The Secret Key and Other Verses

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AuthorGeorge Essex Evans
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherAngus and Robertson
The Secret Key and Other Verses
Title page for The Secret Key and Other Verses (1906)
AuthorGeorge Essex Evans
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1906
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages204 pp
Preceded byThe Sword of Pain 
Followed byKara, and Other Verses 

The Secret Key and Other Verses (1906) is the fourth collection of poems by Australian poet George Essex Evans. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1906, and features the poems "The Women of the West", "Ode for Commonwealth Day", and "Loraine".[1]

The collection consists of 61 poems from a variety of sources.[1] The poet notes in the Original edition: "Some of these verses are taken from Loraine; many others, including the title piece and " The Commonwealth Ode" have not previously appeared in book form. For permission to include such later verses the author is indebted to the proprietors of THE BULLETIN, ARGUS, AGE, AUSTRALASIAN, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, COURIER, QUEENSLANDER, TOOWOOMBA CHRONICLE, and DARLING DOWNS GAZETTE."[2]

  • "Altiora Peto"
  • "The Average Man"
  • "A Commonplace Song"
  • "The Wheels of the System"
  • "By the Sea"
  • "The Two Goblets"
  • "The Doves of Venus"
  • "Ode to the Philistines"
  • "A Grave by the Sea"
  • "The Land of the Dawning"
  • "The Splendour and the Curse of Song"
  • "Failure"
  • "The Dead Democrat"
  • "Toowoomba"
  • "A Vision of Christ"
  • "The Plains"
  • "The Master"
  • "In Collins Street"
  • "In a Garden"
  • "Welcome"
  • "William Henry Groom Vale"
  • "Australia"
  • "John Farrell"
  • "To the Unknown God"
  • "Riches"
  • "Thomas Joseph Byrnes"
  • "Adrift : A Brisbane River Reverie"
  • "Seddon"
  • "Morning Land"
  • "Loraine"

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