in Walter Pater's essay on "Aesthetic Poetry",
which, according to Mr. Ferris Greenslet's monograph on Pater,
was written in 1868, but first published in `Appreciations', 1889.
"Leaves from Australian Forests", in which these sonnets were first printed,
was published in Melbourne in 1869.
Kendall, "To a Mountain": Dedicatory verses of "Songs from the Mountains".
Kendall, "Araluen": The author's daughter, named after a town
in the Shoalhaven District, New South Wales.
Kendall, "Hy-Brasil": Hy-Brasil, or Tir-Nan-Oge, is the fabled
Island of the Blessed, the paradise of ancient Ireland.
Kendall, "Outre Mer": From a poem left unfinished at the author's death.
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