Contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction
  3. [I dreamt last night]
  4. [If I had six white horses]
  5. Little Ships
  6. [When day is over]
  7. [This year I have seen autumn with new eyes]
  8. [Do you remember still the little song]
  9. In the Public Library
  10. [Ay, ay, ay, the lilies of the garden]
  11. Adventurers
  12. [I count the days until I see you, dear,]
  13. The Tyrant
  14. [Tall trees along the road]
  15. [Though I had lost my love]
  16. [My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies]
  17. God Speaks
  18. [I have two wings]
  19. [I can’t feel the sunshine]
  20. After Rain
  21. Summer Lightning
  22. Birthday
  23. [You, whom the grave cannot bind]
  24. Noli Me Tangere
  25. [They say — priests say —]
  26. Lie-a-bed
  27. [My mission in the world]
  28. Day’s End
  29. The Electric Tram to Kew
  30. A Sophistical Argument
  31. [Dearest, dearest]
  32. [Today they made a bonfire]
  33. Weekend at Mt. Dandenong
  34. [Ours was a friendship in secret, my dear]
  35. [Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes]
  36. [O little year, cram full of duty]
  37. [The hot winds wake to life in the sweet daytime]
  38. [Somebody brought in lilac]
  39. [I have three loves who are all most dear]
  40. [“Raging winter wind]
  41. Deliverance through Art
  42. To Leslie
  43. Hecate’s Due
  44. The Silent Dead
  45. [O great golden head lie in my lap]
  46. [Why does she put me to many indignities]
  47. The Folk I Love
  48. [Oh, oh Rosalie]
  49. [To Plato’s dictum]
  50. [All day long]
  51. [If you have loved a brave story]
  52. [I dare not leave the splendid town]
  53. The Immigrant
  54. [Child Sun]
  55. [Emmie, Emmie Adams]
  56. [Today when you went up the hill]
  57. [Today I saw]
  58. [Cherry plum blossom in an old tin jug —]
  59. [Each morning I pass on my way to work]
  60. [I’d love to have you on a rainy day]
  61. [Green and blue]
  62. Fatherless
  63. Work-Girls’ Holiday
  64. [He had served eighty masters. They’d have said]
  65. Lawstudent and Coach
  66. Machinists Talking
  67. The Invisible People
  68. Closing Time: Public Library
  69. The Two Swans
  70. Machinist’s Song
  71. [Up in my room on my unmade bed]
  72. Periodicity
  73. [This evening I’m alone]
  74. [I was sad]
  75. [They are so glad of a young companion]
  76. [I saw a flight of sparrows through the air]
  77. [O little plum tree in the garden, you’re]
  78. [He has picked grapes in the sun. Oh it seems]
  79. [The love I look for]
  80. [He has a fairy wife]
  81. [All through the day at my machine]
  82. [Sometimes I wish that I were Helen-fair]
  83. [Sometimes I am too tired]
  84. [My lovely pixie, my good companion]
  85. [Into old rhyme]
  86. [Those must be masts of ships the gazer sees]
  87. [I have golden shoes]
  88. [Now I’ve been three days]
  89. [I found an orchid in the valley fair]
  90. A Bad Snap
  91. [You may have other loves]
  92. The Contest
  93. [Florence kneels down to say her prayers]
  94. [I love to see]
  95. [O man, O woman, grievest so?]
  96. [She has all Ireland in her blood]
  97. The Melbourne Cup
  98. The Nuns and the Lilies
  99. [I’m like all lovers, wanting love to be]
  100. [I used to be afraid to meet]
  101. Buddha in the Workroom
  102. Skirt Machinist
  103. [We climbed that hill]
  104. [I have to make a soul for one]
  105. Body and Soul
  106. A Blouse Machinist
  107. An Improver
  108. Mortal Poems
  109. Beauty and Terror
  110. Grotesque
  111. Revolution
  112. [Once I thought my love was worth the name]
  113. [You want a lily]
  114. [Pink eucalyptus flowers]
  115. [I came to live in Sophia Street]
  116. [Every night I hurry home to see]
  117. [I thought I heard something move in the house]
  118. [Today is rebels’ day. And yet we work—]
  119. [To look across at Moira gives me pleasure]
  120. Street Music
  121. [I dreamt last night of happy home-comings]
  122. [He looks in my heart and the image there]
  123. [My window pane is broken]
  124. [Sometimes I think the happiest of love’s moments]
  125. [O sweet and fair! These words are mine to use]
  126. [The people have drunk the wine of peace]
  127. Girl’s Love
  128. [I went down to post a letter]
  129. [I must be dreaming through the days]
  130. [When I get up to light the fire]
  131. [Today, in class]
  132. [I bought a red hat]
  133. Miss Mary Fairfax
  134. [Whenever I think of you, you are alone]
  135. A Strike Rhyme
  136. [In this little school]
  137. [And is love very strong where honour rules?]
  138. [A lady and I were walking]
  139. Three Teachers
  140. [Now all the lovely days are past]
  141. Inventory
  142. A Parlourmaid
  143. [When I go up to work the young blue sea]
  144. [“I used to have dozens of handkerchiefs]
  145. Learning Geography
  146. Street Scene—Little Lonsdale St
  147. [I’d like to spend long hours at home]
  148. [I had a lover who betrayed me]
  149. [Most people have a way of making friends]
  150. The Psychological Craze
  151. Lovers Parted
  152. Appearances
  153. A Deity
  154. Martha
  155. “All Knowledge…”
  156. [How funny it would be if dreamy I]
  157. [Pat wasn’t Pat last night at all.]
  158. [A bunch of lilac and a storm of hail]
  159. [O you, dear trees, you have learned so much of beauty]
  160. [Last night, in a dream, I felt the peculiar anguish]
  161. White Sunshine
  162. Flowers and Light
  163. A Bronte Legend
  164. Pruning Flowering Gums
  165. Polytheist
  166. “Love is not love…”
  167. The Moonlit Room
  168. [I hate work so]
  169. The Sisters
  170. A Meaning Learnt
  171. The Wife
  172. Raiment
  173. [When I am articled]
  174. [When my lover put the sea between us]
  175. [I read a statement in a newspaper]
  176. [I am no mystic. All the ways of God]
  177. [What were the good of stars if none looked on them]
  178. A Prayer to Saint Rosa
  179. Bibliographical References to Lesbia Harford
  180. Index of first lines

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