Song Be Delicate
1913 poem by John Shaw Neilson
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"Song Be Delicate" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson.[1] It was first published in The Bookfellow on 15 November 1913 with the title "Let Your Song Be Delicate",[2] and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.
Original titleLet Your Song Be Delicate
First published inThe Bookfellow, 15 November 1913
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
| "Song Be Delicate" | |
|---|---|
| by John Shaw Neilson | |
| Original title | Let Your Song Be Delicate |
| First published in | The Bookfellow, 15 November 1913 |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 1913 |
| Lines | 20 |
| Full text | |
 Song Be Delicate at Wikisource | |
Outline
"Song Be Delicate" is a love poem, encouraging lovers to be kind to each other in the face of the world's problems.
Analysis
In a piece on the poet's work in The Sydney Morning Herald, "S. R." noted that this individual poem "seems to describe Neilson's poetry" in general.[3]
H. M. Green, in his work A History of Australian Literature called the atmosphere of the poem "a happy one", also describing the work as "etheriel".[4]
Further publications
- Heart of Spring, Bookfellow, 1919[5]
- Poetry in Australia 1923, Vision Press, 1923[6]
- An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927[7]
- Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson edited by R. H. Croll, Lothian, 1934[8]
- Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946[9]
- An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952[10]
- A Book of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1956[11]
- From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964[12]
- Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 edited by Adrian Mitchell and Brian Elliott, Nelson, 1970[13]
- The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine, Penguin Books, 1972[14]
- The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry edited by Chris Wallace-Crabb, Melbourne University Press, 1980[15]
- Green Days and Cherries: The Early Verses of Shaw Neilson edited by Hugh Anderson and Leslie James Blake, Red Rooster Press, 1981[16]
- The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984[17]
- Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984[18]
- My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer, Lansdowne, 1985[19]
- Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O'Connor, Oxford University Press, 1988[20]
- John Shaw Neilson : Poetry, Autobiography and Correspondence edited by Cliff Hanna, University of Queensland Press, 1991[21]
- Selected Poems by John Shaw Neilson, Angus and Robertson, 1993[22]
- The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems edited by Jennifer Strauss, Oxford University Press, 1993[23]
- A Return to Poetry 2000 edited by Michael Duffy, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2000[24]
- Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2002[25]
- Hell and After : Four Early English-language Poets of Australia edited by Les Murray, Carcanet 2005[26]
- An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella, University of Western Australia Library, 2007[27]
- Southerly, Vol 68, No 3, 2008
- 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant Books, 2011[28]