The Poetry of South Africa. Various

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       “THE SMOUSE.”

       POEMS.

       THE EMIGRANTS.

       THE BECHUANA BOY.

       AFAR IN THE DESERT.

       EVENING RAMBLES.

       THE LION HUNT.

       THE LION AND THE GIRAFFE.

       THE DESOLATE VALLEY.

       THE CORANNA.

       SONG OF THE WILD BUSHMAN.

       THE CAPTIVE OF CAMALÚ.

       THE BROWN HUNTER’S SONG.

       THE BUSHMAN.

       THE CAPE OF STORMS.

       THE HOTTENTOT.

       THE CAFFER.

       THE GHONA WIDOW’S LULLABY.

       THE KOSA.

       MAKANNA’S GATHERING.

       THE INCANTATION.

       THE CAFFER COMMANDO.

       THE ROCK OF RECONCILEMENT.

       THE FORESTER OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND. A SOUTH AFRICAN BORDER BALLAD.

       THE EMIGRANT’S CABIN AT THE CAPE. AN EPISTLE IN RHYME.

       THE VOLUNTEERS OF ENGLAND. BY A COLONIST.

       “ THE DEAR OLD LAND. ”

       THE FUNERAL IN THE ABBEY.

       A FAREWELL TO ENGLISH FRIENDS.

       A MISSIONARY’S LAST FAREWELL TO ENGLAND.

       A REMINISCENCE OF 1820.

       PAST AND PRESENT.

       A SOUTH AFRICAN WILDERNESS.

       A SUNRISE THOUGHT AT “COVE ROCK.”

       AN OCEAN SUNSET.

       A SIGHT FROM THE SHORE.

       THE THUNDERSTORM AT BATHURST.

       A MORNING WISH FOR A FRIEND.

       A NIGHT THOUGHT.

       THE LITTLE SHELL AT COVE ROCK.

       A TRIBUTE OF SYMPATHY TO THE DEFENDERS OF GLEN LYNDEN.

       OUR BOYS.

       IN THE DROUGHT LANDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. THE RAIN.

       THE LANDING OF THE BRITISH SETTLERS OF 1820. (Written on occasion of the celebration of the Settlers’ Jubilee in Grahamstown, in 1870.)

       IN THE COUNTRY OF MANKORAAN. (NORTH OF THE VAAL RIVER, DECEMBER, 1882.)

       DRINK.

       SOUTH AFRICA REDIVIVA.

       THE BEAUTFUL ISLAND OF DREAMS.

       CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

       GOOD HOPE.

       ODE. (From Horace. — Lib. ii. Od. 18.)