Selected Poems
- Bib ID:
- 8855076
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Harford, Lesbia
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2023
- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2023
- 1 online resource (124 p.).
- ISBN:
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- 1922791393
- 9781922791399
- Series:
- Text Classics Series.
- Summary:
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I love you more Than God loves the world. Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems--about social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and the experience of women--display a candour and dynamism unusual for her time and place. This essential new selection of her finest work, chosen and introduced by Gerald Murnane, reaffirms Harford's position as one of Australia's pre-eminent modern poets. Lesbia Harford was born in 1891. She published few poems in her lifetime. Her work, gathered in posthumous collections and various anthologies, has since been acclaimed for its clear and unadorned style. A congenital heart defect kept her in poor health her whole life and she died in 1927, at the age of thirty-six. Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. He has been a primary teacher, an editor and a university lecturer. His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (1974), was followed by ten other works of fiction, including The Plains and most recently Border Districts. In 1999 Murnane won the Patrick White Award and in 2009 he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. He lives in western Victoria. 'Lesbia Harford's poetry is astonishing.' Drusilla Modjeska.
- Full contents:
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- Intro
- TEXT LOGO PAGE
- ABOUT THE BOOK
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- THE IDEAL READER BY GERALD MURNANE
- 'I DREAMT LAST NIGHT'
- 'AY, AY, AY, THE LILIES OF THE GARDEN'
- 'I COUNT THE DAYS UNTIL I SEE YOU, DEAR'
- 'SOME HAPPY PEOPLE CAN SEE AND HEAR HIM DAILY'
- THE TROOP-SHIPS
- 'I CAN'T FEEL THE SUNSHINE'
- AFTER RAIN
- SUMMER LIGHTNING
- BIRTHDAY
- A SOUL IN FLIGHT
- NO LIME TANGERE
- 'THEY SAY
- PRIESTS SAY -'
- 'MY MISSION IN THE WORLD'
- 'TODAY THEY MADE A BONFIRE'
- 'OURS WAS A FRIENDSHIP IN SECRET, MY DEAR'
- 'THE HOT WINDS WAKE TO LIFE IN THE SWEET DAY TIME'
- 'I AM NO MYSTIC. ALL THE WAYS OF GOD'
- A PRAYER TO SAINT ROSA
- ALSO BY LESBIA HARFORD
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT THE INTRODUCER
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- TEXT CLASSICS
- NEW MARKETING PAGE.
- 'I MUST BE DREAMING THROUGH THE DAYS'
- 'TODAY, IN CLASS'
- MISS MARY FAIRFAX
- 'IN THIS LITTLE SCHOOL'
- 'I WANT THIS THING AND THAT'
- 'I HAVE PUT OFF MYSELF A WHILE'
- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CRAZE
- ABOUT TREES
- A DEITY
- NEW WINDOW, ST JOHN'S HAWKSBURN
- 'THEY SENT ME PICTURES OF THE SAINTS'
- 'A BUNCH OF LILAC AND A STORM OF HAIL'
- THE CHANGING HILLS
- 'LAST NIGHT, IN A DREAM, I FELT THE PECULIAR ANGUISH'
- FLOWERS AND LIGHT
- A BRONTE LEGEND
- PRUNING FLOWERING GUMS
- 'LOVE IS NOT LOVE ...'
- THE SISTERS
- RAIMENT
- 'WHEN I AM ARTICLED'
- 'I HAVE TWO LOVES TO LEARN'
- 'SOMEBODY BROUGHT IN LILAC'
- DELIVERANCE THROUGH ART
- THE SILENT DEAD
- 'HOW ARE THE HOURS EMPLOYED I SPEND WITH YOU'
- ROSSETTI'S SEA-SPELL
- 'I DO HATE THE FOLK I LOVE'
- TO AN IDEA LIST
- 'ALL DAY LONG'
- THE IMMIGRANT
- 'GREEN AND BLUE'
- FATHERLESS
- WORK-GIRL'S HOLIDAY
- LAW STUDENT AND COACH
- MACHINISTS TALKING
- THE INVISIBLE PEOPLE
- CLOSING TIME: PUBLIC LIBRARY
- THE TWO SWANS
- 'I WAS SAD'
- 'MY LOVELY PIXIE, MY GOOD COMPANION'
- 'INTO OLD RHYME'
- 'NOW I'VE BEEN THREE DAYS'
- 'I FOUND AN ORCHID IN THE VALLEY FAIR'
- 'FLORENCE KNEELS DOWN TO SAY HER PRAYERS'
- THE MELBOURNE CUP
- 'THERE IS A CHILD'S NAME THAT I WANT TO SAY'
- 'I AM AFRAID'
- 'I'M LIKE ALL LOVERS, WANTING LOVE TO BE'
- BUDDHA IN THE WORKROOM
- 'I HAVE TO MAKE A SOUL FOR ONE'
- A BLOUSE MACHINIST
- AN IMPROVER
- 'THIS IS A PRETTY ROAD'
- 'YOU WANT A LILY'
- 'PINK EUCALYPTUS FLOWERS'
- 'TO LOOK A CROSS AT MOIRA GIVES ME PLEASURE'
- 'I DREAMT LAST NIGHT OF HAPPY HOME-COMINGS'
- 'HE LOOKS IN MY HEART AND THE IMAGE THERE'
- 'MY WINDOW PANE IS BROKEN'
- 'SOMETIMES I THINK THE HAPPIEST OF LOVE'S MOMENTS'
- 'THE PEOPLE HAVE DRUNK THE WINE OF PEACE'
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