The Lonely Crossing and Other Poems

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AuthorLouisa Lawson
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherDawn
The Lonely Crossing and Other Poems
AuthorLouisa Lawson
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherDawn
Publication date
1905
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages96pp

The Lonely Crossing and Other Poems (1905) is a collection of poems by Australian poet Louisa Lawson. It was the only collection of her work published during her lifetime.[1]

The collection includes 52 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources, although most appeared first in The Dawn, an early Australian feminist magazine that Lawson also edited.[1]

  • "The Lonely Crossing"
  • "Coming Home"
  • "Back Again"
  • "The Hour is Come"
  • "A Friend in Need"
  • "Twilight"
  • "The Reformers"
  • "The Hill of Death"
  • "The Digger's Daughter"
  • "To a Libertine"
  • "The Song of Bacchus"
  • "A Pound a Mile"
  • "Light in Darkness"
  • "Lines Written During a Night Spent in a Bush Inn"
  • "Another for the Queen"
  • "A Plea for Australia"
  • "Australia"
  • "The Winter Wind"
  • "An Australian Song"
  • "The Squatter's Wife"
  • "God Give Me Gold"
  • "A Life's Dream"
  • "Lines"
  • "The Message of the Flowers"
  • "So Many a Deed of Wrong for Right is Meant"
  • "Renunciation"
  • "A Dream"
  • "Woman's Love"
  • "Divided"
  • "The Petunia"
  • "A Reverie"
  • "Buried Love"
  • "Lines"
  • "A Dream"
  • "The City Bird"
  • "In Memoriam"
  • "A Grave"
  • "To My Sister"
  • "I Wonder?"
  • "In Memory of R.E.H."
  • "In Memoriam"
  • "My Nettie"
  • "In Memoriam"
  • "A Child's Question"
  • "A Mother's Answer"
  • "All's Well"
  • "To a Bird" (1892)
  • "To a Bird" (1888)
  • "A Reverie"
  • "Lines"
  • "Give Me Only Peace"
  • "Sunset"

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